TQFT reading group

Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in Krieger 411

Organized by Tim Campion, Maru Sarazola, and Jonathan Weinberger

Introduction, (0,1)-dimensional and (1,2)-dimensional TQFTs

Alvaro Belmonte

Wed, Feb 1st

Extended field theories, and (0,1,2)-dimensional TQFTs

Tim Campion

Wed, Feb 8

Construction of Bord_d as a d-category

Maru Sarazola

Wed, Feb 15

Connections to field theories 1

Milton Lin

Wed, Feb 22

Connections to field theories 2

Sebastian Schulz

Wed, Mar 1st

Finite Chern--Simons/Dijkraaf--Witten theory

Tomas Mejia Gomez

Wed, Mar 8

Connections to bordism spectra

Jonathan Weinberger

Wed, Mar 15

SPRING BREAK

Cobordism hypothesis

Yiyang Xu

Wed, Mar 29

Tangle hypothesis

Wed, Apr 5