Date & Time: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 14:30-15:30.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Title: Supersymmetry and Morse Theory
Speaker: Kishore Marathe, City University of New York
Abstract: We will discuss Witten's work relating supersymmetric quantum mechanics to classical Morse theory and deRham cohomology. Its extension to Floer homology of 3-manifolds will also be indicated.