Abstract:I will give a brief introduction to quantum groups and their representation theory with the emphasis on applications to integrable systems. If time permits, I will talk about positive representations and their Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and Racah-Wigner coefficients in the case of U_q(sl_2)
Abstract:The first part of the talk will be about a new and simplified presentation of the classical pure braid group. Motivated by twist functors from Algebraic geometry, the generators are given by the squares of longest elements over connected subgraphs, and the relations are either commutators or certain length 5 palindromic relations.In the second part of the talk, I will summarise a cons...