QUACKS

QUAntum groups, Categorification, Knot invariants, and Soergel bimodules

August 10-14, 2020
University of Oregon

Speakers Registration Schedule Abstracts Zoom information Slides etc

Schedule

Minicourse

You Qi will give a minicourse on Hopfological algebra the week before the main conference. For more information on the content, see the Abstract page. There will be three lectures, each followed by an exercise session. The hour-long lecture slot will be split into: 25 minutes lecture, 5 minutes break, 25 minutes lecture, 5 minutes questions.

All times listed are for the US West Coast time zone.
10AM West coast time/ 1PM East coast time/ 7PM standard European time.

Monday
August 3
Tuesday
August 4
Wednesday
August 5
Thursday
August 6
Friday
August 7
10:00-11:00 Minicourse Lecture I Minicourse Lecture II Minicourse Lecture III
11:00-12:00 Exercises Exercises Exercises

Conference

There will be three talks a day, with minor deviations. The standard timing is:
Talk 1: 8AM West coast time/ 11AM East coast time/ 5PM standard European time.
Talk 2: 10AM West coast time/ 1PM East coast time/ 7PM standard European time.
Talk 3: 1130AM West coast time/ 230PM East coast time/ 830PM standard European time.
One talk 3 will be pushed later, to 1PM West coast time/ 4PM East coast time/ 10PM standard European time/ 6AM Australian time.
Each hour-long time slot will consist of: 25 minutes of lecture, 5 minutes of break, 25 minutes of lecture, 5 minutes of questions.

Between Talk 1 and Talk 2 there will be an hour-long coffee/lunch/dinner break, where we will have several chat rooms available, including one chat room for younger mathematicians (graduate students and postdocs) only.

All times listed in this table are for the US West Coast time zone.

Monday
August 10
Tuesday
August 11
Wednesday
August 12
Thursday
August 13
Friday
August 14
8:00-9:00 Robert Wagner Webster Makisumi Wedrich
9:00-10:00 Coffee/Lunch/Dinner break with chat rooms
10:00-11:00 Thiel Tubbenhauer Rose Hogancamp Gonzalez
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Kamnitzer Sussan Khovanov
1:00-2:00 Williamson