Evan Patterson
I am a research scientist and software developer with interests in...
- Applied category theory
- Statistics and data science
- Scientific computing
- Software systems
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From the blog
Book review: Dynamical Biostatistical Models by Commenges and Jacqmin-Gadda (12/29/2020)
Despite their natural affinity, the statistical and mechanistic traditions of scientific modeling are often poorly integrated. I review a textbook on biostatistics that takes dynamical and mechanistic models seriously. Read more
Latest paper
A diagrammatic view of differential equations in physics, 2022. Evan Patterson, Andrew Baas, Timothy Hosgood, James Fairbanks.
We formalize and systematize Tonti diagrams, a graphical mode of presenting partial differential equations in physics. More generally, we explain how to reason formally about systems of equations and their solutions using category-theoretic diagrams. Read more