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Fall 2020 M*A*T*H Colloquium Presents: “Fractals as Final Coalgebras”

  • Darwin 103 1801 E Cotati Ave Rohnert Park, CA, 94928 United States (map)

Featured Speaker: Victoria Noquez, St. Mary’s College

In this talk we will explore the development of a surprising connection between category theory and fractal sets. We have extended existing work in this area to consider the Sierpinski Carpet, which requires a substantially different technical framework from previous results for interesting geometric reasons. We will introduce final coalgebras (and all of the necessary category theory background) and outline the development of machinery to consider different fractal sets.