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Re: "First" use of 'Category theory' to describe our field
by David Roberts 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Dear Ross, no, that's pretty good! It's mildly surprising that it took ~20 years for the name to 'stick', but maybe less so given that the field grew slowly to start. Thanks, David David Roberts Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 08:21, Ross Street <ross.street(a)mq.edu.au> wrote: > > Dear David > > From memory, the Pure Mathematics Honours (USyd) course that Max Kelly taught in 1965 > was called ``Category Theory''. It concentrated on different kinds of morphisms > and factorizations in a category, and finished with adjoint functors. > Also John Gray's (UIllinois) 1968-69 graduate course had that name. > > From Eilenberg I heard that each person using categories should have their own category of expertise. > I told this to John Gray who said that was fine; the time had come for that category to be Cat. > > I would suggest that the first category theorists to think of themselves as such were Eilenberg's students at Columbia. > However, Mac Lane was definitely a category theorist. > > This is probably not the verifiable stuff you were seeking. > > Ross > > > On 10 Jul 2019, at 10:01 PM, David Roberts <droberts.65537(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > the (idle) question is: when did the phrase 'category theory' catch on > for the field? Clearly it didn't leap from either of the heads of > Eilenberg or Mac Lane full-grown, since they used the phrase 'General > theory of natural equivalences'. There are the old 'Reports of the > Midwest Category Seminar' lecture notes (the first in 1967), which > hints that 'category theory' wasn't quite the name in use. > > Even more interesting: who was the first "category theorist", by that name? > > Answers referring to verifiable sources would be best. > > Thoughts? > > David > > > > David Roberts > Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts > Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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SYCO 9 - Last call for participation
by Elena Di Lavore 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

-------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NINTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 9) In person at University of Insubria, Como, Italy 8-9 September 2022 Registration deadline: 1 September 2022 (AoE) It is possible to attend online, but not to present online. Please register even when attending online. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ -------------------------------------------------------- The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, University of Leicester and Tallinn University of Technology. The programme consists of 2 invited talks and 14 contributed talks. -------------------------------------------------------- INVITED TALKS * Robert Furber (University of Edinburgh) - TBA * Olivia Caramello (University of Insubria) - Relative toposes as a generalization of locales -------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED TALKS Full schedule available at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ * Jakob von Raumer - String Diagrams for Strings and Rings * Matthew Earnshaw and Paweł Sobociński - Regular Monoidal Languages * Paolo Perrone - Lifting weights: enriched lenses between transport plans * Simona Paoli - Weak Globularity: a New Paradigm to Weaken Higher Categorical Structures * Malin Altenmüller and Ross Duncan - A Category of Plane Graphs * Sebastian Stengele, Tobias Reinhart, Tomáš Gonda and Gemma De Las Cuevas - A Framework for Universality Across Disciplines * Morgan Rogers - Continuous monoid homomorphisms and geometric morphisms * Calin Tataru - Cubicalisation: an algorithm for generating cubical meshes from homotopy.io diagrams * Niels Voorneveld - Cylinder Diagrams: Visualizing Multi-Parameter Natural Transformations * Mattia G. Bergomi and Pietro Vertechi - Neural network layers as parametric spans * Lia Yeh - Conversation Logic: The Interplay of Negation, Conjunction, Disjunction, and Lexical Entailment * Dylan Braithwaite and Jules Hedges - Dependent Bayesian Lenses: Categories of Bidirectional Markov Kernels with Canonical Bayesian Inversion -------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration is open until the 1st of September, 2022. You can register for either the in person meeting or for the online event. Please register via: https://forms.gle/NURaeCEVsfpfZTJp9 Registration is free. More details are available on the conference website: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ -------------------------------------------------------- COVID-19 SITUATION IN ITALY It is mandatory to wear FFP2 masks on all public transport in Italy. It is strongly recommended to wear them in all public places, including the university. At the moment, there are no restrictions for entering Italy. More information at https://www.viaggiaresicuri.it/approfondimenti-insights/saluteinviaggio (only in Italian). -------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Robin Cockett, University of Calgary Elena Di Lavore, Tallinn University of Technology Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Robert Furber, University of Edinburgh Amar Hadzihasanovic, Tallinn University of Technology Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Alex Kissinger, University of Oxford Martha Lewis, University of Bristol Jade Master, University of Strathclyde Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Quantinuum Samuel Mimram, École Polytechnique Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge John van de Wetering, Radboud University (chair) -------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Dominic Horsman, University of Grenoble Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford Samuel Mimram, Ecole Polytechnique Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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STACS 2023 - second call for papers
