Workshop on Topological Field Theories

Northwestern University

May 18-22, 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 18

• 11:00-12:00 -- David Ben-Zvi, Topological Field Theory, Loop Spaces, and Representation Theory: Lecture I
• 2:00-3:00 -- Bertrand Toën, Secondary K-theory: Lecture I
• 3:30-4:30 -- Jacob Lurie, Topological Quantum Field Theories: Lecture I

5:00 -- Party, Lunt Hall

Tuesday, May 19

• 9:30-10:30 -- Bertrand Toën, Lecture II
• 11:00-12:00 -- Jacob Lurie, Lecture II
• 2:00-3:00 -- David Ben-Zvi, Lecture II
• 3:30-4:30 -- Christoph Wockel (Goettingen), Higher connected covers by categorified principal bundles

Wednesday, May 20

• 9:30-10:30 -- Orit Davidovich (Texas), Modular tensor categories over number fields
• 11:00-12:00 -- David Ben-Zvi, Lecture III
• 2:00-3:00 -- Gabriel Drummond-Cole (CUNY Graduate Center), Gravity and homotopy BV

Thursday, May 21

• 9:30-10:30 -- Bertrand Toën, Lecture III
• 11:00-12:00 -- Jacob Lurie, Lecture III
• 2:00-3:00 -- David Ben-Zvi, Lecture IV
• 3:30-4:30 -- John Francis (Northwestern), E_3-geometry and 3-dimensional TFTs

Friday, May 22

• 9:30-10:30 -- Jacob Lurie, Lecture IV
• 11:00-12:00 -- Bertrand Toën, Lecture IV