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Academic staff (11)

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace


Marino Gran

Research interests: categorical algebra, universal algebra, Galois and descent theory, non-abelian homology, Hopf algebras
Research interests: categorical algebra, universal algebra, Galois and descent theory, non-abelian homology, Hopf algebras
Pascal Lambrechts


My work is in algebraic topology. My recent theme of research are
motivated by the study of moduli spaces coming from
differential topology, like spaces of smooth embeddings and of
diffeomorphisms, using manifold functor calculus, rational homotopy
theory, configuration spaces, operads of little disks, ...
My work is in algebraic topology. My recent theme of research are
motivated by the study of moduli spaces coming from
differential topology, like spaces of s...
Timothée Marquis


Research interests: Geometric group theory; Kac-Moody groups and algebras; Groups with a BN-pair, Coxeter groups and buildings; Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and algebras; Locally compact groups
Research interests: Geometric group theory; Kac-Moody groups and algebras; Groups with a BN-pair, Coxeter groups and buildings; Infinite-dimensional Lie groups...
Heiner Olbermann


Mes intérets de recherche se trouvent dans le domaine des équations aux dérivées partielles. Surtout je travaille sur des questions en calcul des variations. En particulier, je m'intéresse à l'élasticité non-linéaire, et à des problèmes variationels qui contiennent en même temps des aspects physiques et géométriques.
Mes intérets de recherche se trouvent dans le domaine des équations aux dérivées partielles. Surtout je travaille sur des questions en calcul des variations. En...
Augusto Ponce


Partial differential equations; nonlinear analysis
Partial differential equations; nonlinear analysis
Tim Van der Linden

Research in homological algebra: study of homology and cohomology of non-algebraic objects using categorical methods, such as Galois theory of higher central extensions
Research in homological algebra: study of homology and cohomology of non-algebraic objects using categorical methods, such as Galois theory of higher central extensions
Jean Van Schaftingen

I am working in mathematical analysis, on problems in the fields of partial differential equations, calculus of variations and function spaces, including endpoint L¹ estimates for differential operators, Sobolev mappings, Ginzburg-Landau functionals, vortices
in fluid dynamics, magnetic Sobolev spaces and semi-linear elliptic problems.
I am working in mathematical analysis, on problems in the fields of partial differential equations, calculus of variations and function spaces, including endpoi...
Pedro Vaz


Knot theory and quantum topology,
Higher representation theory and its applications in low-dimensional topology,
Categorification of quantum algebras and its 2-representation theory.
Knot theory and quantum topology,
Higher representation theory and its applications in low-dimensional topology,
Categorification of quantum algebras and its...
Enrico Vitale


Je participe à la recherche de l’équipe de théorie des catégories. Notre recherche se concentre sur l'algèbre catégorique: plus particulièrement, nous développons certains nouveaux aspects de la théorie des catégories utiles en algèbre homologique non abélienne, algèbre homotopique de dimension supérieur, algèbre universelle et algèbre topologique, théorie de la descente et théorie de Galois, théorie des algèbres de Hopf et des quandle.
Je participe à la recherche de l’équipe de théorie des catégories. Notre recherche se concentre sur l'algèbre catégorique: plus particulièrement, nous développo...
Postdocs (14)

Fathi Ben Aribi


Geometric invariants of knots and 3-manifolds constructed from operators on infinite-dimensional spaces
Geometric invariants of knots and 3-manifolds constructed from operators on infinite-dimensional spaces
Office: B.430
Email: fathi.benaribi@uclouvain.be
Federico Campanini


Office: B428
Jacques Darné

I am interested in applying categorical methods to the study of groups and filtrations on them. Precisely, by "groups", I mean mainly some infinite groups, often with a topological flavor, such as braid groups and their generalizations, or automorphisms of free group. And by "filtrations", I mean lower central series of groups, or filtrations similar to them.
I am interested in applying categorical methods to the study of groups and filtrations on them. Precisely, by "groups", I mean mainly some infinite groups, oft...
Office: B.429
Email: jacques.darne@uclouvain.be
Pierre-Alain Jacqmin


My main research interests lie in Category Theory, and more specifically in Categorical Algebra and Universal Algebra. My aim is to deeper understand algebraic categorical properties such as the Mal'tsev, unital or semi-abelian properties; in particular via some embedding theorems or preservation under the cofiltered limit completion. I am also interested in internal groupoids, weak equivalences and their bicategory of fractions as well as in finiteness spaces and generalized rings of power series.
My main research interests lie in Category Theory, and more specifically in Categorical Algebra and Universal Algebra. My aim is to deeper understand algebraic...
Geoffrey Janssens

My research has spanned several areas of mathematics, however always centered around the study of the representations of the given object. Nowadays my focus is on finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras via geometric realisations. Hereby the angle is additive and monoidal categorification of an underlying cluster algebras.
Earlier my research focused on integral representation theory of finite groups, via connections to arithmetic groups. The latter can be thought as the integer points of semisimple linear algebraic groups of which the group of units of the integral group ring is an example of. The overarching quesiton here is which properties of the finite group can reconstructed out of the geometric group theoretical properties of the simple factors of the overlying algebraic group.
My research has spanned several areas of mathematics, however always centered around the study of the representations of the given object. Nowadays my focus is...
Office: B403
Waltraud Lederle

