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Federica Pasqualone

MATHEMATICIAN ET ALIA

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Carnegie Mellon University

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Philosophy
Baker Hall, 155D
5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Member of the American Mathematical Society,

the American Physical Society and the 

Association for Symbolic Logic

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Hello! I'm Federica

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson -

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

Since Fall '23

PhD Programme

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - USA

Dept. of Philosophy, Dietrich College

Pure and Applied Logic

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: Prof. Anna Tozzi & Prof. Luigi Pilo

2011

High School Diploma

LICEO CLASSICO "D.COTUGNO" - ITALY

with overall score 100/100

EXPERIENCE & AWARDS

Feb. 2021 - Sept. 2022

Speaker

2021 - Feb. 2023

Membership

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COUNCIL (ISC)

Rat der internationalen Studierenden (RIS)

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PARLIAMENT (ISP)

Parlament der internationalen Studierenden (PaIS)

2023 - 2024

DIETRICH COLLEGE SCHOLAR'S FELLOWSHIP

Fellowship

2019 - 2020

Scholarship

DEUTSCHLANDSTIPENDIUM

MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY (MAP)

CMU Chapter

May - November 2024

Chair

ACADEMY

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Talks & Workshops

Dec. 16, 2024: Manifolds, Disks and Sheaves, A gentle introduction to factorization homology

                      [Categorical Logic and Higher Categories 2024, Manchester (UK)]

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. Mentor: Niccolo' Veltri

                       [7th International Conference on Applied Category Theory, Oxford (UK)] [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 20, 2023: The logic behind prefactorisation algebras: can we do topological algebra?

                         [Oberseminar in Algebraic Topology, University of Göttingen]

June 27, 2023: The magic of calculus on PFAs: where is the physics hidden?

                         [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]

MAIN INTERESTS

MAIN INTERESTS

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY

TQFT

CATEGORY THEORY

GENERAL TOPOLOGY

SURGERY THEORY

BIOPHYSICS & DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

INFORMATION THEORY

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INVESTMENT BANKING

ASSET MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

GROUP DYNAMICS

PHILOSOPHY

LINGUISTICS

ANTHROPOLOGY

SKILLS

SKILLS

English- Advanced

German - Advanced

Asana & Zenkit - Proficient

Italian - Mother Tongue

French & Spanish - Basic

Microsoft Office - Advanced

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