[TYPES/announce] HDRA 2016: Call for Papers

[Samuel Mimram]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications
(HDRA 2016)
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Second edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications
25-26 June 2016, Porto, Portugal
http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/
Co-located with the FSCD conference

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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 the study of coherence of
higher-dimensional algebraic structures, 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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* Michael Batanin (to be confirmed)
* Joachim Kock
* Pawel Sobocinski

Submission
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Important dates
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* Submission: 15 April, 2016
* Notification: 11 May, 2016
* Final version: 27 May, 2016
* Conference: 25-26 June, 2016

Submitting
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Submissions should consist in an extended abstract, in pdf format,
approximatively 6 pages long, in standard article format. The page for uploading
those is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdra2016

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)