A Fast, Strong, Topologically Meaningful and Fun Knot Invariant

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Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto
Fine Hall 314

The title covers all the good. The bad is that we don't really understand this invariant Θ. Wait, is that just part of the fun? Continues Rozansky, Kricker, Garoufalidis, and Ohtsuki, joint with van der Veen.

 http://drorbn.net/p26.