Elena Di Lavore

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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa, working with Filippo Bonchi. Until November 2023, I was a PhD student in the Compositional Systems and Methods group at Tallinn University of Technology under the supervision of Paweł Sobociński.

I am interested in categorical probability. I have worked on a partial version of Markov categories and stochastic dataflow.

I have worked on monoidal width, a measure of computational complexity for morphisms in monoidal categories. This general framework captures path width, tree width and branch width, and rank width. These are the slides of my most complete presentation of this work.

Publications

Filippo Bonchi, EDL and Mario Román, Effectful Trace Semantics via Effectful Streams
EDL, Giovanni de Felice and Mario Román, Coinductive Streams in Monoidal Categories, arXiv preprint 2022.
EDL and Paweł Sobociński, Monoidal Width: Unifying Tree width, Path Width and Branch Width, arXiv preprint 2022.
EDL, Wilmer Leal, Valeria de Paiva, Dialectica Petri nets, arXiv preprint 2021.

(since November 2023): member of the steering committee of the Adjoint School.
(since May 2023): member of the executive board of Compositionality.
(January - May 2023): TA for the category theory and applications course at Tallinn University of Technology.
(8-9 September 2022): local co-organiser SYCO 9 at the University of Insubria, Como.
(May 2022): program committee member for the ACT2022 conference.
(September 2021 - August 2023): co-organiser of the ACT Adjoint school 2022 and 2023.
(May 2021): TA for the introductory course on category theory at Tallinn University of Technology.

(9 April 2024): talk at the University of Padova.
(19 March 2024): talk at the workshop on Process Theory for Security Protocols and Cryptography.
(8 March 2024): talk at the OASIS seminar at the University of Oxford.
(29 February 2024): talk at the Challenges and Perspectives of Formal Methods for Trustworthy Software seminar series at the University of Pisa.
(8 January 2024): talk at Directions and Perspectives in the λ-calculus.
(22 November 2023): talk at the Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory.
(1 August 2023): talk at ACT (distinguished).
(18 July 2023): talk at the Coresources workshop.
(27 June 2023): talk at LiCS (conference paper).
(25 June 2023): talk at the QuaLog workshop.
(14 June 2023): talk at the CatNiP workshop.
(26 April 2023): talk at the ItaCa fest on partial Markov categories (recording).
(1 August 2022): talk at the WiL workshop.
(22 July 2022): talk at the ACT2022 conference (conference paper and recording of the talk).
(26 June 2022): talk at the FMCS workshop.
(25 May 2022): talk at the Comonads Meetup.
(24 May 2022): talk at the Mathematical Foundations Seminar at the University of Bath about Dialectica Petri nets.
(13-14 December 2021): talks at SYCO 8. Slides of the talk on monoidal width, slides of the talk on Dialectica Petri nets.
(26 January 2021): talk at the CSL 2021 conference (conference paper and recording of the talk).

(1 January 2024): started a postdoctoral position with Filippo Bonchi at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa.
(17 November 2023): I defended my PhD thesis with Samson Abramsky and Dan Marsden as opponents.
(November 2022): academic visit to Jamie Vicary at the University of Cambridge (slides).
(August 2022): our LiCS2022 paper on Monoidal Streams won the Kleene Award and was chosen as a distinguished paper.
(June 2022): academic visit to Fabio Gadducci and Filippo Bonchi at the University of Pisa.
(March 2020 - July 2020): participated in the ACT school 2020 in the Dialectica categories for Petri nets project under the supervision of Valeria de Paiva. We wrote a blogpost on the nCafé.

November 2019 - November 2023: PhD at Tallinn University of Technology under the supervision of Paweł Sobociński.
September 2018 - September 2019: MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where I learned category theory.
September 2017 - September 2018: BSc in Mathematics at Università di Pisa, where I studied some pure math.
September 2014 - July 2017: BSc in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where I studied the mathematics that is useful for engineering and some basics of engineering.