Meetings
Meeting 22
YaMKittens Meeting
This meeting has been CANCELLED due to Covid-19
Meeting 21
University of Leicester, Thursday 9 January 2020
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | MA119 |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Viktoriya Ozornova (Universitat Bochum) Homotopy Theory for 2-Categories |
MA119 |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) Towards a Higher Structure Identity Principle |
MA119 |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | MA119 |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Andrew Smith (University of Leicester) Title: Manipulating tricategorical pasting diagrams |
MA119 |
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17:00-
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Informal discussions and dinner |
Meeting 20
University of Leeds, Tuesday 25 June 2019
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and some references kindly provided by the invited speakers. To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 9.00-10:30 |
Peter Lumsdaine (University of Stockholm) Title: Truncation and connectivity
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Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee
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Reading Room 9.31, School of Mathematics. |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Charles Rezk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Title: Homotopy theory in a higher topos |
Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00-15:00 |
Paige North (Ohio State University) Title: Homotopical models of type theory |
Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee |
Reading Room 9.31, School of Mathematics |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Towards a 2-topos of infinity-categories.
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Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 |
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16:30--- |
Drinks, dinner. |
Meeting 19
University of Birmingham, Tuesday 11 June 2019
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks. To find your way around the University of Birmingham campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee |
Computer Science Atrium (building Y9) |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Milly Maietti (University of Padova) Title: Quotients completions in foundations of constructive mathematics. |
LT3 Medical School (building B1)
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Nicola Gambino (University of Leeds) Title: Towards a constructive simplicial model of Univalent Foundations. |
E102 Biosciences (building R27) |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee |
Computer Science Atrium (building Y9) |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Yuning Feng (University of Birmingham) Title: Beck's construction and control effect. |
E102 Biosciences (building R27) |
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17:00---
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Drinks, dinner. |
Meeting 18
University of Leicester, Monday 18 March 2019
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee, tea and biscuits |
College House 104 |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Christos Aravanis (University of Sheffield) Hopf algebras, Hopf monads and derived categories of sheaves. |
KEN LT3 |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Joao Faria-Martins (University of Leeds) Functorial invariants of link cobordisms in 4-space derived from homotopy 2-types |
KEN LT3 |
| 15:00-16:00 |
Coffee, tea and buiscuits |
College House 104 |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Scott Balchin (University of Sheffield and Warwick) Weighted limits of left Quillen presheaves. |
KEN LT3 |
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18:30 |
Dinner |
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Meeting 17
University of Sheffield, Wednesday 28 November 2018
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks. To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Karol Szumilo (University of Leeds) Internal languages of higher categories |
Hicks Building LTB
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Robin Cockett (University of Calgary) Abstract differential geometry matters! |
Hicks Building LT6 |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Hicks Building I15 |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Hiro Tanaka (Harvard University) Associativity out of Morse theory |
Hicks Building F41 |
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16:30-
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Informal discussions, pub and dinner |
Meeting 16
University of Leeds, Monday 16 July 2018
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and some references kindly provided by the invited speakers. To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Reading Room 9.31, level 9 School of Mathematics |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Rune Haugseng (University of Copenhagen) Infinity-operads and analytic monads, part I. |
MALL 1 & 2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Rune Haugseng (University of Copenhagen) Infinity-operads and analytic monads, part II |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Reading Room 9.31, Level 9, School of Mathematics |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Rune Haugseng (University of Copenhagen) Infinity-operads and analytic monads, part III |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
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17:00-
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Informal discussions and dinner |
Meeting 15
University of Leicester, Monday 11 June 2018
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Michael Atiyah Building room MA119 |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Sandra Mantovani (University of Milano) Fibered aspects of Yoneda's regular spaces |
Michael Atiyah Building room MA119 |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Andy Tonks (University of Leicester) Decomposition spaces: theory and applications |
Michael Atiyah Building room MA119 |
| 15:15-16:15 |
Sean Moss (University of Oxford) The Dialectica interpretation and models of dependent type theory |
Michael Atiyah Building room MA119 |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee, Tea and Buiscuits |
Michael Atiyah Building room MA119 |
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16:45- 17:45 |
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester) Ordered enriched categories in theoretical computer science |
