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The Structure of 2D field Theories

Geometry/Topology

Speaker: Constantin Teleman, Cambridge University
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Wed, May 10 2006, 4:10PM

In this talk, I will explain how the Mumford conjecture (proved by Madsen and Weiss) leads to a structure formula for 2-dimensional Cohomological Field Theories with semi-simple underlying algebra. This implies a conjecture of Givental's on the "higher genus reconstruction" of Gromov-Witten invariants.