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Category Theory Seminar, Title of the talk: Traces in endobicategories and quantized link homology, Macquire University Sydney, Australia, November 28, 2018

Abstract: In this talk I will give a gentle introduction to the theory of horizontal traces (also known as factorization homology) for bicategories with an endofunctor. As an application of this theory, I define a new triply graded link homology theory, with a quantum sl(2) action intertwining the action by cobordisms. This is a joint work with K. Putyra and S. Wehrli.