This is the webpage for the category theory reading course at ANU for 2017.
Please start reading Tom Leinster's Basic Category Theory.
- An Ran will be speaking during Week 1, giving the definitions of categories, functors and natural transformations. I encourage you to all bring an example of a natural transformation, and to discuss these examples after An Ran's presentation.
- By the Week 2 meetings, please have read Chapter 1.
- James will be speaking during Week 2; topic TBD!
After your presentation, please write a report (at least one page). It should:
- Indicate the material you covered in your presentation.
- Note any difficulties or confusions that arose, particularly those that were not resolved in discussion with the group.
- Indicate the topics covered in the discussion after the presentation.
- Evaluate your presentation of the material. Could you have arranged things differently, to better aid understanding? Was there too much or too little technical detail? Did you facilitate a constructive discussion after the presentation? Any other comments?
- a report on your class presentation (10%)
- four written assignments (10% each, for 40% total)
- a final essay (approx. 10 pages, on a topic of your choice related to the material we cover) (35%)
- a final presentation (by default, on the same topic as your final essay) (15%)
The assignment problems will be posted here. They are a work in progress at the moment, and there are no due dates specified.
- Wednesday 12-1: Presentation and discussion
- Thursday 11-12: Assignment questions discussion
- Thursday 1-2: Q&A/Lecture with Scott