McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
Upcoming seminars and related activities
Schedule of talks for 2016
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20 September 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
Higher dimensional categories from a logician's point view
[Abstract]
Slides: Part 1,
Part 2
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27 September 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Barr (McGill)
Is the category of finite distributive sup semilattices compact
*-autonomous?
[Abstract]
Slides
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4 October 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
Higher dimensional categories from a logician's point view II
Slides
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18 October 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
A brief survey of what higher categories do in logic and
mathematics
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25 October 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
A brief survey of what higher categories do in logic and
mathematics II
Slides I
Slides II
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1 November 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 André Joyal (UQAM)
A general theory of algebras and coalgebras
[Abstract]
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Friday, 4 November 2016 (Location: BH 1B23)
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3:30 - 4:30 Danny Rorabaugh (Queen's U)
Bridging Logic and Constraint Satisfaction with Relational
Structures and Filters
[Abstract]
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8 November 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 Amit Sharma (McGill)
Symmetric monoidal quasicategories
[Abstract]
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15 November 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 Eduardo Dubuc (UBA)
On the notion of flat 2-functors
[Abstract]
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Thursday, 17 November 2016 at UdeM (see note below)
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2:00 - 4:00 M. Makkai (McGill)
In defense of Bourbaki's structuralism
[Abstract]
Note: This is not part of this seminar's activities, but may be of
interest to our regular participants.
Location: The talk will be held in the Dept of Philosophy, 2910 Edouard-Montpetit,
Room 422.
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29 November 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
A higher-categorical look at the Stasheff associahedra.
[Abstract]
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[Of interest elsewhere:]
Saturday - Sunday, 3 - 4 December 2016
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Union College Mathematics Conference, Schenectady, New York
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6 December 2016
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2:30 - 3:30 M. Barr (McGill)
The regular category embedding theorem
[Abstract]
[Slides]
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Friday, 20 January 2017 in Leacock 927 (see note below)
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3:30 - 5:30 M. Makkai (McGill)
Meta-mathematics in Bourbaki's structuralism and in more recent
developments in mathematical structuralism
[Abstract]
Note: This is not part of this seminar's activities, but may be of
interest to our regular participants.
Location: The talk will be held in the Dept of Philosophy, McGill,
Leacock 927.
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24 January 2017 (New starting time!)
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3:00 - 4:00 Forte Shinko (McGill)
Borel complexity of boundary actions of hyperbolic groups
[Abstract]
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31 January 2017 (Note starting time!)
(3pm will continue to be our usual starting time till further notice.)
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3:00 - 4:00 Forte Shinko (McGill)
Borel complexity of boundary actions of hyperbolic groups II
[Abstract]
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7 February 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 Prakash Panangaden (McGill)
Logical Characterization of Simulation
[Abstract]
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14 February 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 Prakash Panangaden (McGill)
Logical Characterization of Simulation II
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7 March 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 Phillip Wesolek (Binghamton)
Elementary amenable groups and the space of marked groups
[Abstract]
Slides of talk
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14 March 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 M Makkai (McGill)
First-order logic with dependent sorts (FOLDS) and the related
generalization of the concept of isomorphism, "FOLDS equivalence"
[Abstract]
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21 March 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 M Makkai (McGill)
First-order logic with dependent sorts (FOLDS) and the related
generalization of the concept of isomorphism, "FOLDS equivalence" II
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28 March 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 M Barr (McGill)
Acyclic Models - explanation and a brief history
[Abstract]
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4 April 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 M Barr (McGill)
Acyclic Models - explanation and a brief history II
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11 April 2017
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3:00 - 4:00 M Barr (McGill)
Acyclic Models - explanation and a brief history III
PLACE: BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
(unless otherwise noted)
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