by Anuj Dawar 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

STACS 2023 - Call for Papers ----------------------- The 40th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science is planned to take place from 7 March to 10 March 2023 in Hamburg, Germany. For the first time, STACS 2023 will consist of two tracks, A and B, to facilitate the work of the program committee(s). Track A is dedicated to algorithms and data structures, complexity and games. Track B will cover automata, logic, semantics and theory of programming. LISTS OF TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Typical areas include: Track A: algorithms and data structures, including: design of parallel, distributed, approximation, parameterized and randomized algorithms; analysis of algorithms and combinatorics of data structures; computational geometry, cryptography, algorithms for machine learning, algorithmic game theory, quantum algorithms complexity, including: computational and structural complexity theory, parameterized complexity, randomness in computation Track B: automata and formal languages, including: automata theory, games, algebraic and categorical methods, coding theory, models of computation, computability logic in computer science, including: finite model theory, database theory, semantics, type systems, program analysis, specification & verification, rewriting and deduction, learning theory, logical aspects of complexity These lists are not exhaustive. In particular, both tracks also welcome submissions about current challenges. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Track A: - Petra Berenbrink (Universit??t Hamburg, Germany) - Mamadou Moustapha Kant?? (Universit?? Clermont Auvergne, France) Track B: - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (CNRS, France) - Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, UK) SUBMISSIONS Submissions will be through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=stacs23) Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper with at most 12 pages (excluding the title page and the references section) to the appropriate track. The title page consists of the title of the paper and the abstract, but *no* author information. The first section of the paper should start on the next page. The PCs reserve the right to reassign a paper to a different track. The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file are mandatory no changes to font size, page geometry, etc. are permitted (see http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics <http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics>) . Submissions not in the correct format or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, accessible to non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix, to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or to journals is not allowed. PC members are excluded from submitting. As in the previous two years, STACS 2023 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process: submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. The purpose of the double-blind reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. There will be a rebuttal period for authors, see below for the dates. Authors will receive the reviews of their submissions (via EasyChair) and have three days to submit rebuttals (via EasyChair). These rebuttals become part of the PC discussions, but entail no specific responses. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at the conference. For authors who cannot present their paper in person a possibility for remote presentation will be offered. Note that at least one of the authors will have to register for STACS'23 at the cost of around 400???. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium. As usual, these proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain the rights over their work. With their submission, authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program committee chairs to organize the electronic publication of their paper, provided the paper is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: September 25, 2022 (AoE) * Rebuttal: November 14-16, 2022 * Author notification: December 4, 2022 * Final version: January 8, 2023 * STACS 2023: March 7-10, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Web: www.stacs-conf.org Email: petra.berenbrink(a)uni-hamburg.de [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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ETAPS 2023 2nd joint call for papers
by Jan Kofron 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2023 Paris, France, 22-27 April 2023 https://etaps.org/2023 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. -- Why choose ETAPS? -- * ETAPS is one of the world's leading fora for research on software science, with a history of more than 25 years. * The proceedings of ETAPS appear in gold open access, with no article processing charge for the authors specifically. * ETAPS has low participation fees for all and students in particular. -- What is new in 2023? -- * The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS. More info at: https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2023/ . * TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process. * ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision. * Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place. * A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-27 