All the talks were interesting. The use of topological solutions in the nonperturbative regime and seeing the third homotopy group of S^3 and interpreting the result in the connection to the vacuum state is what stayed with me from Hawou’s talk.  From Sid’s talk, showing the holes in the coverage of the dynamically changing networks also stays with me. Even though Nick’s talk was hard for me to understand, it definitely motivated me to look it up later.

I  pick the best talk of week one as Greg’s talk, because his talk showed the math language of many topics I studied in my Physics classes.  It’s something which I consider I should look up sooner to understand the content fully. For example, saying “the “parallel transport” in physics is related to the “connection” in math language, relation to “action-angle variables..”,  the “vector potential” is the “connection”,  “forms” and “hops fibration”  stayed with me after the talk.

Other talks were really good too, but what stayed with me most was the stuff related to physics.