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
Semantics.
Links

Dan's Twitter: @danghica
Dan's Website
Job advert for Huawei positions

Talks and Lectures

Dan's talk on Syntactic Trinitarianism (terms, graphs, diagrams)
Dan's talk on a similar, more semantics-oriented talk at TERMGRAPH
Dan's OPLSS course on (denotational) game semantics
Game semantics lectures

Papers

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 diagrams
Paper on effect handlers
Paper on optimisation with constructive reals
Paper on digital circuits and string diagrams
Paper on functorial boxes for string diagrams
A Game semantics paper mentioned during the conversation
Decidability via game semantics
Landmark paper on undecidability of observational equivalence

Other Links

Penrose book
Book on type-level string diagrams
Proof assistant for higher categories
The Programming Journal
Midlands Graduate School

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