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Evan Patterson

I am an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of...

  • Scientific and statistical modeling
  • Category theory and categorical logic
  • Software systems for the above

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Graded categories as double functors (5/1/2025)

I explain how a category graded by a monoidal category can be viewed as a double functor out of the delooping of the monoidal category. A few consequences and a series of examples are then presented.

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Latest paper

Representing knowledge and querying data using double-functorial semantics, 2024. Michael Lambert, Evan Patterson.

We argue that double categories of relations are a unifying language for knowledge representation and databases, combining Spivak and Kent's functional ologs with my relational ologs. Read more