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.
(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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