Categorical Tori

Speaker:

Nora Ganter (University of Melbourne)

Date:

Thu, 21/01/2016 - 16:30 - 17:30

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

Opening Conference for the Program on Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics [3]

I will describe a simple model for the 2-group extensions
of a compact torus by the circle and some familiar contexts in which
these "categorical tori" naturally occur.