Pre-Talbot Seminar

Spring 2015, Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 pm, E17-128, MIT

Schedule of Talks

• 11/02/2015. Talk 1: Jay Shah - Rational Homotopy Theory
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  

• 18/02/2015. Talk 2: Denis Nardin - Massey Products and Formality
  Notes (by Jay Shah)
  

• 25/02/2015. Talk 3: Lukas Brantner - The Formality of Kähler Manifolds
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  

• 04/03/2015. Talk 4: Eva Belmont - The Fulton-MacPherson Operad and Configuration Spaces
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  

• 11/03/2015. Talk 5: Umut Varolgunes - The Formality of the E_n Operad
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  

• 18/03/2015. Talk 6: Saul Glasman - Deformation Quantisation
  Notes (by Saul Glasman)
  
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  

• 25/03/2015. MIT Spring Break

• 01/04/2015. Talk 7: Jeremy Hahn - p-adic Homotopy Theory
  Notes (by Denis Nardin)
  





References

Talk 1:
"Rational Homotopy Theory", D. Quillen
"Rational Homotopy Theory"(book), Y. Felix, S. Halperin, J.-C. Thomas

Talk 2:
Kadeishvili "Cohomology C_infinity-algebra and rational homotopy type"
Lu,Palmier,Wu,Zhang "A-infinity structures on Ext algebras"
Merkulov "Strong homotopy algebras of a Kähler manifold"

Talk 3:
Real homotopy theory of Kähler manifolds P. Deligne, P. Griffiths, J. Morgan, D. Sullivan
"Fundamental Groups of Compact Kähler Manifolds"(book), J. Amoré et al.

Talk 4:
Chapter 5 of "Formality of the little N-disks Operad", P. Lambrechts, I. Volic
("The (non-equivariant) Homology of the little discs Operad, D. Sinha )

Talk 5:
"Formality of the little N-disks Operad", P. Lambrechts, I. Volic
"Talbot Pretalk: Kontsevich's Formality of the little N-discs Operad", S. Kupers
"Operads and Motives in Deformation Quantization", M. Kontsevich

Talk 6:
"Deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds I, M. Kontsevich"
"Operads and Motives in Deformation Quantization", M. Kontsevich

Talk 7:
"E-infinity Algebras and p-adic Homotopy Theory


The parallel 2015 Pre-Talbot Seminar at Northwestern has essentially the same topic and is another good source of references.

This seminar is organised by Lukas Brantner.
If you have any questions, suggestions, criticism or corrections, please send an email to brantner@math.harvard.edu.