April 2023) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Thomas Wies, New York University) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Leen Lambers, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, and Sebasti?n Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology, and Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano) ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Thomas A. Henzinger (IST, Austria) V?ronique Cortier (Loria, France) * ESOP: Mooly Shagiv (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * FASE: Sven Apel (Saarland University, Germany) * Tutorial speakers: TBA -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Paper submission: 13 October 2022, 23:59 AoE * TACAS artefact submission deadline: 10 November 2022 * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS, partially TACAS): Tuesday 6 December - Thursday 8 December 2022 * Paper notification: 22 December, 2022 * ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS artefact submission deadline: 5 January 2023 * Artefact notification TACAS: 19 January 2023 * Paper final version: 26 January 2023 * Artefact notification ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS: 9 February 2023 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2023 solicit contributions of the following types. All page limits are given **excluding the bibliography**. * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, new ideas and emerging results (NIER) papers of max 8 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp (+ mandatory appendix of max 6 pp), * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp (+ mandatory appendix of max 6 pp), For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. We plan ETAPS 2023 as an on-site conference; nonetheless, remote attendance and presentation will be made possible. Submitted papers must be in English, presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS (use the llncs.cls class) and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. ESOP, FASE, and TACAS will use **double-blind reviewing**. Authors are asked to omit their names and institutions; refer to prior work in the third person, just as prior work by others; not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an **author rebuttal phase**. TACAS will use rebuttal for selected submissions (those in the grey zone). Artefact submission and evaluation Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS must be accompanied by an artefact submitted shortly after the paper. The artefact will be evaluated, and the outcome will be considered in the paper's acceptance decision. Authors of research papers and case study papers may submit an artefact for evaluation after receiving the acceptance notifications. The outcome of the artefact evaluation will not change the paper acceptance decision. ESOP, FASE, and FoSSaCS will accept artefact submissions; however, participation in it is voluntary; the artefact submission deadline is after the paper notification deadline. The outcome will not alter the paper acceptance decision. For specific instructions regarding artefacts, see the web pages of the individual conferences. -- PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's LNCS series. The proceedings volumes will appear in gold open access, so the published versions of all papers will be available for everyone to download from the publisher's website freely, from the date of online publication, perpetually. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. -- AWARDS The strongest papers from the four conferences will be nominated for the ETAPS best paper awards of EAPLS, EASST and EATCS, and the SCP best tool paper award. The ETAPS test-of-time award will be granted, recognising outstanding papers published at ETAPS more than ten years in the past. The Doctoral Dissertation Award will be granted to promote and recognise an outstanding dissertation in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April 2023) -- A number of satellite workshops and other events will take place during the weekend before the main conferences. In particular, there will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt. -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2023 will take place in Paris, France. The conferences and satellite events will be hosted at Sorbonne Universit? and IHP (Institut Henri Poincar?), respectively. They are located in the very centre of the city, in the famous historic district of Quartier Latin. The new museum of mathematical sciences of IHP and the historical mathematics library are also in the same buildings as the satellite events. Several museums, churches and historical buildings can be visited in this area. The convenient location allows for accessing most places in Paris by public transport. ETAPS is organised by the MeFoSyLoMa community, which gathers all researchers on formal methods for software and hardware systems in the ?le-de-France region. -- ORGANISERS -- General co-chairs: * Fabrice Kordon (Sorbonne Universit?) * Laure Petrucci (Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord) Workshop co-chairs: * Benedikt Bollig (CNRS) * Stefan Haar (Inria) Tutorial chair: * ?tienne Andr? (Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord) Web co-chairs: * Denis Poitrenaud (Universit? Paris Cit?) * Stefan Schwoon (ENS Paris-Saclay) Publicity co-chairs * Beno?t Barbot (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil) * Nathalie Sznajder (Sorbonne Universit?) Sponsor chair * C?line Ghibaudo (Sorbonne Universit?) Communication chair * Anna-Marie Reytier (Sorbonne Universit?) [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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2023 Joint Mathematical Meetings
