Jason Parker

University of Calgary
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Jason Parker
March 22, 2024
University of British Columbia
In this talk, I will report on joint work in progress (with Robin Cockett and Ben MacAdam) on how the additive bundle construction (almost) equips the category Lex of lex categories with a tangent category structure. Let Lex be the category of (small...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Jason Parker
October 11, 2023
University of Calgary
In this talk, I will exposit some of the main ideas and results of the seminal 2017 paper “The pebbling comonad in finite model theory” by Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, and Pengming Wang. In this paper, the authors demonstrate that pebble games, which...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Jason Parker
September 27, 2023
University of Calgary
In this talk, I will summarize the research on enriched algebraic theories, monads, and varieties that I produced with Rory Lucyshyn-Wright during my previous postdoctoral fellowship at Brandon University. I will start by providing a historical...