EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Supersymmetric sigma models, elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
Speaker: Daniel Berwick-Evans
Speaker Info: UC Berkeley
Brief Description:
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Abstract:

We give a geometric model for elliptic cohomology over the complex numbers motivated by the physics of supersymmetric sigma models. In this language we will describe a rigorous construction of the Witten genus of a smooth manifold.