# Past Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science

15 June 2011
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Dr Henk Bruin
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• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
1 June 2011
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<p>It is known for long that the set of possible compactifications of a topological space (up to homeomorphism) is in order-preserving bijection to "strong inclusion" relations on the lattice of open sets. Since these relations do not refer to points explicitly, this bijection has been generalised to point-free topology (a.k.a. locales). The strong inclusion relations involved are typically "witnessed" relations. For example, the Stone-Cech compactification has a strong inclusion witnessed by real-valued functions. This makes it natural to think of compactification in terms of d-frames, a category invented by Jung and Moshier for bitopological Stone duality. Here, a witnessed strong inclusion is inherent to every object and plays a central role. </p> <p>We present natural analogues of the topological concepts regularity, normality, complete regularity and compactness in d-frames. Compactification is then a coreflection into the category of d-frames dually equivalent to compact Hausdorff spaces. The category of d-frames has a few surprising features. Among them are: </p> <ul> <li>The real line with the bitopology of upper and lower semicontinuity admits precisely one compactification, the extended reals.</li> <li>Unlike in the category of topological spaces (or locales), there is a coreflection into the subcategory of normal d-frames, and every compactification can be factored as "normalisation" followed by Stone-Cech compactification.</li></ul>
• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
4 May 2011
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Dr Secil Tokgoz
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A topological space $(X,\tau)$ is submaximal if $\tau$ is the maximal element of $[{\tau}_{s}]$. Submaximality was first defined and characterized by Bourbaki. Since then, some mathematicians presented several characterizations of submaximal spaces. In this paper, we will attempt to develop the concept of submaximality and offer some new results. Furthermore, some results concerning $\alpha$-scattered space will be obtained.
• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
9 March 2011
16:00
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<p>Words are building blocks of sentences, yet the meaning of a sentence goes well beyond meanings of its words. Formalizing the process of meaning assignment is proven a challenge for computational and mathematical linguistics; with the two most successful approaches each missing on a key aspect: the 'algebraic' one misses on the meanings of words, the vector space one on the grammar.</p> <p>I will present a theoretical setting where we can have both! This is based on recent advances in ordered structures by Lambek, referred to as pregroups and the categorical/diagrammatic approach used to model vector spaces by Abramsky and Coecke. Surprisingly. both of these structures form a compact category! If time permits, I will also work through a concrete example, where for the first time in the field we are able to compute and compare meanings of sentences compositionally. This is collaborative work with E. Greffenstete, C. Clark, B. Coecke, S. Pulman.</p>
• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
2 March 2011
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• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
17 November 2010
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Gareth Davies
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• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
10 November 2010
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• Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
3 November 2010
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