Dear ACT4E participants,
Here are the materials from Session 5:
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 20th at 14:00 UTC on zoom, there will be Session 6 (Trade-offs).
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your ACT4E lecturers
Dear ACT4E participants,
Here are the materials from Session 4:
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Yesterday we had the first two office/social hours and today, Sunday January 17th at 14:00 UTC on zoomwe will have the third one. Note that these are meant to be relaxed interactive moments, in which you can ask questions live but also discuss with your peers.
Tomorrow, Monday, January 18th at 18:00 UTC on zoom, there will be Session 5 (Choosing).
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Dear ACT4E participants,
Here are the materials from yesterday's Session 3:
- These are the slides in PDF;
- This is the recording;
- This is the Q&A document;
- This is the updated version of the work-in-progress book.
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Today, Thursday, January 14th at 14:00 UTC on zoom, we will have our first guest lecture:
Speaker: Dr. David Spivak
Title: Applied Category Theory: Towards a Science of Interdisciplinarity
Abstract: Effective interoperation between multiple scientific disciplines is crucial to systems engineering. Can the study of interoperability—the working negotiations and hand-offs between theories and models—itself be made into a hard science? Hard sciences are based on mathematics, so this would require a mathematics of interoperability, a mathematics whose subject consists of the bridges and analogies that make data- and model-integration actually work. I propose that category theory serves this purpose exceptionally well. In this talk, I will give evidence for the above claim, given only the background that the ACT4E audience has seen so far. I will focus on operads, which offer a framework for various forms of compositionality. In particular, I will discuss how operads model the interconnection of dynamical systems, provide a new method for solving systems of nonlinear equations, and explain how these two issues are connected category-theoretically. Finally, I'll explain how all this fits into a larger mathematical approach to interdisciplinarity.
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your ACT4E lecturers
Dear ACT4E participants,
Here are the materials from yesterday's Session 1:
- These are the slides in PDF;
- This is the recording;
- This is the Q&A document;
- This is the updated version of the work-in-progress book.
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Session 3 (Specialization) will take place on Wednesday, January 13th at 18:00 UTC on zoom.
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your ACT4E lecturers
Dear ACT4E participants,
Here are the materials from yesterday's Session 1:
- These are the slides in PDF;
- This is the recording;
- This is the Q&A document;
- This is an extra video;
- This is the updated version of the work-in-progress book.
We remind you that lecture materials will be regularly posted here.
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Session 2 (Connection: How things connect to each other) will take place on Tuesday, January 12th at 14:00 UTC on zoom.
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your ACT4E lecturers
Dear ACT4E participants,
despite some technical difficulties, yesterday we started with Session 0, an introductory lecture about the course, its content, and its logistics. You can find slides for the session here, the Q&A document here, and the recording here. The lecture materials will be regularly posted here.
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You can find the updated syllabus with updated lecture times (resulting from optimization over your preferences) on our homepage.
Session 1 (Transmutation: How things transform into each other) will take place on Monday, January 11th at 18:00 UTC on zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85488352053
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your ACT4E lecturers