The topic in Fall 2025 is Chern-Simons perturbation theory, configuration space integrals, and knot theory.
Time: Fridays 11AM
Location: Vincent Hall 570
Papers:
[BT] Bott Taubes - On the self-linking of knots.
[F] Kenji Fukaya - Morse homotopy and Chern-Simons Perturbation Theory.
[K] Maxim Kontsevich - Feynman diagrams and low-dimensional topology.
[S] Justin Sawon - Perturbative Expansion of Chern-Simons theory.
[V] Ismar Volic - Configuration space integrals and the topology of knots and link spaces.
[W] Tadayuki Watanabe - Some exotic nontrivial elements of the rational homotopy groups of Diff(S4).
Fall 2025 Schedule:
09/19 Introduction to Kontsevich
Speaker: Yi
09/26 Justin Sawon - Perturbative Expansion of Chern-Simons theory.
Speaker: Adam
10/3 Justin Sawon - Perturbative Expansion of Chern-Simons theory. (part 2)
Speaker: Anthony
10/10 Ismar Volic - Configuration space integrals and the topology of knots and link spaces.
Speaker: Lauren
10/17 Ismar Volic - Configuration space integrals and the topology of knots and link spaces. (part 2)
Speaker: Lauren
10/24 Khovanov Homology
Speaker: Shrivathsa