Workshop on Generalized Smooth Structures

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and students to review some basics of categories of generalised smooth spaces and discuss some recent developments in homotopy theory and differential geometry of generalised smooth spaces. The objects studied in this workshop include Frölicher spaces, diffeological spaces and differentiable stacks. This one-day workshop will feature six talks: one on elementary category theory and and five other talks on homotopy theory, differential topology and symplectic structures on certain smooth spaces; which aim to highlight the topic and explore future directions.

Link for the workshop is here.

Workshop Program:

-- 09:00-09:50 An Intuitive Introduction to Categories, Emin Koçak (MSGSÜ) 

-- 10:00-10:50 Generalized smooth spaces and their homotopy theories, Mehmet Akif Erdal (Yeditepe Univ.) 

-- 11:00-11:50 On the tangential structures on Frölicher spaces, Barış Efe (Yeditepe Univ.)

-- BREAK

-- 13:00-13:50 Categorical structures on Frölicher spaces, Emre Özel (Yeditepe Univ.)

-- 14:00-14:50 Introduction to derived contact geometry, Kadri İlker Berktav (Bilkent Univ.)

-- 15:00-15:50 On the Hamiltonian structures on Frölicher spaces, Melike Işim Efe (Yeditepe Univ.)

-- 16:00-16:30 Discussion.

* This workshop is supported by TÜBİTAK under project number 123F460.