Proceedings of a workshop held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Aug. 3-7, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
Remarks on Wilson loops and Seifert loops in Chern-Simons theory Quantum field theory and the volume conjecture Computational aspects in Reidemeister torsion and Chern-Simons theories Functional integration and abelian link invariants Chern-Simons invariants, SO(3) instantons, and Z/2 homology cobordism Extending the SU(3) Casson invariant to rational homology 3-spheres Decomposition of Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant: Linking pairing and modular forms Representations and the colored Jones polynomial of a torus knot Eta-invariants and anomalies in U/1 Chern-Simons theory Delta-groupoids and ideal triangulations Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds derived from the equivariant linking pairing Chern-Simons theory, the 1/N expansion, and string theory Global Lorentzian geometry from lightlike geodesics: What does an observer in (2+1)-gravity see? Spin foam state sums and Chern-Simons theory Representations of the Ptolemy groupoid, Johnson homomorphisms, and finite type invariants Yang-Mills in two dimensions and Chern-Simons in three Intersection pairings on spaces of connections and Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds Fermionization and convergent perturbation expansions in Chern-Simons gauge theory Analytic continuation of Chern-Simons theory