Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

Nov 2, 2024 You can now apply for the 2025 Summer Research Associate program at the Topos Institute! The deadline to apply is January 17, 2025.

Nov 2, 2024 You can now apply for the 2025 Summer Research Associate program at the Topos Institute! The deadline to apply is January 17, 2025.

Nov 7, 2024 00:45 Here’s a way to argue that Gerard’s solution to my puzzle is correct. Thurston showed that any star of the ...

Thurston gave a concrete procedure to construct triangulations of the 2-sphere where 5 or 6 triangles meet at each vertex. How can you get the icosahedron using this procedure? Gerard Westendorp has a ...

Projects range from applied category theory to logic, programming languages, and science, technology, and society. Specific topics for 2025 include, but are not limited to: Computational category ...

And the course feels like it’s mostly converging with any other set theory course, just with the special feature that everything remains resolutely isomorphism-invariant. This week we constructed N ...

Are you interested in using category-theoretic methods to tackle problems in topics like quantum computation, machine learning, numerical analysis or graph theory? Then you might like the Adjoint ...

Thurston’s paper Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere is really remarkable. I’m writing about it in my next column for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here’s a draft ...