Patrick Kinnear

Upcoming Talks

Non-semisimple Crane-Yetter varying over the character stack Algebra Seminar, Leeds 23 April 2024

Research Talks

Braided module categories, higher Morita theory, and how to finish a thesis Category Theory Seminar, Edinburgh March 2024
Skein module dimensions of mapping tori of the 2-torus Scottish Topology Seminar, ICMS March 2024
An invertible non-semisimple TQFT varying over the character stack Winter School on Low-dimensional Topology and Related Topics, Pohang December 2023
Constructing the Crane-Yetter line bundle on the character stack Geometry & Topology Seminar, Imperial College London November 2023
Varying the non-semisimple Crane-Yetter theory over the character stack Higher Structures in Functorial Field Theory, Regensburg August 2023
Varying the non-semisimple Crane-Yetter theory over the character stack TQFT Club, Lisbon June 2023
An invertible non-semisimple TQFT varying over the character stack Journées de topologie quantique, Paris June 2023
Skein module dimensions of mapping tori of T^2 Algebra & Geometry Seminar, Newcastle March 2023
Relative invertibility of quantum groups at roots of unity Quantum Mathematics Seminar, Nottingham February 2023
Morita categories Categorical Late Lunch, Edinburgh November 2021
Invertibility in Morita categories GEARS Seminar, Online August 2021

Reading Group Talks

Defects and duality in the Freed-Moore-Teleman picture of symmetry GRIFT, Edinburgh June 2023
The framing anomaly of the Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT and the Crane-Yetter TQFT Non-semisimple TQFTs Seminar, Edinburgh October 2022
Linking numbers from U(1) Chern-Simons theory GRIFT, Edinburgh October 2022
Internal skein algebras and modules (notes) Matemale 2022, Matemale May 2022
Vanishing cycles, perverse sheaves on (C, 0) and on Riemann surfaces Perverse Schobers Seminar, Edinburgh October 2021
Rational CFTs and modular tensor categories Vertex Operator Algebras Reading Seminar, Edinburgh March 2021
Derived functors GlaMS Examples Seminar, Online January 2021
Quiver varieties Reading Group: Braid Group Actions On Categories, Edinburgh December 2020
Khovanov-Rozansky sl(n) homology Knot Homologies Seminar, Edinburgh October 2020

Other Talks

Morita-invertibility of the category of representations of Lusztig's quantum group at a root of unity over its Muger centre Twinned Conference on C*-Algebras and Tensor Categories, ICMS November 2023
An invertible sheaf on the character stack! Hodge Club, Edinburgh October 2023
Skein theory is not an oriented (3+1)-TQFT HSM on TQFTs, Bonn June 2023
Skein module dimensions of mapping tori of T^2 Hodge Club, Edinburgh November 2022
Invertibility of quantum groups at roots of unity Global Categorical Symmetries, Perimeter June 2022
Skein module dimensions of twisted tori (poster talk) Winter Braids XI, Dijon December 2021
An invertible sheaf on the character stack? Hodge Club, Edinburgh October 2021
Invertibile sheaves on character varieties/stacks MIGS Student Conference, Edinburgh September 2021
Three views on 3-manifolds Hodge Club, Edinburgh March 2021