Categorification and Geometrisation from Representation Theory
Apr 13, 2009 - Apr 18, 2009
Room 516, Department of Mathematics, University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QW
Organisers
| Name | Institution |
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| Brown, Ken A | University of Glasgow |
| Gordon, Iain | University of Edinburgh |
| Reshetikhin, Nicolai | University of Berkeley |
| Rouquier, Raphaël | University of Oxford |
| Stroppel, Catharina | University of Bonn |
This workshop is in association with the programme on Algebraic Lie Theory at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
For a long time the idea of categorification has been in the background of many ideas in algebraic Lie theory and its connections to geometry. Several hard questions in Lie theory have been solved by translation (often via geometry) into combinatorics. For example, irreducible modules are labelled by combinatorial data and multiplicity formulas can be computed via combinatorially defined polynomials. On the other hand, topological questions are sometimes transferred into combinatorics in order to produce a clean answer: combinatorially defined knot invariants via polynomials; changing of coordinate systems via mutation rules; etc. It is becoming increasingly clear that the connecting principle of many such results in both Lie theory and topology is the idea of categorification. The notion “categorification” goes back to Crane and Frenkel, motivated by mathematical physics, and in particular by the hope to construct higher dimensional topological quantum field theories.
The conference wants to clarify the notion of categorification and its appearance in three different areas of mathematics: algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry and representation theory. The first goal of this workshop is to bring together the international figures working on categorification with connections to representation theory, providing the possibility for people from different fields to meet. Our conference should provide the basis for interactions between the areas of representation theory, symplectic geometry and topology. There are many different strands to the field, and it is vital that as much discussion as possible takes place between researchers.
The conference is intended to be quite specialised around the subject categorification. An Introductory Workshop will provide the necessary background and basis for communication.
20th ARTIN Meeting
The twentieth meeting of Algebra and Representation Theory in the North (ARTIN) will be held in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow. For further information about this PhD and Postdoc meeting please follow this link to the 20th ARTIN Meeting.
Arrangements
This meeting will be made up of two separate workshops:
Introductory Workshop
Commencing with lunch and registration at 12.00 Monday 13 April, plus full day Tuesday 14 April 2009 (Funded by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
Workshop on Categorification and Geometrisation from Representation Theory
Wednesday 15 April to Saturday 18 April 2009; closing at 13.30 on Saturday 18 April. (Funded by ICMS)
Venue
The workshop will be held in Room 516, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow. Location maps - the Department of Mathematics can be found at D4. Lecture Room 516 is equipped with blackboards, data-video projector, overhead projector, overhead visualiser and screens.
Travel
Information about travel to the UK and Glasgow is available here. Follow this link for bus information including the Airlink Services to and from the Airport. If you are travelling by air, the transport sections of the following websites may be useful:Glasgow International Airport and Glasgow Prestwick Airport
Directions from Hillhead Subway Station, Byres Road, to Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow
Turn left on exit Hillhead Subway Station. Next to the Station there is an Iceland supermarket, turn left here into Ashton Lane. Walk along the lane, bearing right as the lane curves and take the first small flight of steps you see on your left. The steps will bring you out on University Gardens. Turn right at the top of the steps and the Department of Mathematics is the second building on the right.
Accommodation
If you indicated, during on-line registration, that you wish ICMS to arrange your accommodation, a reservation will have been made for you to stay in the Glasgow Pond Hotel, Great Western Road, West End, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 0XP. No further action is required and full details will be emailed to you nearer the time of the workshop. However, if your arrival and departure dates alter in any way, please email Audrey Brown at ICMS immediately.
If you wish to arrange your own accommodation, there may still be rooms available at the Glasgow Pond Hotel and it is within walking distance (approximately 30 minutes walk) from the workshop venue. Alternatively, the Glasgow Tourist Information Office may be able to help you find accommodation.
