Seminar series
Date
Thu, 15 Jun 2017
16:00
16:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Adrian Clough
Organisation
Univerity of Texas at Austin
Despite its fame there appears to be little literature outlining Lurie's proof sketched in his expository article "On the classification of topological field theories." I shall embark on the quixotic quest to explain how the cobordism hypothesis is formalised and give an overview of Lurie's proof in one hour. I will not be able to go into any of the motivation, but I promise to try to make the talk as accessible as possible.