[TYPES/announce] SYCO 8 - 2nd Call for Papers

[Maaike Zwart]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 8)

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
13-14 December 2021

Submission deadline:  Monday 25 October 2021 AoE.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/syco/8/__;!!IBzWLUs!Ek0IGIxzYX5JYcsT9SPbec3OAfSvmCIH1ZangwAzUTt1_TeST1iNmoe3kIZbkbUeFlXT_eEgIKxZgg$ 
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After a long break, SYCO is back!

The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an
interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing
community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of
compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in
particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language.
Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham,
University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University,
and University of Leicester.

We welcome submissions from researchers across computer science,
mathematics, physics, philosophy, and beyond, with the aim of
fostering friendly discussion, disseminating new ideas, and spreading
knowledge between fields. Submission is encouraged for both mature
research and work in progress, and by both established academics and
junior researchers, including students.

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RESTART OF SYCO

The main aim of SYCO is to bring the community together and exchange
ideas across interdisciplinary fields. In-person contact facilitates this
in a way that online meetings cannot. This meant that unfortunately,
SYCO 7, the previous edition of SYCO, had to be cancelled. To restart
the series, SYCO 8 will take the following into account:

- Submissions that were accepted for SYCO 7 can be resubmitted for
SYCO 8, and will be given priority over other submissions.
These submissions will be treated as being deferred from SYCO 7,
see submission instructions below.

- Authors that had a submission accepted for SYCO can also submit
new material. These submissions will also be given priority over other
submissions, if accepted through peer-review.

SYCO 8 will be mainly an in-person event, and we expect that most
speakers will be physically present. However, we do support a hybrid
format, so if for some reason you cannot be present in person but would
still like to present your work at SYCO, please contact the programme
chair, Maaike Zwart (maaike.annebeth at gmail.com)

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

While no list of topics could be exhaustive, SYCO welcomes submissions
with a compositional focus related to any of the following areas, in
particular from the perspective of category theory:

- logical methods in computer science, including classical and
quantum programming, type theory, concurrency, natural language
processing and machine learning;

- graphical calculi, including string diagrams, Petri nets and
reaction networks;

- languages and frameworks, including process algebras, proof nets,
type theory and game semantics;

- abstract algebra and pure category theory, including monoidal
category theory, higher category theory, operads, polygraphs, and
relationships to homotopy theory;

- quantum algebra, including quantum computation and representation
theory;

- tools and techniques, including rewriting, formal proofs and proof
assistants, and game theory;

- industrial applications, including case studies and real-world
problem descriptions.

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IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth.

Submission deadline: Monday 25 October 2021
Author notification: Wednesday 3 November 2021
Symposium dates: Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 December 2021

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions are by EasyChair, via the SYCO 8 submission page:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syco8__;!!IBzWLUs!Ek0IGIxzYX5JYcsT9SPbec3OAfSvmCIH1ZangwAzUTt1_TeST1iNmoe3kIZbkbUeFlXT_eH_R1KIGA$ 

Submission is easy, with no format requirements or page restrictions.
The meeting does not have proceedings, so work can be submitted even
if it has been submitted or published elsewhere. Think creatively:
you could submit a recent paper, or notes on work in progress, or even
a recent Masters or PhD thesis.

In the event that more good-quality submissions are received than can
be accommodated in the timetable, the programme committee may choose
to *defer* some submissions to a future meeting, rather than reject
them. Deferred submissions can be re-submitted to any future SYCO
meeting, where they will not need peer review, and where they will be
prioritised for inclusion in the programme. Meetings will be held
sufficiently frequently to avoid a backlog of deferred papers.

If you have a submission which was deferred from a previous SYCO
meeting, it will not automatically be considered for SYCO 8; you still
need to submit it again through EasyChair. When submitting, append the
words "DEFERRED FROM SYCO X" to the title of your paper, replacing "X"
with the appropriate meeting number. There is no need to attach any
documents.

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde
Alexandre Goy, MICS, CentraleSupélec
Amar Hadzihasanovic, Tallinn University of Technology (local organiser)
Jules Hedges, University of Strathclyde
Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh
Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford
Jade Master, University of Strathclyde
Dan Marsden, University of Oxford
Hector Miller-Bakewell
Samuel Mimram, École Polytechnique
Koko Muroya, Kyoto University
Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London
Maru Sarazola, Johns Hopkins University
Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology  (local organiser)
Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge
Maaike Zwart, IT University of Copenhagen (chair)

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STEERING COMMITTEE

Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde
Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh
Dominic Horsman, University of Oxford
Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford
Samuel Mimram, École Polytechnique
Simona Paoli, University of Aberdeen
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London
Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology
Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge
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