- I am a professor in the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the
University of Ottawa.
- Until recently, I was the Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Science.
- I am a member of the Ottawa Logic and Foundations of Computing Group and the
Category
Theory Research Centre in Montreal.
- I am an occasional visitor to the Quantum Group at the
Oxford University Computing Lab and the
Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systemes (PPS).
- I was also a trustee of the
CAUT Defence Fund
- I am an editor for the electronic
journal Theory and Applications of
Categories (TAC)
and the print journal
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS).
- I am a lifelong citizen of
Red Sox Nation
and New England Patriots fan.
- This
is my favorite musician, but I also like
these guys.
- I especially like what is frequently called free jazz or
improvised music.
This
is a great website
for reviews of new releases.
Some of my favorite musicians who are frequently
discussed there are
Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell and Mats Gustaffson.
The course website for MATH 1300 is
here.
My primary research areas are:
- Linear logic, most recently differential linear logic
- Categorical Logic and proof theory
- Category theory, especially monoidal categories
- Applications of category theory to physics
Talks:
In February 2015, I spoke at the Fields Institute Workshop
on Recent Developments in Quantum Groups, Operator Algebras and Applications.
The talk was on Hopf algebras and the Logic of Tensor Categories. It was an
expository talk on categorical logic and how Hopf algebras can be used to
model variants of noncommutative linear logic. Here are the
slides.
In Summer 2014, I spoke at the Institut Henri Poincare in the Workshop on Semantics of Proofs and Programs.
The talk was on Derivations In Codifferential Categories. It was joint work
with Rory Lucyshyn-Wright and Keith O'Neill. Here are the
slides.
In May, 2013, I spoke at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of
Symbolic Logic. Here are the
slides.
I spoke at the Logic And Interactions Workshop at Luminy on Homological
Algebra and Differential Linear Logic. Here are the
slides.
I spoke at four conferences in 2011. The first three talks were
about differential structure in the category
of convenient
vector spaces. This was joint work with Thomas Ehrhard and
Christine Tasson.
Since the emphasis was different in all 3, I include
the slides of each:
More recently, I spoke about Von Neumann Categories at the conference
Category Theory 2011.
This was
joint work with Marc Comeau, one of my graduate students.
Here are the slides.
In Summer 2009, I spoke at the conference
Categories,
Quanta, Concepts (CQC) at the Perimeter Institute.
Video of
the talk can be seen here.
Here is a list of my publications,
together with some links.
I am currently accepting graduate students.
Here are some ideas for possible projects a grad student could work
on.
For any questions or comments contact rblute at uottawa dot ca.