About
The goal of this event is to connect different communities around 'Higher representation theory' in the broad sense (tensor categories and module categories, 2-categories, categorification, …)
The first two days (Monday-Tuesday) of the event is a “school” consisting of 3 mini-courses that will introduce young participants and other interested researchers to the topics of the conference. During these days we also plan a poster session and short talks, to allow young researchers to communicate their results.
The next three days (Wednesday-Thursday-Friday) of the event is a conference, with lectures of the invited speakers in the morning and contributed talks in the afternoon.
You can download the poster here.
Announcement
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School (Monday-Tuesday)
Mini-courses
- Steve Lack (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Grégoire Naisse (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Sergey Neshveyev (University of Oslo, Norway)
Short presentations
- Sigiswald Barbier
- Jordan Barnes
- Daniel Gromada
- Ruben Henrard
- Ajinkya Kulkarni
- Kursat Sozer
- Matthias Valvekens
- Tim Weelinck
Poster session
- Christos Aravanis
- Mutsuhisa Ban
- Bjorn Gohla
- Julien Korinman
- Jacek Krajczok
- Ashis Mandal
- Tomasz Maszczyk
- Joanna Meinel
- Francois Renaud
- Paolo Saracco
- Cristian Vay
Conference (Wednesday-Thursday-Friday)
Invited speakers
- Marcelo Aguiar (Cornell University, US)
- David Jordan (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Dmitri Nikshych (University of New Hampshire, US)
- Raphael Rouquier (UCLA, US)
- Catharina Stroppel (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Daniel Tubbenhauer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Ben Webster (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Contributed talks
- Ana Agore
- Andrea Appel
- Alessandro Ardizzoni
- Sebastian Burciu
- Felipe Castro
- Laiachi EL Kaoutit
- Geoffrey Janssens
- Hankyung Ko
- Andrey Mudrov
- Can Ozan Oguz
- Peter Schauenburg
- Gregor Schaumann
- Leonid Vainerman
- Adam-Christiaan van Roosmalen
- Paul Wedrich
- Arik Wilbert
- Pablo Zadunaisky
- Mitsuru Wilson
Schedule
The event will start on Monday morning (around 9am) and will end on Friday afternoon (around 16:00). The first two days consist of a “school" with 3 minicourses and poster session, the next three days consist of conference.
On Thursday evening, there will be a conference dinner.
The template for the abstracts can be found here.
09:00 to 09:30
Welcome and Coffee
9:30 to 10:30
Neshveyev I
10:30 to 10:45
Break
10:45 to 11:45
Lack I
11:45 to 12:00
Break
12:00 to 13:00
Naisse I
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch
14:15 to 14:30
Barbier
14:30 to 14:45
Barnes
14:45 to 15:00
Break
15:00 to 16:00
Neshveyev II
16:00 to 16:15
Break
16:15 to 17:15
Lack II
9:30 to 10:30
Naisse II
10:30 to 10:45
Break
10:45 to 11:45
Neshveyev III
11:45 to 12:00
Break
12:00 to 12:15
Gromada
12:15 to 12:30
Valvekens
12:30 to 12:45
Henrard
12:45 to 13:00
Kulkarni
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch
14:15 to 14:30
Sozer
14:30 to 14:45
Weelinck
14:45 to 15:00
Break
15:00 to 16:00
Lack III
16:00 to 16:15
Break
16:15 to 17:15
Naisse III
17:15 to 19:00
Postersessions and drinks
9:30 to 10:30
Mazorchuk
10:30 to 10:45
Break
10:45 to 11:45
Nikshych
11:45 to 12:00
Break
12:00 to 13:00
Aguiar
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch
14:15 to 14:45
Zadunaiski
14:45 to 15:15
Mudrov
15:15 to 15:45
Wilson
15:45 to 16:00
Break
16:00 to 16:30
El Kaoutit
16:30 to 17:00
Wilbert
17:00 to 17:30
Janssens
9:30 to 10:30
Webster
10:30 to 10:45
Break
10:45 to 11:45
Stroppel
11:45 to 12:00
Break
12:00 to 13:00
Rouquier
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch
14:15 to 14:45
Wedrich
14:45 to 15:15
Appel
15:15 to 15:45
Van Roosmalen
15:45 to 16:00
Break
16:00 to 16:30
Vainerman
16:30 to 17:00
Agore
17:00 to 17:30
Castro
19:00
Conference Dinner
9:30 to 10:30
Tubbenhauer
10:30 to 10:45
Break
10:45 to 11:45
Jordan
11:45 to 12:00
Break
12:00 to 12:30
Schauenburg
12:30 to 13:00
Ko
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch
14:15 to 14:45
Ardizzoni
14:45 to 15:15
Schaumann
15:15 to 15:45
Oguz
15:45
Coffee and end
Participants
The list of participants will be updated regularly and can be found here.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
Venue
The school and conference will take place in the U-residence building at the VUB, campus Etterbeek, Brussels.
U-residence
Generaal Jacqueslaan 271
1050 Brussels
How to get to the conference venue:
From the airport, one can take the airport train to Brussels Central. Once at Brussels central, the conference building is easily reachable as follows:
- One can take a metro (number 1, direction Stokkel) until the stop “Montgomery”, and from there take catch a tram (tram 25 direction Boondael or tram 7 direction Vanderkinderen) until the stop “VUB”, which is right across from the conference venue.
- Alternatively, one can take a metro (number 5, direcion Herrmann-Debroux) until “Petillon (which is somewhat closer to the U-residence where we have the conference)” or “Delta (which brings you already directly to the ULB/VUB campus, but at an opposite corner then the U-residence, so from there the walk is a little longer, but still less than 10 minutes)”
- One can take a bus (number 71) to the ULB/VUB campus (take exit “Fraiteur”, not exit “ULB”, the last one is the campus of another University)
- One can take any train to the station “Etterbeek”, which is 5 minutes from the VUB campus where the U-residence is located.
Each of these options have a very frequent operation (about every 5 to 10 minutes). Including walking and waiting for connection, you should count on 30 minutes travel between Brussels central and the campus. For schedules of busses, metro and train, an easy option is to consult Google maps.
Tickets for metro/tram/bus can be purchased at the train station or online. You can buy either individual tickets (at 2€10/ticket), or get a “MOBIB card” (at 5€) and a 10 journeys ticket (at 14 €). For more information, you can visit the website of stib/mivb, see https://www.stib-mivb.be/abon_tickets.html?l=en.
Hotels in Brussels:
As there are very few hotels close to the campus unfortunately, it is better to stay at a hotel in a more central part of Brussels. For invited speakers, hotel arrangements have been made at the ibis Brussels off Grand Place Hotel. For contributed speakers and all other participants, hotel arrangements have to be made yourselves.
Sponsors
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