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Niles Johnson (Mar 14 2024 at 19:28):In a little over two weeks I'll be giving a talk about my recent paper with Nick Gurski on coherence for pseudomorphisms (details below). The talk will be in-person with a remote option, and I'd be happy to give the details if anyone is interested. (Send me a chat message.)
The paper is arxiv:2312.11261, and I wrote a general-audience overview on this mastodon thread. The main application gives coherence for braided monoidal functors, but the setup is more general.
If that seems like the kind of thing you're interested in, let me know!
Talk details:
Tuesday, 02 April
13:50 Eastern (EDT)
OSU Quantum Symmetries Group
Also, if you just have questions about the paper itself, I'm of course happy to talk about it either here or on mastodon :)
Nathanael Arkor (Mar 15 2024 at 00:46):@Niles Johnson: if you type <time in Zulip, it will give you a time picker that will automatically format the time according to each user's time zone, which makes it easier for people to tell exactly when the talk is. If I converted correctly, it will be ?
Niles Johnson (Mar 15 2024 at 01:59):Thanks; I think I did it now!
Niles Johnson (Mar 26 2024 at 19:56):Reminder: I'll be giving this talk a week from today at . I decided to make the middle half of the talk more accessible with a review/introduction to coherence theorems as characterizations of free algebras. So, if that's something that interests you, let me know and I'll send you the zoom details. I'll also post the slides afterward.
Niles Johnson (Dec 12 2024 at 21:11):Does anyone want a _physical_ copy of my ring categories book with Donald Yau!? I've got a few extra copies from the publisher (just Volume III). As a reminder, all three volumes are available for free download:
https://nilesjohnson.net/drafts/Johnson_Yau_ring_categories.pdf
https://nilesjohnson.net/En-monoidal.html
So I'm just interested if anyone would actually use a physical copy. I posted more details here on mathstodon:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@nilesjohnson/113636070787494856
There, I said I'll mail a copy to anyone who makes a mastodon donation, but I'm open to any donation to any organization you think is appropriate :) I had five copies, and currently three have been claimed.
Jean-Baptiste Vienney (Dec 12 2024 at 21:46):Hey @Niles Johnson , I would love to learn about ring categories and there is more than a 0 percent chance than I try to use it some day in some math project once I understand how cool it is. Is it ok if I make just a super small donation? (I'm a grad student, not very rich ahah)
Jean-Baptiste Vienney (Dec 12 2024 at 21:48):Or do you want a donation of the real price of the book?
Niles Johnson (Dec 12 2024 at 21:53):Jean-Baptiste Vienney said:
Awesome!
Or do you want a donation of the real price of the book?
Oh no, not even close! An amount that approximately covers shipping would be totally fine, and I'm very open to any amount (including zero!) that is reasonable to you.
Niles Johnson (Dec 12 2024 at 21:55):I got these copies for free (well, free after a giant amount of work ;) and I want them to go to people who might actually use them. The donation idea is just a way for me to make a slightly nontrivial barrier, so that people think about whether they really want a physical copy.
Niles Johnson (Dec 12 2024 at 21:56):If that's you, just send me a dm or email with your address, and tell me something nice you'll do for someone else in return.