Compositional System Dynamics for Public Health

The Topos Institute has a colloquium every week. This time it’s by my old grad school pal Nate Osgood. He’s a computer scientist, he helped lead Canada’s COVID modeling effort…

… and he is now spear-heading a project to develop software that uses ideas from category theory to make it easier to create models of epidemic disease!

I am completely biased, since I’m involved in this—but I am really excited about how category theory, computer science and epidemiology are meeting in this project and ...