Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Faculty of Science
University of Calgary
From products and coproducts to communication
Submitted by jlongwor on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 10:17am.
Mar 23 2010 - 4:00pm
Mar 23 2010 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Robin Cockett, Department of Computer Science
Location:
MS 431Products and coproducts are the simplest sort of limit and colimit a category can have: so what does the category with just finite products and coproducts look like? The answer certainly surprised me: after all why should this have anything to do with communication?