Fields Institute Workshop on Category Theoretic Methods in Representation Theory
Posted by Alexander Hoffnung
We’re having a workshop this fall:
- Fields Institute Workshop on Category Theoretic Methods in Representation Theory, October 14-16, 2011, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Speakers
Sabin Cautis (Columbia)
James Dolan (UC Riverside)
Ben Elias (M.I.T.)
Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto)
Aaron Lauda (Southern California)
Anthony Licata (Institute for Advanced Study)
Marco Mackaay (Universidade do Algarve)
Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala)
Kevin McGerty (Imperial College London)
Raphaël Rouquier (Oxford)
Catharina Stroppel (Bonn)
Pedro Vaz (University of Zurich and IST Lisbon)
Ben Webster (Northeastern)
Geordie Williamson (Oxford)
Oded Yacobi (Toronto)
Organizers
Alexander Hoffnung (Ottawa)
Alistair Savage (Ottawa)
Financial Support
There is some funding available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Those interested should complete the funding application available on the workshop website (found below). The deadline for applying for support is September 1, 2011.
Posted at August 18, 2011 6:54 PM UTC
Re: Fields Institute Workshop on Category Theoretic Methods in Representation Theory
That makes me ask: What happened to Deligne’s categories of representations of S_t with non-integral t? When I had read his article, I was and am still puzzled: So there is something bigger, from which categories of representations are just a special case - but what is that “something bigger”, how is that structured, how is the “special case” characterized in it and are there other interesting “special cases”?