Lecture videos

lecture 01 (Links to an external site.): Introductory words, Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson worldview

lecture 02 (Links to an external site.): When are defects topologically stable?

lecture 03 (Links to an external site.): V=G/H; examples

lecture 04 (Links to an external site.): More examples; homotopy groups of coset spaces

lecture 05 (Links to an external site.): Examples of loop automorphism action 

lecture 06 (Links to an external site.): Textures; dislocations; background gauge fields

lecture 07 (Links to an external site.): An LSMOH theorem; disclinations; boojums and relative homotopy

lecture 08 (Links to an external site.): Day of flux-threading

lecture 09 (Links to an external site.): Abelian Chern-Simons theory

lecture 10 (Links to an external site.): Edge physics; representative wavefunctions

lecture 11 (Links to an external site.): Parton construction of the Laughlin state

lecture 12 (Links to an external site.): Composite fermions as partons

lecture 13 (Links to an external site.): Transitions out of QH states; SPTs

lecture 14 (Links to an external site.): SPTs: motivation, examples with U(1) symmetry

lecture 15 (Links to an external site.): Theory of electric polarization

lecture 16 (Links to an external site.): Anomaly inflow and fermion zeromodes on defects

lecture 17 (Links to an external site.): Day of fermion zeromodes on vortices

lecture 18 (Links to an external site.): Gapped, symmetric TI surface; Coupled layer construction

lecture 19 (Links to an external site.): Group cohomology SPTs

lecture 20 (Links to an external site.): Spin structures, characteristic classes, classifying spaces, classification of SPTs