The 2023 edition of the IRTG Block seminar is about “Category Theory”.
Starting from the very definition of a category, we will look at the idea of the categorification of an algebraic object. This turned out to be a powerful method in a variety of mathematical contexts in the last decades. One classical example will be Khovanov Homology, a categorification — and more powerful version — of the Jones-polynomial for links. To this end we introduce specific topics of homological algebra, links, diagrammatic algebras and put it all together into a connecting framework.
Date: September 18 – 22, 2023.
Location: The meeting will take place in Trippstadt at the Seminarhaus Trippstadt, single rooms are provided.
Registration: In order to register for the seminar send a short notice to: thorn@mathematik.uni-kl.de
Please indicate if you wish to stay over the weekend in Saarbrücken in order to participate at the annual meeting taking place there, we will forward the information.
Deadline for registration: 1st August 2023.
A preliminary schedule can be found here.
List of participants:
| Name | University |
|---|---|
| Ibrahim Ahmad | RWTH Aachen |
| Annika Bartelt | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Tobias Braun | RWTH Aachen |
| Nicolas Faroß | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Jonas Frank | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Friedrich Günther | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Santosh Gnawali | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Lars Göttgens | RWTH Aachen |
| Linda Hoyer | RWTH Aachen |
| Giulia Iezzi | RWTH Aachen |
| Luca Junk | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Kathrin Kaiser | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Manuel Kany | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Pascal Kattler | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Markus Kauf | Universität Bonn |
| Vanishree Krishna Kirekod | RWTH Aachen |
| Max Mayer | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Stevell Muller | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Daniel Rademacher | RWTH Aachen |
| Friedrich Rober | RWTH Aachen |
| Marie Roth | RPTU Kaiserslautern |
| Julien Schanz | Universität des Saarlandes |
Organizers: Fabian Mäurer, Liam Rogel and Erec Thorn.