Organizing Committee
- Ben Elias
University of Oregon - Eugene Gorsky
UC Davis - Andrei Negut
MIT
Abstract
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together experts in representation theory, categorification, low-dimensional topology, mathematical physics, and combinatorics, in order to understand how categorifications of the braid groups and Hecke algebras allow one to compute and understand link invariants. Our concrete goals are to:
(a) develop and compare various algebro-geometric models for link homology, and use them to explicitly compute Khovanov-Rozansky homology of various links
(b) categorify various structures in the Hecke algebra (center, cocenter, Kazhdan-Lusztig cells, Jones-Wenzl projectors) using Soergel bimodules
(c) compare the geometric and algebraic constructions above, and understand the connection between the (co)center of the Soergel category and the Hilbert scheme of points on the plane
This workshop is fully funded by a Simons Foundation Targeted Grant to Institutes.

Confirmed Speakers & Participants
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
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Dahye Cho
Stony Brook University
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Mohamed Elbehiry
Northeastern University
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Ben Elias
University of Oregon
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Nicolle Gonzalez
UCLA
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Eugene Gorsky
UC Davis
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Julia Grigsby
Boston College
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Iva Halacheva
Northeastern University
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Andrew Hardt
University of Minnesota
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Matt Hogancamp
Northeastern University
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Mee Seong Im
United States Military Academy
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Tina Kanstrup
UMass Amherst
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Mikhail Khovanov
Columbia University
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Oscar Kivinen
Caltech
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Christine Ruey Shan Lee
University of South Alabama
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Ivan Loseu
Yale University
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Gage Martin
Boston College
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Andrei Negut
MIT
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Alexei Oblomkov
UMASS Amherst
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Lev Rozansky
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Jose Simental Rodriguez
University of California, Davis
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Arthur Wang
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Paul Wedrich
MSRI
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Tianyuan Xu
University of Colorado Boulder
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Melissa Zhang
University of Georgia
Workshop Schedule
Friday, February 28, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020
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