Seminar series
Date
Tue, 24 Mar 2009
11:00
11:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Jacob Lurie
Organisation
MIT
In this lecture, I'll give an overview of some ideas from higher category theory which are needed to make sense of the Baez-Dolan cobordism hypothesis. If time permits, I'll present Rezk's theory of complete Segal spaces (a model for the theory of higher categories in which most morphisms are assumed to be invertible) and explain how bordism categories can be realized in this framework.