Speakers:
Prof. Xiao-bo Liu from Columbia University
and Prof. Yu Li, from the Institute of Math, Nanjing
University.

Title: An introduction to the Chern-Simons gauge
theory

Abstract: We are going to discuss the motivation of
the Chern-Simons gauge theory, the geometric
quantization approach and
perturbative approach to this theory, and
its relation to hyperbolic geometry and knot theory.
This introduction will be preliminary and concise.