Category: List of Bases 2007 Throughout the year RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS

Title:

Witten and Vassiliev - Physics and Knots

Start Time:

15:00

Location:

ICTP (Main Building Seminar Room)

Contact:

A. Bergamo

Speaker(s):

Professor Louis Hirsch Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Description:

This talk will describe Witten's quantum field theoretic approach to knot invariants, and how it is related to the subject of Vassiliev invariants and the deep relationship of Lie algebras and knot theory.