Dear all,
This is the second announcement for the workshop
Stratifying Kiel: Stratified Spaces from Higher Category Theory to Applied Topology
taking place in Kiel, from August 31st to September 4th 2026.
Stratified spaces have proven themselves to be a rich and ubiquitous class of mathematical objects, with appearances in diverse areas of such as classical algebraic and differential topology and geometry, higher category theory and topological data analysis. With this conference, we aim to foster the exchange of recent advances, ideas and methods between and within these various communities, working on and with stratified spaces.
Program:
We are looking to make the event accessible to a wide group of mathematicians. To this end, there will be three minicourses:
Clark Barwick (University of Edinburgh): Stratified homotopy theory with a focus on constructible sheaves and exodromy
Uzu Lim (Queen Mary University of London): Machine learning and stratified spaces
Jon Woolf (University of Liverpool): Simplicial and perverse sheaves, and intersection homology
In addition to these, there will be talks by invited speakers, which will include:
Fernando Abellán (MPI Bonn)
David Chataur (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
Tobias Dyckerhoff (Universität Hamburg)
Colin Fourel (University of Strasbourg)
Jānis Lazovskis (University of Latvia)
Ezra Miller (Duke University)
Guglielmo Nocera (IHÉS)
Markus Pflaum (University of Colorado Boulder)
Hiro Tanaka (Texas State University)
Francesca Tombari (KTH – Royal Institute of Technology)
Marco Volpe (Universität Regensburg)
Bei Wang (University of Utah)
Potentially, there are a few remaining spots still open for talks. Furthermore, limited funding will be available for travel and accommodation for young participants.
Please register here by July 30th.
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Kiel this Summer,
Lukas Waas (Oxford University), Sylvain Douteau (Université Paris-Cité, IRIF) and Timo Essig (Universität Kiel)