Dear all, The Pacific Category Theory (PCT) seminar is a new online seminar for the category theory community in the Asia-Pacific time zone and beyond. It will run once or twice a month on Friday at 10am JST/12pm AED (1am UTC). The first talk will be given by Richard Garner (Macquarie University) on December 12 at 10am JST/12pm AED (1am UTC). Title: Universal enrichments Abstract: For a given category C, there are all sorts of things we might enrich it in. For example, the category of complex vector spaces can be enriched in commutative monoids, or abelian groups, or real vector spaces, or complex vector spaces. In this talk, we explain how, for any locally presentable category C, there is a universal locally presentable monoidal category V in which it can be enriched. The fun part is trying to calculate V for particular choices of C; in general, it is rather intractable but sometimes we get lucky! The zoom link will be posted on the website https://pctseminar.github.io/ shortly before the talk. Best wishes, Soichiro Fujii, Zeinab Galal and JS Lemay You're receiving this message because you're a member of the Categories mailing list group from Macquarie University. To take part in this conversation, reply all to this message. View group files<https://outlook.office365.com/groups/groupsubscription?source=EscalatedMessage&action=files&smtp=categories%40mq.edu.au&bO=true&GuestId=6bf90c14-94d1-45b7-a0b5-9dd447734d27> | Leave group<https://outlook.office365.com/groups/groupsubscription?source=EscalatedMessage&action=leave&smtp=categories%40mq.edu.au&bO=true&GuestId=6bf90c14-94d1-45b7-a0b5-9dd447734d27> | Learn more about Microsoft 365 Groups<https://aka.ms/o365g>