Notes from Northwestern Workshop and Conference on Topological Field Theories, May 2009

See the announcement page for abstracts.

Workshop

David Ben-Zvi: Topological Field Theory, Loop Spaces, and Representation Theory

May 18, 2009: Lecture I
May 19, 2009: Lecture II
May 20, 2009: Lecture III
May 21, 2009: Lecture IV

Bertrand Toën: Secondary K-theory

May 18, 2009: Lecture I
May 19, 2009: Lecture II
May 21, 2009: Lecture III
May 22, 2009: Lecture IV

Jacob Lurie: Topological Quantum Field Theories

May 18, 2009: Lecture I
May 19, 2009: Lecture II
May 21, 2009: Lecture III
May 22, 2009: Lecture IV

Additional Talks

May 19, 2009: Christoph Wockel: Higher connected covers by categorified principal bundles
May 20, 2009: Orit Davidovich: Modular tensor categories over number fields
May 20, 2009: Gabriel Drummond-Cole: Gravity and homotopy BV
May 21, 2009: John Francis: E₃ geometry and 3-dimensional TFTs

Conference

May 25

Kevin Costello: Factorization algebras in perturbative quantum gravity
Chris Douglas: 2-dimensional algebra and quantum Chern-Simons theory
Dan Freed: Chern-Simons theory revisited

May 26

Jacob Lurie: Topological field theories, quantum groups, and geometric Langlands
Dennis Gaitsgory: Global geometric Langlands
Anton Kapustin: Three-dimensional topological field theory with boundaries
David Nadler: Langlands duality for character sheaves