CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 8) Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 13-14 December 2021 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/8/ -------------------------------------------------------------- After a long break, SYCO is back! 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, and University of Leicester. We welcome submissions from researchers across computer science, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and beyond, with the aim of fostering friendly discussion, disseminating new ideas, and spreading knowledge between fields. Submission is encouraged for both mature research and work in progress, and by both established academics and junior researchers, including students. -------------------------------------------------------------- RESTART OF SYCO The main aim of SYCO is to bring the community together and exchange ideas across interdisciplinary fields. In-person contact facilitates this in a way that online meetings cannot. This meant that unfortunately, SYCO 7, the previous edition of SYCO, had to be cancelled. To restart the series, SYCO 8 will take the following into account: - Submissions that were accepted for SYCO 7 can be resubmitted for SYCO 8, and will be given priority over other submissions. These submissions will be treated as being deferred from SYCO 7, see submission instructions below. - Authors that had a submission accepted for SYCO can also submit new material. These submissions will also be given priority over other submissions, if accepted through peer-review. SYCO 8 will be mainly an in-person event, and we expect that most speakers will be physically present. However, we do support a hybrid format, so if for some reason you cannot be present in person but would still like to present your work at SYCO, please contact the programme chair, Maaike Zwart (maaike.annebeth@gmail.com) -------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST While no list of topics could be exhaustive, SYCO welcomes submissions with a compositional focus related to any of the following areas, in particular from the perspective of category theory: - logical methods in computer science, including classical and quantum programming, type theory, concurrency, natural language processing and machine learning; - graphical calculi, including string diagrams, Petri nets and reaction networks; - languages and frameworks, including process algebras, proof nets, type theory and game semantics; - abstract algebra and pure category theory, including monoidal category theory, higher category theory, operads, polygraphs, and relationships to homotopy theory; - quantum algebra, including quantum computation and representation theory; - tools and techniques, including rewriting, formal proofs and proof assistants, and game theory; - industrial applications, including case studies and real-world problem descriptions. -------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth. Submission deadline: Monday 25 October 2021 Author notification: Wednesday 3 November 2021 Symposium dates: Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 December 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submission are by EasyChair, via the SYCO 8 submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syco8 Submission is easy, with no format requirements or page restrictions. The meeting does not have proceedings, so work can be submitted even if it has been submitted or published elsewhere. Think creatively: you could submit a recent paper, or notes on work in progress, or even a recent Masters or PhD thesis. In the event that more good-quality submissions are received than can be accommodated in the timetable, the programme committee may choose to *defer* some submissions to a future meeting, rather than reject them. Deferred submissions can be re-submitted to any future SYCO meeting, where they will not need peer review, and where they will be prioritised for inclusion in the programme. Meetings will be held sufficiently frequently to avoid a backlog of deferred papers. If you have a submission which was deferred from a previous SYCO meeting, it will not automatically be considered for SYCO 8; you still need to submit it again through EasyChair. When submitting, append the words "DEFERRED FROM SYCO X" to the title of your paper, replacing "X" with the appropriate meeting number. There is no need to attach any documents. -------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE TBA Chair: Maaike Zwart, IT University of Copenhagen Local organisers: Amar Hadzihasanovic, Tallinn University of Technology Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology -------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Dominic Horsman, University of Oxford 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/ ]