Owen Gwilliam (UMass Math&Stat): Attempts to define QFT
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April 27, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm ET
Colloquium Room LGRT 1681
Speaker: Owen Gwilliam (UMass Math&Stat)
The goal is to capture Chern-Simons theory in an axiomatic framework, so we'll review some approaches to defining QFT as a mathematical object. In the end we should discuss Atiyah's axioms for a topological QFT with Chern-Simons theory as the key example.