27th Foundational Methods in Computer Science Workshop

University of Calgary
 May 28th - June 2nd, 2019


 Almost Final Schedule:

Tuesday May 28, 2019

5:00 pm Meet at ICT, University of Calgary
7:00 am Reception at Kananaskis Field Station
8:00 am Safety briefing


Wednesday May 29, 2019

8:00 am Breakfast
8:50 am Introduction by Kristine Bauer and Robin Cockett
9:00 am (Tutorial) Dominic Verity (Macquarie, Australia)
"Synthetic $\infty$-category theory and $\infty$-cosmology", part 1
9:45 am (Tutorial) Jean-Simon Leamy (Oxford, UK)
"An introduction tutorial on tensor (co)differential categories and Cartesian differential categories"
10:30 am (Tutorial) Ernie Manes (UMass, USA)
"Continuous monads: continuous lattices revisited"
11:15 am Break
11:30 am (Tutorial) Dominic Verity (Macquarie, Australia)
"Synthetic $\infty$-category theory and $\infty$-cosmology"
12:15 pm (Tutorial) Jean-Simon Leamy (Oxford, UK)
"An introduction tutorial on tensor (co)differential categories and Cartesian differential categories"
1:00 pm Lunch
SHORT HIKE
5:00 pm (Tutorial) Geoff Cruttwell (Ottawa, Canada)
"Tangent categories tutorial I: Multivariable calculus"
5:45 pm (Tutorial) Ernie Manes (UMass, USA)
"Continuous monads: continuous lattices revisited"
6:30 pm Supper


Thursday May 30, 2019

8:00 am Breakfast (after school party)
9:00 am (Tutorial) Geoff Cruttwell (Ottawa, Canada)
"Tangent categories tutorial I: Multivariable calculus"
9:45 am (Tutorial) Jonathan Gallagher (Dalhousie, Canada)
"Tangent categories tutorial II: Weil algebras and tangent categories"
10:30 am (Tutorial) Dominic Verity (Macquarie, Australia)
"Synthetic $\infty$-category theory and $\infty$-cosmology"
11:15 am Break
11:30 am (Tutorial) Jonathan Gallagher (Dalhousie, Canada)
"Tangent categories tutorial II: Weil algebras and tangent categories" 
12:15 pm (Tutorial) Dominic Verity (Macquarie, Australia)
"Synthetic $\infty$-category theory and $\infty$-cosmology"
1:00 pm Lunch
SHORT HIKE
5:00 pm Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh, UK)
"One-and-a-Half Simple Differential Programming Languages"
6:00 pm Ben MacAdam (Calgary, Canada)
"Abstract Datatypes in Differential programming"
6:30 pm Supper


Friday May 31, 2019

8:00 am Breakfast (after school party)
9:00 am (Tutorial) Michael Ching (Amherst College, USA)
"Tangent $\infty$-categories and Goodwillie calculus"
9:45 am (Tutorial) Matthew Burke (Calgary, Canada)
"Involution algebroids: a generalisation of Lie algebroids for tangent categories"
10:30 am (Tutorial) Rick Blute (Ottawa, Canada)
"Introduction to etale groupoids and constructing convolution algebras for them via finiteness spaces"
11:15 am Break
11:30 am (Tutorial) Michael Ching (Amherst College, USA)
"Tangent ∞-categories and Goodwillie calculus"
12:15 pm (Tutorial) Rick Blute (Ottawa, Canada)
"Introduction to etale groupoids and constructing convolution algebras for them via finiteness spaces"
1:00 pm Lunch
HIKING
5:30 pm Supper
6:30 pm Rory Lucyshyn-Wright (Brandon University, Canada)
"The presheaf of scalar functions and the internal rig of scalars of a cartesian tangent category"
7:15 pm Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College, USA)
"Categorical constructions in graphs"
8:00 pm Break
8:15 pm (Tutorial) Matthew Burke (Calgary, Canada)
"Involution algebroids: a generalisation of Lie algebroids for tangent categories"


Saturday June 1, 2019

8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Phil Scott (Ottawa, Canada)
"Computable Functions in Categories"
9:45 am Jeff Egger (Canada)
"Complex numbers in a topos"
10:30 am Nicolas Behr (IRIF, France)
"Tracelets and Tracelet Analysis Of Compositional Rewriting Systems"
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie, Canada)
"Weakening of the Conditions for a Bicategory of Fractions"
12:15 pm Marzieh Bayeh (Dalhousie, Canada)
"A Generalization of The Invariant Topological Complexity"
1:00 pm Lunch
HIKING
5:30 pm Supper
6:30 pm Simon Fortier-Garceau (Ottawa, Canada)
"Spatially Induced Concurrency within Presheaves of Labelled Transition Systems"
7:00 pm Geoff Vooys (Calgary, Canada)
"A Site for Geometrizing Quasicharacters"
7:30 pm Break
7:45 pm Vaughan Pratt (Stanford, USA)
"A short survey on Chu"


Sunday June 2, 2019

8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Bob Rosebrugh (Mount Allison, Canada)
"Multicategories of multiary lenses"
9:45 am Bryce Clarke (Macquarie, Australia)
"Split Opfibrations and Cofunctors"
10:15 am Priyaa Srinivasan (Calgary, Canada)
"Complete positivity for mixed unitary categories"
10:45 am Cole Comfort (Calgary, Canada)
"Circuit relations for real stabilizers: towards TOF + H!"
11:15 am Break and packing
11:45 am Yves Fomatati (Ottawa, Canada)
"On Matrix Factorizations"
12:15 pm Pieter Hofstra (Ottawa, Canada)
"A representation for inverse semigroups"
1:00 pm Lunch