Seminars


The Theory Group research seminars are scheduled usually on Wednesday mornings, and are followed by lunch. Here is some info on how to get here, and our archive of previous seminars and activities. If you are interested in giving a seminar or being added to our mailing list, please contact the seminar organiser Nikos Tzevelekos in the first instance.

When Where What
27 Mar 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Andrew Pitts (Cambridge)
Nominal Scott Domains
13 Mar 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Gennaro Parlato (Southampton)
The Tree-Width of Decidable Problems
6 Mar 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Søren Riis (QMUL)
New ideas in Information theory
27 Feb 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Christina Jansen (RWTH Aachen)
Juggrnaut: A Graph-Based Approach to Heap Abstraction
21 Feb 2013
(12:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Alexandru Mereacre (Oxford)
A Simulink Hybrid Heart Model for Quantitative Verification of Cardiac Pacemakers
20 Feb 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Anne Preller (LIRMM Montpellier)
Functional Semantics versus Conceptual Semantics
13 Feb 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Michael Tautschnig (QMUL)
Software Analysis for Weak Memory Models
6 Feb 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Eric Koskinen (New York University)
Specialization for Synchronization
30 Jan 2013
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Max Kanovich (QMUL)
Finding optimal solutions to the abduction problem in separation logic
23 Jan 2013
(11:30)
QMUL
CS:414
Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
Coalgebraic Treatment of Subgame-perfect Equilibria in Infinite Games without Discounting
16 Jan 2013
(11:30)
QMUL
CS:414
Hongseok Yang (Oxford)
Understanding Eventual Consistency
5 Dec 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Robin Neatherway (Oxford)
A Traversal Based Algorithm for Higher−Order Model Checking
28 Nov 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Fabrizio Biondi (ITU Copenhagen)
Quantifying Information Leakage of Randomized Protocols
21 Nov 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Joint Queen Mary/Imperial Seminar
Steffen van Bakel (Imperial)
The language X: term rewriting, continuations and classical types, and the impossibility of filter semantics
14 Nov 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Oxford)
Compact Closed Categories and Frobenius Algebras for Computing Natural Language Meaning
7 Nov 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Arno Pauly (Cambridge)
The category of multivalued functions, with an application to many-one reductions
31 Oct 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Quoc-Sang Phan (QMUL)
Symbolic Quantitative Information Flow
24 Oct 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Joint Queen Mary/Imperial Seminar
Steffen van Bakel (Imperial)
Approximation Semantics and Expressive Predicate Assignment for Object-Oriented Programming
17 Oct 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Pierre Clairambault (Cambridge)
Isomorphisms of types in the presence of higher-order references
3 Oct 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Luca Fossati (QMUL)
Intensional and Extensional Characterisation of Global Progress in the Pi-Calculus
26 Sep 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Fabrizio Montesi (ITU Copenhagen)
Deadlock-freedom-by-design: Multiparty Asynchronous Global Programming
20 Sep 2012
(11:00-17:45)
QMUL
BR:3.01
17th Wessex Theory Seminar
Schedule and other info
11 Sep 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
BR:3.01
(CS:337)
Joint Queen Mary/Imperial Seminar
Jean-Marie Madiot (Lyon/Bologna)
Duality in pi-calculus
1 Aug 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Matthew Hague (Paris-Est)
Model-checking Higher-Order Programs via Saturation and Collapse
25 Jul 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Dino Distefano (QMUL)
A Voyage to the Deep-Heap
27 Jun 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Joint Queen Mary/Imperial Seminar
Daniele Gorla (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
On the notion of good encoding
20 June 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Philippe Schnoebelen (ENS Cachan)
Ackermann-Hardness for Lossy Counter Machines and Reset Petri Nets (slides)
13 June 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Pasquale Malacaria (QMUL)
The Thermodynamics of Confidentiality
31 May 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Paulo Oliva (QMUL)
Games and Logic
24 May 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Jade Alglave (QMUL)
A Weak Memory Model Appetizer
16 May 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
CS:414
Paolo Masci (QMUL)
Using automated reasoning tools to study compliance of device interface behaviour to interaction design principles
9 May 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez (QMUL)
Separation Logic + Superposition Calculus = Heap Theorem Prover
2 May 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Romain Demangeon (QMUL)
Expressiveness of subtyped pi-calculus
25 Apr 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
Nikos Tzevelekos (QMUL)
Games with names
4 Apr 2012
(15:00)
QMUL
BR4.02
(CS446)
Boris Köpf (IMDEA)
Quantifying Side-Channels in RSA and AES
28 Mar 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Maths:1.03
James Brotherston (QMUL)
Craig Interpolation in Displayable Logics
20 Mar 2012
(11:00)
QMUL
Eng203
Vijay D'Silva (UC Berkeley)
Satisfiability Solvers are Static Analysers
or: How I learned to stop bit-blasting and love abstract interpretation
29 Feb 2012
(15:00)
QMUL
BR4.02
Pierre Clairambault (University of Cambridge)
Concurrent games [Cancelled]
11 Jan 2012
(15:00)
QMUL
BR4.02
Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway)
TLS security - where do we stand?