How to add things up without “=”

Name: How to add things up without “=”
Start: 2023-10-18T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-18T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS: OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD

When: October 18, 2023

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Hana Jia Kong - Harvard University

In many mathematical scenarios, the conventional notion of strict equality doesn’t hold. When we work with algebraic operations in such contexts, we need special notions to encode addition, multiplication, and other mathematical operations. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of operads, which serves as an effective tool for this purpose and finds applications across various mathematical fields.

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