[TYPES/announce] HDRA 2015: Call for Papers

[Samuel Mimram]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications
(HDRA 2015)
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First edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications
28-29 June 2015, Warsaw, Poland
http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=hdra
Co-located with the RDP, RTA and TLCA conferences

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Over recent years, rewriting methods have been generalized from strings and
terms to richer algebraic structures such as operads, monoidal categories, and
more generally higher-dimensional categories. These extensions of rewriting fit
in the general scope of higher-dimensional rewriting theory, which has emerged
as a unifying algebraic framework. This approach allows one to perform
homotopical and homological analysis of rewriting systems (Squier theory). It
also provides new computational methods in combinatorial algebra (Artin-Tits
monoids, Coxeter and Garside structures), in homotopical and homological algebra
(construction of cofibrant replacements, Koszulness property). The workshop is
open to all topics concerning higher-dimensional generalizations and
applications of rewriting theory, including

- higher-dimensional rewriting: polygraphs / computads, higher-dimensional
   generalizations of string/term/graph rewriting systems, etc.

- homotopical invariants of rewriting systems: homotopical and homological
   finiteness properties, Squier theory, algebraic Morse theory, coherence
   results in algebra and higher-dimensional category theory, etc.

- linear rewriting: presentations and resolutions of algebras and operads,
   Gröbner bases and generalizations, homotopy and homology of algebras and
   operads, Koszul duality theory, etc.

- applications of higher-dimensional and linear rewriting and their interactions
   with other fields: calculi for quantum computations, algebraic lambda-calculi,
   proof nets, topological models for concurrency, homotopy type theory,
   combinatorial group theory, etc.

- implementations: the workshop will also be interested in implementation issues
   in higher-dimensional rewriting and will allow demonstrations of prototypes of
   existing and new tools in higher-dimensional rewriting.

Invited speakers
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* John Baez
* TBA

Submission
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Important dates
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* Submission: April 15, 2015
* Notification: May 6, 2015
* Final version: May 20, 2015
* Conference: 28-29 June, 2015

Submitting
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Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format,
approximatively 5 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading
those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2015

Proceedings
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The accepted extended abstracts will be made available electronically before the
workshop.

Program committee
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* Vladimir Dotsenko (Trinity College, Dublin)
* Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Université Paris 7)
* Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (École Polytechnique)
* Philippe Malbos (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
* Paul-André Melliès (Université Paris 7)
* Samuel Mimram (École Polytechnique)
* Tim Porter (University of Wales, Bangor)
* Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University, Amsterdam)

Organizers
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* Yves Guiraud (INRIA / Université Paris 7)
* Philippe Malbos (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
* Samuel Mimram (École Polytechnique)