Scott Morrison

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June 23, The blob complex. Low dimensional topology and categorification, Stony Brook. (slides)
June 4, Classifying fusion categories. Miller Institute Symposium. (poster)
May 11, Classification of subfactors up to index 5., Non-commutative geometry and operator algebras, Vanderbilt. (slides)
January 26, Khovanov homology II, functoriality, deformations and the s-invariant, MSRI introductory workshop for the link homology semester. (lecture notes, streaming video, video)
January 25, Khovanov homology I, MSRI introductory workshop for the link homology semester. (lecture notes, streaming video, video)
January 18, Blob homology, TQFT and link homology in Hahei.
January 17, Khovanov homology for 4-manifolds, TQFT and link homology in Hahei.

November 8, Blob homology, part I, special session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures at AMS Riverside meeting. (slides, video)
- see also slides and video from part II, by Kevin Walker.
November 7, Coincidences of tensor categories, special session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory at AMS Riverside meeting. (slides)
October 30, Graph planar algebra embedding theorems, subfactor seminar at UC Berkeley.
October 18, Fusion categories and small index subfactors, part II, special session on Fusion Categories at AMS Waco meeting. (slides)
- see also slides from part I, by Noah Snyder.
October 9, Blob homology, Los Angeles Joint Topology Seminar.
September 3, Fusion categories, UC Berkeley Colloquium. (blackboards)
June 3, Classifying subfactor planar algebras, UC Riverside colloquium.
June 3, Blob homology, UC Riverside.
March 22, Extended Haagerup exists!, Tensor Categories in Bloomington, Indiana. (slides, video and blog post)
- see also March 20, Coincidences of tensor categories, at the same conference, a talk given by Noah Snyder on joint work. (slides and blog post)
January 9, The Cappell-Shaneson spheres and the s-invariant, Knots in Washington. (slides)
January 8, Blob homology, AMS Washington meeting. (slides)
January 6, Khovanov homology of rational tangles, AMS Washington meeting. (slides)

December 4, The Cappell-Shaneson spheres and the s-invariant, UC San Diego. (slides)
October 16, The D_2n planar algebras, University of Tokyo.
October 7, The D_2n planar algebras, University of New South Wales seminar.
September 26, Generators and relations for U_q(sl_n) as a pivotal category, University of Sydney algebra seminar.
September 16, The D_2n planar algebras, PennState noncommutative geometry and analysis seminar.
July 8, Introduction to Khovanov homology and genus bounds for links, Station Q seminar.
May 15, Blob homology, Georgia Topology Conference.
April 18-20, Skein theory for the D_2n subfactors, Planar Algebras and Subfactors meeting at Vanderbilt.
February 1, Link invariants from the D4 subfactor, with Emily Peters and Noah Snyder, UC Berkeley subfactor seminar.

December 12-15, Lasagna composition for Khovanov Homology, in the Quantum Topology Special Session of the joint NZMS/AMS Wellington meeting. (slides)
October 2, Spiders for U_q(sl_n), Station Q Seminar, UC Santa Barbara. (slides)
August 6-10, Lasagna composition for Khovanov Homology, Quantum Topology in Hanoi, Vietnam (slides)
July 5-8, Lasagna composition for Khovanov Homology, Oporto conference on Link Homology, Portugal (slides)
May 23, Functoriality and duality in Khovanov homology, Kyoto. (Nakajima's notes, photos)
May 15, Genus bounds and spectral sequences made easy, Kyoto. (slides)
May 14, Khovanov homology, Kyoto. (slides)
April 24, Khovanov homology is functorial in S^3, Braids In Banff. (slides)
February 21 and 22, Rasmussen's genus bounds from Khovanov homology, UC Berkeley and UC Davis topology seminars.

December 4, A topological categorification of su_3, Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene. (slides)
December 1, Khovanov Homology, Basic Notions Seminar, University of Oregon, Eugene. (slides)
November 17, Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology. Columbia, Gauge Theory Seminar. (slides, handout.)
September 7, Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology. Uppsala, Categorification in Algebra and Topology. (slides, handout.) My pretty slides got a mention at the n-Category Cafe.
July 3, Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology. PCMI. (slides)
June 16, A cobordism theory for sl_3 knot homology, Subfactor seminar.
May 6, Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology. Knots in Washington. (slides, handout, actual handout)
April 28, Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology. (announcement, slides)
April 11, A cobordism theory for sl_3 knot homology (slides, handout), UCSB topology seminar.
Khovanov Homology, Taipa conference Jan 2006. (slides)

omath, UC Berkeley Subfactor seminar.
The Knot Atlas, at Knots in Washington.
Bar-Natan's local Khovanov homology, UC Berkeley Subfactor seminar.
- Abstracts June 30, July 7 September 9
- You can download my slides from the first two talks and my slides from the 'delooping' talk.
Generators and relations for $Rep(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n))$ as a pivotal category.
- Abstracts February 11, February 18.
- I gave a short 25 minute version of this talk at the Quantum Topology AMS meeting at Snowbird, in June. You can download overheads as an ~8mb pdf.

Pivotal categories, planar algebras and subfactors
- Abstracts October 15, October 29, November 5.

October 25, The Temperley-Lieb algebra and $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ representation theory, UC Berkeley subfactor seminar. (abstract)
October 11, Jones-Wenzl projections in the Temperley-Lieb algebra, UC Berkeley subfactor seminar. (abstract)
May 8, Juggling for Geeks, Many Cheerful Facts graduate seminar. (abstract)

June 8, Classifying Spinor Structures, honours talk at the University of New South Wales. (abstract)

Talks