My name is Pawel Sobocinski and I am an academic at ECS, University of Southampton, UK. My interests lie somewhere on the continuum between Maths and Computer Science, but recently I have also been exploring connections with Physics and Control Theory.

In this blog we will develop graphical linear algebra, a new graphical language that captures several basic concepts of linear algebra and related fields.

Graphical linear algebra has resulted from collaboration with Filippo Bonchi and Fabio Zanasi at ENS Lyon in France. Filippo and Fabio will also participate in the running of this blog.

If you are impatient and want to get to the conclusion quickly, here’s the link to our paper where the basic theory is explained (Spoiler warning!). We will also discuss several applications of graphical linear algebra that have been developed in recent years.