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Centre de Recherche en Théorie des Catégories
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Category Theory Research Center


Upcoming seminars and related activities

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Documents supporting several talks by M. Makkai may be found following the listing for each corresponding talk.
Check his talks given in December 2014, March 2015 and April 2015 for the links.

Schedule of talks for 2014


This semester's seminar activities are dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Jim Lambek, who (among his many achievements) started the seminar in the 1960s.
2 September 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Bunge (McGill)
Pitts Monads and a Lax Descent Theorem
[Abstract]

9 September 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Pseudo-algebraic 2-categories of structured categories
[Abstract]

16 September 2014
2:30 - 4:00   R. Raphael (Concordia)
Limit closures of some classes of commutative rings
[Abstract]

Reminder:
A memorial for Jim Lambek will be held Saturday, Sept. 20 from 12:00 - 2:00 at Birks Heritage Chapel, McGill University, 3520 University Street, with a reception to follow at the West Room in Victoria College, also on the McGill campus.
Campus map, Birks Chapel (124) and Victoria College (180) highlighted
Guest Book (for tributes, condolances, and memories) (Now closed)

23 September 2014
2:30 - 4:00   C. Casadio (Chieti)
A geometrical representation of the basic laws of Categorial Grammar
[Abstract]

30 September 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Barr (McGill)
Completions of subcategories of domains
[Abstract]  [Slides]

7 October 2014
2:30 - 4:00   R. Raphael (Concordia)
Limit closures of some classes of commutative rings II
[Abstract]

14 October 2014
No seminar

Note: Special Session on New Directions in Category Theory
18-19 October 2014
AMS meeting, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.

21 October 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Barr (McGill)
Limit closures of categories of domains
[Abstract]  [Slides]  [Handout]

28 October 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Tierney (UQAM)
Classifying bundles with fibre K(π,1)
[Abstract]

4 November 2014
No seminar

11 November 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Bunge (McGill)
Equivariant Pitts Monads
[Abstract]

18, 25 November 2014
No seminars

2 December 2014
2:30 - 4:00   B. Gillon (McGill)
Complement Polyvalence, Polyadicity and Permutation
[Abstract]

9 December 2014
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
A sheaf representation theorem of Michel Coste (Thesis, 1977)
[Abstract, notes, and supplemental documents]

27 January 2015
2:30 - 4:00   Martino Lupini (York U)
Polish groupoids and functorial complexity
[Abstract]

10 February 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
2-exactness: a study in 2-dimensional categorical logic
[Abstract]

17 February 2015
2:30 - 4:00   P. Hofstra (Ottawa)
Isotropy and monoidal structures on toposes.
[Abstract]

20-21 February 2015
Vision de l'espace: hommage à Alexander Grothendieck
(at Université de Montréal)
[Details]

24 February 2015
2:30 - 4:00   R. Raphael (Concordia)
The Countable Lifting Property for C(X)
[Abstract]

3 March 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Grothendieck's concept of pretopos: its role in algebraic geometry and in logic (Lecture 2)
[Abstract and supplemental documents for the talks in this "Grothendieck" series]

10 March 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Grothendieck's concept of pretopos: its role in algebraic geometry and in logic (Lecture 3)
[Abstract]

17 March 2015
No seminar (to allow participants to attend Sophie Morel's talk at the CRM)

24 March 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Syntax in categorical logic
[Abstract and supplemental documents]

31 March 2015
2:30 - 4:00   W. Boshuck
Models and algebras
[Abstract]

07 April 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Generalized sketches for syntax and semantics I
[Abstract and supplemental notes]

14 April 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Generalized sketches for syntax and semantics II
[Abstract and notes]

21 April 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Generalized sketches for syntax and semantics III
[Abstract and notes]

28 April 2015
2:30 - 4:00   M. Makkai (McGill)
Generalized sketches for syntax and semantics IV
[Abstract and notes]

5 May 2015
2:30 - 4:00   John Kennison (Clark)
Generalized Homotopy Theories
[Abstract]

 

PLACE: BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
(unless otherwise noted)

(COOKIES AND BYO-COFFEE AFTER THE TALK, IN THE LOUNGE)

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Other seminars in Montreal
Ottawa Logic and Foundations of Computing Group
New York City Category Seminar
Upcoming Categorical meetings elsewhere

Past CTRC/CRTC seminars:
Seminars and abstracts from 1998-1999
Seminars and abstracts from 1999-2000
Octoberfest 99
Seminars and abstracts from 2000-2001
Seminars and abstracts from 2001-2002
Seminars and abstracts from 2002-2003
Seminars and abstracts from 2003-2004
Seminars and abstracts from 2004-2005
Octoberfest 04
Seminars and abstracts from 2005-2006
Seminars and abstracts from 2006-2007
Seminars and abstracts from 2007-2008
Octoberfest 08
Seminars and abstracts from 2008-2009
Seminars and abstracts from 2009-2010
Seminars and abstracts from 2010-2011
Seminars and abstracts from 2011-2012
Seminars and abstracts from 2012-2013
Octoberfest 12
Seminars and abstracts from 2013-2014


Seminars from previous years (rough listings)
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