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Anthony Licata (Australian National University)
Hilbert schemes, affine Lie algebras and Khovanov homology
The goal of this talk will be to explain how to use the higher representation theory of affine Lie algebras to construct braid group actions on various categories of algebraic and geometric origin. As an application, we give a geometric construction of Khovanov's \(sl(2)\) link homology using Hilbert schemes of points on ALE spaces.
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After the seminar we will take the speaker to lunch.
See the Algebra Seminar web page for information about other seminars in the series.
John Enyang John.Enyang@sydney.edu.au