Schedule for: 24w5266 - Higher Segal Spaces and their Applications to Algebraic K-Theory, Hall Algebras, and Combinatorics

Beginning on Sunday, January 21 and ending Friday January 26, 2024

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, January 21
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering
Join us for an informal gather at BIRS Lounge at the PDC second floor.
(Other (See Description))
Monday, January 22
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Walker Stern: Introduction: The 2-Segal space perspective (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Philip Hackney: Introduction: The decomposition space perspective (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:20 - 15:00 Julie Bergner: Participant Introductions (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Andrew Tonks: Introduction: Incidence algebras (TCPL 201)
16:45 - 17:15 Imma Gálvez-Carrillo: Transformations of decomposition spaces (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, January 23
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Viktoriya Ozornova: Introduction: The S-construction, part 1 (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Martina Rovelli: Introduction: The S-construction, part 2 (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:30 Tanner Carawan: Left and right 2-Segal spaces (TCPL 201)
13:45 - 14:15 Brandon Shapiro: CGW categories (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Carmen Rovi: Cutting and pasting of manifolds and K-theory (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Matthew Young: Introduction: 2-Segal spaces and Hall algebras (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, January 24
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Tobias Dyckerhoff: Introduction: Higher Segal spaces (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Jonte Gödicke: Segal conditions and dualizability (TCPL 201)
11:15 - 11:45 Justin Lynd: Partial groups and higher-than-2-Segal conditions (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, January 25
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Hiro Lee Tanaka: Introduction: 2-Segal spaces and Fukaya categories (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Ivan Contreras: Frobenius objects in 2-Span, 2-Segal sets and the symplectic category (TCPL 201)
11:15 - 11:45 Mikhail Gorsky: Operations on exact categories, and associated Hall algebras (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:45 - 14:15 Peter Samuelson: Skein algebra of a surface (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Teresa Hoekstra Mendoza: Discrete 2-Segal spaces from graphs and trees (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:30 Julie Bergner: Open problems session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, January 26
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Walker Stern: Cyclic 2-Segal spaces (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Philip Hackney: Free decomposition spaces (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
10:45 - 11:30 Discussion: Where do we go from here? (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)