The hotel is situated next to the Glasgow Gartnavel Hospital which may be used as a landmark. It is well served by buses from the city centre (No 66 and No 20 from Hope Street in the city centre and the No 118 from Buchanan Street Bus Station). Follow this link for bus information including the Airlink Services to and from the Airport. For a route map of buses serving the city centre please click here. For travel within Glasgow City Centre single fares range from £0.85 for a single fare stage (approximately half a mile) up to £1.50. Please note that on all services you pay the driver as you get on. Services operate on an exact fare (no change given) basis so please try to have the correct money ready if you know your fare.
If you have some local knowledge of Glasgow, it is possible to take a train from Glasgow Queen Street to Hyndland Station. It is important to exit Hyndland Station on the Gartnavel side of the track. Follow a footpath leading to the car park of Gartnavel Hospital. After crossing the car park, the Glasgow Pond Hotel is situated at the entrance to the hospital grounds on the Great Western Road. However, please note that signposts for the hotel face the Great Western Road and are not obvious from the car park at Gartnavel.
Directions from Glasgow Pond Hotel to Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow
Click here for a map showing the route. Exit the Pond Hotel by the main exit and turn right along Great Western Road. After about 25-30 minutes walking distance, turn right on Byres Road. Passing Hillhead Subway Station (on your left) walk along to until you reach University Avenue or Ashton Road on your left. Walk along University Avenue or Ashton Road. Just before the Boyd Orr tower (on your left), turn left and up steps onto University Gardens. Turn right and the Department of Mathematics is the second building on the right.
Meals and Refreshments
A campus map is available here.
The Introductory Workshop will commence with registration and a sandwich lunch at 12.00 on Monday 13 April in the Common Room, ground floor of the Department of Mathematics at University of Glasgow (D4 on the campus map). At 18.00 on Tuesday 14 April, a buffet evening meal will be provided in the Atrium of the Wolfson Medical School Building. The Wolfson Medical School Building (C8 on the campus map) is located on University Avenue, directly behind the Department of Mathematics. Hot food will be served between 18.00 and 19.30. This meal is open to all participants who have attended the Introductory Workshop or are arriving for the Categorification Workshop. It is intended that there will be a Workshop Dinner on Thursday 16 April, meeting at 19.00 in the Café Bar of 1A The Square (A9 on the campus map), with dinner being served at 19.30 in the Ferguson Room of 1A The Square. Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided throughout both workshops in the Department of Mathematics Common Room. Unless otherwise agreed, there will be no cost to participants for the catering listed above.
Participants are free to explore the restaurants and bars nearby to purchase all other lunches and evening meals.
Financial Matters
Unless otherwise specified in your invitation email, the workshop grant will cover the cost of your bed and breakfast accommodation, tea/coffee Monday to Saturday, lunch on Monday only, the informal buffet evening meal on Tuesday and the Workshop Dinner on Thursday evening.
If we have agreed to pay some of your travel costs, you will have been informed in your invitation email. Reimbursement will take place after the workshop and will involve payment directly into your bank account. At Registration you will be given an expenses claim form and this should be submitted to ICMS, with receipts. It would be helpful if you could bring your bank details to the workshop. In addition to the bank account number, participants from the USA and Canada will require their bank’s routing number, those from the UK will be asked for the bank sort code, and those from Europe and the rest of the world, their IBAN and SWIFT/BIC code. We cannot reimburse any item without a receipt.
Unless otherwise stated in your invitation or further correspondence, there will be a registration fee of 30.00 GBP for the Categorification Workshop. We ask that this is paid in advance by using this credit or debit card payment form. The form should be printed out, completed and faxed back (as email is not a secure way of sending credit card information). The fax number is on the form. If it is not possible for you pay in advance, you may print out the credit/debit card form above and bring the completed form along to Registration. We prefer not to handle cash at Registration.