Michael Atiyah Building MA119 |
| 19:00 | Dinner | Kayal restaurant, 153 Granby street |
Meeting 14
University of Sheffield, Wednesday 21 March 2018
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Sina Hazratpour (University of Birmingham) Fibration of context and fibration of toposes |
Hicks Building J11
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| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Constanze Roitzheim (University of Kent) Framings in homotopy theory |
Hicks Building J11 |
| 14:00-15:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Hicks Building I15 |
| 15:00-16:00 |
Mathiew Anel (University Paris-Diderot) New methods for left exact localizations of topoi |
Hicks Building J11 |
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16:00-
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Informal discussions, pub and dinner |
Meeting 13
University of Birmingham, Friday 15 December 2017
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks. To find your way around the University of Birmingham campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
Computer Science Atrium |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Scott Balchin (University of Sheffield) Bousfield localisations and colocalisations of one dimensional model structures. |
UG09 Learning Centre, Computer Science Building
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Peter Arndt (University of Duesseldorf) Abstract motivic homotopy theory |
UG09 Learning Centre, Computer Science Building |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee | Computer Science Atrium |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Raffael Stenzel (University of Leeds) Complete Bousefield-Segal spaces as a model of Homotopy Type Theory |
UG09 Learning Centre, Computer Science Building |
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18:00
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Dinner at Kimchi Korean restaurant 2-4 Dawlish Road, Birmingham |
Meeting 12
University of Leeds, Wednesday 14 June 2017
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and some references kindly provided by the invited speakers. To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Staff Common Room, 9.25, level 9 School of Mathematics |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Martina Rovelli (EPFL) 2-Segal sets and the Waldhausen construction |
MALL 1 & 2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Edward Prior (University of Sheffield) Free EG-algebras on invertible objects |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Staff Common Room 9.25, Level 9, School of Mathematics |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Mike Prest (University of Manchester) Definable categories |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
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17:00-
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Informal discussions and dinner |
Meeting 11
University of Sheffield, Monday 8 May 2017
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Alexis Virelizier (University of Lille) Hopf monads |
Hicks Building J11
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| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Alexis Virelizier (University of Lille) Quantum invariants |
Hicks Building LT10 |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Hicks Building I15 |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Alexis Virelizier (University of Lille) Three-dimensional TQFT |
Hicks Building J11 |
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17:00-
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Informal discussions and dinner |
Meeting 10
University of Leicester, Monday 13 February 2017
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Ken Edwards KE527 (outside the room) |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Steve Vickers (University of Birmingham) Grothendieck Toposes Fibered over Elementary Toposes |
Ken Edwards KE 527 |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Nick Gurski (University of Sheffield) The Bar Construction as Cofibrant Replacement |
Ken Edwards KE 526 |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Ken Eswards KE 528 (outside the room) |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Quasistrict 4-categories and formal higher category theory |
Ken Edwards KE 528 |
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16:30- 18:00 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:00-- | Dinner at Kayal Restaurant | 153 Granby Street Leicester LE16FE |
Meeting 9
University of Leeds, Wednesday 16 November 2016
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and some references kindly provided by the invited speakers. To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-12:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Area near Staff Common Room, 9.25, level 9 School of Mathematics |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Simona Paoli (University of Leicester) Weakly globular n-fold categories |
MALL 1 & 2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) Universal properties of monads. |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Staff Common Room 9.25, Level 9, School of Mathematics |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Peter Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) (\infty,1)-categories of dependent type theories |
MALL 1&2, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
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17:00- 18:30 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:30-- | Dinner |
Meeting 8
University of Sheffield, Monday 11 July 2016
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Vanessa Miemietz (University of East Anglia) An introduction to 2-representation theory |
Hicks Building J11
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Paolo Capriotti (University of Nottingham) (\infty,1)-categories in Homotopy Type Theory |
Hicks Building J11 |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Hicks Building I15 |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Tamara von Glehn (University of Cambridge) Fibrations and models of type theory |
Hicks Building J11 |
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17:00-
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Informal discussions and dinner | |
Meeting 7
University of Leicester, Tuesday 10 May 2016
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speaker.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:30-11:30 |
Mark Weber (Macquarie University) Towards a direct algebraic understanding of homotopy types, Part I |
