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Monads and Decomposition

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Gus Wiseman, UC Davis
Location: 1147 MSB
Start time: Tue, May 22 2007, 1:10PM

A monad is a certain structure in category theory that makes possible a very general definition of an algebra. I will discuss an example that leads to a model for decomposition.