Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen is Professor and Director of the Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces at Aarhus University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at
California Institute of Technology. Before that, he was Director of the Center for the Topology and Quantization of Moduli Spaces. Among his many prizes and grants are a Clay Mathematical Institute research scholarship, which he did spend at University of California Berkeley, a big National Science Foundation grant joint with Alan Weinstein, an ERC Synergy Grant (as the corresponding PI), a Niels Bohr Professor Initiative and a DNRF Center of excellence.
A few years ago we define the Teichmüller TQFT, which is based on a deformation of quantum Teichmüller theory. In its original formulation there was a certain homology assumption needed to guarantee finiteness of the involved integrals in the definition of that TQFT. In our new formulation, this assumption is no longer needed. The talk will be focused on our new formulation and if time permits the relation to the old formulation. The talk is based on joint work with Rinat Kashaev.