People / Brandon Shapiro

Postdoctoral Researcher (Alum)

About

Brandon Shapiro does research at Topos on the polynomial ecosystem, and is finishing a PhD in math from Cornell University. He hopes to unify topology, higher dimensional algebra, and real-world compositional systems in the language of composable shapes. Brandon is particularly interested in using categorical ideas to make “advanced” math more accessible to students and across disciplines.

Personal website

https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~bts82/

Blog posts

A dynamic monoidal category for strategic games

After last month’s wonderful ACT conference at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, David Spivak and I spent some time with Matteo Capucci and Riu Rodriguez Sakamoto talking about how our theory of dynamic monoidal categories can model the non-cooperative strategic games that they study at…

Brandon Shapiro

2022-09-12

Playing with Shapes at Topos

This month sees a new person joining the team here at Topos: we’re thrilled to welcome Brandon Shapiro! He’s working with David Spivak on the theory and applications of polynomial functors. We asked him to write a short blog post introducing both himself and his mathematics.

Brandon Shapiro

2022-02-15