Geometric topology and connections with quantum field theory (Q2577106)

Summary: In recent years, the interplay between traditional geometric topology and theoretical physics, in particular quantum field theory, has played a significant role in the work of many researchers. The idea of this workshop was to bring these people together so that the fields will be able to grow together in the future. Most of the talks in the workshop were related to elliptic cohomology, differential K-theory, or topological quantum field theory. Contributions: -- Graeme Segal, The quantum field theory point of view on elliptic cohomology; p.1511 -- Po Hu, Igor Kriz, Toward constructing elliptic cohomology by modularizing K-theory; p.1513 -- Gregory W. Moore, Remarks on the Hamiltonian formulation of some generalized abelian gauge theories; p.1515 -- Paolo Aschieri, Branislav Jurco, Differential geometry of nonabelian gerbes; p.1520 -- Thomas Schick (joint with Ulrich Bunke), T-duality for torus bundles; p.1521 -- Jacob Lurie, Elliptic cohomology and derived algebraic geometry; p.1523 --Tilmann Wurzbacher (joint with Mauro Spera), Spinors and twistors on loop spaces; p.1525 -- André Henriques, A model for the string group; p.1528 -- Sergei Gukov, The superpolynomial for knot homologies; p.1530 -- Nitu Kitchloo, The Baum-Connes conjecture for loop groups; p.1533 -- Ulrich Bunke (joint with Thomas Schick), Geometric constructions of smooth extensions of cohomology theories; p.1536 -- Stavros Garoufalidis, Progress on the volume conjecture; p.1538