From: Bob Coecke <Bob.Coecke@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Program of Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics, August 23-24, Oxford
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:13:00 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KTPMk-0000Ku-4t@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
The program of the next workshop on Categories, Logic and Foundations of
Physics, which will take place at Oxford University, August 23-24, is now
available:
SATURDAY
----------------
11:00 - 12:30 TUTORIAL I: QUANTUM FORMALISM (B. Coecke) Von Neumann
axioms, Dirac calc., mixed operations, Gleason's and Wigner's thm.
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30 TUTORIAL II: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES (A. Doering) Measurement
problem, Bell's thm, Kochen-Specker(-Conway) thm, GHZ argument.
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:00 KEITH HANNABUS (Oxford - Mathematics)
Categories and non-associative C*-algebras in quantum field theory
17:00 - 18:00 (Kansas State - Mathematics)
Model Categories in quantum gravity
SUNDAY
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10:00 - 11:00 JOHN BARRETT (Nottingham - Mathematics)
Knots and links in braided quantum field theory
11:00 - 11:15 BREAK
11:15 - 12:00 SIMON PERDRIX (Oxford - Computing) TBA
12:00 - 12:45 MEHRNOOSH SADRZADEH (Paris VII - Computing)
What is the vector space content of what we say?
... a categorical approach to distributed meaning.
12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:50 STEVE VICKERS (Birmingham - Computing)
TBA
14:50 - 15:40 CHRIS FEWSTER (York - Mathematics)
Categories in QFT in curved spacetime
15:40 - 16:10 BREAK
16:10 - 17:00 SIMON WILLERTON (Sheffield - Maths; YouTube Catsters)
TBA
Travel information, location and accommodation information is at:
* http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/CLOP_info.html
Programs and videos of previous workshops and more information on the
series are available from:
* http://categorieslogicphysics.wikidot.com/
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