Olivia Caramello's website
Teaching
Teaching experience
- Lecturer of the "Topos Theory" course, Master
of Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
(U.K.), Lent Term 2012 and 2011
Here are the slides that I used as a support for my lectures and the
example sheets of the course. The syllabus of the course is
available here.
Slides:
Lecture 1 -
Overview of the course
Lecture 2 - Categorical preliminaries I
Lectures 3 and
4 - Categorical preliminaries II
Lectures 5 and 6 - Sheaves on a site
Lectures 7 and
8 - Basic properties of categories of sheaves
Lectures 9 and 10
- Geometric morphisms
Lecture
11 - Local operators
Lectures 12
and 13 - Geometric morphisms as flat functors
Lectures 14
and 15 - Morphisms of sites
Lecture 16 -
Points of toposes
Lectures 17
to 20 - The interpretation of logic in categories
Lectures 21
and 22 - Classifying toposes
Lectures 23
and 24 - The unifying methodologies
Example sheets:
Example sheet
1, Example
sheet 2,
Example sheet 3,
Example sheet
4
- Group Leader for the Part III Seminars in Category Theory and Logic, DPMMS,
University of Cambridge (U.K.), 2007 and 2008
-
Supervisor in Analysis (Part 1A) for students of Trinity College, Cambridge (U.K.)
- Teaching Assistant of Piano at the "Conservatorio di Torino" (Italy), 2005-2006
Research-level lecture courses
-
"Toposes as unifying 'bridges' in Mathematics",
18-hour lecture course given at the
Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (Universités Paris
6-7) from the 14th to the 31st of January 2013. This
course, whose
programme can be found here,
was organized by the « Équipe de logique catégorique » and the
« Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes »
of the Paris 7 University;
video recordings of the lectures are available at
this website.
-
"The unification of Mathematics via Topos Theory", 8-hour lecture course given at the Department of Mathematics of the
University of Padova (Italy), 1st-2nd July 2010
- "Introduction to Topos Theory and its unifying role in Mathematics",
12-hour national-level lecture course giving an introduction to
my research work, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi,
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy), 22nd - 26th February 2010.
For more information, please visit the
website of the course.