Applied Category Theory 2020

Here’s the big annual conference on applied category theory:

• Applied Category Theory 2020, 2020 June 6-10, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts. Organized by Brendan Fong and David Spivak.

This happens right after the applied category theory school, which will be held in the same location June 29 – July 3.

I’ll let you know when you can submit papers to give talks! We’re busy setting up the framework for refereeing those papers. Right now the conference website says this:

Applied category theory is a topic of interest for a growing community of researchers, interested in studying systems of all sorts using category-theoretic tools. These systems are found in the natural sciences and social sciences, as well as in computer science, linguistics, and engineering. The background and experience of our members is as varied as the systems being studied. The goal of the ACT2020 Conference is to bring the majority of researchers in the field together and provide a platform for exposing the progress in the area. Both original research papers as well as extended abstracts of work submitted/accepted/published elsewhere will be considered. The goal of the ACT2020 School is to help grow this community by pairing ambitious young researchers together with established researchers in order to work on questions, problems, and conjectures in applied category theory.

Here is the program committee:

• Bob Coecke (chair) • John Baez (chair) • Christina Vasilakopoulou • David Moore • Josh Tan • Stefano Gogioso • Brendan Fong • Steve Lack • Simona Paoli • Joachim Kock • Kathryn Hess Bellwald • Tobias Fritz • David I. Spivak • Ross Duncan • Dan Ghica • Valeria de Paiva • Jeremy Gibbons • Samuel Mimram • Aleks Kissinger • Jamie Vicary • Martha Lewis • Nick Gurski • Dusko Pavlovic • Chris Heunen • Corina Cirstea • Helle Hvid Hansen • Dan Marsden • Simon Willerton • Pawel Sobocinski • Dominic Horsman • Christian Retoré • Nina Otter • Miriam Backens • Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Here is the steering committee:

• John Baez • Bob Coecke • David Spivak • Christina Vasilakopoulou

Here is the committee running the school:

• Carmen Constantin • Eliana Lorch • Paolo Perrone

And here are the local organizers:

• Destiny Chen (administration) • Brendan Fong • David Spivak

More news will follow!