Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics
Welcome!
- This is the official homepage for a new workshop series on Categories, Logic and the Foundations of Physics. The aim of the workshop, as well as this site, is to promote the study of research strands aiming to gain structural insights into foundational physical theories, operational methodologies for general physical theories, as well as the general study of mathematical structures, dynamics and space-time. Please feel free to contact the workshop organizers if you have any questions, or if you wish to attend one of our meetings.
- Bob Coecke (Oxford)
- Andreas Doering (Imperial)
Next meeting
The next workshop on Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics will take place at Oxford University, August 23-24. Programs and videos of previous workshops are available on the present web page. We have several confirmed speakers including:
- Steve Vickers (Birmingham, Computer Science) http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~sjv/
- Keith Hannabus (Oxford, Mathematics) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kch/
- John Barrett (Nothingham, Mathematics) http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/jwb/
- Chris Fewster (York, Mathematics) http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~cjf3/
- Simon Perdrix (Oxford, Computer Science) http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Simon.Perdrix/
- Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Paris VII, PPS) http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~mehrs/
but are expected to have several more. It was requested by the audience at the last workshop to provide tutorials, namely quantum theory for mathematicians and category theory for physicists. At this workshop we will provide the first:
- Tutorials on quantum theory for mathematicians
On Saturday morning and early afternoon. Travel and hotel information will be made available at the website very soon. As before, for reasons of logistics, could you please let us know if you intend to attend.
Second meeting
- Our second meeting took place Wednesday, 14th May 2008, at Imperial College(Blackett Laboratory). Attendee was around 50 participants.
First meeting
- Our first meeting took place on Wednesday January 9, 2008 at Imperial College London. Speakers included Chris Isham, Samson Abramsky and Louis Crane, and almost 50 people were attending. The organisers want to thank the speakers, the attendees and all the others who showed interest in the workshop.
- We are currently beginning to plan for the next meeting, which will again take place at Imperial College on Wednesday, 14th May. We will keep you updated and hope to see you again next time.
About this site
- This site went live on December 11th 2007. It is still at an experimental stage and feedback is most welcome. We aim to provide an online presence in terms of this (moderated) interactive website on which open problems, news, discussions, tutorials, recordings of talks and pointers to literature will be exhibited. To report problems with this site, or to suggest improvements, please contact Jacob Biamonte or use our blog.