ICTP Mathematics Seminar - Tuesday, 4 September 2018, at 16:00 (PAVEL PUTROV)

[ICTP Math Section]

M A T H E M A T I C S   S E M I N A R S  2018


Tuesday 4 September, at 16.00 hrs.


Pavel Putrov (ICTP)


Title: Spin-TQFTs and cobordisms


Abstract:

Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) play important role both in 
physics and mathematics, in particular low-dimensional topology. In my 
talk I will review this notion and consider a family of TQFTs in various 
dimensions for which the input data is a finite group G and an element 
of a spin cobordism group of its classifying space BG. I will also 
describe some explicit examples of such TQFTs.


VENUE:  Stasi Seminar Room (ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building, first floor)

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