05/29/21: Homotopy Type Theory 101 with Carlo Angiuli

Carlo is a postdoc in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a Ph.D. under Robert Harper. He previously studied at Indiana University Bloomington, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and in Computer Science.  Today Carlo joined us to discuss Homotopy Type Theory, a new foundations for mathematics based on a recently-discovered connection between Homotopy Theory and Type Theory.  Carlo explains intuitively what Homotopy Type Theory is and how it is used, and then goes over various possible implementations of Homotopy Type Theory in a theorem-proving environment such as Coq.  Finally, he fields questions on Homotopy Type Theory, theorem-proving, and other topics from the Boston Computation Club audience. The Boston Computation Club can be found at https://bstn.cc/ Carlo Angiuli can be found at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cangiuli/ A video recording of this talk is available at https://youtu.be/VMqF06fDljU For more on Homotopy Type Theory refer to https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/