Title: Chern-Weil Forms and Abstract Homotopy Theory
Speaker: Dan Freed, UTexas
Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
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Abstract: We begin by asking some innocent sounding questions in differential geometry. We give a modern formulation which leads us to abstract homotopy theory and a new take on equivariant de Rham theory. There is also a relation with the concept of “field” in physics. This is joint work with Mike Hopkins.