Zsuzsanna Dancso
Graduate Student
Mail: Department of
Mathematics
University of Toronto
40 St George St.
Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4, Canada
zsuzsi*at*math*dot*toronto*dot*edu
Research:
My main research interest is algebraic knot theory, in particular, the
connection between knot theory and the representation theory of Lie
algebras, diagrammatic spaces, the Kontsevich integral, and virtual knots.
My advisor is
Dror Bar-Natan.
Courses I have been a TA for:
2008 Spring: MAT247 (Algebra II), tutorials and marking
MAT188 (Linear Algebra for Engineering), tutorials and marking;
2007 Fall: MAT240 (Algebra I), tutorials and marking;
Mat223 (Linear Algebra), tutorials and marking
2007 Spring: MAT189 (Calculus for Engineering), tutorials and marking
2006 Fall- 2007 Winter: MAT235 and MAT237 (Multivariable Calculus), marking
Conferences and talks
2008 June, AMS-SBM Joint Meeting, Workshop on Low Dimensional Topology,
IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Talk:
"
Algebraic Knot Theory and the Kontsevich Integral"
2008 May, Knots, Surfaces, the Curve Complex, Foliations, and all that...,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Talk:
"
Algebraic Knot Theory and the Kontsevich Integral"
2008 April, MIT Women in Mathematics: a Celebration, MIT
2008 March, Graduate Student Topology Conference,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talk:
"The Kontsevich Integral: a Friendly Introduction to a Powerful Invariant",
references, the handout will be online as soon as the scanner
computer recovers.
2008 March, Graduate Student Seminar, University of Toronto; talk:
"Algebraic Knot Theory"
2007 October, Knot at Lunch Seminar, University of Toronto; talk:
"Diagrammatic sl(2) representation theory"
2007 April, University of Chicago: Graduate Student Topology Conference;
talk: "
Algebraic Knot Theory- an emerging field?" (By clicking on the link,
you can see the slides.)
2006 June-July, Park City, Utah: PCMI Graduate Summer Scool in Low Dimensional Topology
2006 April, Bloomington, Indiana: Graduate Student Topology Conference; talk: "Representing Homology Classes by Embedded Submanifolds"
The graduate student ones are very nice conferences, and there will be one
in 2009 as well, in Wisconsin. Check
their website in December/January if you are interested.