Thursday, 07 May 2026, 16:00 at MR2 – Following the 2004 Cambridge book by Manton and Sutcliffe Topological Solitons, we recall three classical field theories via their Lagrangians: i) scalar fields on the line associated with kinks (the topological invariant is the charge) ii) wave maps in the energy critical regime associated with harmonic maps (the invariant is …