Daniel Teixeira

PhD candidate at Dalhousie University

My interests revolve around homotopy and category theory at large, especially where they meet topological physics. My supervisor is Theo Johnson-Freyd.

contact: daniel.teixeira@dal.ca

Recent activities:

• 2 Oct 24: informal conversation about 2-fibrations. notes
• 1 Oct 24: talk at the Dalhousie graduate seminar about the Eckmann-Hilton argument in higher dimensions. notes
• 23-27 Sept 24: Scottish Talbot on fusion 2-categories. post-mortem notes for my talk TBD
• 8 Jul - 2 Aug: School on Univalent Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
• 20-25 Jul 24: two talks at the Dalhousie Math Camp about Geometry & Topology.
• 7-12 Jul 24: teaching Scratch at the BEA Math Camp. Check out our students projects here!
• 3-14 Jun 24: Thematic Program in Field Theory and Topology at the University of Notre Dame. poster
• 20-24 May 24: Atlantic TQFT Spring School 2024 at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• 29 Apr 24: informal conversation about relating Morse theory, catastrophes, and higher categories. notes
• 18-22 Mar 24: Higher Categorical Tools for Quantum Phases of Matter at Perimeter Institute.
• 18-23 Feb 24: Matemáticas en Cono Sur 2 at UdelaR, Montevideo. I was on the group working with 2-fibrations.
• 30 Nov 23: I passed my comprehensive exam. You can see details about my thesis project here.
• 17 Nov 23: talk at the USP categories seminar about ladders of 2-categories. notes (in Portuguese)
• Fall 23: Inclusive STEM Teaching course by the CIRTL Network. At Dalhousie, Sarah Chisholm organized in-person meetings.
• Fall 23: online (∞,2)-workshop organized by Moser, Razekh and Rovelli.
• 1 Nov 23: talk at the Dalhousie honours seminar about category theory. notes
• 26 Oct 23: genesis of the spectral sequences reading group at Dalhousie. details
• 14 Oct 23: talk at the MSCS 2023 about ladders of 2-categories. slides
• 6 Oct 23: talk at the Dalhousie graduate seminar about the toric code.
• 3-8 Sept 23: GCS2023 summer school at Les Diablérets, Switzerland.
• 19-23 Jun 23: École d'été sur les fibrés et leur connexions at the Université de Sherbrooke.
• 1-5 May 23: Atlantic TQFT spring school at Wolfville, NS.
• 8 Mar 23: talk at the Dalhousie honours seminar about the topology of our spacetime. notes
• 21 Sept 22: talk at the TQFT reading group about the Morita bicategory. notes
• 22 Feb 22: I defended my master's thesis! Go check it out.
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