X-MATH @ LSU

Contact: Oliver Dasbach

X-math (X as in eXtreme) is a summer research program for graduate students who either already work in low dimensional topology or have strong interest in it. We meet daily for one to two weeks and work intensively on projects around the given topic.

X-Math 2009

June 29th to
July 10th, 2009

Topic: The Twisted Alexander polynomial
 (Speakers: Susan Williams, Dan Silver
and Abhijit Champanerkar)

Y-Math 2010

June 30th to
July 7th, 2010

SU(N)-representations of knot
groups
(Speakers: Charlie Frohman
and Paul Kirk)

Z-math 2011

May 16th to
May 20th, 2011

The colored Jones
polynomial

α-math 2012

May 14th to
May 25th, 2012

Kashaev's invariants

β-math 2013

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2013

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(Image by Mustafa Hajij)