Compositional Frameworks for Open Systems

Here are the slides of Blake Pollard’s talk at the Santa Fe Institute workshop on Statistical Physics, Information Processing and Biology:

• Blake Pollard, Compositional frameworks for open systems, 17 November 2016.

He gave a really nice introduction to how we can use categories to study open systems, with his main example being ‘open Markov processes’, where probability can flow in and out of the set of states. People liked it a lot!