WClips/UofT Announcement - Revision history

Drorbn at 08:10, 2 January 2012

2012-01-02T08:10:34Z

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	With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.		With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.

	The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO", and see {{Home link\|~~http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/~~papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they arise (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it for credit.		The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO", and see {{Home link\|papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they arise (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it for credit.

	The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will be telling the story.		The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will be telling the story.

	The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the {{Home link\|~~http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/~~papers/WKO/\|WKO}} website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of the paper.		The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the {{Home link\|papers/WKO/\|WKO}} website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of the paper.

	Feel free to join or follow remotely at {{Home link\|~~http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/~~papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}! Also, please let me know if you want to be added to the wClips mailing list.		Feel free to join or follow remotely at {{Home link\|papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}! Also, please let me know if you want to be added to the wClips mailing list.

	Best,		Best,

Drorbn at 08:00, 2 January 2012

2012-01-02T08:00:37Z

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	With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.		With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.

	The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO", and see {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they ~~come up~~ (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it for credit.		The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO", and see {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they arise (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it for credit.

	The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will be telling the story.		The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will be telling the story.

Drorbn at 07:42, 2 January 2012

2012-01-02T07:42:16Z

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	The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|WKO}} website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of the paper.		The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|WKO}} website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of the paper.

	Feel free to join or follow remotely at {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}!		Feel free to join or follow remotely at {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}! Also, please let me know if you want to be added to the wClips mailing list.

	Best,		Best,

Drorbn at 07:31, 2 January 2012

2012-01-02T07:31:21Z

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	Dear Students and Others,		Dear Students and Others,

	With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which ~~is to~~ be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.		With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.

	The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (see http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they come up (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed).		The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO", and see {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they come up (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it for credit.

			The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will be telling the story.

			The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|WKO}} website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of the paper.

			Feel free to join or follow remotely at {{Home link\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/\|http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/}}!

			Best,

			Dror.

Drorbn at 07:15, 2 January 2012

2012-01-02T07:15:25Z

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Dear Students and Others,

With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips Seminar", which is to be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon at a location that will soon be announced and the first meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11, 2012.

The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go over my joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (see http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/), section by section, lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they come up (though a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed).