[Note from moderator: Apologies if you are seeing this a second time...] INTERCATS: SEMINAR ON CATEGORICAL INTERACTION ============================================= ANNOUNCEMENT ------------ Intercats is a new seminar series on the mathematics of interacting systems, their composition, and their behaviour. Split in equal parts theory and applications, we are particularly interested in category-theoretic tools to make sense of information-processing or adaptive systems, or those that stand in a 'bidirectional' relationship to some environment. We aim to bring together researchers from different communities, who may already be using similar-but-different tools, in order to improve our own interaction. Seminars will be held every other Tuesday at 17:00 UTC, beginning on the 25th of January. Website: https://topos.site/intercats FIRST MEETING ------------- Speaker: David Spivak Date: 2022 / 01 / 25 Time: 17:00 UTC INTERCATS SCOPE --------------- Although by no means an exhaustive or prescriptive list, Intercats seminar topics are likely to be related to the following mathematical topics: - Generalized lenses, optics, and related structures, such as Chu spaces or Dialectica categories; - polynomial functors, and their associated ecosystem; - applications of the foregoing to: - bidirectional processes, - dynamical systems, - wiring diagrams, - open games, - database theory, - automatic differentiation, - computational statistics, - machine learning. ORGANIZERS ---------- Jules Hedges, University of Strathclyde David Spivak, Topos Institute Toby St Clere Smithe, Topos Institute [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]