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Analytic tools in algebraic geometry

Independent evidence for the classification of topological 4-manifolds?

Does linearization of categories reflect isomorphism?

What are some of the big open problems in 3-manifold theory?

Double affine Hecke algebras and mainstream mathematics

Kirby calculus and local moves

Prime numbers as knots: Alexander polynomial

“Industry”/Government jobs for mathematicians

Groups, quantum groups and (fill in the blank)

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Definitions of Hecke algebras

Applications of Noncommutative Geometry

triangulated vs. dg/A-infinity

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Intuitive explanation for the use of matrix factorizations in knot theory

Asymptotic growth of a certain integer sequence

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How many definitions are there of the Jones polynomial?

What are the points of Spec(Vassiliev Invariants)?

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What are the motivations for studying Cherednik (symplectic reflection, graded Hecke) algebras?

How to motivate the skein relations?

Do Jones-Wenzl idempotents lift to anything interesting in the Hecke algebra?

Compatibility of the KZ connection with operadic composition

What's the sense in which A_\infty algebras are “deformable”?

Relative K-theory and split exact sequences of C* algebras

geometric Langlands for GL(1)

Infinite subgroups with finite index [closed]