Dorette Pronk
Professor
Email: pronk@mathstat.dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-3732
Mailing Address:
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Dalhousie University
6297 Castine Way - PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
B3H 4R2
Research Topics:Dalhousie University
6297 Castine Way - PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
B3H 4R2
- Categories Algebra Topology-ATCAT
- Double categories
- Localizations for higher categories
- Orbifold homotopy theory
- Stacks and groupoids
- Applications of algebraic topology
- Topos theory
- Categories without units
Office Number: Chase Room 302
Education: PhD - Utrecht University (1995)
MSc - Utrecht University(1991)
Scholarly Interests: Category Theory and Algebraic Topology: Localizations, Generqalized; Quotient Structures, Groupoids, Orbifolds, Computational Geometry & Topology and Specifically Applied to Fractals.
Publications:
- R. J. M. Dawson, R. Paré, D. A. Pronk, Universal properties of Span, accepted for publication in Theory and Applications of Categories
- R. J. M. Dawson, R. Paré, D. A. Pronk, Free extensions of double categories, Cahiers de Topologie et Géometrie Différentielle Catégoriques, Vol XLV-1 (2004), pp. 35 - 80
- R. J. M. Dawson, R. Paré, D. A. Pronk, Adjoining adjoints, Advances in Mathematics 178 (2003), pp. 99-140
- Robert Dawson, Robert Paré, Dorette Pronk, The span construction, Theory and Applications of Categories 24 (2010), pp. 302-377
- Dorette Pronk and Laura Scull, Translation groupoids and orbifold cohomology, Canadian Journal of Mathematics 62 (2010), pp. 614-645
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