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Time: Fridays 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM MCS B31.
Schedule:
September 23. What is a QFT and why do we care?
September 30. Observables in a QFT.
October 7. This week we introduced the paper "Yang--Mills equations over Riemann surfaces" by Atiyah and Bott which will occupy the seminar for the upcoming weeks.
October 14. Connections on principal bundles. Speaker Peter Mac Cafferty.
October 28. The Yang--Mills functional. Speaker: Chris La Fond. Notes here.
November 11. The symplectic structure on connections and symplectic reduction.
November 18. Holomorphic vector bundles and stability.
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