ACT4E Class ETHZ - Spring 2021

Material from ETH Spring 2021 will be regularly posted here. 

Session 1a: Introduction, why category theory, composition

Session 1b: Composition, semigroup, monoids, groups

Recital 1

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Session 2a: Morphisms

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Session 2b: Semicategories, Categories

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Recital 2

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Session 3a: Relations and properties

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Session 3b: Processes

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Recital 3

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Session 4a:

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Session 4b:

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Recital 4:

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Session 5a: Functors

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Session 5b: Natural Transformations

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Recital 5

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Session 6a: Parallelism, Feedback

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Session 6b: Design

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Recital 6:

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Session 7: Functorial Computation

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Recital 7

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Session 8a: Monads

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Session 8b: Monads (continued)

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Recital 8

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Session 9a: Profunctors

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Session 9b: Enrichment

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Recital 9

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Session 10a: Operads

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Session 10b: Operads (continued)

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Recital 10

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Session 11 - Summary

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ACT4E International Class - 2021

Session 0: Introduction

This is an introductory lecture in which we explain what the ACT4E course is about, what are its goals and content, and its logistics.

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Session 1: Transmutation

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Session 2: Connection

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Session 3: Specialization

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Guest Lecture 1

Speaker: Dr. David Spivak

Title: Applied Category Theory: Towards a Science of Interdisciplinarity

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Session 4: Combining

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Session 5: Choosing

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Session 6: Trade-offs

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Guest Lecture 2

Speaker: Dr. Brendan Fong

Title: The Language of Networks

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Session 7 - Life is hard

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Session 8 - Duality

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Session 9 - Feasibility

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Guest Lecture 3

Speaker: Dr. Paolo Perrone

Title: An Introduction to Monads

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Session 10 - Parallelism

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Session 11 - Feedback

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Session 12 - Computation

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Guest Lecture 4

Speaker: Prof. Michael Johnson

Title: Category Theoretic Representations of Structured and Semistructured Data

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Session 13 - Summary

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