Announcement of workshop on categorical information flow in quantum physics and linguistics

Announcement of workshop on categorical information flow in quantum physics and linguistics

[Chris Heunen]

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  The categorical flow of information in quantum physics and linguistics
                         (that flowing feeling)

                      Oxford, October 29-31, 2010

        http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/chris.heunen/flowincat

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ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Quantum and Computational Linguistics groups of the Oxford
University Computing Laboratory will host a three-day workshop on the
interplay between algebra and coalgebra that can be thought of as
information flow, and its applications to quantum physics and linguistics.

TOPIC:
The aim of the workshop is to bring people together from the fields of
quantum groups, categorical quantum mechanics, logic, and linguistics,
to exchange talks and ideas of a (co)algebraic nature, about the
interaction between algebras (monoids) and coalgebras (comonoids) that
can be thought of as "information flow". Many such structure have been
found useful across these fields, such as Frobenius algebras and
bialgebras such as Hopf algebras. They have also showed up in
grammatical and vector space models of natural language to for example
encode meaning of verbs and logical connectives.

PROGRAMME:
The precise schedule is not yet fixed, but speakers include:
   * Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
   * Daoud Clark (Hertfordshire)
   * Stephen Clark (Cambridge)
   * Bob Coecke (Oxford)
   * Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh)
   * Bertfried Fauser (Birmingham)
   * Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen)
   * Helle Hansen (Eindhoven)
   * Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen)
   * Shahn Majid (London)
   * Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
   * Michael Müger (Nijmegen)
   * Peter Hines (York)
   * Alessandra Palmigiano (Amsterdam)
   * Benjamin Piwowarski (Glasgow)
   * Anne Preller (Montpellier)
   * Stephen Pulman (Oxford)
   * Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow)

REGISTRATION:
Registration is free, but for logistic purposes, please inform the
organizers
   Chris Heunen <chris.heunen@comlab.ox.ac.uk> and/or
   Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh <mehrnoosh.sadrzadeh@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
if you plan to attend.

TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION:
For more information, please see the website
   http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/chris.heunen/flowincat
which is continually updated.

SPONSORS:
The workshop is made possible by funds of the British Council and
Platform Beta Techniek, and cooperation with the Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the
University of Utrecht, and the Radboud University Nijmegen.

BONUS:
And if you've read all this way, why don't you go to the website and
hover your mouse cursor over the title.


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