Homotopy Theory for 2-Categories

Grothendieck and Quillen introduced a notion of homotopy equivalences for categories using a by-now-standard tool called "nerve" of a category. This idea leads to various models of categories-up-to-homotopy. In the joint ongoing projects with Julie Bergner and Martina Rovelli, we study variants of the Roberts-Street-nerve for 2-categories and notions of homotopy equivalences arising from this nerve, with an eye towards 2-categories-up-to-homotopy.