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The Road from Circuits to Category Theory (qtcat2026)
String diagrams are often traced back to Richard Penrose's work in mathematical physics, but they also have an early and largely overlooked history i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Category theory, formalised humanely (qtcat2026)
Formalisation is the process of expressing mathematical ideas in the language understood by a proof assistant, a computer program that enables the in…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Opening (qtcat2026)
Opening of QTCat! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/qtcat-2026/tal…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
PowerPoint Karaoke: After Dark Edition (emf2026)
PowerPoint karaoke takes a new turn! After exploring chicken chicken chicken, auctioning cobalt-60 rods, and accidentally predicting the rise of AI w…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Field-FX Awards Ceremony (emf2026)
Feast your eyes on generative art, executable animations, music, art, and more. Come and see what the people of EMF and the demoscene have released a…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Closing Ceremony (emf2026)
The ceremony in which we close the festival. Goodbye! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Universe in Electromagnetic Light: From Your Phone to the Big Bang (emf2026)
What do your phone, the night sky, and the Big Bang have in common? They all involve light, in one form or another. In this talk, we will follow ligh…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A practical guide to internet defamation (or: what not to do after you've defamed someone) (emf2026)
It turns out that you can't just say anything on the internet. Things that would be illegal to put in print are also illegal to publish online. We'll…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How NOT to make a Random Number Generator? (emf2026)
What connects quiz-show winners, on-line poker cheaters and cyber attacks on Taiwanese national ID cards? In this talk I’ll present a historical over…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Flexible PCBs for you and for me: lessons learned from DIY-ing flexible electronics with artists, makers, hackers and engineers (emf2026)
Flexible circuit boards (flexible PCBs) are pretty cool: they are lightweight, can fold into small spaces, are bendable, and can be designed to stret…
2 months, 2 weeks ago