I am interested in totally disconnected, locally compact groups in the context of geometric group theory.
I am interested in totally disconnected, locally compact groups in the context of geometric group theory.
Jules Martel-Tordjman


Julia Ramos González

My main research interests are category theory and homological algebra. I am particularly interested in the interplay of these fields with algebraic geometry in order to approach noncommutative algebraic geometry, where both abelian categories and enhancements of triangulated categories are used as models for noncommutative spaces. I am therefore interested in many different related areas: topos theory, localizations and categories of fractions, algebraic categories, triangulated and dg categories, infinity-categories, deformation theory…
My main research interests are category theory and homological algebra. I am particularly interested in the interplay of these fields with algebraic geometry in...
Office: B.402
Email: julia.ramos@uclouvain.be
PhD students (17)

David Forsman


My PhD-topic is to develop a non-abelian theory of spectral sequences. Double semi-simplicial groups have certain spectral sequences associated to them. The motivating question is how much can we generalize this to the semi-abelian context.
My PhD-topic is to develop a non-abelian theory of spectral sequences. Double semi-simplicial groups have certain spectral sequences associated to them. The mot...
Office: B404
Email: david.forsman@uclouvain.be
Alex Loué

I study (infinite) discrete groups. My interests include, but are not limited to : the representation theory of lattices in non-discrete groups ; the geometry of low dimensional complexes of groups ; approximation by finite groups ; local-global phenomena. Currently, my focus is set on a family of discrete groups acting on euclidean buildings. I would like to better understand which features they have in common, but also for each their own specificities. Some keywords : geometric group theory, representation theory, harmonic analysis, algebraic groups over local fields.
I study (infinite) discrete groups. My interests include, but are not limited to : the representation theory of lattices in non-discrete groups ; the geometry o...
Office: B.321
Email: alex.loue@uclouvain.be
Sébastien Mattenet

Did my masters thesis in topos theory.
Currently writing about Lyapunov theory in categorical terms, specifically the converse lyapunov theorem that a system with an equilibrium point must have a corresponding "energy function" (lyapunov fucntion, ie a function that decrease on trajectory and "sufficiently" smooth) that serve as a certificate for the stability.
Did my masters thesis in topos theory.
Currently writing about Lyapunov theory in categorical terms, specifically the converse lyapunov theorem that a system w...
Office: Euler a1.01
Aline Michel

The goal of the research is to explore the exactness properties of the category of preordered groups and of preordered abelian groups, with particular attention to non-additive torsion theories in these categories. We will then develop a new approach to non-abelian homology of preordered groups. A generalization of some of these results to preordered semi-abelian algebras will also be considered.
The goal of the research is to explore the exactness properties of the category of preordered groups and of preordered abelian groups, with particular attention...
Léo Schelstraete

I work on the interplay between knot theory and higher representation theory. More precisely, I'm interested in an invariant of knots called odd Khovanov homology, which can be thought as a categorification of the Jones polynomial. I try to understand it through the categorification of (the representation theory of) quantum algebras.
I work on the interplay between knot theory and higher representation theory. More precisely, I'm interested in an invariant of knots called odd Khovanov homolo...
Office: B.429
Lancelot Semal


I try to answer questions in this field : unitary representations of locally compact groups
I try to answer questions in this field : unitary representations of locally compact groups
Office: B.321
Email: lancelot.semal@uclouvain.be
Corentin Vienne


Research in categorical algebra, in particular semi-abelian categories. We are studying consequences of categorical conditions, such as action representability, in varieties of non-associative algebras.
Research in categorical algebra, in particular semi-abelian categories. We are studying consequences of categorical conditions, such as action representability,...
Daniel Zimmer

The goal of my research is to investigate the topology of spaces of embeddings, using tools from algebraic topology ; more precisely, I investigate cosimplicial models for such spaces built using the calculus of functors.
The goal of my research is to investigate the topology of spaces of embeddings, using tools from algebraic topology ; more precisely, I investigate cosimplicial...
Administrative staff (4)

Visitors (3)

Yves Felix

topologie algébrique, homotopie rationnelle
topologie algébrique, homotopie rationnelle
Fara Renaud

My PhD research concerns higher categorical Galois theory in the context of certain algebraic structures of interest called quandles (a notion of symmetry which is used in knot theory and geometry). The category of quandles is algebraic by nature, but features interesting geometrical properties. This provides an interesting context for the study and illustration of higher categorical Galois theory and related meaningful notions of homotopy. Key words: higher categorical Galois theory, racks and quandles, centrality, commutators, higher coverings.
My PhD research concerns higher categorical Galois theory in the context of certain algebraic structures of interest called quandles (a notion of symmetry which...
Michel Willem


nonlinear partial differential equations, global analysis, calculus of variations,
functional analysis, real analysis, history of mathematics
nonlinear partial differential equations, global analysis, calculus of variations,
functional analysis, real analysis, history of mathematics
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