lecture videos

lecture 01: Goals, big picture

lecture 02: The 2d toric code

lecture 03: The toric code as a gauge theory, phase diagram

lecture 04: Definition of homology, Z_N p-form toric code

lecture 05: Homology of cell complexes, examples; dependence on the gauge group; long exact sequences

lecture 06: Subdivision invariance of homology from entanglement renormalization; gapped boundaries and relative homology

lecture 07: Duality - Poincare and otherwise

lecture 08: Supersymmetric quantum mechanics

lecture 09: Supersymmetry and cohomology; non-linear sigma model

lecture 10: de Rham cohomology

lecture 11: Morse theory

lecture 12: Tunneling in supersymmetric quantum mechanics; pullback; Mayer-Vietoris sequence

lecture 13: Many different things that are called Poincare duality; Cech cohomology

lecture 14: Cech cohomology and the toric code; Cech cohomology with real coefficients is de Rham cohomology

lecture 15: Homotopy invariance of (co)homology; Homotopy invariance and Morse theory; Homotopy groups

lecture 16: Basic properties of homotopy groups; van Kampen theorem; fundamental group of a cell complex

lecture 17: The quantum double model

lecture 18: Vector bundles and connections; the Dirac monopole and the Hopf bundle

lecture 19: A little bit of Chern classes and homotopy groups of Lie groups; quantum double groundstates and the fundamental group

lecture 20: Chern-Simons theory and knot invariants