Research

Refereed Publications

Functorial model management, Spencer Breiner, Blake S. Pollard, Eswaran Subrahmanian, and Ram Sriram, ICED 2019.
Compositional models for power systems, John Nolan, Blake S. Pollard, Spencer Breiner, Dhananjay Anand, and Eswaran Subrahmanian, Compositionality, ACT 2019.
Future automation engineering using structural graph convolutional neural networks, Jiang Wan, Blake S. Pollard, Sujit Rokka Chhetri, Palash Goyal, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, and Arquimedes Canedo, IEEE ICCAD, 2018.
A compositional framework for reaction networks, John C. Baez and Blake S. Pollard, Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 29(9), 1750028, 2017.
Open Markov processes: A compositional perspective on non-equilibrium steady states in biology, Blake S. Pollard, Entropy, 18(4), 140, 2016.
Relative entropy in biological systems, John C. Baez and Blake S. Pollard, Entropy, 18(2), 46, 2016.
A compositional framework for Markov processes, John C. Baez, Brendan Fong, and Blake S. Pollard, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 57, 033301, 2016.
A Second Law for open Markov processes, Blake S. Pollard, Open Systems and Information Dynamics, 23, 01, 2016.
Quantropy, John C. Baez and Blake S. Pollard, Entropy, 17(2), 772, 2015.

Book Chapter

A compositional chemical architecture for asynchronous computation, Blake S. Pollard, in The Energetics of Computing in Life and Machines, eds. David H. Wolpert, Chris Kempes, Peter F. Stadler, and Joshua A. Grochow, SFI Press, 2019.

Presentations

Functorial Model Management, ICED 19, Delft, Netherlands, August 2019.
Model management in power systems, ACT, Oxford, UK, July 2019. video
Structural Graph Convolutional Neural Networks, NetSci, Burlington, Vermont, March 2019.
Category theory as a conceptual operating system, 3rd SIG Design Theory Tutorial, MINES Tech, Paris, France, January 2019.
Compositional models in power systems, 11th SIG Design Theory Workshop, MINES Tech, Paris, France, January 2019.
Category Theory and the Smart Grid: Compositional Approaches to Model Management in Multiscale Systems, Engineering and Public Policy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2018.
Category theory for systems engineering: Smart grid composition and control, Power Rangers Seminar, TU Delft, June, 2018.
Category theory for systems engineering: A formal, flexible foundation, TESL@UVM Seminar, University of Vermont, April, 2018.
Compositional modeling of open reaction networks, American Mathematical Society Fall Sectional Meeting, University of California, Riverside, November, 2017.
Black-boxing open reaction networks, Workshop on Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Information Processing in Chemical Networks, University of Luxembourg, June, 2017.
Compositional modeling of open chemical reaction networks, Center for Complexity Sciences, University of California, Davis, May, 2017.
Open Markov processes: A compositional framework for non-equilibrium steady states, APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March, 2017. (Poster)
Compositional frameworks for open systems, Workshop on Statistical Physics, Information Processing, and Biology, Santa Fe Institute, November, 2017.
A Second Law for open Markov processes, APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March, 2015.
Quantropy, QNET at NetSci, Berkeley, CA, June, 2014.
Remotely Sensed Spatial-Temporal Trends of Irrigated Agriculture, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2009.

Other Papers

Biochemical coupling through emergent conservation laws, John C. Baez, Blake S. Pollard, Jonathan Lorand, and Maru Sarazola, 2018, arxiv:1806.10764.
Network models, John C. Baez, John Foley, Joseph Moeller, and Blake S. Pollard, 2017.