by John Baez 24 Aug '22

24 Aug '22

The Joint Mathematical Meetings are the world's largest annual meeting of mathematicians. In 2023 they will take place January 4 - 7 in Boston, Massachusetts. As part of this huge meeting, the American Mathematical Society is having a special session on Applied Category Theory on Thursday, January 5th. Here you can submit an abstract to give a talk: https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2023/cfp.cgi The deadline is Tuesday, September 13, 2022. This session is being run by four participants of this summer's Mathematical Research Community on applied category theory: Charlotte Aten, University of Denver, charlotte.aten(a)du.edu Pablo S. Ocal, University of California, Los Angeles Layla H.M. Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University Abigail Hickok, University of California, Los Angeles If you have any questions, please let Charlotte or me know. I hope to see you there! Best, John Baez [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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CFP: FoSSaCS '23: 26th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
by Pawel Sobocinski 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS FoSSaCS '23: 26th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures 24-27 April 2023 Part of 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2023 https://etaps.org/2023/fossacs Programme Committee Co-chairs Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Pawel Sobocinski (Tallinn University of Technology) ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: October 13, 2022, 23:59 AoE Rebuttal period: December 6 - December 8, 2022 Paper notification: December 22, 2022 For the first time, FoSSaCS welcomes voluntary submissions of artefacts such as formalized proofs for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision. Artefact submission deadline: January 5, 2023 Artefact notification: February 9, 2023 ********************************************************************* FoSSaCS seeks original papers on foundational research with a clear significance for software science. The conference invites submissions on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformation, and verification of programs and software systems. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: - categorical models and logics; - language theory, automata, and games; - modal, spatial, and temporal logics; - type theory and proof theory; - concurrency theory and process calculi; - rewriting theory; - semantics of programming languages; - program analysis, correctness, transformation, verification, and synthesis; - logics of programming; - emerging models of computation; - logical aspects of computational complexity; - models of system security; - logical foundations of databases ********************************************************************* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fossacs2023 All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. We plan FoSSaCS 2023 as an on-site conference; nonetheless, remote attendance and presentation will be made possible. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS, be *at most 18 pages in length* (bibliography included) and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author interface linked above. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. Submitted papers must be in English, presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. ********************************************************************* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen) Ugo Dal Lago (Università di Bologna and INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Alwen Tiu (The Australian National University) Shahar Maoz (Tel Aviv University) Marco Gaboardi (Boston University) Patrick Baillot (CNRS and Lille) Frank Valencia (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique) Kuldeep S. Meel (National University of Singapore) Emmanuel Filiot (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Joel Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw) Alexandra Silva (Cornell University) Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University) Stefan Milius (FAU Erlangen) Koko Muroya (RIMS, Kyoto University) Barbara König (University of Duisburg-Essen) Thomas Colcombet (CNRS) Bartek Klin (University of Oxford) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) Sam Staton (University of Oxford) Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala University) Daniele Varacca (Université Paris-Est Créteil) Giovanni Bacci (Aalborg University) Véronique Bruyère (University of Mons) Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA) [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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Vol 17 of CGASA published
by Mojgan Mahmoudi 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Dear All The new volume of "Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications" ( CGASA) published. You can read the papers in the website: cgasa.sbu.ac.ir. Hope you and your family stay safe from Covid. Looking forward to receive your papers, Best Wishes Mojgan (Mahmoudi) and M.Mehdi (Ebrahimi) -- ************************* Mojgan Mahmoudi; Professor Department of Mathematics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran 19839, IRAN. Telefax: (+98)(21)(22431652) E-mail: m-mahmoudi(a)sbu.ac.ir, mojganmahmoudi(a)yahoo.com http://faculties.sbu.ac.ir/m-mahmoudi/ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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Fall lineup of speakers --- New York City Category Theory Seminar
