AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2014 00:33:06

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 18, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Category Theory, I
Room 2016, McCain Hall
Organizers:
Pieter Hofstra, University of Ottawa phofstra@uottawa.ca
Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Pseudo-algebraic 2-categories of structured categories.
  Michael Makkai*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
  (1103-18-72)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Kleene's minimization as a construction.
  Robin Cockett*, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
  (1103-03-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Derivations in Kähler Categories.
  Keith O'Neill*, University of Ottawa
  (1103-03-179)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Derivations in codifferential categories.
  Richard Blute*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa
  (1103-18-186)

Saturday October 18, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Category Theory, II
Room 2016, McCain Hall
Organizers:
Pieter Hofstra, University of Ottawa phofstra@uottawa.ca
Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Pitts Monads and a Lax Descent Theorem.
  Marta C. Bunge*, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Montreal, QC, Canada
  (1103-18-22)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Isotropy, crossed sheaves, and braidings.
  Jon Funk*, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
  Pieter Hofstra, The University of Ottawa
  (1103-18-104)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On "propositions by testing" in logic and mathematics.
  Vincent L. Rouleau*, University of Ottawa
  (1103-03-180)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Category Theory in Topological Data Analysis.
  Peter Bubenik*, Cleveland State University
  (1103-18-80)

Sunday October 19, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Category Theory, III
Room 2016, McCain Hall
Organizers:
Pieter Hofstra, University of Ottawa phofstra@uottawa.ca
Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Three notions of symmetric monoidal 2-category.
  Nick Gurski*, University of Sheffield
  Niles Johnson, The Ohio State University
  Angelica M. Osorno, Reed College
  (1103-18-111)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak globularity: a new paradigm for weakening higher categorical structures.
  Simona Paoli*, Univeristy of Leicester
  (1103-18-89)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Modules over generalized PROPs.
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
  (1103-18-148)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Examples of Intercategories.
  Robert Pare*, Dalhousie University
  (1103-18-27)

Sunday October 19, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Category Theory, IV
Room 2016, McCain Hall
Organizers:
Pieter Hofstra, University of Ottawa phofstra@uottawa.ca
Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
- 3:00 p.m.
  AF Inverse Monoids and the Structure of Countable MV-Algebras.
  Philip J. Scott*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Ottawa
  (1103-18-29)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Univalent FOLDS.
  Michael Shulman*, University of San Diego
  (1103-18-196)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On bornologies and monoidal closed structures.
  Gábor Lukács*, Halifax, NS
  (1103-18-175)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Counting finite categories.
  Geoff Cruttwell*, Mount Allison University
  (1103-18-110)