Workshop on Wrapped Fukaya categories and Khovanov homology

Date: 8 December 2025, 09:00 – 12 December 2025, 17:00
Location: Ångström Laboratory
Type: Workshop
Lecturer: Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala), Elise LePage (Columbia), Vivek Shende (UC Berkeley and Syddansk Universitet), Catharina Stroppel (Bonn)
Organiser: Centre for Geometry and Physics
Contact person: Tobias Ekholm

The workshop concern Floer cohomological and representation theoretical aspects of Aganagic’s mirror symmetry categorification knot invariants and Khovanov homology. Welcome!

Programme

There will be 2 talks every day and plenty of time for discussion.

Monday, 8 December

Room 80109

09:20 Welcome
09:30 -11:30 Introduction to categorification, Catharina Stroppel

11:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Room 101150

13:30 – 15:30 Aganagic's programme, Vivek Shende

Tuesday, 9 December

Room 101127

09:30-10:30 Introduction to Fukaya categories, Kyungmin Rho
11:00 - 12:00 Crash course on wrapped Floer theory, Tobias Ekholm

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Room 101162

13:30 – 15:30 Outline of proofs of and calculations in Aganagic’s program, Elise LePage

Wednesday, 10 December

09:15 - 12:00, Workshop in room 2005

13:15 - 17:00 Workshop in room 100155

Thursday, 11 December

Room 4003

09:30 - 12:00 Fukaya categories of factorizable spaces, Vivek Shende

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch

Room 80101

13:15 - 17:00 Q and A

Friday, 12 December

Room 80101

09:30 - 12:00 Khovanov homology = Aganagic’s invariant, Elise LePage

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch

Room 90103

13:15 - 17:00 Workshop

List of participants (not complete)

Elise LePage, UC Berkeley

Vivek Shende, SDU

Catharina Stroppel, University of Bonn

Kyungmin Rho, MMPIM Bonn

Noemie Legout, Högskolan i Borås

Cecilia Karlsson, Högskolan i Borås

Joel Beimler, SDU

William Olsen, SDU

Mingyuan Hu, SDU

Wennan Zhang, SDU

Yuki Matsubara, SDU

Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, CGP

Maxim Zabzine, CGP

Tobias Ekholm, CGP

Michele del Zotto, CGP

Yin Li, CGP

Daniil Mamaev, CGP

Matthias Scharitzer, CGP

Alex Takeda, CGP