OUR AIM
AfMS aims at a weekly seminar for the whole of Africa, alternating through the different countries while giving different regions their chance to host the seminar.
The main goal of AfMS is building mathematical networks across Africa and showcasing African mathematical talent. In practice, this means speakers will mostly hail from Africa, or have a strong relationship with African mathematics. But not necessarily always. The organizing team will include distinguished speakers every now and then for networking and research exchange with the rest of the world.
Do you wish to participate at AfMS?
The African Mathematics Seminar will takes place online via ZOOM in English
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Wednesday November 16, 2022 @ 2:00 PM Nairobi
TITLE: Looking at metric spaces as enriched categories
SPEAKER: Simon Willerton, The University of Sheffield, UK
TIME: 2:00PM Nairobi
DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2022
One can think of category theory as having the category of sets as its 'base category' and changing this 'base category' leads to the notion of enriched category. There's a classic observation of Lawvere that metric spaces can be viewed as enriched categories over the base category of non-negative real numbers. Assuming only a basic understanding of what a category is, I'll explain this idea. I'll go on to show how this perspective has lead to new ideas about metric spaces which touch on a wide variety mathematics including measuring diversity, homological algebra, special functions and tight spans. If time permits I'll mention how this is connected to ideas in classical convex analysis.
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