Venue   Mondays, 12:10–13:00, JCMB 3212 (except where noted) Schedule   27 January  Suggestions for topics. Then Tom Leinster, Counting using categories (with apologies to Arend) 3 February  Phil Scott, Cartesian closed categories and the λ-calculus 10 February  (JCMB 3211) Tom Avery, Metric spaces and enriched categories 17 February  No lunch 24 February  (JCMB 3211) Barry Devlin, Codensity monads 3 March  Alex Simpson, Category-theoretic structure for conditional independence (slides) 10 March  Phil Scott, Cartesian closed categories and the λ-calculus (continued) 17 March  Tom Leinster, The categorical origins of Lebesgue integration 24 March  No lunch 31 March  No lunch Past lunches (autumn 2013)   19 September  Suggestions for topics. Then Tom Leinster, The periodic table of n-categories (board photos) 26 September  Sue Sierra, The space of Penrose tilings as a module category (board photos) 3 October  Jon Pridham, Categories in algebraic geometry (board photos) 10 October  No lunch 17 October  Evgeny Shinder, Introduction to Hochschild cohomology (blurry board photos) 24 October  Will Donovan, Introduction to A∞-categories (board photos) 31 October  David Jordan, The Barr–Beck monadicity theorem (board photos) 7 November  Barry Devlin, Introduction to Kan extensions (board photos) 14 November  Ben Kavanagh, Introduction to operads (board photos) 21 November  Arend Bayer, Counting using categories (board photos) 28 November  Tom Avery, Introduction to enriched categories (board photos)   This page was last changed on 23 March 2014. Home