| 16:30-17:50 in USC - KAP 113 Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA) Link Homology Theories from Symplectic Geometry Abstract. I will start with an introduction to quiver varieties, then explain how one can use Lagrangian Floer homology on them to define link invariants, one for each positive integer n. When n=2, this construction is due to Seidel and Smith and the resulting invariant is conjectured to equal Khovanov homology. |