PhD Seminar — Winter Term 2018/2019
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This semester's topic is: Seiberg–Witten theory.
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The seminar will be based on notes from a course taught by Kotschick and Hamilton at LMU Munich and will feature the following topics:
- Physical and mathematical motivation of Seiberg–Witten theory;
- Spinc and Spin structures;
- Characteristic classes;
- Results from index theory;
- Moduli space of solutions of the Seiberg–Witten equations;
- Examples and applications.
The seminar takes place on Mondays from 14:00 to 15:00 in Room 1643 (Geomatikum), except for sessions in red. These take place in Room 1528 (Geomatikum) at the same time.
Sessions this term:
Literature:
Organisers: Sebastian Heller, Arpan Saha, and Danu Thung.
Previous seminars:
Winter term 2013
Summer term 2014
Winter term 2014
Summer term 2015
Winter term 2015
Summer term 2016
Winter term 2016
Summer term 2017
Winter term 2017
Summer term 2018
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