Seminar on functor calculi 2024

This is the homepage for a learning seminar on all things calculus in homotopy theory at the MPIM Bonn that I am organising jointly with Hyeonhee Jin and Connor Malin in the fall of 2024. Feel free to send one of us an email if you'd like to present a talk at the seminar!

Suggested topics for talks

Time: Tuesdays, 14:00 (s.t.) - 16:00
Place: MPIM seminar room

Schedule:

(Oct 1): Introduction to embedding calculus - Hyeonhee Jin
(Oct 8): Introduction to Goodwillie calculus - Thomas Blom
(Oct 15): No talk
(Oct 22): Introduction to Koszul duality - Yuqing Shi (transcribed by Qi Zhu)
(Oct 29): Introduction to orthogonal calculus - Kaif Hilman
(Nov 5): Koszul duality and functor calculus - Connor Malin
(Nov 12): No talk due to the Workshop on Unstable Homotopy Theory
(Nov 19): Goodwillie approximations to higher categories - Lucas Piessevaux
(Nov 26): Embedding calculus via right modules (after Krannich-Kupers) - Andrea Bianchi
(Dec 3): Stable splittings of Stiefel manifolds and the Weiss derivatives of BU and BO (after Arone) - Qi Zhu [CANCELLED]