Category Theory Seminar: Marino Gran (Université catholique de Louvain)

Krieger 413

Title: An introduction to pretorsion theories (based on the collaboration with Alberto Facchini, Carmelo Finocchiaro, Francis Borceux, Federico Campanini, Aline Michel and Walter Tholen) Abstract: The notion of pretorsion theory is a natural extension of the classical notion of torsion theory in an abelian category. The idea is to associate, with any pair (T , F) […]

Category Theory Seminar: Nadja Egner (Université catholique de Louvain)

Krieger 413

Title: Galois theory and homology in quasi-abelian functor categories Abstract: The aim of this talk is to give an introduction to the categorical theory of (higher) central extensions and of generalized Hopf formulae for homology, and to apply these methods to the study of, in particular, the category Grpdn(A) of internal n-fold groupoids in a […]

Category Theory Seminar: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins)

Krieger 413

Title: Formalizing ∞-Category Theory in Lean Abstract: This semester the category theory seminar will function as a working group with the aim of contributing to an open-source collaborative computer formalization project with the aim of developing the formal theory of ∞-categories in the computer proof assistant Lean. A "blueprint" for the formalization project, which is […]