Reading Seminar on Infinity Categories
When: The seminar will be running in Term 2, 2017/2018 on Thursdays 11AM-1PM starting from Week 2.
Location: B3.01, Mathematics Institute.
Organisers: Marco Schlichting and Ferdinando Zanchetta
Contacts: You can write us an email at m.schlichting@warwick.ac.uk or at f.zanchetta@warwick.ac.uk
Change of schedule weeks 7-8: We are having an extra session in week 7 on Tuesday 9-11 AM, taking place in room S0.18. Also, in week 8 we will meet on Tuesday 9-11AM room S0.18.
Aim: The aim of the seminar is to give an introduction to the language of infinity categories sufficient to read the literature that uses it. We will roughly use the book "Higher categories and homotopical algebra" by Cisinski as a syllabus.
Suggested References:
- D.C.Cisinski "Higher categories and homotopical algebra"
- J.Lurie "Higher Topos Theory"
- A. Joyal "Notes on quasi-categories"
- C. Rezk "Stuff About Quasicategories"
Schedule:
Week | Speaker | Topic |
Week 2 | Marco Schlichting | Basics on infinity categories |
Week 3 |
Marco Schlichting | Lifting calculus, Mapping Spaces and the Joyal's lifting. |
Week 4 | Marco Schlichting | The Joyal model structure. |
Week 5 | Ferdinando Zanchetta | Simplicial categories, (co)fibered categories. |
Week 6 | No Reading Group | |
Week 7 Extra session on Tuesday 9-11 AM Room S0.18 |
Ferdinando Zanchetta | The Bergner Model. Joins, slices. Left and right fibrations and initial and final objects. The Yoneda lemma. |
Week 8 Seminar taking place on Tuesday 9-11 AM Room S0.18 |
Heng Xie | Adjoints, limits and colimits |
Week 9 | Husney Parvez Sarwar | More on limits and colimits, Kan extension |
Week 10 | Husney Parvez Sarwar | Base change formulas |
Term 3: We are having a seminar on Derived Algebraic Geometry, see the webpage DAG Seminar