On 5 December, 2012 I gave a talk at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics (ANZAMP) Inaugural annual meeting. The talk was entitled “Some field-theoretic ideas out of contact geometry and elementary topology”. Slides are available.
Itsy bitsy topological field theory, USC April 2012
On 30 April, 2012 I gave a talk at the University of Southern California, for the Geometry & Topology Seminar. Slides are available.
Itsy bitsy topological field theory, MIT April 2012
On 23 April, 2012 I gave a talk at MIT, for the Geometry and Topology Seminar. The talk was entitled “Itsy bitsy topological field theory”.
Itsy bitsy topological field theory, Monash Mar 2012
On 6 March, 2012 I gave a talk at Monash University, entitled “Itsy bitsy topological field theory”.
Hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed holonomy, Maryland Nov 2011
On 28 November, 2011 I gave a talk at the University of Maryland, for the Geometry-Topology Seminar. The talk was entitled “Hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed holonomy”.
Sutured Floer homology and TQFT, Harvard May 2011
On 13 May, 2011 I gave a talk at Harvard University, for the Gauge Theory and Topology seminar. The talk was entitled “Sutured Floer homology and TQFT”.
Sutured topological quantum field theory, Brown April 2011
On 6 April, 2011 I gave a talk at Brown University, for the Geometry and Topology seminar. The talk was entitled “Sutured topological quantum field theory”.
Talks at Columbia University, Oct 2010
On 1 October, 2010 I gave two talks at Columbia University.
Sutured TQFT and contact elements in SFH, Boston College Sep 2010
On 23 September, 2010 I gave a talk at Boston College, for the Geometry/Topology seminar. The talk was entitled “Sutured topological quantum field theory and contact elements in sutured Floer homology”.
Hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed holonomy, Singapore Jul 2010
On 22 July, 2010 I gave a talk at the workshop on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Character Varieties, part of a program at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences of the National University of Singapore. Slides are available.