When:
Friday, February 7, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM CT
Where: Lunt Hall, 105, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Daniel Mallory
Group: Department of Mathematics: Graduate Student Seminar
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Weil and it's the same but it's quantum so it's not
Abstract: The Weil algebra is a homological gadget associated to a Lie algebra which is a key tool in using differential forms to study equivariant cohomology of manifolds with group action (Club classics). I'll explain how this works and how to construct the "quantum Weil algebra", a noncommutative deformation. It can be used to generalize the PBW theorem to equivariant cohomology, and to study integrals on moduli spaces of flat bundles. Of course, first I will Rewind and Talk talk about the original PBW theorem and what happens to it when taking invariants, or So I will try.
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm