Title: The Atiyah-Bott Localisation
Speaker: Riccardo Ontani
Abstract:Equivariant cohomology is, informally, a cohomology theory for spaces with a group action. In this talk I’ll introduce what equivariant cohomology is and I’ll discuss an important related result, the Atiyah-Bott localization theorem, which gives a useful formula to integrate cohomology classes on smooth manifolds with a torus action.
Some snacks will be provided before and after the talk.