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Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
Sara Tavares, Univ. of Nottingham
BF theory in two dimensions has been the subject of intensive study
in the last twenty five years. I will readdress it by highlighting
the TQFT interpretation of the spinfoam approach to its
quantisation. I will also introduce the mathematical model that
allows us to treat surfaces with inbuilt topological defects and
how we expect them to relate to operators in the quantum field
theory.