Dan Christensen<p>This week the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HoTTEST" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HoTTEST</span></a> seminar presents:</p><p>Mitchell Riley</p><p>Tiny types and cubical type theory</p><p>The talk is at 11:30am EDT (15:30 UTC) on Thursday, April 17. The talk will be 60 minutes long, followed by up to 30 minutes for questions. See <a href="https://www.uwo.ca/math/faculty/kapulkin/seminars/hottest.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uwo.ca/math/faculty/kapulkin/s</span><span class="invisible">eminars/hottest.html</span></a> for the Zoom link and a list of all upcoming talks.</p><p>All are welcome!</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HoTT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HoTT</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@carloangiuli" class="u-url mention">@<span>carloangiuli</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@emilyriehl" class="u-url mention">@<span>emilyriehl</span></a></span></p><p>Abstract:</p><p>I will present an extension of Martin-Löf Type Theory that contains a tiny object; a type for which there is an "amazing" right adjoint to the formation of function types as well as the expected left adjoint. A primary aim of the theory is to be simple enough to be used both by hand and in a (hypothetical) proof assistant. I will sketch a normalisation algorithm and discuss a few potential applications, in particular, to implementations of Cubical Type Theory.</p>