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Announcements. small circle, UofT, LDT Blog (also here). Email Dror to join our mailing list! Resources. How to use this site, Dror's notebook, blackboard shots. The wClips http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/dbnvp/dbnvp.png Date Links Jan 11, 2012  120111-1: Introduction.  120111-2: Section 2.1 - v-Braids. Jan 18, 2012  120118-1: An introduction to this web site.  120118-2: Section 2.2 - w-Braids by generators and relations and as flying rings.  120118-3: Section 2.2 - w-Braids - other drawing conventions, "wens". Jan 25, 2012  120125-1: Section 2.2.3 - basis conjugating automorphisms of $F_{n}$.  120125-2: A very quick introduction to finite type invariants in the "u" case. Feb 1, 2012  120201: Section 2.3 - finite type invariants of v- and w-braids, arrow diagrams, 6T, TC and 4T relations, expansions / universal finite type invariants. Feb 8, 2012  120208: Review of u,v, and w braids and of Section 2.3. Feb 15, 2012  120215: Section 2.5 - mostly compatibilities of $Z^{w}$, also injectivity and uniqueness of $Z^{w}$. Feb 22, 2012  120222: Section 2.5.5, $\alpha :{\mathcal {A}}^{u}\to {\mathcal {A}}^{v}$, and Section 3.1 (partially), the definition of v- and w-knots. Feb 29, 2012  120229: Sections 3.1-3.4: v-Knots and w-Knots: Definitions, framings, finite type invariants, dimensions, and the expansion in the w case. Mar 7, 2012  120307: Section 3.5: Jacobi diagrams and the bracket-rise theorem. Mar 14, 2012  120314: Section 3.6 - the relation with Lie algebras. Mar 21, 2012  120321: Section 4 - Algebraic Structures. Mar 28, 2012 Out-of-sequence not-on-tape we watched the video of Talks: GWU-1203. Apr 4, 2012  120404: Section 3.7 - The Alexander Theorem (statement). Apr 18, 2012  120418: Aside on the Euler trick, the differential of $\exp$, and the BCH formula. Apr 25, 2012  120425: Section 3.8, a disorganized lecture towards the proof of the Alexander theorem. May 2, 2012  120502: Section 4: Algebraic structures (review), circuit algebras, v- and w-tangles. May 10, 2012  120510: Sections 5.1 and 5.2: tangles, their projectivization and its relationship with Alekseev-Torossian spaces. May 23, 2012  120523: Section 5.2: Proof of the relationship with A-T spaces. May 30, 2012  120530: Interpreting ${\mathcal {A}}^{w}(\uparrow _{n})$ as a universal space of invariant tangential differential operators. Group photo on January 11, 2012: DBN, ZD, Stephen Morgan, Lucy Zhang, Iva Halacheva, David Li-Bland, Sam Selmani, Oleg Chterental, Peter Lee.