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Research Seminar - Summer term 2016
Description:
This is the joint research seminar of the groups
of Christoph Schweigert and Ingo Runkel.
The seminar takes place
- Tuesdays 14:15-15:45 in room 241
The plan for this term is (subject to change):
- Tue, 5.4.: (no seminar)
- Tue, 12.4.: Lorant Szegedy on area dependent 2d quantum field theory
- Tue, 19.4.: (PhD defence Jan Priel)
- Tue, 26.4: Jan Hesse
- Tue, 3.5.: Manuel Bärenz will visit the department Mon. 2.5 - Fri. 6.5 (office 1512). He will give two talks on "Dichromatic state sum models and four-dimensional topological quantum field theories from pivotal functors" and one talk on half-twists.
His first talk is: Definition of the invariant in terms of handle decompositions (14:15-15:45, room 241).
- Wed, 4.5.: Manuel Bärenz : The state sum and TQFT construction (10:15-11:45, room 142). In addition, Manuel will give a seminar on half-twists and on noncommutative geometry and 2-dimensional state sum models internal to a involutive monoidal category with half-twist (14:15-15:45, room 415).
- Tue, 10.5.: (no seminar)
- Wed, 18.5.: special seminar: Svea Mierach, MSc defence.
- Tue, 24.5.: Jürgen Fuchs on non-degeneracy of braided finite tensor categories, following Shimizu
- Tue, 31.5.: Jürgen Fuchs (cont'd)
- Tue, 7.6.: (no seminar)
- Tue, 14.6.: Ehud Meir, simulated job talk
- Tue, 21.6.: Nils Carqueville and Gregor Schaumann on 3-dimensional defect TQFTs and their tricategories.
- Tue, 28.6.: Terry Gannon in Hamburg for Colloquium and talk at research seminar
- Tue, 5.7.: Lukas Müller on the universal construction of 3d TFTs
- Tue, 12.7.: Azat Gainutdinov on super group spin chains
Literature:
- Bärenz, Barrett, Dichromatic state sum models for four-manifolds from pivotal functors
[arXiv:1601.03580]
- Akbulut, 4-manifolds
[pdf]
- Gompf, Stipsicz, 4-manifolds and Kirby calculus
- Shimizu, The monoidal center and the character algebra [arXiv:1504.01178]
- Shimizu, Non-degeneracy conditions for braided finite tensor categories [arXiv:1602.06534]
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