---------------------------------------------------------------------- HONOURS SEMINAR Colloquium Room Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:30 - 1:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Measurable Spaces from a Categorical Perspective Ben Hersey Abstract: As the title suggests, we can view the collection of all measurable spaces as a category. By doing so, and determining what general categorical properties hold, we can hope to gain a new perspective and some new information about measurable spaces. One particular merit of this process comes from the notion of limits, and completeness. In my talk I will introduce some key ideas from category theory and from there provide the proof of the main result of my paper. That is, the category of measurable spaces is complete and cocomplete.