Monoidal Categories of Networks

Here are the slides of my colloquium talk at the Santa Fe Institute at 11 am on Tuesday, November 15th. I’ll explain some not-yet-published work with Blake Pollard on a monoidal category of ‘open Petri nets’:

• Monoidal categories of networks.

Nature and the world of human technology are full of networks. People like to draw diagrams of networks: flow charts, electrical circuit diagrams, chemical reaction networks, signal-flow graphs, Bayesian networks, food webs, Feynman diagrams and the li...