Programme
Introductory Workshop
Monday 13 April
12.00 - 13.00 | Sandwich Lunch and Registration |
| SESSION 1 |
13.00 - 14.00 | Joel Kamnitzer (University of Toronto) |
14.30 - 15.30 | Ian Grojnowski (University of Cambridge) & Kevin McGerty (Imperial College London) |
15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
16.00 - 17.00 | Gregor Masbaum (CNRS) |
Tuesday 14 April
| SESSION 2 |
09.00 - 10.00 | Sabin Cautis (Rice University and MSRI) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Tea/Coffee |
10.30 - 11.30 | Ian Grojnowski (University of Cambridge) & Kevin McGerty (Imperial College London) |
11.35 - 12.35 | Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA/University of Cambridge) |
12.35 - 13.55 | Lunch break |
| SESSION 3 |
13.55 - 14.55 | Sabin Cautis (Rice University and MSRI) |
15.00 - 16.00 | Ian Grojnowski (University of Cambridge) & Kevin McGerty (Imperial College London) |
16.00 - 16.30 | Tea/Coffee |
16.30 - 17.30 | Jürgen Fuchs (Karlstad University) |
18.00 - 19.30 | Informal buffet meal and registration for Categorification Workshop |
Categorification Workshop
Wednesday 15 April
08.30 - 09.30 | Registration |
09.30 - 10.30 | Jonathan Brundan (University of Oregon) |
10.30 - 11.00 | Tea/Coffee |
11.00 - 12.00 | John Baez (University of California, Riverside) |
12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch break |
13.30 - 14.30 | Louis Crane (Kansas State University) |
14.30 - 15.30 | Bernhard Keller (University Paris 7) |
15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
16.00 - 17.00 | Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University) |
Thursday 16 April
09.30 - 10.30 | Aaron Lauda (Columbia University) |
10.30 - 11.00 | Tea/Coffee |
11.00 - 12.00 | Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala University) |
12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch break |
13.30 - 14.30 | Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto) |
14.30 - 15.30 | Jacob Rasmussen (University of Cambridge) |
5.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
16.00 - 17.00 | Raphael Rouquier (University of Oxford) |
19.00 | Workshop Dinner |
Friday 17 April
09.30 - 10.30 | Richard Thomas (Imperial College London)) |
10.30 - 11.00 | Tea/Coffee |
11.00 - 12.00 | Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford) |
12.00 - 14.30 | Lunch break |
14.30 - 15.10 | Joel Kamnitzer (University of Toronto) |
15.10 - 15.50 | Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA/University of Cambridge) |
15.50 - 16.20 | Tea/Coffee |
16.20 - 17.00 | Gregor Masbaum (CNRS) |
Saturday 18 April
09.30 - 10.30 | Alexey Bondal (University of Aberdeen) |
10.30 - 11.00 | Tea/Coffee |
11.00 - 12.00 | Vladimir Baranovski (University of California, Irvine) |
12.00 - 13.00 | Anton Kapustin (California Institute of Technology) |
13.00 | Close of workshop |
Presentations for the Introductory Workshop:
Sabin Cautis: Braid group actions in algebraic geometry
We discuss various examples of braid group actions on derived categories of coherent sheaves while paying attention to the geometry involved.
Sabin Cautis: Categorical sl(2) actions on categories of coherent sheaves
We explain how categorical sl(2) actions can be used to construct equivalences generalizing Seidel-Thomas twists. This is illustrated by an sl(2) action on cotangent bundles of Grassmannians which generalizes the Seidel-Thomas twist on the cotangent bundle of P^1. This is joint work with Joel Kamnitzer and Anthony Licata.
Jürgen Fuchs: Modular categories and rational conformal field theory
I will present a construction of correlation functions in two-dimensional rational conformal field theory. The construction expresses a correlation function as the invariant of a ribbon graph in a three-manifold. This invariant is computed with the help of three-dimensional topological field theory. Besides the modular tensor category C that provides the decoration data for the 3-d TFT, the crucial ingredient is a certain type of Frobenius algebra in C. Some aspects of such algebras will be described as well.
Ian Grojnowski and Kevin McGerty: D-modules and localization
We will discuss the theory of D-modules and how they play a crucial role in representation theory via the famous Beilinson-Bernstein localization theorem.
Ian Grojnowski and Kevin McGerty: Hall algebras, quivers and canonical bases
We will sketch the Hall algebra construction of the positive part, and how its "faisceaus-fonctions" lift yields the canonical basis.
