TOPS seminar: Categorical Hopf map, a down-to-earth example of a categorical bundle

Speaker: Ali Khalili Samani (University of Melbourne)

Title: Categorical Hopf map, a down-to-earth example of a categorical bundle 

Date: Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:10pm in Lower Napier LG28

Abstract: The Hopf map is a fundamental and beautiful construction in geometry and topology; it was the first known example of a nontrivial map between spheres in different dimensions. In this talk, I quickly review the construction of the Hopf map and then introduce its categorical version.