AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Thursday, October 17, 2019 03:30:06

Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
• November 9-10, 2019 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1153

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu

Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program. The following material has been posted without being proofread in order to provide you with the most current information.

• Saturday November 9, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Category Theory, I
  Room 1006, Interdisciplinary Studies North
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California, Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Joe Moeller, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fibrations as generalized lens categories.
    David I Spivak*, MIT
    (1153-18-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Supplying bells and whistles in symmetric monoidal categories.
    Brendan Fong*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    David I Spivak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1153-18-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Right adjoints to operadic restriction functors.
    Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics
    Philip Hackney*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1153-18-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Duality of Relations.
    Alexander Kurz*, Chapman University
    (1153-18-193)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A synthetic approach to stochastic maps, conditional independence, and theorems on sufficient statistics.
    Tobias Fritz*, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    (1153-18-32)
• Saturday November 9, 2019, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Category Theory, II
  Room 1006, Interdisciplinary Studies North
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California, Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Joe Moeller, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Constructing symmetric monoidal bicategories functorially.
    Michael Shulman*, University of San Diego
    Linde Wester Hansen, University of Oxford
    (1153-18-464)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Structured cospans.
    Kenny Courser*, University of California, Riverside
    John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside and Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
    (1153-18-223)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized Petri Nets.
    Jade Master*, University of California Riverside
    (1153-18-226)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Formal composition of hybrid systems.
    Jared Culbertson, Air Force Research Laboratory
    Paul Gustafson*, Wright State University
    Dan Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania
    Peter Stiller, Texas A&M University
    (1153-18-401)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Strings for Cartesian Bicategories.
    M. Andrew Moshier*, Chapman University
    (1153-18-431)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Defining and Programming Generic Compositions in Symmetric Monoidal Categories.
    Dmitry Vagner*, Los Angeles, CA
    (1153-18-378)
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Category Theory, III
  Room 1006, Interdisciplinary Studies North
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California, Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Joe Moeller, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for Second Quantum Revolution.
    Zhenghan Wang*, UCSB and Microsoft Station Q
    (1153-18-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Compositional and Statistical Approach to Natural Language.
    Tai-Danae Bradley*, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1153-18-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exploring invariant structure in neural activity with applied topology and category theory.
    Brad Theilman*, UC San Diego
    Krista Perks, UC San Diego
    Timothy Q Gentner, UC San Diego
    (1153-92-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Of monks, lawyers and villages: new insights in social network science.
    Nina Otter*, Mathematics Department, UCLA
    Mason A Porter, Mathematics Department, UCLA
    (1153-18-443)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Functorial cluster embedding.
    Steve Huntsman*, BAE Systems FAST Labs
    (1153-18-10)
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Category Theory, IV
  Room 1006, Interdisciplinary Studies North
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California, Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Joe Moeller, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quantitative equational logic.
    Prakash Panangaden*, School of Computer Science, McGill University
    Radu Mardare, Strathclyde University
    Gordon D. Plotkin, University of Edinburgh
    (1153-18-28)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Brakes: An example of applied category theory.
    Eswaran Subrahmanian*, Carnegie Mellon University/NIST
    (1153-18-453)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Intuitive robotic programming using string diagrams.
    Blake S Pollard*, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    (1153-18-452)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Metrics on functor categories.
    Vin de Silva*, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College
    (1153-18-416)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hausdorff and Wasserstein metrics on graphs and other structured data.
    Evan Patterson*, Stanford University
    (1153-90-24)