Les Diablerets handout on August 6, 2016
August 6, 2016
8:52 AM
Hour 1: Intro, why I care.
Sketch:
Display the Logos as "this is the worst that we will see".
Display 1-smidgen sl2 and mention that this should generalize.
Display the program and some output.
Go over "why expected" and "why paradise" in some detail.
Hour 2: Av etc.
Hour 3: 0-smidgen.
Hour 4: 1-smidgen.
Future directions, in approximate decreasing value:
Clean up, make accessible, restate in topological language.
Study ribbon knots.
Relate to existing invariants.
k-smidgen sl(n), etc.
3-manifold invariants.
Categorify and appease the gods.