Proceedings Eighth International Conference on Applied Category Theory
This paper serves as a record of an academic conference for researchers interested in applied category theory, providing an overview of the event and its contributions.
This document describes the Eighth International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT2025) which featured 2 plenary talks, 28 contributed talks, and 4 junior researcher talks. It includes accepted proceedings track submissions covering diverse disciplines such as computer science, probability theory, chemistry, and quantum computation.
The Eight International Conference on Applied Category Theory took place at the University of Florida on June 2-6 2025. The conference consisted of 2 plenary invited talks, 28 contributed talks, an online community meeting, a general community meeting, and 4 talks by junior researchers who attended the Adjoint School to present the results of their research at the school. Information regarding the conference may be found at https://gataslab.org/act2025/act2025.html. Submission to ACT2025 had three tracks: extended abstracts, software demonstrations, and proceedings. Accepted proceed track submissions are included in this volume. The contributions to ACT2025 ranged from pure to applied and included contributions in a wide range of disciplines. ACT2025 included talks related to computer science, probability theory, chemistry, string diagrams, game semantics, quantum computation, and more.