Braided Monoidal Categories and Fusion Categories

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.

Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a3a9d7f9d1fca4f5b991b4029b09c69a1%40thread.tacv2/1644880596204?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22482198bb-ae7b-4b25-8b7a-6d7f32faa083%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2206706002-23ff-4989-8721-b078835bae91%22%7d