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Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar: Simple Localizations and How to Find Them

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: n/a
Location: 243 Altgeld Hall
Date: Oct 8, 2021 3:00 pm
Speaker: Doron Grossman-Naples (UIUC)
Contact: Doron Grossman-Naples
E-Mail: doronlg2@illinois.edu
Views: 26; Abstract: Abstractly defining ∞-categorical localization is easy, but explicitly constructing it is hard. Following a series of papers by Dwyer and Kan, I will describe the construction known as the hammock localization and use it to obtain a clearer picture of some important ∞-categories.

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