by Noson＠sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

The New York City Category Theory Seminar Department of Computer Science <http://cs.gc.cuny.edu> Department of Mathematics <http://math.gc.cuny.edu/> The Graduate Center of The City University of New York <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/> THIS SEMESTER, SOME TALKS WILL BE IN-PERSON AND SOME WILL BE ON ZOOM. Time: Wednesdays 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) IN-PERSON INFORMATION: 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) map <http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS206 US206&q=365+Fifth+Avenue,+ny&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title> (Diagonally across from the Empire State Building) New York, NY 10016-4309 Room 6417 ZOOM INFORMATION: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82271122572?pwd=NFRhYmswWEdGaWFiazNBSUFiQVJnUT09 Meeting ID: 822 7112 2572 Passcode: NYCCTS Seminar web page. <http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/Seminar/index.html> Videoed talks. <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNOfhimbNwZwJO2ltv1AZOw/videos> Previous semesters. <http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/Seminar/Previous%20Semesters.html> researchseminars.org page. <https://researchseminars.org/seminar/Category_Theory> Contact N. Yanofsky <mailto:noson@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> to schedule a speaker or to add a name to the seminar mailing list. _____ _____ Fall 2022 _____ _____ * Speaker: Sergei Burkin, University of Tokyo. * Date and Time: Wednesday September 7, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: Segal conditions and twisted arrow categories of operads. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: Prakash Panangaden, McGill University. * Date and Time: Wednesday September 14, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: Quantitative Equational Logic. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: James Torre * Date and Time: Wednesday September 28, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: Diagonalization, and the Limits of Limitative Theorems. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: David Ellerman, University of Ljubljana. * Date and Time: Wednesday October 19, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: To Interpret Quantum Mechanics:``Follow the Math'': The math of QM as the linearization of the math of partitions. * Abstract: Set partitions are dual to subsets, so there is a logic of partitions dual to the Boolean logic of subsets. Partitions are the mathematical tool to describe definiteness and indefiniteness, distinctions and distinctions, as well as distinguishability and indistinguishability. There is a semi-algorithmic process or ``Yoga'' of linearization to transform the concepts of partition math into the corresponding vector space concepts. Then it is seen that those vector space concepts, particularly in Hilbert spaces, are the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. (QM). This shows that those concepts, e.g., distinguishability versus indistinguishability, are the central organizing concepts in QM to describe an underlying reality of objective indefiniteness--as opposed to the classical physics and common sense view of reality as ``definite all the way down'' This approach thus supports what Abner Shimony called the ``Literal Interpretation'' of QM which interprets the formalism literally as describing objective indefiniteness and objective probabilities--as well as being complete in contrast to the other realistic interpretations such as the Bohmian, spontaneous localization, and many world interpretations which embody other variables, other equations, or other worldly ideas. The underlying paper is forthcoming in the Foundations of Physics, and the preprint is in the ArXiv here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00384> . _____ * Speaker: TBA, TBA. * Date and Time: Wednesday October 26, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: TBA. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: Astra Kolomatskaia, Stony Brook. * Date and Time: Wednesday November 2, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: The Objective Metatheory of Simply Typed Lambda Calculus. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: Andrei Rodin, University of Lorraine (Nancy, France). * Date and Time: Wednesday November 9, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: Kolmogorov's Calculus of Problems and Homotopy Type theory. * Abstract: A. N. Kolmogorov in 1932 proposed an original version of mathematical intuitionism where the concept of problem plays a central role, and which differs in its content from the versions of intuitionism developed by A. Heyting and other followers of L. Brouwer. The popular BHK-semantics of Intuitionistic logic follows Heyting's line and conceals the original features of Kolmogorov's logical ideas. Homotopy Type theory (HoTT) implies a formal distinction between sentences and higher-order constructions and thus provides a mathematical argument in favour of Kolmogorov's approach and against Heyting's approach. At the same time HoTT does not support the constructive notion of negation applicable to general problems, which is informally discussed by Kolmogorov in the same context. Formalisation of Kolmogorov-style constructive negation remains an interesting open problem. _____ * Speaker: Saeed Salehi, University of Tabriz. * Date and Time: Wednesday November 23, 2022, TIME TBA. * Title: TBA. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: Gemma De las Cuevas, , University of Innsbruck. * Date and Time: Wednesday November 30, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: TBA. * Abstract: _____ * Speaker: Robert Pare, Dalhousie University. * Date and Time: Wednesday December 7, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. * Title: The horizontal/vertical synergy of double categories. * Abstract: _____ _____ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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old documents on fibered cats available
