Diversity of Fusion Categories Seminar - Scott Morrison

Event Date: 

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 2250 Elings Hall

Event Price: 

Free

Event Contact: 

Sean Fraer

Email: seanfr@microsoft.com

Phone: 805-893-8818

  • Q Seminar

I'll give an overview of what we currently know, and conjecture, about the classification of fusion categories. Fusion categories are in one-to-one correspondence with the local 2+1 dimensional field theories. We're still at the beginnings of the subject, and there are huge gaps in our knowledge.