Course lectures

The course will contain two introductory series of lectures of 4 hours each:

Frobenius algebras and 2D TQFTs
Joachim Kock (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

TFT, RCFT and all that
Christoph Schweigert (Universität Hamburg).

together with two more series of lectures of 4 hours each:

TQFTs, operads and moduli spaces
Andrey Lazarev (University of Leicester).

TQFTs from the Kauffman bracket and Integral TQFTs
Gregor Masbaum (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu / Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7).

See (preliminary) summaries of these lecture series.

The program will be complemented by two talks of 1 hour:

An introduction to Homotopy QFTs
Tim Porter (University of Wales, Bangor). See a summary.