Open Petri Nets and Their Categories of Processes

My student Jade Master will be talking about her work on open Petri nets at the online category theory seminar at UNAM on Wednesday October 21st at 18:00 UTC (11 am Pacific Time):

Open Petri Nets and Their Categories of Processes

Abstract. In this talk we will discuss Petri nets from a categorical perspective. A Petri net freely generates a symmetric monoidal category whose morphisms represent its executions. We will discuss how to make Petri nets ‘open’—i.e., equip them with input and output ...