John Baez
Jun6-04, 04:26 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Peter May and I are about to run a workshop on n-categories\nat the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications:\n\nhttp://www.ima.umn.edu/categories/\n\nWe\'ll mainly be trying to compare different definitions of\nn-categories, but there will be an afternoon about applications\nof n-categories to mathematical physics, especially topological\nquantum field theory. Since most of the audience won\'t be\nexperts on physics, I\'m giving an introductory talk which may be\nof interest to some people here too:\n\nhttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/n_categories/index.html#spacetime_and_process\n\nIt fills in some of the math that I deliberately avoided in my\npaper "Quantum Quandaries: a Category-Theoretic Perspective":\n\nhttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/quantum/\n\nCheck it out! You can also see transparencies of my two n-category\ntalks.\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Peter May and I are about to run a workshop on n-categories
at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/categories/
We'll mainly be trying to compare different definitions of
n-categories, but there will be an afternoon about applications
of n-categories to mathematical physics, especially topological
quantum field theory. Since most of the audience won't be
experts on physics, I'm giving an introductory talk which may be
of interest to some people here too:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/n_{categories}/index.html#spacetime_and_process
It fills in some of the math that I deliberately avoided in my
paper "Quantum Quandaries: a Category-Theoretic Perspective":
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/quantum/
Check it out! You can also see transparencies of my two n-category
talks.
at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/categories/
We'll mainly be trying to compare different definitions of
n-categories, but there will be an afternoon about applications
of n-categories to mathematical physics, especially topological
quantum field theory. Since most of the audience won't be
experts on physics, I'm giving an introductory talk which may be
of interest to some people here too:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/n_{categories}/index.html#spacetime_and_process
It fills in some of the math that I deliberately avoided in my
paper "Quantum Quandaries: a Category-Theoretic Perspective":
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/quantum/
Check it out! You can also see transparencies of my two n-category
talks.