From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10605 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Blute Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Novemberfest Final Announcement With Links Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:04:58 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Richard Blute Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19071"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Wed Nov 10 02:52:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mkcmZ-0004g4-Ao for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:52:11 +0100 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:35096) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1mkcm8-0004gb-BL; Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1mkcli-0000qO-Pe for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:51:18 -0400 Accept-Language: en-CA, en-US Content-Language: en-CA Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10605 Archived-At: Category Theory Virtual Novemberfest 2021 Friday-Sunday, November 12-14 Final Announcement with links Note: All times are Eastern Standard Time. (Same as New York City.) Conference Website: https://richardblute.ca/novemberfest/ The 2021 Category Theory Novemberfest will be held on the weekend of Friday= , November 12th through Sunday, November 14th. The meeting will be virtual.= Novemberfest will begin Friday, November 12th at 3:30 PM when Tom Leinste= r (U. Edinburgh) will give a talk to the UOttawa Math Department entitled = =93The mathematics of diversity=94. Abstract: What is the mathematical definition of diversity? Ecologists have= debated how best to measure diversity for over 70 years, and the same ques= tion arises in multiple fields both in the life sciences and beyond. But it= is only just now being appreciated that diversity is also a fertile source= of new mathematics. It is closely related to entropy (already a core conce= pt in subjects such as information theory), and indeed, sheds new light on = this old concept. The story I will tell begins with category theory, passes= through parts of geometry and analysis, and ends with an answer to the que= stion: what is the canonical probability measure on a metric space? Contributed talks will begin Saturday morning at 9AM. Contributed talks are= 25 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. To attend Tom Leinster's talk on Friday, November 12th, you must first regi= ster. Go to this link to register. https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMucO6hrjMqGdIOjvaotCsy5cpiAXQ= i-crg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing informa= tion about joining the meeting. To attend the contributed talks on Saturday, November 13th and Sunday, Nove= mber 14th, here is the link. It's the same link both days. (If you have not= used zoom before, the link will assist with download and install. If you = are shown a login page, please click the link again and it will login for y= ou.) https://zoom.us/j/94359896342?pwd=3DTmQ3ZjREd2ZDNnJ5Y2orMVVuSWxTQT09 If you have any problems, contact Rick Blute at rblute@uottawa.ca [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]