Categorification is a flexible and powerful set of techniques and ideas, which produces insight about mathematical structures by viewing them as shadows of objects in a richer world, often described in terms of higher categories. Two important and interrelated categorification programmes, which are the basis for this workshop, concern the concepts of quantum link homologies and higher representation theory. Both have their origin in mathematics, but have since developed into some of the most fruitful grounds for collaboration between pure mathematics and theoretical physics.
The goals of this workshop are twofold. The first week will make the rapid developments in these areas of categorification accessible to non-experts and intensify communication between specialists in these and related areas like TQFT, quantum Teichmüller theory, and gauge theory. The second week will be used to host a research conference with thematic emphasis on categorification of skein theory and 3-manifold invariants.
We can offer limited funds to PhD students working on categorification in quantum topology, broadly defined, to attend the lectures in the first week. To register your interest, please write an email to nils.carqueville@univie.ac.at, stating whether or not your home institute would financially support your stay, and briefly describe your work (in two or three sentences). For planning reasons, we appreciate early notes of interest; the final application deadline for support for the first week is October 15, 2018.
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Organizers
Name | Affiliation |
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Nils Carqueville | University of Vienna |
Anton Mellit | University of Vienna |
Paul Wedrich | Australian National University |
Attendees
Name | Affiliation |
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Rostislav Akhmechet | University of Virginia |
Saeid Aminian | University of Prague |
Aleksandra Anokhina | Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics |
Leon Barth | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Anna Beliakova | University of Zurich |
Johannes Berger | University Hamburg |
Christian Blanchet | University Paris-Diderot |
Alex Chandler | North Carolina State University |
Zsuzsanna Dancso | University of Sydney |
Angelo Raffaele Fazio | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
Domenico Fiorenza | La Sapienza University of Rome |
Victor Godet | University of Amsterdam |
Evgeny Gorskiy | University of California, Davis |
Mikhail Gorsky | University of Stuttgart |
Sergei Gukov | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
Kazuhiro Hikami | Kyushu University |
Quoc Ho | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
David Jordan | University of Edinburgh |
Joel Kamnitzer | University of Toronto |
Tina Kanstrup | University of Aarhus |
Oscar Kivinen | University of California, Davis |
Thang Le | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Yongchao Lu | Uppsala University |
Maciej Markiewicz | University of Warsaw |
Mathew McMillan | University of California, Los Angeles |
Alexandre Minets | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
Shuang Ming | University of California, Davis |
Vincentas Mulevicius | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |
Gregoire Naisse | Université Catholique Louvain |
Emily Norton | University of Bonn |
Can Ozan Oguz | Galatasaray University |
Tomasz Przezdziecki | University of Edinburgh |
Krzysztof Putyra | University of Zurich |
Hoel Queffelec | CNRS, Montpellier |
Jacob Rasmussen | University of Cambridge |
David Reutter | University of Oxford |
Elia Rizzo | Université Catholique Louvain |
Louis Hadrien Robert | University of Genève |
Raphael Rouquier | University of California, Los Angeles |
Ingmar Saberi | University of Heidelberg |
Pablo Sanchez Ocal | Texas A & M University |
Nicolle Sandoval Gonzalez | University of California, Los Angeles |
Oliver Singh | Durham University |
Kursat Sozer | Indiana University |
Catharina Stroppel | University of Bonn |
Piotr Sulkowski | University of Warsaw |
Joshua Sussain | City University of New York |
Lórànt Szegedy | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |
Daniel Tubbenhauer | University of Zurich |
Pedro Vaz | Université Catholique Louvain |
Emmanuel Wagner | University of Burgundy |
Dominic Weiller | Australian National University |
Arik Wilbert | University of Melbourne |
Yue Zhao | University of California, Davis |
Zechuan Zheng | Ecole Normale Supérieur Paris |