2d TQFTs labelled by 3-manifolds
Date
Thursday, May 24, 2018 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Du Pei (CalTech University)
Location
Big Seminar room Ground floor / Office Bldg West (I21.EG.101)
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
Tamas Hausel
Contact
String theory and quantum field theory predict the existence of a family of 2d TQFTs labelled by 3-manifolds. I will survey what is known about this correspondence and discuss possible ways to explicitly construct such 2d TQFTs.