The topic in Fall 2025 is Chern-Simons perturbation theory, Kontsevich's graph complex, and configuration space integrals.
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).