The wClips Seminar

Dear Students and Others,

With help from my students, in the next semester I will be running the "wClips
Seminar", which will be a combination of a class, a seminar, and an
experiment. All are invited to join; we will be meeting on Wednesdays at noon
at a location that will soon be announced (on the URL below) and the first
meeting will take place in the first week of classes, on Wednesday January 11,
2012.

The "class" part of this affair is that we will slowly and systematically go
over my in-progress joint paper with Zsuzsanna Dancso, "Finite Type Invariants
of W-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne" (short "WKO",
and see http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/), section by section,
lemma by lemma, and covering all necessary prerequisites as they arise (though
a certain amount of mathematical maturity will certainly be assumed). Though
wClips will not be on the departmental course listing and you cannot take it
for credit.

The "seminar" component is the usual. Occasionally people other than me will
be telling the story.

The "experiment" part is that every lecture will be video taped and every
blackboard will be photographed and everything will be immediately put on the
WKO website, so that at the end we will have along with the paper a "video
companion" - series of video clips explaining every bit of it. The paper will
be mathematically self-contained, yet in addition every section thereof will
include a link/reference to the corresponding clip in its video companion. And
every video clip will have its written counterpart in one of the sections of
the paper.

Feel free to join or follow remotely at
http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/WKO/! Also, please let me know if
you want to be added to the wClips mailing list.

Best,

Dror.
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