The second edition of the Summer School in Algebra and Topology will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve from Wednesday the 11th until Saturday the 14th of September 2019.
The summer school will consist in four intensive courses addressed to Master and PhD students, which will also be of interest to more experienced researchers in mathematics. This event is part of a joint project of UCLouvain with the universities of Coimbra, Padova and Poitiers, promoting research collaboration within the Coimbra Group. The first edition of the summer school took place in September 2018.
The invited speakers of this the summer school will be professors Silvana Bazzoni (Padova), Marino Gran (Louvain-la-Neuve), Sandra Mantovani (Milano), and Jorge Picado (Coimbra).
The titles of their courses are:
Contramodules and their applications - Silvana Bazzoni
Categories for universal algebra - Marino Gran
Categorical commutator theory - Sandra Mantovani
Frames and locales: topology without points - Jorge Picado