Talks

Warning: These slides from talks are in some cases very rough. Also, there are often important points that were made verbally in the talks but were not included on the slides -- the slides are not self-contained. So use with caution. Ignore the "Keynote" links unless you have that program and want to watch arrows fade in and out of existence.

Higher categorical symmetries of Lie Groups (Banff, Dec 2023) * PDF
Going from n+ε to n+1 in non-semisimple oriented TQFTs (UQSL seminar, Feb 2022) * PDF
Low-dimensionsal G-bordism and G-modular TQFTs (Simons Center, June 2017) * PDF
Higher dimensional Temperley-Lieb categories, orthogonal polynomials, and (3+ε)-dimensional TQFTs (Davis, Jan 2017) * PDF
Codimension 1 defects, categorified group actions, and condensing fermions (Princeton, Feb 2014) * PDF (no intermediate "builds"; 2.7 MB); slightly modified version (IPAM, Jan 2015) * PDF
Premodular TQFTs (ESI Vienna, Feb 2014) * PDF (no intermediate "builds"; 5.6 MB)
(n+epsilon)-dimensional TQFTs and a higher dimensional Deligne conjecture (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, May 2012) * PDF (no intermediate "builds"; 3.9 MB); new and improved version (Berkeley, Apr 2013) PDF (no intermediate "builds"; 4.4 MB)
Higher dimensional Deligne conjecture (Stanford and Berkeley, Apr 2011) * PDF (5.7 MB), also smaller PDF (without intermediate "builds"; 3.4 MB)
Defining n-categories, modules, etc. (Riverside, Nov 2009) * PDF (9.5 MB)
  (.... see also Scott Morrison's companion talk)
Another blob talk (Georgia Topology Conference, May 2009) * PDF (6.1 MB)
Fields, blobs and TQFTs (Berkeley, Jan 2009) * PDF (4.1 MB) * Keynote (4.2 MB)
TQFTs and contact structures (USC, Feb 2008) * PDF (6.5 MB) * Keynote (6.8 MB)
The TQFT trace and free probability (Toronto, Sep 2007) * PDF (5.7 MB) * Keynote (9.8 MB)
Khovanov homology as a TQFT (Columbia, Apr 2007) * PDF (2.3 MB) * Keynote (3.2 MB)
Deletion-contraction relations, hard hexagons, and the shadow world (IPAM, Mar 2007) * PDF (7.7 MB) * Keynote (12.4 MB)

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