Date/Time: 5 April 2024, 4:30pm ET
 Location: Franklin and Marshall College, 215 Stager Hall
     Zoom: Zoom
  Speaker: Gage Martin, Harvard University
    Title: Annular links, double branched covers, and annular Khovanov homology

 Abstract: Given a link in a thickened annulus, you can construct
an associated link in a closed 3-manifold through a double branched
cover construction. In this talk we'll see that this perspective on
annular links can be applied to show annular Khovanov homology detects
certain braid closures. This is joint work with Fraser Binns.