From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10631 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Spivak Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Intercats: Seminar on Categorical Interaction Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:05:00 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: David Spivak Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29011"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Wed Jan 05 21:24:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n5Cpu-0007E8-2Q for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:24:42 +0100 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:40242) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1n5Cq4-0000p2-Tf; Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1n5ClV-00007f-Vm for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:20:09 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10631 Archived-At: 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/ ]