- Series
- Algebra Student Seminar
- Time
- Friday, February 18, 2022 - 10:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006 or ONLINE
- Speaker
- Akash Narayanan – Georgia Tech – https://sites.google.com/view/ga-sas/
- Organizer
- Marc Harkonen
We introduce the notion of braided monoidal categories and fusion categories, which are one way of reframing algebraic structures in a categorical context. After discussing various examples and analogies with the theory of finite groups, we build up to a classification of pointed fusion categories.