From the 10^th to the 26^th of July I will be visiting the BIMSA, a world-class research institution established by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and led by Prof. Shing-Tung Yau, to participate in the Inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS).

I will also give a plenary talk on the 12th at the ICBS Satellite Conference on Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry on Toposic Galois-Fraïssé theory and motivic toposes; the abstract is as follows:

We will present an abstract topos-theoretic framework for building Galois-type theories in a variety of different mathematical  contexts : this unifies and generalizes Grothendieck’s theory of  “Galois categories” and Fraïssé’s construction of homogeneous structures in model theory. This theory notably allows one to construct fundamental groups in many classical contexts such as finite groups, finite graphs, motives and many more. We will in particular present an approach based on it for building “motivic toposes” and investigating the independence from l of l-adic cohomology.