QFT Surveys :

Lectures on field theories

by Peter Teichner, notes by Henning Hohnhold.


Lectures on Factorization algebras

by Stephan Stolz.


Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology

Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative String Theory, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Vol. 83, A.M.S. 2011, 279-340.

A.M.S. Review


Higher Categories in a nut-shell

Lecture by Peter Teichner, MPIM, Spring 2013


Supermanifolds - an incomplete survey

Henning Hohnhold, Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner,

Bulletin of the Manifold Atlas 2011, 1-6.


From minimal geodesics to supersymmetric field theories,

in memory of Raoul Bott. Henning Hohnhold, Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner,

CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, Volume 50, 2010, 207-273.


What is an elliptic object?

Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner, Topology, geometry and quantum fielf theory,

London Math. Soc. LNS 308, Cambridge Univ. Press 2004, 247-343.


The spinor bundle on loop space

Stephan Stolz and Peter Teichner, MPIM preprint 2005.


Survey talks given at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Mathematical Structures in String Theory (Aug 1 - Dec 16, 2005)


Generalized cohomology and super symmetric field theories, audio of Lecture 1, Peter Teichner

Generalized cohomology and super symmetric field theories, audio of Lecture 2, Stephan Stolz

Low dimensional Topology Surveys


Very informal intro to Whitney towers, Part 1,

Whitney towers, Part 2

Two survey talks at the Hausdorff Institute in Bonn,

September 2016.


Higher order intersections in low-dimensional topology

Jim Conant, Rob Schneiderman and Peter Teichner,

Proceedings of the National Academy 2011,

108 (20) 8131-8138.


What is ... a grope?

Peter Teichner, Notices of the AMS 51, 2004, 892-893.


Knots, von Neumann algebras and grope cobordism

Peter Teichner, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians,

Beijing, 2002, Vol II: Invited Lectures, 437-446.


Lecture notes on slice knots

These notes are based on handwritten notes made by Justin Roberts from a lecture course given by Peter Teichner at  

UC San Diego in 2001. They were typed up by Julia Collins and Mark Powell and finished in 2011.


Classification of closed topological 4-manifolds.

A short and incomplete survey from 1992.


Topological 4-manifolds with finite fundamental group.

PhD Thesis, University of Mainz, Germany,

Shaker Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-86111-182-9.