Workshop on higher categories and their applications
Description
SPEAKERS (Tentative):
| John Baez (University of California) | Aaron Lauda (University of Cambridge) |
| Julie Bergner (Kansas State University) | Tom Leinster (University of Glasgow) |
| Eugenia Cheng (The University of Chicago) | Peter May (University of Chicago) |
| Alissa Crans (Loyola Marymount University) | Joshua Nichols-Barrer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Nick Gurski (Yale University) | Simona Paoli (Macquarie University) |
| Andre Henriques (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet) | Urs Schreiber (Universität Hamburg) |
| Andre Joyal (UQAM) | Mike Shulman (The University of Chicago) |
| Steve Lack (University of Western Sydney) | Danny Stevenson (University of California) |
Schedule
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Registration and Coffee
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
A survey of the theory of bicategories
Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
A survey of the theory of Gray-categories
Steve Lack, Macquarie University |
| 15:00 |
Russian Seminar: Tricategories
Nick Gurski, Yale University |
| 19:00 to 20:00 |
Reception
|
| 20:00 |
Informal Talk: Model categories for beginners
Michael Shulman, University of San Diego |
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
The Homotopy Hypothesis
John Baez, University of California, Riverside |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Semistrict Tamsamani's n-groupoids and connected n-types
Simona Paoli, Macquarie University |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Lunch
|
| 15:00 |
Russian Seminar: Batanin omega-groupoids and the homotopy hypothesis
Eugenia Cheng, University of Chicago |
| 20:00 |
Applications of bicategories to algebraic topology
John Peter May, University of Chicago |
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Introduction to quasicategories
Michael Shulman, University of San Diego |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Model categories Quillen equivalent to the quasi-category model structure
Julie Bergner, Kansas State University |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Lunch
|
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Fibred Quasi-Categories and Stacks
Joshua Nichols-Barrer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 15:30 to 16:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
From quasi-categories to higher categories
André Joyal, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) |
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
A Survey of Higher Lie Theory
Alissa Crans |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Lie 2-algebras and Higher Gauge Theory
Danny Stevenson |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Lunch
|
| 15:00 |
Russian Seminar: Parallel transport in low dimensions
Urs Schreiber, Universität Hamburg |
| 20:00 |
Bigroupoid principal 2-bundles
Igor Bakovic |
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Frobenius algebras, quantum topology and higher categories
Aaron Lauda, Cambridge University |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
On 2-dimensional QFT: from arrows to disks
Urs Schreiber, Universität Hamburg |
