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Speaker:
Benjamin Himpel
Affiliation:
Bonn
Date:
Tue, 2010-04-27 16:30 - 17:30
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall We will review how Chern-Simons theory is used to define invariants for knots and 3-manifolds, describe which place the $SU(2)$ Casson invariant takes in this story and discuss ongoing research on its $SU(3)$ generalization.
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