Reading Seminar: Topos Theory (2021-22)
Essential information
- Organized by: Dan Christensen and Chris Kapulkin.
- Time: Tuesdays at 1:30 PM in Winter 2022; Mondays at 1:30 in Fall 2021.
- Location: MC 107.
Textbook
We will follow:
- S. Mac Lane, I. Moerdijk, Sheaves in Geometry and Logic, 1992. Referred below as [MM]
We will assume familiarity with the chapter "Categorical Preliminaries" of that book.
Other excellent sources include:
- P.T.J. Johnstone, Topos Theory, 1977.
- P.T.J. Johnstone, Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory Compendium, Vols. 1-2, 2002.
- J. Lambek, P. Scott, Introduction to higher order categorical logic (Part 2), 1986
Schedule
Fall 2021
- Sept 20: Introduction and Organization. Unidentified organizer.
- Sept 27: Subobject classifiers [MM I.2-4]. By Jarl G. Taxeras Flatten.
- Oct 4: Exponentials [MM I.6]. By Udit Mavinkurve.
- Oct 11: Thanksgiving Day, no seminar.
- Oct 18: Categories and logic [MM I.7-9]. By Dimitrios Thanos.
- Oct 25: Introduction to sheaves [MM II.1-3]. By Jacob Fabe.
- Nov 1: Fall Reading Week, no seminar.
- Nov 8: Sheaves as étale spaces [MM II.6 and II.9]. By Mohabat Tarkeshian.
- Nov 15: Grothendieck topologies [MM III.2]. By Brittania Fusca.
- Nov 22: Categories of sheaves on a site [MM III.4-5]. By Jinho Kim.
- Nov 29: Grothendieck toposes [MM III.6-7]. By Artem Gureev.
- Dec 6: Exponentials in an elementary topos [MM IV.1-2]. By Karthik Boyareddygari.
Winter 2022
- Mar 1: Colimits, part 1 [MM IV.3-5]. By Artem Gureev.
- Mar 8: Colimits, part 2 [MM IV.3-5]. By Jarl G. Taxeras Flatten.
- Mar 15: Spring Break; no seminar!
- Mar 22: Factorization [MM IV.6]. By Jinho Kim.
- Mar 29: Slice of a topos is a topos [MM IV.7]. By Karthik Boyareddygari.
- Apr 5: Internal Heyting algebras [MM IV.8]. By Mohabat Tarkeshian.
- End of term.
For more information, please contact Chris Kapulkin.
