Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Dirk Hofmann
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 3112-9247-6B7B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1082-6135
Websites
- http://sweet.ua.pt/dirk/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2015
Concluded
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Mathematics (Título de Agregado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
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1999
Concluded
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Mathematics (Doktor (PhD))
Universität Bremen, Germany
"Natural Dualities and the generalised Stone-Weierstraß Theorem" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
magna cum laude |
|
1995
Concluded
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Mathematics (Master)
Major in Mathematics
Universität Bremen, Germany
"Rings of continuous functions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1.0 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/05/15 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Matemática, Portugal | ||
| 2008/12/01 - 2018/05/15 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal | ||
| 2001/10/01 - 2008/11/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2000/09/01 - 2001/09/30 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1999/09/01 - 2000/07/31 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/06 - Current | Conferência: Category Theory 2015
147201547180FAC
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/06/01 - 2021/11/30 | Coalgebraic Modeling and Analysis for Computational Synthetic Biology
PTDC/CCI-COM/30947/2017
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications
UID/MAT/04106/2019
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2013/07 - 2016/06 | NASONI -- Heterogeneous software coordination: Foundations, methods, tools
PTDC/EEI-CTP/2341/2012
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2012/03/01 - 2015/02/28 | Categorical Methods in Non Abelian Algebra
PTDC/MAT/120222/2010
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | Strategic Project - UI 4106 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011
PEst-C/MAT/UI0324/2011
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2010/03/15 - 2013/03 | Mondrian - Foundations for architectural design: Service certification, dynamic reconfiguration and self-adaptability
PTDC/EIA-CCO/108302/2008
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal |
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
|
| 2011 - 2013 | Strategic Project - PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011
FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022690
|
Concluded
|
Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2025/03/11 | Normed categories | Algebra, Logic and Topology Seminar
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2024/12/13 | Almost a variety of co-quasivarieties | Brümmer 90 Conference
Cape Town University (Cidade do Cabo, South Africa)
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| 2024/07/08 | Enriched Hausdorff and Vietoris functors | 38th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
|
| 2024/06/29 | On predicate liftings and lax extensions of functors | CT 2024 – International Category Theory Conference
University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
|
| 2023/09/14 | Cauchy completeness for normed categories. | XIV Portuguese Category Seminar.
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
|
| 2023/07/17 | Enriched compact Hausdorff spaces | The 37th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications
Youngstown State University (Youngstown, United States)
|
| 2023/07/07 | Barr-coexactness for representable spaces | CT 2023 -- International Category Theory Conference
Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
|
| 2022/07/19 | From compact metric spaces to metric compact spaces |
(Tomar, Portugal)
|
| 2022/06 | On the double category of coalgebras |
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
|
| 2022/04/29 | Extensions and liftings of functors | 5th Workshop on Categorical Algebra: recent developments and future perspectives
(Gargnano del Garda, Italy)
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| 2022/02/25 | On the double category of coalgebras | XIII Portuguese Category Seminar
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
|
| 2021/07/08 | Algebraic properties of enriched Priestley spaces |
Online
|
| 2019/11/13 | Enriched Priestley spaces | Third Pan Pacific International Conference on Topology and Applications
(Chengdu, China)
|
| 2019/09/29 | Order theory, enriched | Workshop on Algebra, Logic and Topology
University of Coimbra, Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)
|
| 2019/07/12 | Coalgebras for enriched Hausdorff (and Vietoris) functors | CT 2019 -- International Category Theory Conference
University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/07/10 | Limits in categories of Vietoris coalgebras | CT 2018 -- International Category Theory Conference
University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ponta Delgada,, Portugal)
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| 2018/01/25 | Three lectures on duality theory | Days in Logics
University of Aveiro, Portugal (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2017/12/07 | From compact metric spaces to metric compact spaces | Workshop on Topology and Topological Groups
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa (South Africa)
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| 2017/09 | Generating the algebraic theory of $C(X)$ for partially ordered compact spaces and beyond | Geometry and non Classical Logics
(Salerno, Italy)
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| 2017/07/21 | Duality theory, convergence, and enriched categories | CT 2017 -- International Category Theory Conference
(Vancouver, Canada)
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| 2017/02 | Enriched perspectives on duality theory | 37th Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory
(Linz, Austria)
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| 2016/09 | Duality in topology from the point of view of triples. | Workshop on Dualities.
