Categorification in representation theory

There will be a workshop and conference on Categorification in representation theory hed at the University of Sydney in February. These events focus on categorification and its applications in representation theory. Categorification is something of an art, where one mathematical object is replaced with another richer, and often categorical, one that often reveals deeper structural properties. Important examples of categorification in representation theory include the geometric categorifications of Ginzburg, Lusztig and Nakajima, which realise quantum groups and their representations in a geometric framework, and Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial, and Elias and Williamson's proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig positivity conjectures and Soergel's conjectures.

Please register using the conference web page if you plan to attend.

Workshop

February 6-10

Conference

February 13-17

Workshop Speakers

Chris Bowman-Scargill (University of York), Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa), Peng Shan (Tsinghua University), Ben Webster (University of Waterloo)

Conference speakers

Chris Bowman-Scargill (University of York), Kevin Coulembier (University of Sydney), Ben Elias (University of Oregon), James East (Western Sydney), Edmund Heng (IHES), Quoc Ho (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Matt Hogancamp (Northweastern University), Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California), Stacey Law (University of Cambridge), Tony Licata (ANU), Peter McNamara (University of Melbourne), Vanessa Miemietz (University of East Anglia), Bregje Pauwels (University of Sydney), Hoel Queffelec (ANU), Anna Romanov (UNSW), Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa), Peng Shan (Tsinghua University), Catharina Stroppel (Universität Bonn), Louise Sutton (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Ben Webster (University of Waterloo)

Organisers

Asilata Bapat, Andrew Mathas, Daniel Tubbenhauer, Oded Yacobi