Research Seminar
Algebra and mathematical physics

Ingo Runkel and Christoph Schweigert
Place: Geomatikum 434, Time: Tuesday, 14:15-15:45

19.10.2010: Introduction

26.10.2010: Spherical categories and monoidal centers I (Alexander Barvels)
[BK, Chapter 1,2]

2.11.2010 Spherical categories and monoidal centers II (Alexander Barvels)
[BK, Chapter 1,2]

9.11.2010 TV, unextended case I (David Bücher)
2d Lattice TFT
Polytope decomposition, TV for closed 3 manifolds

16.11.2010 Nils Carqueville: Categorification of knot invariants

23.11.2010 TV, unextended case II (David Bücher)

30.11.2010 TV as an extended TFT I (Thomas Nikolaus)
[BK,Chapter 6-9]

7.12.2010 Talk by Daniel Berwick Evans (Berkeley and Bonn)

14.12.2010 Introduction to supermanifolds I (Christoph Sachse)

4.1.2011 Introduction to supermanifolds II (Christoph Sachse)

11.1.2011 Tobias Dyckerhoff: Matrix factorization categories of isolated hypersurface singularities

18.1.2011 Introduction to supermanifolds III (Christoph Sachse)

25.1.2011 Friedrich Wagemann (Nantes): On the string algebra and a diffeomorphism analogue

1.2.2011 Differential cohomology theories I (Alessandro Valentino)

Literatur

• [BK] B. Balsam, A. Kirillov Jr., Turaev-Viro invariants as an extended TQFT arXiv:1004.1533v3 [math.GT]
• [B] B. Balsam: Turaev-Viro invariants as an extended TQFT II arXiv:1010.1222v1[math.QA]

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