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Compositionality
Program
Logical Structures in Computation
Location
Calvin Lab Auditorium
Date
Monday, Dec. 5
–
Friday, Dec. 9, 2016
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Monday, Dec. 5, 2016
9
–
9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20
–
9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9:30
–
9:55 a.m.
Semantics for Physicists
Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
,
Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
,
Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
10
–
10:35 a.m.
Compositionally, Adequacy, and Full Abstraction
Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh
10:35
–
11 a.m.
Break
11
–
11:35 a.m.
An Operadic Approach to Compositionality
David Spivak, MIT
11:40 a.m.
–
12:15 p.m.
Data Structures for Quasistrict Higher Categories
Jamie Vicary, University of Oxford
12:20
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
2:35 p.m.
From Linearizability to Eventual Consistency
Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University
2:40
–
3:15 p.m.
Compositionality and Session Types
Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London
3:20
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4 p.m.
Break
4
–
5 p.m.
Discussion
5
–
6 p.m.
Reception
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
The Mathematics of Networks
John Baez, UC Riverside
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11
–
11:35 a.m.
Composition in Some Formal Models of Natural Language
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
11:40 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Modelling Interconnected Systems with Decorated Corelations
Brendan Fong, University of Pennsylvania
12:05
–
12:25 p.m.
Custom Compact Closed Categories via Relations
Dan Marsden, University of Oxford
12:30
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
2:35 p.m.
Some Thoughts on Inferring System Structure
Tobias Fritz, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
2:40
–
3:15 p.m.
Automata Learning -- Infinite Alphabets and Application to Verification
Alexandra Silva, University College London
3:20
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3:45 p.m.
Operational Semantics for Single-Particle Classical Thermodynamics
Dominic Horsman, Durham University
3:45
–
4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15
–
5:15 p.m.
Discussion
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Compositional Thermodynamics
Giulio Chiribella, The University of Hong Kong
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11
–
11:20 a.m.
Composition and Quantum Theory: A Conjecture, and How it Could Fail
Markus Mueller, Western University
11:25
–
11:45 a.m.
Multipartite Composition of Contextuality Scenarios
Ana Belen Sainz, University of Bristol
11:50 a.m.
–
12:25 p.m.
Compositionality in Categorical Quantum Computing
Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde
12:30
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:05 a.m.
Logic of Local Inference for Contextuality and Paradoxes
Kohei Kishida, University of Oxford
10:10
–
10:30 a.m.
Towards a Resource Theory of Contextuality
Rui Soares Barbosa, University of Oxford
10:35
–
11 a.m.
Break
11
–
11:20 a.m.
Modelling Interfaces in Distributed Systems: Some First Steps
David Pym, University College London
11:25
–
11:45 a.m.
Compositionality in Cybersecurity
Pasquale Malacaria, Queen Mary University of London
11:50 a.m.
–
12:10 p.m.
A Topological Approach to Compositionality in Complex Systems
Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino
12:15
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
2:35 p.m.
Higher-Order Linearisability
Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London
2:40
–
3:15 p.m.
Probabilistic Call By Push Value
Christine Tasson, Université Paris Diderot
3:20
–
3:50 p.m.
Break
3:50
–
4:10 p.m.
Linear Logic, Session Types and Deadlock-Freedom
Simon Gay, University of Glasgow
4:15
–
4:35 p.m.
Composing Strategies in Pebble Games
Anuj Dawar, University of Cambridge
4:40
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5 p.m.
Completeness and Incompleteness of Quantum Diagram Reasoning
Simon Perdrix, CNRS, Loria
Friday, Dec. 9, 2016
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:05 a.m.
Composing Schema Mappings: An Overview
Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research)
,
Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research)
10:10
–
10:45 a.m.
About the Provenance of Truth
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania
10:50
–
11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20
–
11:55 a.m.
A Compositional Quantum Programming Language
Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University
12
–
12:35 p.m.
Programming Recurrence Relations
Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton
12:40
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
3 p.m.
Discussion
3
–
3:40 p.m.
TBD
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University)
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