We're hosting a workshop on applied category theory at the American Controls Conference, which is May 26-29 in New Orleans this year. If you're planning on attending ACC and like category theory, you should attend this workshop!
https://acc2026.cats4control.com/
- This workshop’s primary objective is to connect diverse research communities and foster collaboration for the advancement of a compositional theory of decision making. As engineered systems grow in scale, heterogeneity, and interdependence, compositional approaches are becoming essential for principled design, analysis, and control.
- This workshop is open to participants from a wide range of backgrounds and experience levels, and is intended to be accessible to both newcomers and seasoned researchers. Attendees will gain insight into how applied category theory can be used as a practical language for reasoning about complex, interconnected decision-making problems.
- The program will feature tutorial-style introductions alongside research talks that highlight successful applications of categorical and compositional methods in control, dynamical systems, and networked and multi-agent systems. Distinguished speakers will present concrete tools, modeling frameworks, and case studies demonstrating how these ideas can be deployed in real-world engineering contexts.
- In addition to showcasing current results, this workshop aims to stimulate discussion around open challenges and emerging directions at the intersection of applied category theory and control, while continuing to build an interdisciplinary community around compositional approaches to decision making.
