Villa de Leyva Preparations
December-07-09
8:04 PM
Abstract. Assuming lots of luck, in six classes we'll talk about 
Perturbed Gaussian integration in R^n and Feynman diagrams.
Chern-Simons theory, knots, holonomies  and configuration space integrals.
Finite type invariants, chord diagrams and Jacobi diagrams and "expansions".
Drinfel'd associators and knotted trivalent graphs.
w-Knotted objects and co-commutative Lie bi-algebras.
Virtual knots and all other Lie bi-algebras.
Each class will be closely related to the next, yet the first and last will only be very loosely connected.