Applied Category Theory 2020 (Part 2)

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, many universities are moving activities online. This is a great opportunity to open up ACT2020 to a broader audience, with speakers from around the world.

The conference will take place July 6-10 online, coordinated by organizers in Boston USA. Each day there will be around six hours of live talks, which will be a bit more spaced out than usual to accommodate the different time zones of our speakers. All the talks will be both live streamed and recorded on YouTube. We will also have chat rooms and video chats in which participants can discuss various themes in applied category theory.

We will give more details as they become available and post updates on our official webpage:

http://act2020.mit.edu

Since there is no need to book travel, we were able to postpone the acceptance notification, and hence the submission deadline. If you would like to speak, please prepare an abstract or a conference paper according to the instructions here:

http://act2020.mit.edu/#papers

Important dates (all in 2020)

• Submission of contributed papers: May 16 • Acceptance/Rejection notification: June 07 • Tutorial day: July 5 • Main conference: July 6-10

Registration will now be free; please register for the conference ahead of time here:

http://act2020.mit.edu/#registration

We will send registering participants links to the live stream, the recordings, and the chat rooms, and we’ll use the list to inform participants of any changes.

All the best, The ACT committee

Here are the local organizers:

• Destiny Chen (administration) • Brendan Fong • David Jaz Myers (logistics) • Paolo Perrone (publicity) • David Spivak

Here is the committee running the school:

• Carmen Constantin • Eliana Lorch • Paolo Perrone

Here is the steering committee:

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

Here is the program committee:

• Mathieu Anel, CMU • John Baez, University of California, Riverside • Richard Blute, University of Ottawa • Tai-Danae Bradley, City University of New York • Andrea Censi, ETC Zurich • Bob Coecke, University of Oxford • Valeria de Paiva, Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham • Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde • Eric Finster, University of Birmingham • Brendan Fong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Tobias Fritz, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics • Richard Garner, Macquarie University • Fabrizio Romano Genovese, Statebox • Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Université de Paris • Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology • Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences • Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Chris Heunen, The University of Edinburgh • Joachim Kock, UAB • Tom Leinster, The University of Edinburgh • Martha Lewis, University of Amsterdam • Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University • David Jaz Myers, Johns Hopkins University • Paolo Perrone, MIT • Vaughan Pratt, Stanford University • Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University • Michael Shulman, University of San Diego • David I. Spivak, MIT (co-chair) • Walter Tholen, York University • Todd Trimble, Western Connecticut State University • Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham (co-chair) • Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford