workshop agenda

The workshop will end at 12:00noon on Sunday, June 6. Lunch will follow till 1:00PM after which participants will transported back to Calgary. Do NOT plan flight departures prior to 3:00PM on Sunday.

introduction

location

agenda

registration

participants

PROPOSED PROGRAMME

Friday 4th June: Tutorials on Category Theory

Breakfast 8:00 - 8:45

Morning Session

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome to Kananaskis
Robin Cockett
9:00 - 10:30 TUTORIAL:
Infinitary monads in computer science Ernie Manes
10:45 - 12:15 TUTORIAL:
Categorical descriptive complexity David Benson

Lunch 12:15 - 1:15

(Break)

Supper 5:30 - 6:30

Evening session

6:45 - 8:00 TUTORIAL: Linear Logic
Rick Blute (Ottawa)

(Break)

Research Session (Chair: Rick Blute)

8:15 - 9:00 Unique Decomposition Categories, Geometry of Interaction and Combinatory Logic
Esfandiar Haghverdi (ottawa)
9:00 - 9:45 Noncommutative Proof Nets
Robert Schneck

Saturday 5th June (TUTORIAL and Research Talks)

Breakfast 8:00 - 8:45

Morning Session (Chair: David Benson)

8:45 - 10:00 TUTORIAL: Partial map categories
Phil Mulry (Colgate)
10:00 - 10:30 Restriction Categories
Robin Cockett (Calgary)

(Break)

10:45 - 11:30 Lambda terms as fractions, fractions as resolutions, and complexity
Jim Otto
11:30 - 12:00 From GeoZ to AeroZ (work with Steve Vickers)
Adam Eppendahl (Imperial)

Lunch 12:15 - 1:15

(Break)

Supper 5:30 - 6:30

Evening Session: (Chair: Ernie Manes)

7:00 - 7:45 Order and Membership in Polytypic Imperative Programming
David Naumann (Stevens)
7:45 - 8:15 Model checking using modal mu
John Aldwinkle (Calgary)

(Break)

8:30 - 9:15 TBA
Dick Keiburtz (OGI)
9:15 - 10:00 Axiomatizability for Coalgebras
Grigore Rosu

(Break)

Sunday 6th June (Research Talks)

Breakfast 8:00 - 8:45

Morning Session (Chair: Dick Kieburtz)

8:45 - 9:30 Parameters and fibrations
John Macdonald (UBC)
9:30 - 10:15 The class NP as spans of sketches
David Benson (Washington State University)

(Break)

10:45 - 11:30 Decision procedures for distributive logic
Gwangwu Xu (Calgary)
11:30 - 12:15 Linear type systems for programming
Dana Harrington (Calgary)

(Lunch 12:15 - 1:15)

CONFERENCE ENDS 1:15pm Sunday June 6th.