A workshop on Yang-Baxter equations, braid groups, representation theory, and applications in mathematical physics
The workshop will take place on 2.-3.12.2016 (Friday/Saturday) at
School of Mathematics
Cardiff University
Senghennydd Road
CF24 4AG Cardiff (UK)
room E/2.20
to get to the department from Cardiff central station on foot, see this map. Alternatively, take a taxi.
Organizers: Gandalf Lechner, Ulrich Pennig, Simon Wood
IoP co-organizer: Roger Behrend
Contact: LechnerG, PennigU, WoodSi at cardiff.ac.uk
Speakers
- Christian Korff (Glasgow)
- Daan Krammer (Warwick)
- Niall MacKay (York)
- Paul Martin (Leeds)
- Thomas Timmermann (Münster) (had to cancel)
Programme
Friday, 2.12.2016
- 14:00-15:00: Paul Martin
Temperley-Lieb algebras, representation theory
and statistical mechanics - coffee break
- 15:30-16:30: Niall MacKay
An Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation - 19:00: workshop dinner at La Cuina
Saturday, 3.12.2016
- 10:00-11:00: Christian Korff
Yang-Baxter algebras in enumerative combinatorics
and geometry I - coffee break
- 11:30-12:30: Christian Korff
Yang-Baxter algebras in enumerative combinatorics
and geometry II - lunch break
- 13:30-14:30: Daan Krammer
Homological representations of braid groups and
knot invariants
Participants
If you are interested in attending, you are welcome to do so - please inform one of the organizers by email.
- Andreas Aaserud (Cardiff)
- Alexander Balinsky (Cardiff)
- Edwin Beggs (Swansea)
- Roger Behrend (Cardiff)
- Olivier Blandeau-Fournier (King's College)
- Benjamin Bode (Bristol)
- Tomasz Brzezinski (Swansea)
- Olalla Castro-Alvaredo (City University of London)
- Lorenzo De Biase (Cardiff)
- Benjamin Doyon (King's College)
- Suresh Eswarathasan (Cardiff)
- David Evans (Cardiff)
- David Grabner (King's College)
- Hassan Izanloo (Cardiff)
- Christian Korff (Glasgow)
- Daan Krammer (Warwick)
- Gandalf Lechner (Cardiff)
- Niall MacKay (York)
- Paul Martin (Leeds)
- Stephen Moore (Cardiff)
- Timm Oertel (Cardiff)
- David Palazzo (Glasgow)
- Ulrich Pennig (Cardiff)
- Mathew Pugh (Cardiff)
- Stanislav Stratiev (Swansea)
- Thomas Timmermann (Münster)
- Simon Wood (Cardiff)
Funded by the IoP (Institute of Physics) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Group and the University of Cardiff, School of Mathematics
