The MIT Categories Seminar is an informal teaching seminar in category theory and its applications, with the occasional research talk. This spring they are meeting online each Thursday, 12 noon to 1pm Eastern Time.
The talks are broadcast over YouTube here, with simultaneous discussion on the Category Theory Community Server. (To join the channel, click here.) Talks are recorded and remain available on YouTube.
Here are some forthcoming talks:
March 26: David Jaz Myers (Johns Hopkins University) — Homotopy type theory for doing category theory.
April 2: Todd Trimble (Western Connecticut State University) — Geometry of regular relational calculus.
April 9: John Baez (UC Riverside) — Structured cospans and Petri nets.
April 16: Joachim Kock (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) — to be announced.
April 23: Joe Moeller (UC Riverside) — to be announced.
Videos of many older talks are available here.
I’m giving a talk at the MIT Categories Seminar. It’ll be on Thursday April 9th, 12 noon Eastern Time.
You can already see the slides here.
The talk is based on these papers:
• John Baez and Kenny Courser, Structured cospans.
• John Baez and Jade Master, Open Petri nets.
• Jade Master, Generalized Petri nets.