Ian Grojnowski and Kevin McGerty: Further examples
We will discuss further examples of interaction between representation theory and geometric structures.
Joel Kamnitzer: Categorification via geometric Satake correspondence
The geometric Satake correspondence relates the tensor category of representations of a reductive group to the topology of the affine Grassmannian for the Langlands dual group. I will explain a program, developed with Sabin Cautis, to use this correspondence and derived categories of coherent sheaves in order to construct knot homology theories.
Gregor Masbaum: Introduction to Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants and modular categories
This talk will be an introduction to Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev quantum invariants of 3-manifolds, Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT), and Turaev's axiomatization of it in terms of modular categories.
Ciprian Manolescu: Categorification via Floer homology and the Seidel-Smith construction
I will explain the general principles of how Lagrangian Floer homology can be used for categorification, and give a survey of the relevant results in the literature. Examples will include Heegaard Floer homology and Seidel-Smith homology.
Presentations for the Categorification Workshop:
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| Baez, John | |
| Categorification and topology | |
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| Baranovsky, Vladimir | |
| Uhlenbeck compactification as a stack | |
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| Bondal, Alexey | |
| Categorifying integral polytops geometry | |
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| Brundan, Jonathan | |
| The graded Lascoux-Leclerc-Thibon conjecture | |
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| Crane, Louis | |
| Categorification and physical spacetime | |
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| Kamnitzer, Joel | |
| Categorical geometric skew Howe duality | |
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| Kapustin, Anton | |
| Three-dimensional topological field theory and a categorification of the derived category of coherent sheaves | |
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| Keller, Bernhard | |
| The periodicity conjecture via 2-Calabi-Yau categories | |
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| Khovanov, Mikhail | |
| Categorification of quantum groups | |
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| Lauda, Aaron | |
| Categorifying quantum sl2 | |
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| Manolescu, Ciprian | |
| Symplectic instanton homology | |
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| Masbaum, Gregor | |
| Integral lattices in TQFT and integral modular categories | |
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| Mazorchuk, Volodymyr | |
| Representation theory of the symmetric group via categorification | |
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| Rasmussen, Jacob | |
| Sutured Floer homology: de (and re) categorification | |
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| Rouquier, Raphaël | |
| Higher representation theory | |
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| Thomas, Richard | |
| Joyce’s Hall algebra | |
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| Tillmann, Ulrike | |
| Higher dimensional cobordism categories and their topology | |
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Participants
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Abdel Gadir, Tarig | University of Glasgow |
| Achar, Pramod N | Louisiana State University |
| Ackermann, Bernd | Universität Stuttgart |
| Agerholm, Troels | Aarhus University |
| Amazeen, Grétar | University of Edinburgh |
| Arakawa, Tomoyuki | Nara Women's University |
| Baez, John | University of California, Riverside |
| Baranovsky, Vladimir | University of California, Irvine |
| Barthel, Tobias | University of Oxford |
| Begher, Gerrit | University of Freiburg |
| Bellamy, Gwyn | University of Edinburgh |
| Belolipetsky, Mikhail | Durham University |
| Berczi, Gergely | University of Oxford |
| Bondal, Alexey | University of Aberdeen |
| Brendle, Tara | University of Glasgow |
| Brown, Audrey | ICMS |
| Brown, Ken A | University of Glasgow |
