Talks and Presentations

Conference and workshop talks

• Modulation-reaction networks. Upcoming at International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Lisbon (2026).
• Towards a combinatorial representation of first-order bicategories. DIALOCO, Lisbon (2026). Slides
• Categories with indexed monoids. Categorical Applications and Foundations Exchange, Tallinn (2026). Abstract
• Layered monoidal theories. Applied Category Theory, Tallinn (2026). Abstract Slides
• Disconnection rules are complete for chemical reactions. International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, Asian Institute of Technology (2024). Slides
• Disconnection rules are complete for chemical reactions. Applied Category Theory, University of Oxford (2024). Recording
• A categorical approach to synthetic chemistry. International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (2023).
• Quantum quirks, classical contexts: Towards a Bohrification of effect algebras. Tenth Symposium on Compositional Structures, University of Edinburgh (2022). Slides
• String diagrams for layered explanations. Applied Category Theory, University of Strathclyde (2022). Recording Slides
• There and back again: A circuit extraction tale. Quantum Physics and Logic (2020). Recording Slides

Selected seminar talks

• Layered monoidal theories. Logic and Semantics Seminar, University of Cambridge (2026). Slides
• An introduction to the ZX-calculus. QInfo seminar, University College London (2025). Slides
• Everything You Always Wanted to Formalise About Chemistry (But Were Afraid of the Reaction). PPLV Seminar, University College London (2024).
• Towards functorial chemistry: completeness and universality for reaction representation. University of Birmingham theoretical computer science seminar (2024). Abstract
• String diagrams for layered structures. First Meeting of the Southern Logic Seminar, University of Bath (2023).
• String diagrams for layered structures. ILLC LLAMA Seminar, University of Amsterdam (2023). Slides
• Partition functor for effect algebras. Pure Mathematics Seminar, University of East Anglia (2022). Slides
• Partition functor for effect algebras: a model of quantum measurements PPLV Seminar, University College London (2021). Slides
• Sheaves and étale bundles. MSc Mathematics student seminar, University of Amsterdam (2019). Notes

Posters

• A categorical approach to synthetic chemistry. Applied Category Theory, University of Maryland (2023).

Talks for the general audience

• Формальная логика, часть первая. Классическая логика. (Formal Logic Part I: Classical Logic, in Russian). Art-Master, Jyväskylä. 12 April 2025. Slides
• Квантовая механика и картина мира. (Quantum Mechanics and the Worldview, in Russian). Art-Master, Jyväskylä. 6 April 2024. Slides
• Мечта о мыслящей машине: история идей, приведших к возникновению компьютера. (Dream of a Thinking Machine: History of Ideas that Lead to the Emergence of Computing, in Russian). Art-Master, Jyväskylä. 31 October 2021. Recording Slides