Talks and presentations

Torsion pairs via large silting mutation (research)

July 05, 2026

Research talk, Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Aples, Grenoble, France

Last decade Aihara, Iyama and Reiten proved that functorially finite torsion classes of finitely generated modules over a finite-dimensional algebre are in one-to-one correspondence with its compact 2-term silting complexes, which can be mutated at any of their indecomposable summands via silting mutation–thus inducing an operation of mutation for the aforementioned torsion classes. Recent work has been directed towards extending this mutation to arbitrary torsion classes, which are known to be one-to-one with 2-term cosilting complexes, the infinite-dimensional dual of compact 2-term silting complexes. These belong to the larger class of cosilting objects, which also have an operation of cosilting mutation. In particular, it is not guaranteed that the cosilting mutation of a 2-term cosilting complex is once again a 2-term cosilting complex, and thus that it corresponds to a torsion class. In this talk, we introduce an infinite-dimensional analog of silting mutation, which we call large silting mutation, and show how applying it to the category of large injective copresentations–which is neither exact nor triangulated, but extriangulated–results in a theory of mutation for 2-term cosilting complexes, providing a reinterpretation of cosilting mutation for this class of cosilting objects while also inducing an operation of mutation for arbitrary torsion classes. We also mention how this framework can be applied to other cases, generalized, and dualized, as well as some of its current limitations in regards to mutability criteria–since, in the infinite-dimensional context, mutability is not guaranteed in general. Links: slides.

Torsion pairs via large silting mutation (outreach)

June 09, 2026

Research talk, Dipartimento di Matematica 'Tullio Levi-Civita', Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

In abstract algebra, an “algebra” has a highly rich structure which can be approximated by “modules”; in particular, it can be studied via its category of modules. A “torsion pair” gives a unique decomposition of this category into semi-orthogonal subcategories, simplifying its study. It is known that certain torsion pairs are in bijection with “2-term silting complexes”, for which any essential block can be replaced by a different one such that the resulting complex is of the same type. This operation, called “silting mutation”, induces mutations on the corresponding torsion pairs. Moreover, arbitrary torsion pairs are in bijection with “2-term cosilting complexes”, the infinite-dimensional dual of the former. The latter have a conceptually distinct operation of “cosilting mutation”, which does not guarantee that the cosilting mutation of a 2-term cosilting complex is once again 2-term, and thus that it corresponds to a torsion pair. In this talk, we introduce an infinite-dimensional analog of silting mutation and show it can be applied to 2-term cosilting complexes, providing a reinterpretation of cosilting mutation while also inducing mutations on arbitrary torsion pairs. Links: slides.

Hidden Hurdles from the Global South

January 21, 2026

Outreach talk, Online,

Gave a talk at the We still CARE online ethics seminar sharing some experiences of significant but invisible obstacles that I have personally faced (and continue to face) while studying a PhD in the European Union without having an EU citizenship in order to bring light to these issues in regards to inclusivity in Mathematics. Links: slides.

Mutation of torsion pairs of small modules and silting subcategories

November 14, 2025

Outreach talk, Chata Sport Ski, Kořenov, Czech Republic

The goal of the representation theory of algebras is to study the richness of the abstract algebraic structures known as “algebras” via their “modules” (or “representations”), each of which partially models the structure of the algebra. Torsion pairs of small modules over an algebra allow one to decompose its category of small modules into a pair of simpler “disjointed” subcategories from which the entire category can then be reconstructed. Since each torsion pair provides a unique decomposition, being able to control them yields a powerful tool for the study of this category. In this talk, we give a brief overview of the theory for mutation of torsion pairs of small modules, with a particular focus on their relation to silting subcategories—including “large” (i.e. either product or coproduct-closed) silting subcategories, which we note can be used to mutate bounded (co)silting complexes. Links: slides.

Mutación de complejos cosilting de dos términos usando categorías extrianguladas

November 13, 2025

Outreach talk, Instituto de Matemáticas (IMATE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

English translation of the abstract: A torsion pair is a way of “twisting” a category into two “orthogonal” subcategories which we can further “untwist” in order to recover the whole category, allowing us to study it in its entirety via simpler portions of it. Each torsion pair provides a unique way of decomposing the category, by which the ability to change or “mutate” from one to another can be of great use. For an associative unital ring $R$, torsion pairs in $\text{mod}(R)$ are in bijection with two-term cosilting complexes, a special class of complexes of injective $R$-modules. Recently, a general theory of mutation of cosilting objects in triangulated categories with products was introduced in [ALSV25]; however, when applying it to the bounded homotopy category of injective $R$-modules in order to mutate a two-term cosilting complex, there are no guarantees that the resulting cosilting object is of the same type. In this talk, we present recent work in which we show how, by changing our focus to the extriangulated category of large injective copresentations $\mathcal{K}^{[0,1]}(\text{Inj}R)$, we can restrict the previous operation to one of mutation between two-term cosilting complexes. Links: slides (in Spanish).

Una introducción a las categorías extrianguladas

November 11, 2022

Outreach talk, Instituto de Matemática y Estadística Rafael Laguardia (IMERL), Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Shared the work done for my Master’s thesis Una introducción a las categorías extrianguladas (An Introduction to Extriangulated Categories, in English) with researchers and students from Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Switzerland and Mexico. Links: master’s thesis; animated slides; regular slides; recording; English translation of the abstract.

Una introducción a las categorías extrianguladas

September 19, 2022

Outreach talk, Instituto de Matemáticas (IMATE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

English translation of the abstract: Currently, the basic structures used in the study of homological algebra are abelian categories, exact categories and triangulated categories. A particular relationship between exact and triangulated categories is well-known–given by Frobenius categories and their associated stable categories–, and many results of homological nature are valid in both contexts. However, the processes for transfering results between these two types of categories are quite complex. In order to overcome these difficulties, in 2019 H. Nakaoka and Y. Palu introduced a simultaneous generalization of exact categories and triangulated categories, axiomatizing the properties of the Ext1 bifunctors in both contexts which are relevant for the definition of cotorsion pairs, which they called extriangulated category. In this talk, we will give an introduction to this recently defined type of category and discuss some of its fundamental results. Links: abstract (in Spanish).

Telegram como herramienta de educación a distancia

September 11, 2020

Workshop, Online (remote), Mexico City, Mexico

Near the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic–which forced teaching personnel from all around the world to rapidly adapt to teaching at a distance–I gave a short workshop on how to use the Telegram Messenger app as a powerful and versatile tool for online teaching to educators of the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Faculty of Sciences. Links: recording.