Advanced School on Topological Quantum Field Theory

The lecture notes collected in this volume are by no means exhaustive on the subject of TQFTs and their applications. In particular, fully extended TQFTs are hardly covered at all, and most of the applications—some of them mentioned above—are entirely omitted. A similar fate befell natural extensions of the more physically oriented components of thecourse. For them, we refer to the rich and quickly growing repertoire of review articles, lecture notes, books and front-line papers, which can be considered the main course after the appetisers offered here.