Seminário de Teoria Quântica do Campo Topológica  

12/10/2010, 15:30 — 16:30 — Sala P4.35, Pavilhão de Matemática
Marco Mackaay, Univ. Algarve

Categorifications of Hecke algebras, $q$-Schur algebras and quantum groups

This is meant to be a (rather incomplete) survey talk of the rapidly developing field of categorification. I will only concentrate on two of the various now existing approaches: the one using (singular) Soergel bimodules, due to Soergel (1992) and Williamson (2008), and the one using diagrams due to Khovanov and Lauda (2008) and Elias and Khovanov (2009). My intention is to explain the relation between the two approaches, as was worked out by Stosic, Vaz and myself.