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MSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration |
| January 26, 2008 to January 30, 2008 |
| Organized By: Alejandro Adem, Isadore Singer, and Robert Bryant. |
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Topological Field Theories
Wednesday January 30, 2008
02:30PM - 03:30PM
Speakers:
Michael Hopkins
Abstract:
The notion of a topological field theory has proved to be an extraordinarily useful scheme for organizing and known invariants
of maniolds and for predicting the structure of new ones. In this
talk I'll explain the notion of
a topological field theory, and the way in which trying to classify them forces topologists to re-examine some of the oldest assumptions in topology.
I'll also explain recent joint work with Jacob Lurie giving a complete classification of topological field theories in (very) low dimensions.
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