Categories: the Mathematics of Connection

I gave this talk at Mathematics of Collective Intelligence, a workshop organized by Jacob Foster at UCLA’s Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, or IPAM for short. There have been a lot of great talks here, all available online.

Perhaps the main interesting thing about this talk is that I sketch some work happening at the Topos Institute where we are using techniques from category theory to design epidemiological models:

• Categories: the mathematics of connection

Abstract. As we move fro...