Seminar series
          
      Date
              Mon, 20 Feb 2017
      
      
          Time
        15:45 - 
        16:45
          Location
              L6
          Speaker
              Andre Henriques
          Organisation
              Oxford
          Elliptic cohomology is a family of generalised cohomology theories
	$Ell_E^*$ parametrised by an elliptic curve $E$ (over some ring $R$).
	Just like many other cohomology theories, elliptic cohomology admits
	equivariant versions. In this talk, I will recall an old conjectural
	description of elliptic cohomology, due to G. Segal, S. Stolz and P.
	Teichner. I will explain how that conjectural description led me to
	suspect that there should exist a generalisation of equivariant
	elliptic cohomology, where the group of equivariance gets replaced by
	a fusion category. Finally, I will construct $C$-equivariant elliptic
	cohomology when $C$ is a fusion category, and $R$ is a ring of
	characteristc zero.
 
    