Chelsea Walton
Rice University, Houston, USA

Based on the speaker’s book in preparation, “Symmetries of Algebras, Volume 2”.

Lecture outline:

1) Classical Frobenius algebras.

2) Monoidal category preliminaries.

3) Algebraic structures in monoidal categories.

4) Connections to 2-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories.

5) Representations and functorial constructions.