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Logic and Semantics seminars are usually held at 2pm on Fridays in room FW11. Talks are of relevance to the Automated Reasoning Group and/or the Theory and Semantics Group. The seminars are organized by Tom Ridge. Please contact him if you would like more information or would like to suggest a speaker or offer to talk yourself.

Easter Term 2005

29th April
14:00
John Tucker, University of Wales, Swansea
Computation and Specification with Continuous Data
6th May
14:00
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
Nominal Logic Programming
13th May
14:00
Daniele Varacca, Imperial College
Semantic Subtyping for the pi-Calculus
20th May
14:00
Neil Yorke-Smith, SRI International
A Framework for Constraint Reasoning with Uncertain Data
3rd June
14:00 FW09
Pablo Arrighi, IMAG, Grenoble
Linear-Algrabraic Lambda Calculus
8th July
14:00
Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen
Semantics of Separation-Logic Typing and Higher-Order Frame Rules

Michaelmas Term 2004

15th October
14:00
John Reynolds, Carnegie Mellon
Toward a Grainless Semantics for Shared-Variable Concurrency
29th October
14:00
Dietmar Berwanger, RWTH Aachen
Hope and Trust in Infinite Games
12th November
14:00
Peter O'Hearn, Queen Mary, University of London
Resources, Concurrency and Local Reasoning
19th November
14:00
Richard Bornat, Middlesex University
Permissions, Concurrency, Resourcing:
A Breakthrough and a Grand Challenge
26th November
14:00
Phil Scott, University of Ottawa and University of Oxford
Geometry of Interaction and the Dynamics of Proofs
Mon 6th December
FW11 14:00
and Tue 7th December
FW26 14:00
Samson Abramsky and Bob Coecke, University of Oxford
Abstract Quantum Mechanics:
High-Level Methods for Quantum Computation and Information

Lent Term 2005

4th February
14:00
Max Kanovich, Queen Mary, University of London
Resolving Problems in the World of Integer Partitions by Techniques from the Rewriting World
Wed 16th February
14:00 FW26
Ian Stark, University of Edinburgh
Free-Algebra Models for the Pi-Calculus
18th February
14:00 MSR
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham
Verifying Accessibility in Access Control Systems
25th February
14:00
Randy Pollack, University of Edinburgh
Reasoning about Languages with Binding: Can we do it yet?
Thu 3rd March
11:30 FW26
Tom Ridge, University of Edinburgh
Lessons From Some Recent Case Studies in HOL
4th March
10:30
David Pichardie, ENS de Cachan
Formal Development of Java Byte Code Abstract Interpreters
4th March
14:00 LT2
Martín Escardó, University of Birmingham
Operational Domain Theory and Topology of a Sequential Programming Language
11th March
14:00
Philippa Gardner, Imperial College
Local Reasoning about Tree Update
Tue 22nd March
12:00 SW01
Tim Fernando, Trinity College, Dublin
Propositions-as-Types and Regular Languages for Natural Language Semantics