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Nikolai Reshetikhin
UC Berkeley

Visit: Nov 19-24, 2003

Colloquium
"Limit shapes of random 3D Young diagrams"
Thursday, Nov 20, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m., MS 6227
lecture information

"Invariants of tangles with flat connections in the complement"
Friday, Nov 21, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m., MS 6627
It will be shown how the state sum model for invariants of knots and tangles can be generalized to obtain invariants of tangles with flat G connections in the complement.

"Representations of quantized universal
enveloping algebras at roots of 1"
Monday, Nov 24, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., MS 6221
The subject of this seminar will be representations of quantized universal enveloping algebras "with large center". Irreducible representations of such algebras were classified by De Concini, Kac and Procesi. It will be shown how to decompose tensor products of such representations.

Background:
N. Reshetikhin received his Ph.D. from the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) branch of Steklov Mathematical Institute (LOMI). He was also a researcher at LOMI from 1984 till 1989. Reshetikhin was a Prize Fellow and a visiting professor at Harvard. He is currently professor at UC Berkeley.

Reshetikhin's work is in mathematical physics, representation theory and low dimensional topology. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990. He was one of the pioneers in the theory of quantum groups, invariants of knots and 3-manifolds. He has made fundamental contributions in the theory of quantum integrable systems and in representation theory of quantum Kac-Moody algebras.

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