Stable Homotopy Seminar, 4: Model categories (Ivo Vekemans)

This talk by Ivo Vekemans is a thorough introduction to model categories, presenting: weak factorization systems; the definition of model category and major examples (simplicial sets, topological spaces, and chain complexes); notions of homotopy in a model category, and the homotopy category; Quillen adjunctions, Quillen equivalences, and derived functors.

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[MatthewCushman]

I love this talk so much - this is where I learned model categories and I consider it to be the perfect introduction