The goal:

To connect students from different mathematical background, and learn about the beautiful intersection of (triangulated) category theory and the theory of surfaces.

Motivated by the notion of entropy for continuous morphisms in a topological dynamical system, one can similarly define the notion of categorical entropy for endofunctors in triangulated categories. Computing entropy of a given endofunctor can be quite complicated – even in topology, many papers were devoted to introduce different methods of computing entropies for specific morphisms. In many recent works, it was shown that various topological notions have well defined analogies in homological algebra. Guided by these analogies, one can hope to develop methods to compute categorical entropy by emulating methods developed in topology. This symposium aims to gather students from these two seemingly different fields to learn the ideas from topology and translate them into ideas in homological algebra.

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