Speaker
Dror Bar-Natan
Description
Reporting on joint work with Roland van der Veen, I'll tell you some stories about ρ1, an easy to define, strong, fast to compute, homomorphic, and well-connected knot invariant. ρ1 was first studied by Rozansky and Overbay, it is dominated by the coloured Jones polynomial (but it isn't lesser!), it has far-reaching generalizations, and I wish I understood it.
