Junior Geometry and QFT Seminar
Event starts on this day
Feb
24
2025
Event Starts at:
12:00 am
– 2:00 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s):
Sai Sivakumar of UT Austin
Cost:
Free
Event starts on this day
Feb
24
2025
Event starts at this time
12:00 am
– 2:00 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s):
Sai Sivakumar of UT Austin
Cost:
Free
Cobordism Hypothesis I: Introduction
Description
We will begin with a summary of bordism and what a topological field theory is, with a motivating example from quantum mechanics. The main goal of the talk will be to describe a one-dimensional quantum field theory of oriented manifolds and then state a special case of the cobordism hypothesis in this setting. Time permitting, I may try to state a more general version of the cobordism hypothesis and mention some related ideas appearing in quantum field theory.
Location
PMA 11.176