Previous Special Year Seminar

Continuing from February 28, I will attempt to explain Costello's set up of the problem of perturbative quantization of a gauge theory in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, thus allowing us to formulate the main results of Costello and Li.

This talk is an introduction to the work of Witten on physical approaches to knots, especially based on hep-th 1101.3216. Classical approaches to the Jones polynomial are based on various combinatorial constructions which have the downside of not...

In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert, which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...

In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert, which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...

Continuing from February 14, I will attempt to explain Costello's set up of the problem of perturbative quantization of a gauge theory in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, thus allowing us to formulate the main results of Costello and Li.

This talk will prove formality results for Fukaya categories in some examples following "The symplectic arc algebra is formal" by Abouzaid--Smith.