Group Cohomology learning seminar

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Alexander Berenbeim, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo

“Category Theory: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Diagram”

We will introduce the language of categories with the aim of studying group cohomology. Starting with the basic definitions and axioms of category theory, we will proceed to define functors and hopefully derived functors. No previous knowledge of category theory is assumed.