ATT LT3 |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Coffee, tea and biscuits |
ATT LT3 |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Mark Weber (Macquarie University) Towards a direct algebraic understanding of homotopy types, Part II |
ATT LT3 |
| 13:00-15:00 |
Lunch break You are also welcome to the pure maths seminar in MA119 from 14:00-15:00 |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | ATT LT3 |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Mark Weber (Macquarie University) Towards a direct algebraic understanding of homotopy types, Part III |
ATT LT3 |
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16:30-18:00 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:00- | Dinner |
Meeting 6
University of Leeds, Monday 22 February 2016
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks.To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Staff Common Room, 9.25, level 9 School of Mathematics |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge) Algebraic structure common to type theory and higher dimensional algebra |
MALL 1, Level 8, School of Mathematics |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
David Yetter (Kansas State University) Pasting Diagrams and Their Deformations |
Lecture Theatre 11 (Level 10) Roger Stevens Building |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Staff Common Room 9.25, Level 9, School of Mathematics |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Tim Porter (University of Bangor) Spaces as infinity groupoids? |
Lecture Theatre 10 (Level 9), Roger Stevens Building |
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17:00- 18:00 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:00-- | Dinner |
Meeting 5
University of Sheffield, Friday 11 December 2015
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Tom Leinster (Univ. of Edinburgh) What is the spectrum categorically? |
Hicks Building F24
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| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Christian Sattler (University of Leeds) Some thoughts on constructive homotopical interpretations of type theory in cubical and simplicial sets. |
Hicks Building Lecture Theatre B |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Hicks Building F20 |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Manuel Barenz (Univ. of Nottingham and Univ, of Bamberg) 4-manifolds invariants from handle decompositions and ribbon categories |
Hicks Building F20 |
| 17:00-18:30 | Informal discussions | |
| 18:30 -- | Dinner at Maveli | 223 Glossop Rd Sheffield S102GW |
Meeting 4
University of Leicester, Monday 22 June 2015
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:15-12:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Physics Building Foyer |
| 12:00-13:00 |
John Power (University of Bath) Coalgebraic Logic Programming: from Semantics to Implementation; embracing the laxness |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Andrew Swan (University of Leeds) An Agebraic Weak Factorization System on 01-Substitution Sets |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Physics Building Foyer |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Ignacio Lopez Franco (University of Cambridge) On Commutativity |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
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17:00- 18:30 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:30-- | Dinner at Kayal Restaurant | 153 Granby St, Leicester |
Meeting 3
University of Leeds, Thursday 7 May 2015
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speaker.
To find your way around the University of Leeds campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Engineering Building (Staff Common Room 3.09 on the third floor ) |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Joachim Kock (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Three lectures on polynomial functors: Part 1. |
Engineering (Houldsworth) LTC (1.05) |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Joachim Kock (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Three lectures on polynomial functors: Part 2. |
Clothworkers South Building LT2 (3.04) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | TBA |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Joachim Kock (Universitat Autonoma de Bercelona) Three lectures on polynomial functors: |
Clothworkers South Building LT2 (3.04) |
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17:00- 18:00 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:00-- | Dinner at Red Chilli |
Meeting 2
University of Sheffield, Thursday 19 March 2015
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Sheffield campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:15-12:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
Hicks Building I15 |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Ieke Moerdijk (Radboud University Nijmegen) Universal fibrations and univalence |
Hicks Building J11
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Julie Bergner (University of California at Riverside) Complete Segal objects and $(\infty,n)$-categories |
Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 2 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Clemens Berger (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis) Algebraic and homotopical nilpotency |
Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 2 |
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17:00- 19:00 |
Informal discussions | |
| 19:00-- | Dinner at Aagrah Restaurant |
Meeting 1
University of Leicester, Thursday 18 December 2014
Below is the schedule of the meeting, the title and abstracts of the talks and for each a list of references to relevant background material kindly provided by the invited speakers.
To find your way around the University of Leicester campus you can consult the campus map
| 11:15-12:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits |
College House (CH) Ground Floor Room |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Peter Johnstone (University of Cambridge) Realizability Toposes: from stamp-collecting to geometry. |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University) Atlases for Nonreduced Orbifolds |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee, Tea and Biscuits | Physics Building Foyer |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Daniel Schäppi (University of Sheffield) Tensor Categories arising in Algebraic Geometry |
Physics Building Lecture Theatre A |
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17:00- 18:30 |
Informal discussions | |
| 18:30-- | Dinner at Kayal Restaurant | 153 Granby St, Leicester |
