About Me
I am a Ph.D. student of John Bourke at Masaryk University in Brno.
You can check out my CV here and my 8 page research statement there.
My interests mostly lie within category theory: 2-categories, double categories, 2-dimensional monad theory, lax structures.
Talks
Codescent objects and lax coherence (2022), Johns Hopkins Category Theory Seminar
Factorization systems as double categories (2023), CT2023, SLIDES
Quasi-limits and lax flexibility (2023), Octoberfest2023, SLIDES
Turning lax monoidal categories into strict ones (2024), PTSPC24, SLIDES
Publications and preprints
Factorization systems and double categories, Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 41, 2024, No. 18, pp 551-592.
Colax adjunctions and lax-idempotent pseudomonads, ArXiv preprint, 2024
Theses
Homogeneous C*-algebras: Bachelor's thesis, supervised by David Kruml, PDF (in Czech)
2-categories: Master's thesis, supervised by John Bourke, PDF
This is basically me:
You can contact me at "🐱.stepan@mail.muni.cz",
where "🐱" is my first name.