Brandon Shapiro

Postdoctoral Researcher (Alum)

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.

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