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   Format: MarkdownItex[Website](http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/chris.heunen/flowincat/) ##The categorical flow of information in quantum physics and linguistics October 29—31, 2010 Oxford, United Kingdom The Quantum and Computational Linguistics groups of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in cooperation with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht, and the Radboud University Nijmegen, will host a three-day workshop on the interplay between algebra and coalgebra that can be thought of as information flow, and its applications to quantum physics and linguistics, funded by the British Council and Platform Bèta Techniek. Topic The aim of the workshop is to bring people together from the fields of quantum groups, categorical quantum mechanics, logic, and linguistics, to exchange talks and ideas of a (co)algebraic nature, about the interaction between algebras (monoids) and coalgebras (comonoids) that can be thought of as "information flow". Many such structure have been found useful across these fields, such as Frobenius algebras and bialgebras such as Hopf algebras. They have also showed up in grammatical and vector space models of natural language to for example encode meaning of verbs and logical connectives. Pictorial and diagrammatic methods play a major role in each of these fields to depict the flow of information and simplify the computations thereof. Thus, topics include: * dagger monoidal categories and graphical calculi * Frobenius algebras * Hopf algebras * categorical quantum logic * type-logical analysis of syntax of natural languages * vector space models of natural languages meaning * logic and geometry of information retrieval There will be tutorials on graphical categorical methods in quantum protocols, quantum logic, and vector space models of meaning. ###Programme The programme will follow. Speakers will include: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford) * Daoud Clark (Hertfordshire) * Stephen Clark (Cambridge) * Bob Coecke (Oxford) * Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh) * Bertfried Fauser (Birmingham) * Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen) * Helle Hansen (Eindhoven) * Peter Hines (York) * Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen) * Shahn Majid (London) * Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) * Michael Müger (Nijmegen) * Alessandra Palmigiano (Amsterdam) * Benjamin Piwowarski (Glasgow) * Anne Preller (Montpellier) * Stephen Pulman (Oxford) * Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow) ###Registration Registration is free, but for logistic purposes, please inform one of the organizers Chris Heunen or Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh if you plan to attend. ###Venue The talks will be held in the Computing Laboratory, which is number 16 on this map. On Friday in room 147, and on Saturday and Sunday in rooms 478 and Lecture Theatre B. ###Travel and accomodation Getting to the venue should not be hard; here are excellent directions. See this page for places to stay. Organizers: Chris Heunen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

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   The categorical flow of information in quantum physics and linguistics

   October 29—31, 2010 Oxford, United Kingdom

   The Quantum and Computational Linguistics groups of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in cooperation with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht, and the Radboud University Nijmegen, will host a three-day workshop on the interplay between algebra and coalgebra that can be thought of as information flow, and its applications to quantum physics and linguistics, funded by the British Council and Platform Bèta Techniek. Topic

   The aim of the workshop is to bring people together from the fields of quantum groups, categorical quantum mechanics, logic, and linguistics, to exchange talks and ideas of a (co)algebraic nature, about the interaction between algebras (monoids) and coalgebras (comonoids) that can be thought of as “information flow”. Many such structure have been found useful across these fields, such as Frobenius algebras and bialgebras such as Hopf algebras. They have also showed up in grammatical and vector space models of natural language to for example encode meaning of verbs and logical connectives. Pictorial and diagrammatic methods play a major role in each of these fields to depict the flow of information and simplify the computations thereof.

   Thus, topics include:

   • dagger monoidal categories and graphical calculi
   • Frobenius algebras
   • Hopf algebras
   • categorical quantum logic
   • type-logical analysis of syntax of natural languages
   • vector space models of natural languages meaning
   • logic and geometry of information retrieval

   There will be tutorials on graphical categorical methods in quantum protocols, quantum logic, and vector space models of meaning.

   Programme

   The programme will follow. Speakers will include:

   • Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
   • Daoud Clark (Hertfordshire)
   • Stephen Clark (Cambridge)
   • Bob Coecke (Oxford)
   • Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh)
   • Bertfried Fauser (Birmingham)
   • Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen)
   • Helle Hansen (Eindhoven)
   • Peter Hines (York)
   • Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen)
   • Shahn Majid (London)
   • Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
   • Michael Müger (Nijmegen)
   • Alessandra Palmigiano (Amsterdam)
   • Benjamin Piwowarski (Glasgow)
   • Anne Preller (Montpellier)
   • Stephen Pulman (Oxford)
   • Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow)

   Registration

   Registration is free, but for logistic purposes, please inform one of the organizers Chris Heunen or Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh if you plan to attend.

   Venue

   The talks will be held in the Computing Laboratory, which is number 16 on this map. On Friday in room 147, and on Saturday and Sunday in rooms 478 and Lecture Theatre B.

   Travel and accomodation

   Getting to the venue should not be hard; here are excellent directions.

   See this page for places to stay.

   Organizers: Chris Heunen Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh