Schedule of the talks

0. January 20: Oranizational meeting

1. February 3: Harold Williams, Construction of the moduli of curves and its homology
2. February 10: Theo Johnson-Freyd, The E2 operad, Q-formality, Gerstenhaber and BV algebras. [4]
3. February 17: Dmitri Pavlov, Operations in String Topology.
   
4. February 24: Dmitri Pavlov, More operations in String Topology
5. March 3: Kate Poirier, Compactifications and partial compactifications of the moduli of curves.
6. March 10: Pablo Solis, Hochschild and cyclic homology of (dg) algebras and categories, and relation to deformations.
   
7. March 17: Dan Halpern-Leistner, Hoschschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem and Kontsevich formality.
   
8. We might adjust the schedule to meet twice a week in April.
9. March 31: Kevin Lin , TQFT in 2 dimensions.
   
2D bordism category and tqft's.

10. April 7: ???? En operad, formality, En algebras and categories and topological chiral homology.
    
11. April 14: Constantin, Group actions on categories and (higher) categorified gauge theory
    
12. April 21: Dario or CT, Deformation theory of En objects
    
13. April 28: ???, Higher Kontsevich formality and Kapustin's conjecture
    

Comments: Thanks to all the volunteers and participants!

References:
(still to come)