| Wednesday, September 27 Geometry and Topology Time: 15:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Anibal Medina Mardones (Western) Title: Framed Polytopes and Higher Categories A framed polytope is the convex closure of a finite set of points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ together with a basis. An $n$-category is a category that is enriched in $(n-1)$-categories. Although these concepts may initially appear to be distant peaks in the mathematical landscape, there exists a trail connecting them, blazed in the 90's by Kapranov and Voevodsky. We will traverse this path, widening and improving it as we address some of their conjectures along the way. |
| Thursday, September 28 Ph.D. Presentation Time: 15:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Alan Flatres (Western) Title: TBA |
Ph.D. Presentation Time: 16:00 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Manimugdha Saikia (Western) Title: TBA |
Ph.D. Presentation Time: 16:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Ruchita Amin (Western) Title: TBA |