Caen Planning
May-22-12
12:22 PM
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:35:57 +0200
From: Bellingeri Paolo <...>
To: Dror Bar-Natan <drorbn@math.toronto.edu>
Cc: …
Subject: Re: Workshop on finite type invariants for knotted objects
Dear Dror,
few details about the workshop. We sketched a possible program but
everything can be changed according to the direction of our discussions.
The first week in the morning we will have talks of myself, Bardakov
(Novosibirsk), Thiel (Lisbon), Brochier (Geneva), Godelle and Cisneros
de la Cruz (Dijon, to be confirmed) on virtual knotted objects and
related topics while in the afternoon we thought that you could  give a
quick  presentation of WKO : some parts could be just mentioned in order
to focus on some main points (in particular chapter 3 and  5).
The second week in the morning we plan some talks on quantum topology,
with Sakie Suzuki (Kyoto) Benjamin, Jean-Baptiste and Emmanuel. The
afternoon we want to focus on some main points of WKO, in particular:
the relation with Kashiwara Vergne and   commutativity (or not) of
diagrams on pure braids and their virtual and welded extensions,
Alexander polynomial, section 5.2 and 5.3, as well chapter 6. We already
have several questions to ask you and  probably more after the first
week of the workshop, so the idea was that we fix the arguments the 8th
June at the end of the  evening and that the second week you lead the
discussion. We should like also to take time to understand and discuss
the perspectives in the virtual case.