nLab Northwestern TFT Conference 2009

This page contains material related to the event

• Northwestern University, Chicago: Topological Field Theories

• Workshop: May 18-22, 2009

• Conference: May 25-29, 2009

• Organizers: Kevin Costello, Ezra Getzler, and Paul Goerss

• website

  • program

  • titles and abstract

Workshop lectures

In addition to the notes provided by Alex Hoffnung below, there are also notes being posted by Evan Jenkins and Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole:

• Evan Jenkins talk notes

• Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole talk notes

David Ben-Zvi on Topological Field Theory, Loop Spaces, and Representation Theory

• David Ben-Zvi, TFT, Loop Spaces and Representation Theory – Lecture 1, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• David Ben-Zvi, DBZ Lecture 2, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• David Ben-Zvi, Ben-Zvi Lecture 3, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• David Ben-Zvi, DBZ Lecture 4, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

The above instant talk notes have been refined into typeset lecture notes:

• Orit Davidovich, Alex Hoffnung, David Ben-Zvi, Workshop on TFTs at Northwestern

  • Lecture 1 (blog, pdf)

related $n$Lab entries

• On the Classification of Topological Field Theories

  • Dijkgraaf-Witten theory

• geometric infinity-function theory

  • geometric function theory

Jacob Lurie on Topological Quantum Field Theories

• Jacob Lurie, Jacob Lurie on TFTs – Lecture 1, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Jacob Lurie, Topological Quantum Field Theories - Lecture 2, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Jacob Lurie, Lurie Lecture 3, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Jacob Lurie, Lurie Lecture 4, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

Related $n$Lab entries

• On the Classification of Topological Field Theories

Bertrand Toën on Secondary K-theory

• Bertrand Toën, Toen on Secondary K-Theory - Lecture 1, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Bertrand Toën, Toen on Secondary K-Theory - Lecture 2, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Bertrand Toën, Toen Lecture 3, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

• Bertrand Toën, Toen Lecture 4, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

Orit Davidovich on Modular Tensor Categories

• Orit Davidovich, Davidovich on Modular Tensor Categories, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

related $n$Lab entries

• semisimple category

• fusion category

• modular tensor category

John Francis

• John Francis, Francis Lecture, talk notes by Alex Hoffnung

Christoph Wockel

• Christoph Wockel, Higher connected covers by categorified principal bundles, talk summary by Christoph Wockel

Gabriel Drummond-Cole

• Gabriel Drummond-Cole: “Gravity and homotopy BV”

Conference Talks

Julie Bergner

• Julie Bergner, Julie Bergner Talk, talk notes by Christoph Wockel

Kevin Costello

• Kevin Costello, Talk by Kevin Costello, talk notes by Christoph Wockel

related $n$Lab entries

• factorization algebra

  • vertex operator algebra

• BV theory

Chris Douglas

• Chris Douglas, douglas.pdf?, talk notes by Christoph Wockel

Liang Kong

• Liang Kong, Liang Kong talk, talk notes by Christoph Wockel

Jacob Lurie

• Jacob Lurie, Talk by Jacob Lurie, talk notes by Christoph Wockel

Further links

• $n$Café blog entry

• Oberwolfach Workshop, June 2009 – Strings, Fields, Topology

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