Northwestern Conference Schedule
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