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+Cubical Type Theory: lectures
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+This folder contains four lectures given by Anders at Inria Sophia
+Antipolis in May-June 2017. The lectures cover the main features of
+the system and doesn't assume any prior knowledge of homotopy type
+theory or univalent foundations. Only basic familiarity with type
+theory and proof assistants based on type theory (e.g. Coq or Agda) is
+assumed.
+
+The contents of the lectures are:
+
+1. Basic features of the base type theory and little bit of Path types
+   (Path abstraction and application).
+
+2. More on Path types (symmetry and connections) and compositions.
+
+3. Higher dimensional compositions, transport and J for Path types,
+   fill and H-levels (contractible types, propositions, sets,
+   groupoids...).
+
+4. Equivalences, Glue types and proofs of the univalence axiom.
+
+The lectures hence gives a hands-on introduction covering sections 2-7
+of the [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02108).
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