Initiation of the Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship Initiative at
CTQM, Programme Monday 14 August 2006
On August 1, 2006, CTQM considerably extended its activities through the
Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship Initiative of the Danish National
Research Foundation. Professor Nicolai Reshetikhin from University
of California has been employed at the center as a Visiting Niels Bohr
Professor.
To mark the beginning of this initiative at CTQM, there will be a
special programme for Monday 14 August 2006, in Auditorium F. At the same time, this is
also the opening session of the workshop Quantum Moduli Spaces
and TQFT.
In short, this is an excellent chance to meet the new staff hired by CTQM, which
include three visiting professors, four postdocs and a number of
PhD students and visiting PhD students. All are very welcome!
Programme
15:00-15:15
Presentation of the Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship Initiative.
15:15-16:00
Talk by Niels Bohr Visiting Professor, Nicolai Reshetikhin.
Title: Integrability and Invariants of Knots.
Abstract: The talk will be focused on some
aspects of invariants of knots. Jones polynomial and related
invariants will be key examples. First part will be a survey
of how Chern-Simons invariants, moduli spaces, and quantum
groups are related to the Jones polynomial. Then the focus
will shift to Khovanov homology. Finally, few words will be
said about Chern-Simons versus topological string
duality. This last subject made a substantial progress
recently moving from vague ideas originated in string theory
to a precise mathematical statement known as Donaldson-Thomas
Gromov-Witten duality.
16:00-18:00
Reception in the Mathematics Lab. in the Library, 1st floor.
For further information please contact
,
Director of CTQM and researcher in charge of the Niels Bohr
Initiative.
