Seminar on the cobordism hypothesis

We meet on Thursdays at 12:30 in RLM 9.166.
  • January 17. Pavel Safronov. Dualizability in (∞, n)-categories.
  • January 24. Valentin Zakharevich. Contractibility of the space of generalized Morse functions 1.
  • January 31. Roberta Guadagni. Contractibility of the space of generalized Morse functions 2.
  • February 7. Vaibhav Murali. Models of (∞, n)-categories 1.
  • February 14. Rustam Antia-Riedel. Models of (∞, n)-categories 2.
  • February 21. Aaron Fenyes. Statement of the cobordism hypothesis 1.
  • February 28. Pavel Safronov. Statement of the cobordism hypothesis 2.
  • March 7. Dan Freed. Overview of the proof.
  • March 21. Valentin Zakkharevich.
  • March 28. Roberta Guadagni.
  • April 11. Rustam Antia-Riedel. Section 3.2 I.
  • April 25. Rustam Antia-Riedel. Section 3.2 II.
  • April 25. Vaibhav Murali. Section 4.1.
  • May 2. Pavel Safronov. Section 4.2.

Literature

  • A.P.M. Kupers, The space of framed functions, paper.
  • C. Schommer-Pries, Framed Morse functions (after Galatius), notes taken by Dan Freed.
  • D. Ayala, R. Hepworth, Configuration spaces and Θn, paper.
  • M. Groth, A short course on ∞-categories, paper.
  • C. Rezk, A Cartesian presentation of weak n-categories, paper, slides.
  • O. Davidovich, State sums in two dimensional fully extended Topological Field Theories, thesis.
  • D. Freed, The Cobordism hypothesis, paper.
  • J. Lurie, On the classification of Topological Field Theories, paper.
  • C. Teleman, Five lectures on Topological Field Theory, paper.