Necessity and possibility: Kant's modality, starter pack
Federica Pasqualone
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Modal Logic
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Carnegie Mellon University
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Philosophy
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EDUCATION
Since Fall '23
PhD Programme
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - USA
Dept. of Philosophy, Dietrich College
2023
Master's Degree
UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN - GERMANY
Mathematics MSc
Thesis Title: "Prefactorisation algebras: Introduction and examples"[pdf]
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schick & Prof. Dr. Ralf Meyer
2018
Bachelor's Degree
UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA - ITALY
Laurea in Mathematics
Thesis Title: " A co-homological approach to Maxwell's electromagnetic field theory"[pdf]
Supervisors: Profs. Anna Tozzi & Luigi Pilo
2011
High School Diploma
LICEO CLASSICO "D.COTUGNO" - ITALY
with overall score 100/100
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Feb. 2021 - Sept. 2022
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Talks & Workshops
Sept. 3 -11, 2024: Toposes in Mondovì
[School and 4th International Conference on Topos Theory, Mondovì (CN), Italy]
July 13, 2024: Differential Calculus on PFAs, Starter Pack
[Foundational Methods in Computer Science 2024, Calgary] [slides]
July 4, 2024: Prefactorization Algebras in QFT, A minimalist theory of observables
[Abschlussarbeiten-Nachmittag, University of Göttingen] [slides]
June 18, 2024: Dangerous Ideas
Applications of Skew Monoidal Categories with Niccolo' Veltri
[7th International Conference on Applied Category Theory, Oxford] [slides]
June 10 -14, 2024 : The Adjoint School in Applied Category Theory
[University of Oxford, UK]
May 14 -17, 2024 : DH Literacy Workshop - Network Analysis
[CMU, Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ]
April 23, 2024 : The Dark side of Gabriel-Ulmer Duality:
Gabriel-Ulmer Duality for Topoi, An Introduction
[Categorical Logic, CMU] [arXiv]
April 5, 2024 : All you need is ... a square, from Top to HoTT and back
[Lightning Talks, Philosophy, CMU]
Dedicated to Andreas Floer
March 28, 2024: Skewing the Sequent Calculus: Skew Monoidal Categories and Skew Multicategories
with Wilf Offord
[Adjoint School in ACT24 - online]
February 2, 2024: Observing the quantum world: A pragmatic approach to prefactorization algebras
[HoTT Seminar, CMU]
June 27, 2023: The magic of calculus on PFAs: where is the physics hidden?
[Oberseminar in Algebraic Topology, University of Göttingen]
June 20, 2023: The logic behind prefactorisation algebras: can we do topological algebra?
[Oberseminar in Algebraic Topology, University of Göttingen]
June 28, 2022: The Jones Polynomial and QFT - Part IV:
Hopf Algebras, quantum groups from a categorical viewpoint
[Seminar in Knot Theory, University of Göttingen]
June 21, 2022: The Jones Polynomial and QFT - Part III:
From vacuum-vacuum expectations to the dual universal enveloping algebra of sl_2 (𝔤):
The Yang-Baxter equation
[Seminar in Knot Theory, University of Göttingen]
June 7, 2022: The Jones Polynomial and QFT - Part II:
Strings and braided categories: The Jones polynomial revealed
[Seminar in Knot Theory, University of Göttingen]
May 31, 2022: The Jones Polynomial and QFT - Part I:
Feynman diagrams, an oriented state model for V_K (t)
[Seminar in Knot Theory, University of Göttingen]
May 19, 2021: Maxwell's Equations: Variational formulation for finite elements methods
[Seminar in FEM, University of Göttingen] [Github]
January 21, 2021: Division Algebras and Supersymmetry, An Introduction
[Seminar in K-Theory, University of Göttingen] [Github]
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