J O N A T H A N   L O R A N D

I am a mathematician working as a postdoc in the Frazzoli group in the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.

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Short CV [updated 22.09.2020]
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Lorand

News
  • [18–22 July '22] Conference: Applied Category Theory 2022
  • [May '22] Workshop: Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools at ICRA, the IEEE international conference on robotics and automation.
  • [Spring '22] Teaching: Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers I at ETH
Research
I am interested in applied category theory, a general-purpose mathematics of interconnection, composition, relation and translation. Currently I am involved in projects in engineering, specifically complex systems design using co-design. I have done past work in category theory, representation theory, and symplectic & Poisson geometry.

    Applied category theory
  • Categorification of Negative Information using Enrichment (paper with A. Censi, E. Frazzoli, G. Zardini)

  • Duality involutions on 1-categories and bicategories
  • Duality Involutions, Representations, and Geometry (my PhD thesis)
  • Morita bicategories of algebras and duality involutions (paper with A. Valentino)

  • Classification problems in linear symplectic geometry
  • (Co)isotropic triples and poset representations (paper with C. Herrmann, A. Weinstein)
  • Decomposition of (co)isotropic relations (paper with A. Weinstein)
  • (Co)isotropic pairs in Poisson and presymplectic vector spaces (paper with A. Weinstein)

Recent Teaching
  • Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers I at ETH (Lecturer, Spring '23)
  • Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers II at ETH (Lecturer, Fall '22)
  • Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers I at ETH (Lecturer, Spring '22)
  • Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers at ETH (Lecturer, Spring '21)
  • Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers international course (Lecturer, January '21)