IV Seminar on Categories and Applications

Bellaterra, 6 to 9 of June of 2007    

Program

The program of the conference consists of 8 plenary talks proposed by the scientific committee and 3 survey talks at the proposal of the organizing committee. This is completed by 15 short communications and 2 posters contributed by the participants. The posters will be visibly displayed during the meeting. The short communications are 40 minutes long and will take place in parallel sessions in lecture rooms (A) and (B). 
Conference schedule

Day-to-day schedule
Wednesday, June 6
Morning Arrival
14:00 – 14:15 
 Welcome
14:15 – 15:15 
 R. Brown*, University of Wales
Corresponding with Alexander Grothendieck 1982–1991.  [pdf] 
*Videoconference from Bangor
15:30 – 16:10  
 A D. Allen, Iona College, New Rochelle,
Toric Topology and the Unstable Adams Novikov spectral Sequence. [pdf]
B B. Rodríguez, Universidad de Sevilla,
Simplicial descend categories. [pdf] 
Coffee break
16:40 – 17:20
 A C. Vespa, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Functor category associated to quadratic spaces over F2. [pdf]
B P. Karazeris, University of Patras,
Completeness of cocompletions in enriched category theory. [pdf] 
17:30 – 18:30 
 J. Kock, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Algebraic geometry over symmetric monoidal categories (after Toën and Vaquié). [pdf] 
Thursday, June 7
9:30 – 10:30 
 C. Casacuberta, Universitat de Barcelona,
Open problems about reflections in triangulated categories.  [pdf]
Coffee break 
11:10 – 11:50 
 A P. Nicolás, Universidad de Murcia,
 Model structures on Frobenius categories. [pdf]
B A. Díaz, University of Aberdeen,
A method for integral cohomology of posets. [pdf]
12:00 – 13:00 
 I. Moerdijk, Universiteit Utrecht,
Dendroidal Sets. [pdf] 
Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 
 H. Krause, Universität Paderborn,
Local cohomology and support for triangulated categories. [pdf]
15:40 – 16:20 
 A S. Forcey, Tennessee State University,
N-fold operads: braids, Young diagrams, and dendritic growth. [pdf] 
B L. El Kaoutit, Universidad de Granada,
Wide Morita Contexts in Bicategories. [pdf]
Coffee break
16:50 – 17:30 
 A  D. Pronk, Dalhousie University,
 Equivariant homotopy theory for orbifolds. [pdf]
B  E. Cheng, Université de Nice,
 Interchange for n-categories via distributive laws. [pdf]
17:40 – 18:40 
  A. Viruel, Universidad de Málaga,
 From p-local finite groups to p-compact groups. [pdf] 
Friday, June 8
9:30 – 10:30 
  M. Grandis, Università di Genova,
 Directed algebraic topology, categories and higher categories. [pdf]
Coffee break and Poster Session
11:10 – 11:50  
 A N. Castellana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 
Complex and permutation representations of p-local finite groups. [pdf] 
B I. Bakovic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb,
Bigroupoid principal 2-bundles. [pdf]
12:00 – 13:00 
 T. Leinster, University of Glasgow,
Periodicity of spaces of walks. [pdf]
Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 
 D.-C. Cisinski, Université Paris 13,
Test categories associated to higher operads.  [pdf]
15:40 – 16:20 

 A H. Colman, Wilbur Wright College, Chicago,
Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for orbifolds as Lie groupoids. [pdf]
B B. Femic, Universidad de Almería,
A categorical version of Beattie's exact sequence. Applications. [pdf]
Cultural visit
Conference dinner
Saturday, June 9
9:30 – 10:30 
 J. L. García, Universidad de Murcia,
Finitely accessible and exactly definable categories: duality and symmetry. [pdf]
Coffee break and Poster Session
11:10 – 11:50 
 A K. Hess, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Bundles of bicategories with connection. [pdf]
12:00 – 13:00 
 K. Goodearl, University of California at Santa Barbara,
Poisson algebras and symplectic cores (leaves for algebraists). [pdf]

Departament de Matemàtiques - Universitat Auṭnoma de Barcelona - 08193 Bellaterra - Spain