============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (HDRA 2017) ============================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications September 8-9 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ Satellite workshop of FSCD 2017, co-located with STRING 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rewriting consists in orienting equalities. This seemingly simple point of view has given rise to a rich theory, which was first developped in computer science for handling strings and terms, and was then extended over the recent years to many other settings (operads, monoidal categories, higher categories, etc.), allowing it to have applications in algebra, homotopy theory and physics. All these generalizations fit into the general scope of higher-dimensional rewriting theory, which has emerged as a unifying algebraic framework. The aim of the workshop is to gather people interested in pushing further rewriting theory, using (higher) categories as a common language. It is open to all topics concerning higher-dimensional generalizations and applications of rewriting theory, including - higher-dimensional rewriting: extensions of rewriting theory to higher-dimensional settings (operads, opetopes, polygraphs/computads, parity complexes, augmented directed complexes, etc.), generalizations of string/term/graph rewriting systems, etc. - higher categorical structures: weakening, combination and comparison of categorical structures (monoids, bialgebras, Frobenius algebras, Lie algebras, etc.), coherence theorems, etc. - applications of rewriting to algebraic topology: construction of resolutions, homotopical and homological invariants, linear rewriting (Gr??bner bases, applications to algebras and operads), Koszul duality theory, etc. - applications and interactions with other fields: calculi for quantum computations, proof nets, algebraic lambda-calculi, topological models for concurrency, homotopy type theory, combinatorial group theory, etc. - implementations: the workshop will also be interested in implementation issues in higher-dimensional rewriting and will allow demonstrations of prototypes of existing and new tools in higher-dimensional rewriting. HDRA 2017 will be co-located with the first edition of the STRING workshop (http://string2017.cs.ru.nl/) Invited speakers ================ * Paul-Andr?? Melli??s (CNRS and Paris Diderot) * TBA Submission ========== Important dates --------------- * Submission: June 18, 2017 * Notification: June 30, 2017 * Final version: July 9, 2017 * Conference: September 8-9, 2017 Submitting ---------- Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format, approximatively 6 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2017 Proceedings ----------- The accepted extended abstracts will be made available electronically before the workshop. Program committee ================= * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit?? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit?? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Paul-Andr?? Melli??s (Universit?? Paris 7) * Samuel Mimram (??cole Polytechnique) * Tim Porter (University of Wales, Bangor) * Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University, Amsterdam) * Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) * Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Organizers ========== * Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Universit?? Paris 7) * Philippe Malbos (Universit?? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) * Samuel Mimram (??cole Polytechnique) [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]