WIMCS MathsPhysics Cluster Lectures (13 January 2009)
Professor Tim Porter (Bangor, Wales) will give four hours of talks on the afternoons of
Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 January
at the School of Mathematics, Cardiff
Tuesday 2.30 -3.30 and 4.00 - 5.00
Wednesday 1.30 - 2.30 and 3.30 - 4.30
Room : TBA
Title: Categorification and bundles.
The aim of the talks will be to illustrate some of the aspects of
categorification in the case of bundles. This will lead from bundles
and vector bundles via sheaves to stacks, gerbes, 2-bundles and
eventually to 2-vector bundles. On the way I hope to indicate some of
the links with higher category theory and non-Abelian cohomology.
