Seminar series
Date
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
16:00
16:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Filippos Sytilidis
Organisation
University of Oxford
A topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a functor from a category of bordisms to a category of vector spaces. Classifying low-dimensional TQFTs often involves considering presentations of bordism categories in terms of generators and relations. In this talk, we will introduce these concepts and outline a program for obtaining such presentations using Morse–Cerf theory.