| Brundan, Jonathan | University of Oregon |
| Calderon Martin, Antonio J | University of Cadiz |
| Cautis, Sabin | Rice University and MSRI |
| Chapovalova, Valentina | Uppsala University |
| Collins, Julia | University of Edinburgh |
| Cooney, Nicholas | University of Oxford |
| Crane, Louis | Kansas State University |
| Davison, Ben | University of Oxford |
| Docherty, Pamela | University of Edinburgh |
| Donovan, Will | Imperial College London |
| Douglass, Matthew | University of North Texas |
| Ehrig, Michael | University of Cologne |
| Elias, Ben | Columbia University |
| England, Matthew | Heriot-Watt University |
| Everitt, Brent | University of York |
| Faria Martins, Joao | Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto |
| Feigin, Misha | University of Glasgow |
| Felstaine, Eyal | Ben Gurion University |
| Fuchs, Jürgen | Karlstad University |
| Gaussent, Stéphane | Institut Elie Cartan Nancy |
| Geck, Meinolf | University of Aberdeen |
| Goodwin, Simon | University of Birmingham |
| Gordon, Iain | University of Edinburgh |
| Grant, Joseph | University of Bristol |
| Grojnowski, Ian | University of Cambridge |
| Gupta, Neha | University of Warwick |
| Harris, Michael | Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot |
| Henrich, Thilo | University of Bonn |
| Hoffnung, Alex | University of California, Riverside |
| Jantzen, Jens Carsten | Aarhus Universitet |
| Juteau, Daniel | CNRS, Univesité de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Kamnitzer, Joel | University of Toronto |
| Kapustin, Anton | California Institute of Technology |
| Keller, Bernhard | Université de Paris VII |
| Khovanov, Mikhail | Columbia University |
| King, Alastair | University of Bath |
| Klein, Florian | University of Freiburg |
| Koeppe, Thomas | University of Edinburgh |
| Kolb, Stefan | University of Edinburgh |
| Korff, Christian | University of Glasgow |
| Kraehmer, Ulrich | University of Glasgow |
| Krasner, Daniel | Columbia University |
| Lauda, Aaron | Columbia University |
| Letellier, Emmanuel | University of Caen |
| Libedinsky, Nicolas | Université de Paris VII |
| Licata, Tony | Stanford University/MPI |
| Mackaay, Marco | Universidade do Algarve |
| Manolescu, Ciprian | UCLA / University of Cambridge |
| Martino, Maurizio | Universität Bonn |
| Masbaum, Gregor | CNRS |
| Mautner, Carl | University of Texas |
| Mazorchuk, Volodymyr | Uppsala University |
| McGerty, Kevin | Imperial College London |
| Meachan, Ciaran | University of Edinburgh |
| Miemietz, Vanessa | University of Oxford |
| Mikovic, Aleksandar | Lusofona University & GFMUL |
| Morrison, Scott | Microsoft Station Q |
| Mullaney, Joseph | University of Glasgow |
| O'Hagan, Steven | University of Glasgow |
| Owens, Brendan | University of Glasgow |
| Paasch, Anna-Louise | Universität Wuppertal |
| Parker, Alison | University of Leeds |
| Rasmussen, Jacob | University of Cambridge |
| Röhrle, Gerhard | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Rouquier, Raphaël | University of Oxford |
| Rubinsztein, Ryszard | Uppsala University |
| Rumynin, Dmitriy | University of Warwick |
| Savage, Alistair | University of Ottawa |
| Shipman, Ian | University of Chicago |
| Silantyev, Alexey | University of Glasgow |
| Spencer, Christopher | University of Edinburgh |
| Steiner, Richard | University of Glasgow |
| Stevenson, Daniel | University of Glasgow |
| Stosic, Marko | Instituto Superior Tecnico |
| Stroppel, Catharina | University of Bonn |
| Thiel, Anne-Laure | IRMA, Strasbourg |
| Thomas, Richard | Imperial College London |
| Tillmann, Ulrike | University of Oxford |
| Treumann, David | University of Minnesota |
| Turner, Paul | Heriot-Watt University |
| Turner, Will | University of Aberdeen |
| van Roosmalen, Adam-Christiaan | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik |
| Vaz, Pedro | CAMGSD - Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Waldron, Jack | University of Cambridge |
| Webster, Ben | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Weist, Thorsten | Universität Wuppertal |
| Willerton, Simon | University of Sheffield |
| Williamson, Geordie | University of Oxford |
| Wilson, Benjamin | Université de Paris VII |
| Winn, Dorothy | University of Glasgow |
| Zuevsky, Alexander | National University of Ireland, Galway |