Conformal Field Theory Student Seminar

Spring 2011

Joint With Dmitri Pavlov and Peter Teichner

Peter's page for the seminar with the list of speakers.

We will begin by trying to understand Graeme Segal's CFT notes, chapters 1-9. We will also try to cover some aspects of vertex algebras and conformal nets.

In the notes there are various suggested "projects." Participants are encouraged to give talks on these.

References

Graeme Segal, On the Definition of Conformal Field Theory

Martin Schottenloher, A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory, 2nd Edition (2008)

Notes I took from the seminar. They are incomplete and were TeXed live, so beware typos and errors.