Conference on Topological Field Theories
and
Related Geometry and Topology

Northwestern University

May 25-29, 2009

Schedule

All talks are in the large lecture hall (Room 205) of the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, which is just across the parking lot from the math department in Lunt Hall.

Coffee will provided before each morning lecture and at the afternoon break.

Monday, May 25

• 9:30--10:30 -- Ralph Cohen (Stanford) String topology, Hochschild homology, and Fukaya categories of the cotangent bundle
• 11:00--12:00 -- Kevin Costello (Northwestern) Factorization algebras in perturbative quantum field theory
• 2:30-3:30 -- Chris Douglas (UCBerkeley) 2-dimensional algebra and quantum Chern-Simons field theory
• 3:45-4:45 -- Dan Freed (Texas) Chern-Simons theory revisited

Tuesday, May 26

• 9:30-10:30 -- Jacob Lurie (MIT) Topological Field Theor ies, Quantum Groups, and Geometric Langlands
• 11:00-12:00 -- Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard) Global Geometric Langlands
• 2:00-3:00 -- Anton Kapustin (Caltech) Three-dimensional topological field theory with boundaries
• 3:30-4:30 -- David Nadler (Northwestern) Langlands duality for character sheaves

  7:00 -- Banquet, Thai Sookdee

  Wednesday, May 27

  • 9:30-10:30 -- Julie Bergner (UCRiverside) Homotopy fiber products of homotopy theories in quantum algebra
  • 11:00-12:00 -- Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) Chain level models for Fukaya categories
  • 2:00-3:00 -- Lev Rozansky (UNC) A 2-category of a holomorphic symplectic manifold
  • 3:30-4:30 -- Alberto Cattaneo (Zürich) Chern-Simons theory revisited

  Thursday, May 28

  • 9:30-10:30 -- Kenjii Fukaya (Kyoto) K. Saito theory over a Novikov ring and its mirror
  • 11:00-12:00 -- David Ayala (Stanford) Geometric cobordism categories
  • 2:00-3:00 -- Marco Gualtieri (Toronto) Groupoids and generalized complex branes
  • 3:30-4:30 -- Charles Rezk (UIUC) Cartesian Presentati ons of weak n-categories

  5:00 -- Party, Lunt Hall

  Friday, May 29

  • 9:30-10:30 -- Liang Kong (Caltech) Boundaries and domain walls in 2-d conformal field theories and topological orders
  • 11:00-12:00 -- Dmitry Tamarkin (Northwestern) Microlocal criterion for non-displaceability

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