Catherine Ray

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute presents the SFI Seminar, Simplifying Multiscale Modeling, at 12:15 p.m., Monday, Jan. 12 in the Collins Conference Room, 1499 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

The presenter is Thiel Fellow Catherine Ray.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is a beautiful device, which expresses global phenomenon in terms of the output of local data. The geometric multi-scale modeling technique, aptly named fiber bundle dynamics, expresses macroscale data in terms of the output of microscale models.

By recognizing that (1) dependent types are fibrations and (2) a multi-scale model is a generalized transition system, we will illustrate the simplicity underlying various multi-scale models as an example of the rich interplay between the seemingly disparate topics of algebraic topology, theoretical physics, and type theory.

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