Monoidal (tensor) categories
Organizers
Speaker
Time
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue
A3-4-301
Online
Zoom 293 812 9202
(BIMSA)
Abstract
This is a first lecture in a series introducing the basic notions and facts needed for the Witt group of non-degenerate braided fusion categories. This introduction will be motivated (and guided) by the language of E_n-operads.
Speaker Intro
Professor Alexei Davydov got his PhD from Moscow University 1992, and worked at Moscow University as assistant professor from 1990 to 1998. After working at National University of Singapore, Macquarie University and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, he became a visiting professor at University of New Hampshire. Professor Davydov have been working at Ohio University since 2012, and became a professor there since 2019. Professor Davydov is interested in algebra, representation theory and their connections to mathematical physics, specializing in Hopf algebras, quantum groups, tensor categories and their applications in conformal field theory.