Michel Hebert

Professor
Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
The American University in Cairo
Egypt

Professor Mathematics
Biography

Michel Hébert is professor emeritus in the mathematics and actuarial science department at The American University in Cairo. He has been with AUC since 1993, and has served as chair of the mathematics department for a total of seven years. Previously, Hébert was a faculty member at universities in Canada, Zambia and Gabon. He received his PhD from Laval University, in Quebec city, in 1984. Before this, Hébert studied at a navigation school, and traveled around the world as a seaman, and then as officer, in the Merchant Marine of various countries from 1970 to 1980.

Research Intrest

Category theory, mathematical logic, universal algebra. Particularly where any two of these three subjects intersect.

List of Publications
Hébert, M., "Finitely presentable morphisms in exact sequences", Theory and Applications of Categories 24 (2010), 209-220.
Hébert, M., "Weak reflections and weak factorization systems ", Applied Categorical Structures, 19 (2011), 9-38.
Hébert, M., "What is a finitely related object, categorically", Applied Categorical Structures, 21 (2013), 1-14.