Junior Geometry and QFT Seminar
Event starts on this day
Mar
3
2025
Event Starts at:
12:00 pm
– 2:00 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s):
Mark Saving
Cost:
Free
Event starts on this day
Mar
3
2025
Event starts at this time
12:00 pm
– 2:00 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s):
Mark Saving
Cost:
Free
Cobordism Hypothesis II: Putting the "Hype" in "Hypothesis"
Description
Ordinary TQFTs give us invariants of oriented n-manifolds which can be computed by decomposing manifolds into bordisms. We introduce the notion of a fully extended TQFT, which permits invariants of an n-manifold to be calculated through a much broader class of decompositions. We state the cobordism hypothesis and discuss this powerful link between differential topology and higher category theory.
Location
PMA 11.176