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John Baez (Aug 23 2022 at 00:30):There will be a special session on applied category theory here:
John Baez (Aug 23 2022 at 00:34):This special session will be on Thursday, January 6, 2023, from 8:00 am - 11:50 am and 1:00 pm - 4:50 pm.
John Baez (Aug 23 2022 at 00:35):I believe you can submit a talk abstract here. The deadline is September 13th.
It's being organized by a number of participants of the 2022 AMS Mathematical Research Community, and members of that community will probably have precedence.
John Baez (Aug 23 2022 at 00:38):However, this is the world's largest mathematics gathering, and there will be other special sessions connected to category theory (and many other subjects).
John Baez (Aug 23 2022 at 00:39):I'll be there!
Jules Hedges (Aug 23 2022 at 11:41):Wow, that's a pretty big deal I guess
Jules Hedges (Aug 23 2022 at 11:44):I dug up the names of the 4 organisers and I don't recognise any of them from ACT conferences, do you know if they're junior (?) people in the community who haven't presented, or if it's being organised by people outside the ACT community?
Morgan Rogers (he/him) (Aug 24 2022 at 07:24):I don't know any of the names either, but I've never attended a CT conference in America! Of the people involved in CT events at the conference, I notice that @Charlotte Aten @Pablo S. Ocal and @Layla are members of this Zulip; maybe they can tell us some more about what's going to happen :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Pablo S. Ocal (Aug 24 2022 at 13:09):Howdy! Yeah we're all pretty new to the ACT community. We usually work in adjacent fields and we volunteered as the organizers for the JMM special session during the initial MRC concentration week.
Essentially, the ACT special session will consist of 14 talks and a poster session. It's designed to both attract newcomers as well as to be of interest to the ACT community as a whole. For example, we will have introductory talks overviewing the subject (John Baez kindly agreed to do this), established researchers that reach the mainstream audience (Eugenia Cheng has kindly agreed to speak at the special session), as well as specialists across the academic spectrum talking about their own projects (Olivia Caramello and Ben Bumpus, for example).
We already sent out invitations to present a poster to the MRC participants, and in the near future we will be sending out a general invitation for posters.
Jules Hedges (Aug 24 2022 at 13:47):Cool!
Jules Hedges (Aug 24 2022 at 13:47):ACT is moving up in the world, for sure
John Baez (Aug 24 2022 at 20:06):I'm glad Eugenia Cheng is speaking! I'll get to see her again! We're good friends - a long long time ago, did her thesis with Martin Hyland on stuff that James Dolan and I came up with: opetopes. I first met her in Cambridge U. when she was doing that.
I'll also be glad to see Olivia Caramello again! I've only met her a couple of times, and she tends to have a crowd of people around her.
I hope you keep advertising this special session, @Pablo S. Ocal, or passing me information so I can do it. For example, if more people know that Cheng and Caramello will be speaking, a lot of people will want to attend: they're both superstars. And I think it's good for you folks, and applied category theory in general, if this special session develops some excitement around it.
Layla (Aug 24 2022 at 20:54):Dear John,
Thank you for writing to advertise special session on ACT. Olivia has kindly accepted our invitation and will give an online talk.
Hope to get lots of participants for poster session.
We may have a website soon and provide information about Timetable, people who may attend, speakers, etc.
John Baez (Aug 24 2022 at 20:55):Should I advertise the session now, or wait until you have that website?
There are about 20 days left for people to submit abstracts, so we can't wait too long to invite people to do that.
Layla (Aug 24 2022 at 20:59):Thank you for your message John. We have sent an email to reminder to all speakers (-2) to submit thier abstract before the 13th of September.
Yes, it is a good idea to advertise the session now and later we add the link for the website.
John Baez (Aug 24 2022 at 21:00):Okay, I'll do it now! I'll start by posting something to my Azimuth blog and the n-Category Cafe.
Then I'll tweet about it and post something to the category theory mailing list.
Layla (Aug 24 2022 at 22:12):John Baez said:
Okay, I'll do it now! I'll start by posting something to my Azimuth blog and the n-Category Cafe.
Then I'll tweet about it and post something to the category theory mailing list.
Thank you so much
John Baez (Aug 24 2022 at 22:39):Here is a blog article about the special session:
Now I'll copy it to the n-Cafe and post something to the category theory mailing list.
John Baez (Aug 24 2022 at 22:40):If there's more information I should add, let me know.
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Aug 25 2022 at 11:46):Somehow I missed there was going to be an ACT special session, that's great!
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Aug 25 2022 at 11:46):On Jan 3th I'm presenting a poster about the work my group did on Dialectica & lenses at the MRC week in Buffalo last may, so I guess I'll stick around for a couple more days :)
John Baez (Aug 25 2022 at 16:20):Yikes, it sounds like a major failure of communication. The AMS always pays members of the Mathematical Research Community (that thing we went to in Buffalo) to attend a special session of the Joint Mathematical Meeting and present their work so far on the projects they started!
John Baez (Aug 25 2022 at 16:21):They should have told everyone that. I bet they did.
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Aug 26 2022 at 05:44):They told me about the MRC special session, but that's on Jan 3rd afair
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Aug 26 2022 at 05:44):There's a high chance I'm embarrassing myself by remembering the date wrong
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Aug 26 2022 at 05:46):Indeed, I checked: I remembered the date wrong :face_palm:🏻♂️
Pablo S. Ocal (Aug 26 2022 at 13:18):Matteo Capucci (he/him) said:
Somehow I missed there was going to be an ACT special session, that's great!
Matteo, you replied to an email of ours saying that you were interested in presenting a poster at the ACT special session! :upside_down: The ACT special session and the MRC special session we are organizing are the same thing.
We were told that all MRC participants will have funding to attend the JMM, but I think the exact amounts are not clear just yet.
Layla (Aug 26 2022 at 15:12):John Baez said:
Here is a blog article about the special session:
- Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023, Azimuth.
Now I'll copy it to the n-Cafe and post something to the category theory mailing list.
Dear John, Maybe this
Session #: SS96A
Title: AMS Special Session on Applied Category Theory (a Mathematics Research Communities session) I
Session #: SS96B
Title: AMS Special Session on Applied Category Theory (a Mathematics Research Communities session) II
Layla (Aug 26 2022 at 15:46):Matteo Capucci (he/him) said:
They told me about the MRC special session, but that's on Jan 3rd afair
@Matteo .. We hope to see you in 4 months' time
John Baez (Aug 28 2022 at 20:44):I don't see anything about SS96A and SS96B on the AMS website, just SS96. I guess the A and B refer to the morning and afternoon parts. Anyway, I added some information about "SS 96" to my blog posts.
Layla (Aug 31 2022 at 17:46):Yes, A and B refer to the morning and afternoon sessions.
40 minutes will be devoted for poster session.