Building-up Differential Homotopy Theory 2026

 

Schedule (pdf file schedule280226a.pdf 66kb, updated 28/02/26)     “***” indicates an online lecture.


Monday 2nd March


10:00 --  Opening


10:00 -- 11:00 Ling Zhou (Duke University)

     Beyond Persistent Homology: Persistent Homotopy-Theoretic Invariants


11:30 -- 12:30 Ling Zhou (Duke University)

     Beyond Persistent Homology: Persistent Cup Products and Related Invariants


14:00 -- 15:00 Shunsuke Tada (Tohoku University)

     Stability of Bipath Persistence Diagrams


15:30 -- 16:30 Hideto Asashiba (Shizuoka University, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, Osaka Central Advanced Mathematical Institute)

     Relative Koszul coresolutions and relative Betti numbers


Tuesday 3rd March


     (Morning free)


13:25 -- 13:30 Group Photo (all of us)


13:30 -- 14:30 Masai Noda (Shinshu University)

     An adjunction of the categories of sheaves related to a topology and a diffeology


14:50 -- 15:50 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

     Geometric Quantization by Paths: From Feynman to Souriau


16:10 -- 17:10 Kathrin Welker (Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg)

     Optimization on (infinite-dimensional) shape manifolds, ***


Wednesday 4th March


  9:30 -- 10:30 David Miyamoto (Queen's University)

     Lie's third theorem via elastic diffeological groups

                       

11:00 -- 12:00 Masaki Taho (The university of Tokyo)

     Various Notions of Tangent Spaces in Diffeology


13:30 -- 14:30 Yuki Kojima (Toyota Systems Corporation)

     A closed manifold is a fat CW complex


14:50 -- 15:50 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

     The Boman Paradox: When Topology and Algebra do not Define Geometry


16:10 -- 17:10 Kathrin Welker  (Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg)

     Optimization of multiple and non-smooth shapes: towards optimization techniques on diffeological spaces, ***


Thursday 5th March


10:00 -- 11:00 Tadayuki Haraguchi (Naragakuen University)

     Cubical cell complexes in the category of diffeological spaces


11:30 -- 12:30 David Miyamoto (Queen's University)

     Lie's third theorem via elastic diffeological groups


12:30 -- Closing