Potential talk topics

  • The Pontryagin Thom Theorem
  • Morse homology
  • The Cohen-Jones-Segal construction
  • Khovanov homology and the cube flow category
  • The Lipshitz-Sarkar construction I
  • The Lipshitz-Sarkar construction II
  • The Steenrod square and refined s-invariant
  • Crash course in stable homotopy theory
  • Homotopy coherent diagrams
  • The Burnside category and 2-functors
  • The Lawson-Lipshitz-Sarkar construction I
  • The Lawson-Lipshitz-Sarkar construction II
  • Khovanov spectra for tangles
  • Colored Khovanov stable homotopy type
  • The space-level Plamenevskaya invariant
  • Odd Khovanov homotopy type.