The talks are given in a hybrid format with in-person activities in JCMB 5323. They take place on Friday, 12:00pm-1:30pm.
Schedule:
Sep 30. Pavel: Introduction. Notes.
Oct 7. Benjamin: Modular tensor categories and Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. Notes.
Oct 14. Jan: Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT. Notes.
Oct 21. Patrick: The framing anomaly of the Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT and the Crane-Yetter TQFT. Notes. Remark.
Oct 28. Theodoros: Non-semisimple modular tensor categories, Hennings-Lyubashenko invariants. Notes.
Nov 4. Ben: Modified traces, renormalized Lyubashenko invariants and non-semisimple 3-2-1 TQFTs. Notes.
Nov 11. Pavel: Non-semisimple 2d and 3d TQFTs. Notes.
Nov 18. Victor: Unrolled small quantum groups, Costantino-Geer-Patureau-Mirand invariants of 3-manifolds equipped with flat connections. Notes.
Nov 25. Tudor: Non-semisimple TQFTs in physics.
Dec 2. David: CGP invariants and relative TQFTs.