Seminar series
Date
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
Time
02:15 -
03:15
Location
L3
Speaker
Kevin Costello
Organisation
Northwestern
I'll describe an approach to perturbative quantum field theory
which is philosophically similar to the deformation quantization approach
to quantum mechanics. The algebraic objects which appear in our approach --
factorization algebras -- also play an important role in some recent work
in topology (by Francis, Lurie and others). This is joint work with Owen
Gwilliam.