From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8981 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emily Riehl Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: the Kan extension seminar returns Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:15:46 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Emily Riehl NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477328074 1991 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2016 16:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:54:34 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Oct 24 18:54:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.7.28]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1byiVw-0007YN-IF for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:54:20 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:46764) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1byiVQ-0005r5-P3; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:53:48 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byiVS-0000oT-Qw for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:53:50 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8981 Archived-At: In early 2014, the n-Category Caf=C3=A9 hosted the Kan Extension = Seminar, a graduate reading course in category theory modeled after = Daniel Kan=E2=80=99s eponymous reading course in algebraic topology at = MIT. My experience with the seminar, described here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201411/rnoti-p1357.pdf = was overwhelming positive, so I=E2=80=99m delighted to announce that = we=E2=80=99re back. Alexander Campbell, Brendan Fong, and I are = organizing "Kan II" in early 2017 and we=E2=80=99re currently soliciting = applications for seminar participants. Our plan is to read the following eight papers between mid January and = mid May: * Hyland and Power, The category theoretic understanding of Universal = Algebra: Lawvere Theories and Monads, * Freyd, Algebra valued functors in general and tensor products in = particular * Beck, Distributive laws * Kelly, On the operads of J.P. May,=20 * Kelly, Structures defined by finite limits in the enriched context, I * Kelly, On Clubs and Data-type Constructors * Lack and Rosicky, Notions of Lawvere Theory * Berger, Mellies, and Weber, Monads with arities and their associated = theories We are seeking eight participants who will read and engage with all of = the papers as well as prepare an oral presentation on one of them, = followed by a blog post to be published on the n-Category Caf=C3=A9. The = course will conclude with a series of short public expository lectures = given, by those able to attend, on July 16 in conjunction with the 2017 = International Category Theory Conference at the University of British = Columbia in Vancouver.=20 More details, including information about how to apply, can be found on = the seminar website: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/kanII = or by contacting any of the three of us. Applications are due November = 30th. I hope you=E2=80=99ll help us spread the word by passing this = message along to those who might be interested. On behalf of the organizers, Emily Riehl (eriehl@math.jhu.edu ) Alexander Campbell (alexanderpcampbell@gmail.com = ) Brendan Fong (fo@seas.upenn.edu ) =E2=80=94 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics Johns Hopkins University www.math.jhu.edu/~eriehl [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]