In this episode, me and Eric Bond have a great conversation with Dan R.
Ghica, a professor at Birmingham University and Director of the Programming
Language Research Lab of the Huaweii Research Centre Edinburgh.
We talk about his work on both institutions, which includes topics such as
Category Theory, String Diagrams, and Game Semantics.
We also briefly discuss the current publication process of our field and
entertain some thoughts on how to make it better. Finally, we touch on
more personal topics such as his views about Elegance, making an insightful
counterpoint to Conal’s opinions on Denotational Semantics vs. Operational
Links
Dan's Twitter: @danghicaDan's WebsiteJob advert for Huawei positionsTalks and Lectures
Dan's talk on Syntactic Trinitarianism (terms, graphs, diagrams)Dan's talk on a similar, more semantics-oriented talk at TERMGRAPHDan's OPLSS course on (denotational) game semanticsGame semantics lecturesPapers
Paper on string diagrams and their applications to reverse automatic differentiation (long paper, part of it to appear in FSCD 2020)Paper on automatic differentiation and string diagramsPaper on effect handlersPaper on optimisation with constructive realsPaper on digital circuits and string diagramsPaper on functorial boxes for string diagramsA Game semantics paper mentioned during the conversationDecidability via game semanticsLandmark paper on undecidability of observational equivalenceOther Links
Penrose bookBook on type-level string diagramsProof assistant for higher categoriesThe Programming JournalMidlands Graduate School