by Thomas Streicher 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

After getting permission from Jean B'enabou's son for doing so I have made copies of some of his most influential unpublished texts on fibered categories available on my home page under https://www2.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~streicher/FibCatTexts/ jb_montreal_74.pdf are his notes for the 1974 course in Montreal jb_lln_80.pdf are J.-R. Roisin's notes of Benabou's famous 1980 course at Louvain-la-Neuve jb_chapitre1.pdf is a copy of Chapter 1 of his never finished book "Des Cat'egories Fibr'ees" In 2 folders at the same place you find copies of the Theses of Celeyrette and Moens. The first one was directed by Jean himself and the second heavily influenced by Jean's 1980 course. The copies are partly of moderate quality but readable with a bit of good will. Would be great to have them typed within TAC Reprints series! Jean's work was very influential but not easily available. Hope these copies make it easier for younger people to form their own opinion about seminal work overshadowed by controversies in the past... I am grateful to Jonathan Weinberger for helping me to prepare the copies. Thomas Streicher [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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SYCO 9 - Call for participation
by Elena Di Lavore 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

-------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NINTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 9) In person at University of Insubria, Como, Italy 8-9 September 2022 Registration deadline: 1 September 2022 (AoE) It is possible to attend online, but not to present online. Please register even when attending online. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ -------------------------------------------------------- The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, University of Leicester and Tallinn University of Technology. The programme consists of 2 invited talks and 14 contributed talks. -------------------------------------------------------- INVITED TALKS * Robert Furber (University of Edinburgh) - TBA * Olivia Caramello (University of Insubria) - Relative toposes as a generalization of locales -------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED TALKS Full schedule available at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ * Jakob von Raumer - String Diagrams for Strings and Rings * Matthew Earnshaw and Paweł Sobociński - Regular Monoidal Languages * Paolo Perrone - Lifting weights: enriched lenses between transport plans * Simona Paoli - Weak Globularity: a New Paradigm to Weaken Higher Categorical Structures * Jade Master - How to Compose Shortest Paths * Malin Altenmüller and Ross Duncan - A Category of Plane Graphs * Sebastian Stengele, Tobias Reinhart, Tomáš Gonda and Gemma De Las Cuevas - A Framework for Universality Across Disciplines * Morgan Rogers - Continuous monoid homomorphisms and geometric morphisms * Calin Tataru - Cubicalisation: an algorithm for generating cubical meshes from homotopy.io diagrams * Niels Voorneveld - Cylinder Diagrams: Visualizing Multi-Parameter Natural Transformations * Mattia G. Bergomi and Pietro Vertechi - Neural network layers as parametric spans * Nathanael Arkor - Relative monads and their many guises * Lia Yeh - Conversation Logic: The Interplay of Negation, Conjunction, Disjunction, and Lexical Entailment * Dylan Braithwaite and Jules Hedges - Dependent Bayesian Lenses: Categories of Bidirectional Markov Kernels with Canonical Bayesian Inversion -------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration is open until the 1st of September, 2022. You can register for either the in person meeting or for the online event. Please register via: https://forms.gle/NURaeCEVsfpfZTJp9 Registration is free. More details are available on the conference website: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/9/ -------------------------------------------------------- COVID-19 SITUATION IN ITALY It is mandatory to wear FFP2 masks on all public transport in Italy. It is strongly recommended to wear them in all public places, including the university. At the moment, there are no restrictions for entering Italy. More information at https://www.viaggiaresicuri.it/approfondimenti-insights/saluteinviaggio (only in Italian). -------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Robin Cockett, University of Calgary Elena Di Lavore, Tallinn University of Technology Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Robert Furber, University of Edinburgh Amar Hadzihasanovic, Tallinn University of Technology Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Alex Kissinger, University of Oxford Martha Lewis, University of Bristol Jade Master, University of Strathclyde Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Quantinuum Samuel Mimram, École Polytechnique Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge John van de Wetering, Radboud University (chair) -------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Dominic Horsman, University of Grenoble Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford Samuel Mimram, Ecole Polytechnique Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]

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