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Categories in Algebra and Topology

Program

Part I: Introduction to Category Theory:
Categories, functors and natural transformations. Isomorphism and equivalence of categories. Construction of new categories: subcategories, product of categories and dual category. Categorical duality principle. Limits and colimits. Functor categories. Representable functors. Yoneda Lemma and Yoneda embedding. Adjoints and limits. Existence of adjoints (Freyd's Theorem).

Part II: It includes topics from the list below, chosen according to the interests of the students:
Monads and categories of Eilenberg-Moore algebras. Cartesian closed categories. Toposes. Locales. Exact and regular categories. Additive, abelian, semi-abelian categories and homological categories.

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Defended Theses

  • Structure, algorithmics and dynamics of endomorphisms for certain classes of groups
      André da Cruz Carvalho (April 2023)
      Pedro V. Silva
  • A point-free study of z-embeddings, more general classes of localic maps, and uniform continuity
      Ana Belén Avilez García (April 2023)
      Jorge Picado
  • Analysis of equations of motion of inextensible strings and networks
      Ayk Telciyan (April 2023)
      Dmitry Vorotnikov
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