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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 2:00pm

Tom Hunter

Swarthmore

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

André Joyal's theory of quasi-categories gives a setting into which both homotopy theory of spaces (as Kan complexes) and the theory of categories (as their simplicial nerves) both embed. As such it is a natural setting for weakly associative or weakly commutative categorified structures--in particular, Lurie uses this theory to build his "Derived Algebraic Geometry". I will give an introduction to Joyal's quasi-categories intended for an audience which is not expert in simplicial homotopy theory, model theory, or higher category theory. --