VOLUME CONJECTURE SEMINAR
In Semester 2 (2011), Callum Sleigh and I are organising a seminar series on the volume conjecture.
The seminars will take place on Mondays at 3:15pm in Room 107 --- Richard Berry Building.

08/08/11

Norm Do

An introduction to "An introduction to the volume conjecture" (PDF)

15/08/11

Craig Hodgson

Hyperbolic volumes of knot complements I (PDF)

22/08/11

Craig Hodgson

Hyperbolic volumes of knot complements II

29/08/11

Norm Do

Keeping up with the Jones polynomials I

05/09/11

Norm Do

Keeping up with the Jones polynomials II

12/09/11

Callum Sleigh

TQFT and the Jones Polynomial

19/09/11

Arun Ram

An introduction to the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations

03/10/11

Callum Sleigh

Modular Tensor Categories and Topological Quantum Field Theory I

10/10/11

Callum Sleigh

Modular Tensor Categories and Topological Quantum Field Theory II

17/10/11

Henry Segerman

Some reasons to believe the volume conjecture

24/10/11

Callum Sleigh

Introduction to the A polynomial