Seminar series
Date
Mon, 23 Mar 2009
15:45
15:45
Location
L2
Speaker
Jacob Lurie
Organisation
MIT
In this lecture, I will review Atiyah's definition of a topological quantum field theory. I'll then sketch the definition of a more elaborate structure, called an "extended topological quantum field theory", and describe a conjecture of Baez and Dolan which gives a classification of these extended theories.