----------------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TWELFTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 12) Birmingham, UK 15-16 April, 2024 Submission deadline: Monday 11 March 2024 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/12/ ----------------------------------------- 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 in Palaiseau, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Oxford, Chapman, Leicester, Tallinn, and Como. 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. Submissions is easy, with no formatting or page restrictions. The meeting does not have proceedings, so work can be submitted even if it has been submitted or published elsewhere. You could submit work-in-progress, or a recently completed paper, or even a PhD or Masters thesis. 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 11 March, 2024 Author notification: Monday 18 March, 2024 Symposium dates: Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 April 2024 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Submissions are by OpenReview, via the SYCO 12 submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=cl.cam.ac.uk/SYCO/2024/Symposium (be aware that you will need to create an account on OpenReview, which is automatic if you are using an academic e-mail address, but might take up to 2 weeks with a non-academic e-mail address) 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 12; you still need to submit it again through OpenReview. 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. INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Miriam Backens, INRIA Nancy, Graphical rewriting of quantum computations using the ZX-calculus and flow properties Sean Moss, University of Birmingham, TBA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== Todd Ambridge, University of Birmingham Thibaut Benjamin, University of Cambridge (Chair) Olivia Caramello, Univserity of Insubria, Université Paris-Saclay Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Dominic Horsman, University of Grenoble George Kaye, University of Birmingham Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford Jean-Simon Lemay, Macquarie University Paul Levy, University of Birmingham 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 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 You're receiving this message because you're a member of the Categories mailing list group from Macquarie University. 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