A Fast, Strong, Topologically Meaningful and Fun Knot Invariant

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Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto
Fine Hall 314

The title covers all the good. The bad is that we don't really understand this invariant . Wait, is that just part of the fun? Continues Rozansky, Kricker, Garoufalidis, and Ohtsuki, joint with van der Veen.

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