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Title:
Knot Categorification from Geometry (via String Theory)

Speaker:
Mina Aganagic

Abstract:
I will describe three paths to categorification of RTW invariants of knots, and the relations between them. The first is based on a category of B type branes on resolutions of slices in affine Grassmannians, the second on a category of A-branes in the mirror Landau-Ginzburg theory. The third is the approach based on counting solutions to five dimensional equations with gauge theory origin. All three approaches can be deduced starting from a string theory in six dimensions. ThisĀ is based in joint works with Andrei Okounkov and with Dimitrii Galakhov.

Link:
https://www.msri.org/workshops/816/schedules/23885

Workshop:
MSRI- Structures in Enumerative Geometry