During the Fall 2026 quarter, all of our meetings will be held in person in Skye Hall 268.
Talks will run from 11 am to 11:50 am PT, but you are welcome to arrive early to socialize with the speaker.
FALL 2026 SCHEDULE
September 25, 2026
Mario Rodriguez Sanchez de Toca, U. de Santiago de Compostela (and UCR)
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October 9, 2026
Tian Yang Texas A&M University
Title: Volume Conjecture and some recent progress
Abstract: In this talk, I will first give an overview of the Volume Conjecture, which connects two seeming different approaches to 3-dimensional topology – the hyperbolic geometry and the quantum invariants. Then I will talk about a recent joint
work with Tianyue Liu, Shuang Ming, Xin Sun and Baojun Wu, where we define a family of quantum invariants for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with cusp ends and with totally geodesic boundary from the representation theory of the a quantum group,
called the modular double of Uqsl(2; R), and prove that asymptotically these new invariants behave exactly in the way that the Volume Conjecture predicted.
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