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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Generalised Compositional Theories and Diagrammatic Reasoning </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Ross Duncan&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and and Quanlong Wang  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils</em>.
        
            Vol. 181
                of Fundamental Theories of Physics.
        Springer.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Categorical Quantum Mechanics I: Causal Quantum Processes </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Categories for the Working Philosopher</em>.
        Oxford University Press.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Compositional Quantum Logic </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Chris Heunen and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Computation&#x201a; Logic&#x201a; Games&#x201a; and Quantum Foundations: The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky</em>.
        
            Vol. 7860
                of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
        Springer.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Abstract Tensor Systems as Monoidal Categories </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Categories and Types in Logic&#x201a; Language&#x201a; and Physics&#x201a; Essays dedicated to Jim Lambek on the Occasion of this 90th Birthday</em>.
        
            Vol. 8222
                of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
        Springer.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Universal MBQC with generalised parity&#x2212;phase interactions and Pauli measurements </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and John van de Wetering  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Quantum</em>.
        
            Vol. 3.
        
                Pages 134.
            2019.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A categorical semantics for causal structure (extended version) </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Sander Uijlen  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS)</em>.
        
            Vol. 15.
        
            No. 3.
        2019.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Categorical Quantum Mechanics II: Classical&#x2212;Quantum Interaction </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>International Jounal of Quantum Information</em>.
        
            Vol. 14.
        
            No. 4.
        2016.
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            Open Graphs and Monoidal Theories </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Lucas Dixon and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Mathematical Structures in Computer Science</em>.
        
            Vol. 23.
        
            No. sp. issue 2.
        2010.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A Graphical Calculus for Lagrangian Relations </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Cole Comfort and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2022.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Causal Inference by String Diagram Surgery </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bart Jacobs&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Fabio Zanasi  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS)</em>.
        2019.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            ZH: A Complete Graphical Calculus for Quantum Computations Involving Classical Non&#x2212;linearity </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Miriam Backens and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 15th Annual conference in Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL)</em>.
        2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Rewriting with Frobenius </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Filippo Bonchi&#x201a; Fabio Gadducci&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Fabio Zanasi Pawe&#x0142;&#x0142; Soboci&#x0144;ski  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)</em>.
        2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Confluence of graph rewriting with interfaces </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Filippo Bonchi&#x201a; Fabio Gadducci&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Fabio Zanasi Pawe&#x0142;&#x0142; Soboci&#x0144;ski  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP)</em>.
        2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A categorical semantics for causal structure </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Sander Uijlen  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)</em>.
        2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Tensors&#x201a; !&#x2212;graphs&#x201a; and non&#x2212;commutative quantum structures (extended version) </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and David Quick  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Next Generation Computing 34(1). Springer/Ohmsha</em>.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Globular: an online proof assistant for higher&#x2212;dimensional rewriting </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Krzysztof Bar&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Jamie Vicary  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD)</em>.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Picturing Indefinite Causal Structure </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Sander Uijlen  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 13th Annual conference in Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL).</em>.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Rewriting modulo symmetric monoidal structure </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Filippo Bonchi&#x201a; Fabio Gadducci&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Fabio Zanasi Pawe&#x0142;&#x0142; Soboci&#x0144;ski  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)</em>.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            !&#x2212;Graphs with trivial overlap are context&#x2212;free </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Vladimir Zamdzhiev  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of Graphs as Models (GaM)&#x201a; workshop at ETAPS</em>.
        2015.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Quantomatic: A proof assistant for diagrammatic reasoning </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Vladimir Zamdzhiev  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE)</em>.
        2015.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Equational reasoning with context&#x2212;free families of string diagrams </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and Vladimir Zamdzhiev  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT)</em>.
        2015.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A first&#x2212;order logic for string diagrams </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and David Quick  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra (CALCO)</em>.
        2015.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Categories of Quantum and Classical Channels </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Chris Heunen and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Quantum Information Processing&#x201a; Springer</em>.
        2014.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Tinker&#x201a; Tailor&#x201a; Solver&#x201a; Proof </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Gudmund Grov&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and and Yuhui Lin  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of User Interfaces for Theorem Proving (UITP)&#x201a; workshop at FLoC&#x201a; Vienna Summer of Logic</em>.
        2014.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Tensors&#x201a; !&#x2212;graphs&#x201a; and non&#x2212;commutative quantum structures </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger and David Quick  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 11th workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL)</em>.
        2014.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A Graphical Language for Proof Strategies </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Gudmund Grov&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and and Yuhui Lin  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of Logic for Programming&#x201a; Artificial Intelligence&#x201a; and Reasoning (LPAR)</em>.
        
            Vol. 8312
                of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
        Springer.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Completely Positive Projections and Biproducts </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Chris Heunen&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Peter Selinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL)</em>.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Strong Complementarity and Non&#x2212;locality in Categorical Quantum Mechanics </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Ross Duncan&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Quanlong Wang  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)</em>.
        2012.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Synthesising Graphical Theories </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the workshop on Automated Theory eXploration (ATX)</em>.
        2012.
        </p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Pattern Graph Rewrite Systems </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alex Merry&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Matvey Soloviev  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM)</em>.
        2012.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Categories of Quantum and Classical Channels (extended abstract) </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Chris Heunen and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 9th workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL)</em>.
        2012.
        </p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Open Graphs and Computational Reasoning </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Lucas Dixon&#x201a; Ross Duncan and and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Developments in Computational Models</em>.
        
            Vol. 26
                of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).
        2010.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            The Compositional Structure of Multipartite Quantum Entanglement </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the 37th International Colloquium on Automata&#x201a; Languages&#x201a; and Programming (ICALP)</em>.
        
            Vol. 6199
                of LNCS/ARCoSS.
        Springer.
        2010.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            The GHZ/W&#x2212;Calculus Contains Rational Arithmetic </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger&#x201a; Alex Merry and and Shibdas Roy  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of the CSR Workshop on High Productivity Computations</em>.
        2010.
        </p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Exploring a Quantum Theory with Graph Rewriting and Computer Algebra </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            Proceedings of Calculemus</em>.
        
            Vol. 5625
                of LNCS/LNAI.
        Springer.
        2009.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Graph Rewrite Systems for Classical Structures in Dagger&#x2212;Symmetric Monoidal Categories </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails">  Master's Thesis Oxford University.
        2008.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Tensor Network Rewriting Strategies for Satisfiability and Counting </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Niel de Beaudrap&#x201a; Aleks Kissinger and Konstantinos Meichanetzidis  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2020.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Pictures of Processes: Automated Graph Rewriting for Monoidal Categories and Applications to Quantum Computing </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> A. Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2012.
        </p> <p
            class="publicationNote"> DPhil Thesis&#x201a; Oxford University</p>
	
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