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SUMMARY:Sam Gunningham (Montana State University)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/TQFT/102/">S
 kein theory and the geometric Langlands program</a>\nby Sam Gunningham (Mo
 ntana State University) as part of Topological Quantum Field Theory Club (
 IST\, Lisbon)\n\n\nAbstract\nSkein modules are certain families of vector 
 spaces spanned by embedded links or graphs in a 3-manifold M\, modulo cert
 ain local relations. They can be thought of both as an obstruction to defi
 ning a polynomial invariant of knots in M and as an invariant of the 3-man
 ifold M. In this talk\, I will survey some history\, recent results\, and 
 work in progress on skein modules\, motivated by their role in the geometr
 ic Langlands program. I will discuss joint work with (some subsets of) Dav
 id Ben-Zvi\, David Jordan\, Pavel Safronov\, Monica Vazirani\, and Haiping
  Yang.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/TQFT/102/
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