Place: All talks are in room 1611
Claim: All are welcome to participate the workshop for active discussions. All talks are oriented for discussions.
Day 1, August 10
(Theme: BV language for mathematicians and physicists)
Morning: 9am � 12 am (3 hours)
A. Losev: Introduction to BV Language ( 3 morning hours)
Lunch break (12am � 1pm): USTC guest house
Afternoon: 1pm � 6 pm (5 hours)
A. Milekhin: Introduction to Wen’s work on topological order
Xuexing Lu: Combinatorics approach of graph calculus
Day 2, August 11
(Theme: Different languages for QFT, divergences (therefore configuration spaces), regular geometries)
Morning: 9am � 12 am
A. Losev: General picture of QFT (2 hours)
Zhi Chen: Cohomology of configuration spaces and knot invariants (11-00)
Lunch break: 12pm � 1pm (USTC guest house)
Afternoon: 1pm � 6 pm
Bailin Song: Quantization of sigma models of generalized Calabi-Yaumanifold(13-00)
A. Milekhin: On Wen’s theory of topological order
Day 3, August 12 � Trip to Yellow Mountains
Day 4, August 13
(Theme: Interesting solutions to BV and different geometrical applications)
Morning: 9am � 12 pm
Qin Li: B-model from BV
Minxin Huang: Topological strings (optional)
Lunch break: 12pm � 1 pm (USTC guest house)
Afternoon: 1pm � 6 pm
Zhi Hu: Variation of Hodge structures of generalized Kahler manifold
S. Hu: On Noncommutativity I
Day 5, August 14
Morning: 9am � 12 pm
Peng Liu: Knot invariants from the Yang-Yang functional
Rosly-Polyubin: On conformal anomaly in SD Yang-Mills
Lunch break: 12pm � 1 pm (USTC guest house)
Afternoon: 1pm � 6 pm
A. Losev: Higher Morse theory vs GMW
P. Mnev: TBA
S. Hu: On Noncommutativity II
