BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pawel Sobocinski (Tallinn University of Technology) DTSTART:20251128T163000Z DTEND:20251128T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T171811Z UID:CompMath/23 DESCRIPTION:Title: How I fell in love with string diagrams\nby Pawel Sobocinski (Tallin n University of Technology) as part of Relatorium seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nI will talk about a research adventure I had 10 years ago\, rediscovering l inear algebra with string diagrams\, and resulting in the blog Graphical L inear Algebra and the paper Interacting Hopf Algebras in collaboration wit h Filippo Bonchi and Fabio Zanasi. This was followed by several subsequent papers and PhD theses that developed the theory further. But more importa ntly than blogs and papers\, it was one of the most fun experiences that I ’ve had with research. Along the way I discovered some fun little mathem atical facts\, some of which I’ll share in this talk.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Pa wel Sobocinski is Professor of Trustworthy Software Technologies at the Ta llinn University of Technology. He leads the Laboratory for Compositional Systems and Methods. He takes part in CHESS\, the Cyber-security Excellenc e Hub in Estonia and South Moravia\, funded by the European Commission. He is also a TalTech PI of EXAI\, the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artif icial Intelligence\, financed by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Re search. He is also the author of the blog series on Graphical Linear Algeb ra (linear algebra through string diagrams) --- https://graphicallinearalg ebra.net/. \n\nModerator: The talk will be moderated by Priyaa Varshinee S rinivasan. Priyaa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Tallinn University of Te chnology researching categorical quantum mechanics. Her vision is for ever yone to experience the joy of mathematics in their own way. She has co-aut hored a live digital book titled “Relational thinking: from abstractions to applications” which reveals the thought-process behind creating math ematics (category theory) using story-telling\, illustrations\, and visual ization of computations. The book can be found at https://toposinstitute.g ithub.io/RelationalThinking-Book/cover.html.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/CompMath/23/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR