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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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  • Coupling hyperbolic and parabolic IBVP: applications to drug delivery
      Daniela Sofia Domingues Jordão (December 2020)
      José Augusto Ferreira
  • Drug transport enhanced by temperature: mathematical analysis and numerical simulation
      Maria Elisa Barbosa Silveira (November 2020)
      José Augusto Ferreira
      Paula de Oliveira
  • The Hurwitz and Lipschitz Integers and Some Applications
      Nikolaos Tsopanidis (November 2020)
      António Machiavelo
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