Instructor: Peter Teichner

Lectures: We 2:00-3:30, 740 Evans

Office Hours: Tu 2:00-3:30, 703 Evans

Schedule of talks:

Jan. 21 David Ayala, Spaces of Manifolds

Jan. 28 Peter Teichner, Super symmetric field theories and differential forms

Feb. 4 Daniel Müllner, Orientation reversal of manifolds

Feb. 11 Peter Teichner, Grothendieck fibrations and twisted field theories

Feb. 18 Arturo Prat-Waldron, The Pfaffian Line Bundle over Loop Space, Spin Structures and the Index Theorem, Part 1

Feb. 25 Arturo Prat-Waldron, The Pfaffian Line Bundle over Loop Space, Spin Structures and the Index Theorem, Part 2

March 4 Katrin Wehrheim, The Donaldson-Fukaya category and Lagrangian correspondences

March 11 Dieter Kotschick, Ordering manifolds by maps of non-zero degree

March 18 Peter Teichner, Super symmetric field theories and K-theory

spring break

April 1 Qin Li, On homogenous string manifolds

April 8 Rekha Santhanam, Equivariant Gamma Spaces

April 15 Peter Teichner, Bordism categories and different flavors of K-theory

April 22 Arturo Prat-Waldron, More on the Pfaffian line over loop space

April 29 Chris Schommer-Pries, Classifying Extended Topological Field Theories in Low Dimensions

May 5 Chris Schommer-Pries, D-Branes, Defects and Natural Transformations of Topological Field Theories