Applied Category Theory 2023
Posted by John Baez
You can now submit a paper if you want to give a talk here:
- 6th Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT2023), University of Maryland, July 31 — August 4, 2023.
This event will be hybrid, so you can give a talk even if you can’t attend in person.
The Sixth International Conference on Applied Category Theory will take place at the University of Maryland from 31 July to 4 August 2023, preceded by the Adjoint School 2023 from 24 to 28 July. This conference follows previous events at Strathclyde (UK), Cambridge (UK), Cambridge (MA), Oxford (UK) and Leiden (NL).
Applied category theory is important to a growing community of researchers who study computer science, logic, engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, social science, systems, linguistics and other subjects using category-theoretic tools. The background and experience of our members is as varied as the systems being studied. The goal of the Applied Category Theory conference series is to bring researchers together, strengthen the applied category theory community, disseminate the latest results, and facilitate further development of the field.
Submissions
We accept submissions in English of original research papers, talks about work accepted/ submitted/published elsewhere, and demonstrations of relevant software. Accepted original research papers will be published in a proceedings volume. The conference will include an industry showcase event and community meeting. We particularly encourage people from underrepresented groups to submit their work and the organizers are committed to non-discrimination, equity, and inclusion.
Original research papers intended for conference proceedings should present original, high-quality work in the style of a computer science conference paper (up to 12 pages, not counting the bibliography; more detailed parts of proofs may be included in an appendix for the convenience of the reviewers). Please use the EPTCS style files available at
Such submissions should not be an abridged version of an existing journal article although pre-submission arXiv preprints are permitted. These submissions will be adjudicated for both a talk and publication in the conference proceedings.
Important dates
The following dates are all in 2023, and Anywhere On Earth.
• Submission Deadline: Wednesday 3 May
• Author Notification: Wednesday 7 June
• Camera-ready version due: Tuesday 27 June
• Conference begins: 31 July
Program committee
Benedikt Ahrens
Mario Álvarez Picallo
Matteo Capucci
Titouan Carette
Bryce Clarke
Carmen Constantin
Geoffrey Cruttwell
Giovanni de Felice
Bojana Femic
Marcelo Fiore
Fabio Gadducci
Zeinab Galal
Richard Garner
Neil Ghani
Tamara von Glehn
Amar Hadzihasanovic
Masahito Hasegawa
Martha Lewis
Sophie Libkind
Rory Lucyshyn-Wright
Sandra Mantovanni
Jade Master
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
Stefan Milius
Mike Mislove
Sean Moss
David Jaz Myers
Susan Niefield
Paige Randall North
Jason Parker
Evan Patterson
Sophie Raynor
Emily Roff
Morgan Rogers
Mario Román
Maru Sarazola
Bas Spitters
Sam Staton (co-chair)
Dario Stein
Eswaran Subrahmanian
Walter Tholen
Christina Vasilakopoulou (co-chair)
Christine Vespa
Simon Willerton
Glynn Winskel
Vladimir Zamdzhiev
Fabio Zanasi
Organizing committee
James Fairbanks, University of Florida
Joe Moeller, National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA
Sam Staton, Oxford University
Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan, National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA
Christina Vasilakopoulou, National Technical University of Athens
Steering committee
John Baez, University of California, Riverside
Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum
Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
David Spivak, Topos Institute