For my final talk, I plan first to define two kinds of equivalence between groupoids in addition to isomorphism: similarity and Morita equivalence. These will be illustrated with examples. Then I plan to describe manifolds, foliations of manifolds, and orbifolds as orbit spaces of groupoids. Finally, I want to introduce the monodromy and holonomy groupoids of foliations and give hints as to their local structure.

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