The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

The conference particularly encourages participation from underrepresented groups. The organizers are committed to non-discrimination, equity, and inclusion. The code of conduct for the conference is ...

Back to modal HoTT. If what was considered last time were all, one would wonder what the fuss was about. Now, there’s much that needs to be said about type dependency, types as propositions, sets, ...

I don’t really think mathematics is boring. I hope you don’t either. But I can’t count the number of times I’ve launched into reading a math paper, dewy-eyed and eager to learn, only to have my ...

Bless British trains. A two-hour delay with nothing to occupy me provided the perfect opportunity to figure out the relationships between some of the results that John, Tobias and I have come up with ...

Faster-than-light neutrinos? Boring… let’s see something really revolutionary. Edward Nelson, a math professor at Princeton, is writing a book called Elements in which he claims to prove the ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

Many of you have heard murmurings about this book for several months now. I’m happy to report that it’s now out! Homotopy type theory: univalent foundations of mathematics, by the Univalent ...

The following is the greatest math talk I’ve ever watched! Etienne Ghys (with pictures and videos by Jos Leys), Knots and Dynamics, ICM Madrid 2006. [See below the fold for some links.] I wasn’t ...

Summer saw the foundations of mathematics rocked by the publication of The HoTT Book. Here we are a few months later and the same has happened to physics with the appearance on the ArXiv of Urs’s ...

Things equal to the same thing are also equal to one another. And if equal things are added to equal things then the wholes are equal. And if equal things are subtracted from equal things then the ...

The study of monoidal categories and their applications is an essential part of the research and applications of category theory. However, on occasion the coherence conditions of these categories ...