Em-Cats CT Conference Program
2023–2024
This page is for a program that was run in 2023–2024.
Em-Cats CT23/24 Conference Program
About
Emerging Researchers in Category Theory (Em-Cats) is a program that aims to assist graduate students in Category Theory in giving excellent talks. It is led and taught by Dr Eugenia Cheng.
We’re pleased to announce that the participants in the 2023 Em-Cats program are:
- Rhiannon Griffiths (Cornell University),
- Ryuya Hora (The University of Tokyo),
- Yuto Kawase (Kyoto University),
- Marcello Lanfranchi (Dalhousie University), and
- Joshua Wrigley (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria).
Aims
The aims of the Em-Cats Program are, broadly:
- Help the next generation of category theorists become wonderful speakers.
- Make use of the virtual possibilities, and give opportunities to graduate students in places where there is not a category theory group or local seminar they can usefully speak in.
- Helping graduate students to have a global audience, especially giving more visibility to students from less famous/large groups.
- Make a general opportunity for community among category theorists who are more isolated than those with local groups.
- Making truly intelligible talks, which we hope students and researchers around the world will enjoy and appreciate.
Talk preparation and guidelines
Eugenia Cheng has experience with training graduate students in talk-giving, from when she ran a seminar in mathematical presentations for graduate students at the University of Sheffield. Everyone did indeed give an excellent talk. We ask that all participants in the Em-Cats Program are willing to work with Dr Cheng and follow her advice to make sure their talk is excellent. The guidelines document outlines what she believes constitutes a good talk.
Dr Cheng is confident that with her assistance everyone who wishes to do so will be able to give an excellent, accessible talk, and that this will benefit both the speaker and the community.