This is a webpage for a series of lectures organized in preparation for the 2019 PCMI Graduate Summer School, with the aim of covering some of the prerequisites to some of the courses there. Unless otherwise specified, talks will be in PMA 8.136 at 11 AM. These lectures are organized by Charlie Reid.
BPS states and spectral networks, Ali Shehper, May 21
Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants I, Charlie Reid, May 22
Khovanov homology, Will Stewart, May 23
Bordism and Thom spectra, Arun Debray, June 4
Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants II, Charlie Reid, June 5
Bordism categories and invertible field theories, Arun Debray, June 6
Complex geometry, Ali Shehper, June 11