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2016/07 | Stone-type dualities meet enriched category theory | Encontro Nacional da SPM 2016
Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (Portugal)
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| 2016/05 | Stone-type dualities beyond lattice structures II | 4th Workshop on Categorical Methods in Non-Abelian Algebra
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
|
| 2016 | Partial metric spaces as enriched categories | 31st Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
University of Leicester (Leicester, United Kingdom)
|
| 2013 | Cauchy completeness à la Lawvere | WiAT 13 – Conference in Applied Topology
(Bilbao, Spain)
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| 2012/10 | Variations on a theme of Vietoris | Coalgebraic Logics
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Center for Informatics (Germany)
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| 2012/08 | Some Remarks on the Metric Vietoris Monad | Workshop on Duality Theory in Algebra, Logic and Computer Science
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
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| 2011/03 | Dualities for distributive spaces | 2011 Spring Southeastern AMS Sectional Meeting
(Statesboro, United States)
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| 2010/03 | Duality-TV | Workshop on Categorical Topology
(Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
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| 2009/07 | ’Distributors at work’ in Topology | 24th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
(Brno, Czech Republic)
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| 2007/06 | Topological spaces, categorically | CT 2007 – International Category Theory Conference
(Carvoeiro, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2017 - 2021 | Multicategories, Yoneda Structures, And all That
Supervisor of Eros Martinelli
|
map-pdma (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2014 - 2018 | Kleisli dualities and Vietoris coalgebras
Supervisor of Pedro Nora
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Programa Doutoral em Matemática (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|
| 2008 - 2014 | Topology via enriched categories
Supervisor of Carla David Reis
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Doutoramento conjunto em Matemática - Matemática e Aplicações (PDMA) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/08 - 2024/07/12 | 38th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications (2024/07/08 - 2024/07/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24 | Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic (2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2001/04/18 - 2021/04/21 | IV Iberoamerican Conference on Topology and its Applications (2001/04/18 - 2021/04/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2015/06/14 - 2015/06/19 | Category Theory 2015. International Conference on Category Theory. (2015/06/14 - 2015/06/19)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2015/06/10 - 2015/06/13 | Special session ``Categorical Methods in Algebra and Topology'' at the joint AMS-EMS-SPM International Meeting in Porto, Portugal,
June 10 -- 13, 2015. (2015/06/10 - 2015/06/13)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/08 | Some aspects of descent theory and applications
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Rui Rodrigues de Abreu Fernandes Prezado (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
|
| 2023/09/04 | Adding Uncertainty to Real-Time Programming
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Rui Carlos Azevedo Carvalho (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
|
| 2022/07/11 | On Conditional Quantum Control
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Daniel Almeida Carvalho (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
|
| 2022/02/02 | A framework for locally structured spaces
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Pierre-Yves Coursolle (PhD)
École Polytechnique, France
|
| 2019/09/16 | Generalised enriched categories: exponentiation and injectivity
Thesis Member
|
Willian Ribeiro Valencia da Silva (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
|
| 2017/09/13 | Descent Theory of $(T,V)$-Categories: Global-Descent and Étale-Descent
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Pier Giorgio Basile (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
|
| 2015/04/01 | Kan-injectividade e KZ-reflectividade em categorias enriquecidas com ordem
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Margarida Alexandre Abreu de Carvalho (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
|
| 2013/06/20 | A topological theory of $(T,V)$-categories
(Thesis) Arguer
|
Serdar Sozubek (PhD) |
| 2013/02/08 | Reflections of universal algebras into semilattices, their Galois theories, and related factorization systems
Thesis Member
|
Isabel Margarida da Costa Andrade Xarez (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|
| 2012/07/20 | Tensors, preorders and ultraspaces: constructions stemming from the Vietoris spaces
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Valentin Mercier (Master) |
| 2011/12/12 | On Quantaloid-enriched categories in general, and sheaves on a quantaloid in particular
(Thesis) Arguer
|
Isar Stubbe (Aggregation) |
| 2009/11/16 | On the Design of a Galculator
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Paulo Filipe Araújo da Silva (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
|
| 2007/03/13 | Separation, Completeness and Compactness in Metrically Generated Theories
(Thesis) Arguer
|
An Gerlo (PhD) |
| 2004/12/10 | Objectos injectivos como álgebras de mónadas de filtros
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Nuno Miguel Esteves Patrício da Conceição (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
|
| 2004/06/21 | Grothendieck Descent in quasi-Varieties of Algebraic and Relational Structures
Thesis Member
|
Ana Helena Alves de Malta Roque (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|
| 2003/09/19 | The Monotone-Light Factorization System for Categories via Preordered and Ordered Sets
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
João José Neves Silva Xarez (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - Current | Theory and Applications of Categories | |
| 2013 - Current | Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/11/01 - 2024/07/31 | Category theory and Topology | Kira Morozova |
