Research Seminar on Formal Mathematics

Heidelberg University - Summer semester 2026

A meme in which a big blue armored figure, representing Lean, is protecting the rest of the ITP ecosystem by absorbing the AI slop.

The current state of affairs in the ITP world 😢

Topics of interest

  • Machine-checked mathematics.
  • Proof assistants (Agda, Coq, Lean, etc).
  • Type theory.
  • Univalent foundations.
  • Functional programming languages.

Time and place

The Formal Mathematics seminar meets once a month, on Tuesday from 4:15 to 5:45 PM in Seminar Room TBA (SR 3, INF 205).

Schedule

Date Speaker Institution
21.04.2026 Joël Riou Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay)
16.06.2026 Yannick Forster (tbc) Inria Paris
23.06.2026 Hannah Scholz Universität Bonn
07.07.2026 Irene Garnelo Abellanas Universität Paderborn

Titles and abstracts

  • Joël Riou (Orsay) - 21.04.2026

    Formalization of homotopy theory with Lean

    In this talk, I will discuss certain aspects of my formalization in Lean of the verification of Quillen’s axioms of model categories for the category of topological spaces and simplicial sets.

Organisers