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Knots in Washington XXIX; 30 years of quandles, 10 years of Khovanov homology
December 4-6, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU, NSF), Radmila Sazdanovic (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Categorification of Quandles: Strict 2-Quandles
by
Scott Carter
University of South Alabama
Coauthors: Alissa Crans, Mohamed Elhamdadi, Masahico Saito

A strict 2-quandle is a category in quandle. We show that the conjugation functor from groups to quandles extends to a function from strict 2-groups to strict 2-quandles. We also discuss weak notions of 2-quandles including coherent quandle objects in the category of categories in relation to braided monoidal 2-categories.

Date received: November 16, 2009

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