nLab Como

This entry is about the proceedings volume for the 1990 conference on category theory in Como:

  • A. Carboni, M. Pedicchio, G. Rosolini, Category theory , Proceedings of the International Conference held in Como 1990, Lecture Notes in Math. 1488, Springer (1991).

The preface is

Contents:

  • J. Adámek, J. Rosický, What are locally generated categories?, 14–19

  • J. Bénabou, Some remarks on free monoids in a topos, 20–29

  • F. Borceux, G. van den Bossche, A generic sheaf representation for rings, 30–42

  • D. Bourn, Normalization equivalence, kernel equivalence and affine categories, 43–62

  • S. Carmody, R. F. C. Walters, Computing quotients of actions of a free category, 63–78

  • A. M. Cegarra, A. R. Garzon, A long exact sequence in non-abelian cohomology, 79–94

  • P. J. Freyd, Algebraically complete categories, 95–104

  • J. W. Gray, Order-enriched sketches for typed lambda calculi, 105–130

  • J. M. E. Hyland, First steps in synthetic domain theory, 131–156

  • G. Janelidze, Precategories and Galois theory, 157–173

  • G. Janelidze, W. Tholen, How algebraic is the change-of-base functor?, 174–186

  • C. B. Jay, Fixpoint and loop constructions as colimits, 187–192

  • P. Johnstone, S. Vickers, Preframe presentations present, 193–212

  • A. Joyal, M. Tierney, Strong stacks and classifying spaces, 213–236 (pdf)

    (on (2,1)-sheaves and 2-sheaves).

  • S. Kasangian, S. Vigna, Trees in distributive categories, 237–248

  • G. M. Kelly, A note on relations relative to a factorization system, 249–261

  • A. Kock, Algebras for the partial map classifier monad, 262–278

  • F. W. Lawvere, Intrinsic co-Heyting boundaries and the Leibniz rule in certain toposes, 279–281

    (see also at co-Heyting algebra)

  • J. L. Macdonald, Concretely functorial programming, 282–297

  • S. B. Niefield, Weak products over a locally Hausdorff locale, 298–305

  • Duško Pavlović, Categorical interpolation: descent and the Beck-Chevalley condition without direct images, 306–325

  • J. Power, An nn-categorical pasting theorem, 326–358

    (on pasting in n-categories).

  • G. E. Reyes, H. Zolfaghari, Topos-theoretic approaches to modality, 359–378

    (on modal logic in topos theory).

  • S. H. Schanuel, Negative sets have Euler characteristic and dimension, 379–385

  • M. Thiébaud, Modular categories, 386–400

  • J. J. C. Vermeulen, Some constructive results related to compactness and the (strong) Hausdorff property for locales, 401–409

  • A. Joyal, R. Street, An introduction to Tannaka duality and quantum groups, 413–492

About the geographic place see Wikipedia: Como and the conference centre: Villa Olmo.

In 2018, a school and conference on topos theory was hosted in Como (video playlist).

category: reference

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