Between autumn 2020 and spring 2023 I ran Edinburgh's Category Theory Seminar with Ruben Van Belle. Now, it's run by Adrián Doña Mateo and Tom Leinster—details of this semester's talks can be found on Adrián's site.
For reference, here is the list of past talks, some of which come with slides.
| 18.01.2023 | Nesta van der Schaaf | 'Axioms for the category of Hilbert spaces and linear contractions' | Slides |
| 08.02.2023 | Benjamin Haïoun | 'Relative topological quantum field theories and the cobordism hypothesis' | Slides |
| Seminar cancelled due to industrial action | |||
| 29.03.2023 | Martti Karvonen (Ottawa) | 'Inner autoequivalences in general and those of monoidal categories in particular' | |
| 05.04.2023 | Swaraj Dash (Heriot-Watt) | 'A monad for point processes' | |
| 12.04.2023 | Matthew Di Meglio | 'Limits of sequences via colimits of contractions' |
| 21.09.2022 | Ruben Van Belle | 'An overview of categorical probability theory' | Slides |
| 05.10.2022 | Clark Barwick | 'Categorical aspects of pyknotic/condensed structures' | |
| 19.10.2022 | Marcelo Fiore (Cambridge) | 'Stabilised profunctors between groupoids' | |
| 02.11.2022 | William Bevington | 'From topology and strata to categories and décollages - why is category theory so darn useful?' | |
| 16.11.2022 | Simon Willerton (Sheffield) | 'Metric spaces, entropic spaces and convexity' | |
| 23.11.2022 | Fatimah Ahmadi (Oxford) | 'Additive 2-categories' | |
| Seminar cancelled due to industrial action |
| 08.03.2022 | Carlos Zapata-Carratala | 'Tentative ternary categories and the mystery of ternary associativity' | Slides |
| 15.03.2022 | Matthew Di Meglio | 'Universal indexed categories' | |
| Seminar cancelled due to industrial action | |||
| 29.03.2022 | Ruben Van Belle | 'Lax natural transformations and measures' | |
| 05.04.2022 | Jade Master | 'A categorical view on the Floyd-Warshall algorithm' | |
| 12.04.2022 | Karim Réga | 'Categorical aspects in moduli theory' |
| 13.10.2021 | Chris Heunen | 'Axioms for the category of Hilbert spaces' | Slides |
| 27.10.2021 | Nuiok Dicaire
Emily Roff Jesse Sigal Ruben Van Belle |
'Modularity and monads'
'Return of the alley cats: 10 minutes of magnitude' 'Strict monoidal categories are monoids in what category?' 'Categorical probability theory' |
Slides
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| 10.11.2021 | Jenny Brown | 'Skeins and clusters' | |
| 24.11.2021 | Patrick Kinnear | 'Morita categories' | Slides |
| 08.12.2021 | Simona Paoli | 'Higher categories in dimension two: some old and new perspectives' |
| 28.07.2021 | Jade Master | 'The universal property of the algebraic path problem' | Partial notes |
| 04.08.2021 | Ruben Van Belle | 'Probability monads as codensity monads' | Slides |
| 11.08.2021 | Emily Roff | 'What is a hole in a locally metric category?' | Slides |
| 18.08.2021 | Callum Reader | 'Scalars and traces in bicategories' | Slides |
| 25.08.2021 | Nuiok Dicaire | 'Localisable monads' | Slides |
| 20.01.2021 | Tom Leinster | 'Isbell conjugacy' | Whiteboard |
| 03.02.2021 | Chris Heunen | 'Sheaf representation of monoidal categories' | Slides |
| 03.03.2021 | Robin Kaarsgaard | 'Graph traversals as universal constructions' | Slides |
| 10.03.2021 | Clark Barwick | 'A motivated introduction to ∞-categories: Part 1' | Blackboard |
| 17.03.2021 | Clark Barwick | 'A motivated introduction to ∞-categories: Part 2' | |
| 31.03.2021 | Nuiok Dicaire | 'Monads, graded monads, and computational effects' | Slides |
| 01.10.2020 | Tom Leinster | 'The surprising power of free categories' | Whiteboard |
| 15.10.2020 | Jean-Simon Lemay | 'Hopf monads and trace monads' | Whiteboard |
| 29.10.2020 | Graham Manuell | 'A 2-categorical bifunctor theorem' | Slides |
| 12.11.2020 | Ruben Van Belle | 'Lax algebras and topology' | Slides |
| 26.11.2020 | Carlos Zapata-Carratala | 'Ternary structures: generalising associativity and categories' | Blackboard |
| 10.12.2020 | Pablo Andres-Martinez | 'Feedback loops without coproducts: Haghverdi's Unique Decomposition Categories' | Whiteboard |