Lecture series

  • Raf Bocklandt: Curves, surfaces and A-infty categories
  • Julian Külshammer: How to make modules simple using A-infinity algebras
  • Alice Rizzardo: An categories and triangulated structures

Exercises

Raf 1 Raf 2 Raf 3 Raf 4
Julian 1   Julian 2   Julian 3   Julian 4
Alice (all exercises)
Typo: In Raf's first exersises, the module S32 should have been labeled S23.

Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
08:00 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
09:00 Bocklandt 1 Rizzardo 2 Bocklandt 4 Rizzardo 4 Bocklandt 6
09:45 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
10:15 Külshammer 1 exercises Külshammer 4 Bocklandt 5 Külshammer 6
11:15 Rizzardo 1 exercises exercises (11:00) Külshammer 5 Rizzardo 6
12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch (11:30) Lunch Lunch
13:30 exercises Bocklandt 3 Rizzardo 5
14:15 exercises Coffee Coffee
14:45 Coffee (15:15) Külshammer 3 excursion (12:30) exercises
15:45 Bocklandt 2 Rizzardo 3 exercises
16:45 Külshammer 2
18:30 Dinner Dinner Dinner (19:00) Dinner Dinner

There will also be dinner on Sunday evening and breakfast on Saturday morning, for the people who arrive on Sunday and leave on Saturday, respectively.

Tentative plan for the individual lectures

Bocklandt 1: Representation theory of A_n and polygons
Külshammer 1: Ext^n and representations of quivers
Rizzardo 1: Hochschild cohomology and deformations of algebras

Bocklandt 2: Definition of A-infinity algebras
Külshammer 2: The bar and cobar constructions
Rizzardo 2: A-infinity categories

Bocklandt 3: Kadeishvili's theorem
Külshammer 3: A_infinity structures on Ext-algebras
Rizzardo 3: Twisted complexes and triangulated categories

Bocklandt 4: General surfaces
Külshammer 4: Exact Borel subalgebras and bocses
Rizzardo 4: A_n-algebras, A_n-cats and truncated twisted complexes

Bocklandt 5: Description of D^b(P^1) using geometry and A-infinity structures
Külshammer 5: Ext-algebra of simple modules and quivers with relations
Rizzardo 5: Pretriangulated A_n-categories

Bocklandt 6: Generalisations
Külshammer 6: Koszul duality for A-infinity algebras and construction of exact Borel subalgebras
Rizzardo 6: An example of triangulated categories without enhancement

Literature

Here is a list of suggested preparatory reading.

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