Mini-meeting on Higher Structures and Applications

In this 2-day mini-meeting, members of the FCT-funded project Higher Structures and Applications (PTDC/MAT-PUR/31089/2017) will be explaining aspects of their research to each other and to anyone else interested, in short presentations with plenty of room for discussion.

Location

Mathematics Department at Intituto Superior Técnico, Room P3.31 on Tuesday and Room P3.10 on Wednesday.

Schedule
	Tue, 5 Nov 2019	Wed, 6 Nov 2019
11:30 — 12:30		Marco Mackaay Universidade do Algarve $2$-Representation theory
14:00 — 14:30		John Huerta Instituto Superior Técnico Higher structures on supermanifolds
14:30 — 15:00		Manuel Araújo Instituto Superior Técnico Coherence for $3$-dualizable objects
15:30 — 16:00	Roger Picken Instituto Superior Técnico Research topics in higher gauge theory, knot theory, and anyons
16:00 — 16:30	João Esteves Instituto Superior Técnico A quantization of the Loday-Ronco Hopf algebra	Aleksandar Mikovic Universidade Lusófona Categorification of LQG spin-network basis
16:30 — 17:00		Pedro Brito Instituto Superior Técnico Galois symmetries in geometry
17:00 — 17:30	Pedro Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico Research topics in persistent tangles and hyperfinite knots	Final discussion of project members
17:30 — 18:00	Marko Stosic Instituto Superior Técnico On Colored HOMFLY homology