Martin Wolf is visiting the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester today (Monday 27 January), to give a talk in the Manchester Geometry Seminar series (link here). The seminar title is “Homotopy algebras and field theories“. It is a pedagogical introduction to homotopy algebras and their applications in physical theories. The talk reviews recent progress in understanding classical and quantum field theories on manifolds with and without boundaries in terms of homotopy algebras. Examples include Chern-Simons and Yang-Mills theories, and the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows. The photo below shows the Mathematics Building at Manchester.