OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY

OASIS: The Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures

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The Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures is a weekly interdisciplinary seminar of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. This seminar series exposes the research interests of the  Foundations  Logic and Structures research group. Past seminars organised by Bob Coecke can be accessed here. The predecessor of OASIS was initiated by Samson Abramsky

 

For Michaelmas  2009 we have an organising PC of  3 people, each representing a subgroup of the Foundations group: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh for Modal Logic and Quantum Linguistics, Nikos Tzevelekos for Logic and Semantics, and Jamie Vicary for Categorical Quantum Computing. We will have 9 talks this term, 3 per subgroup! Feel free to contact any of us for further information or if you want to be added to the OASIS mailing list or to the Oxford Logic mailing list.

 

Everyone is more than welcome to attend OASIS. Unless otherwise stated, the talks are on Fridays at 2 pm in Lecture Theatre B of ComLab, followed by informal friendly discussions over a cup of tea and  cookies in the  lounge. Hope to see you all there.


forthcoming seminars | previous seminars

Friday 4th December (week 8, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Title TBC Ulrich Schoepp (LMU Munich)

Friday 27th November (week 7, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Constructing TQFTs, HQFTs and ...? Timothy Porter (University of Wales, Bangor)

Friday 20th November (week , Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B, Oxford University Computing Laboratory Understanding the basic building blocks of quantum information Dr Jonathan Oppenheim (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

Friday 13th November (week 5, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Structural Recursion with Pure Local Names Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge)

Friday 6th November (week 4, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Quantum, classical and discord correlations Vlatko Vedral (Professor of Quantum Information Science at University of Oxford, Professor of Physics at National University of Singapore)

Friday 30th October (week 3, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B, Oxford University Computing Laboratory A quantum memory lasting seconds in silicon Dr John Morton (Department of Materials, University of Oxford)

Friday 23rd October (week 2, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B The issues around proving Fermat's Last Theorem in Peano Arithmetic Professor Angus Macintyre FRS (Mathematics Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 16th October (week 1, Michaelmas Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B First-Order Reasoning for Higher-Order Concurrency Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 30th September (week -1, Michaelmas Term 2009). 16:30, Lecture Theater B (Joint with Departmental Seminar) Optimal Coin Flipping Dexter Kozen (Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering, Computer Science Department, Cornell University)

Friday 19th June (week 8, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Games and Logics with Partial Order Models Julian Gutierrez (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 12th June (week 7, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Computing stable outcomes in weighted voting games Edith Elkind (University of Southampton/ Nanyang Technological University)

Friday 5th June (week 6, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Generalized Esakia duality and canonical formulas for intuitionistic logic Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College)

Friday 29th May (week 5, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B The Coalgebraic mu-Calculus Dirk Pattinson (Imperial College)

Friday 22nd May (week 4, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Communication Optimisation and Progress in Multiparty Session Types Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College)

Friday 15th May (week 3, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Understanding Exhaustible Sets and Bar Recursion Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham)

Friday 8th May (week 2, Trinity Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theatre B Lower Bounds for Monadic Second-Order Model-Checking Stephan Kreutzer (University of Oxford)

Friday 13th March (week 8, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B A Complexity Dichotomy for Hypergraph Partition Functions Prof. Leslie Goldberg (University of Liverpool)

Friday 6th March (week 7, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Terminal coalgebras (Joint work with Tom Leinster) Eugenia Cheng (University of Sheffield)

Friday 27th February (week 6, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Second-Order Quantifier Elimination Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester)

Friday 20th February (week 5, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B How to make Chloroform do Addition: classical computing in NMR Prof. Susan Stepney (University of York)

Friday 13th February (week 4, Hilary Term 2009). 12:00, Lecture Theater B Logic of coalitional ability under bounded resources Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 5th February (week 3, Hilary Term 2009). 17:00, Maths Department Fraisse's Construction from a Topos-Theoretic Perspective (joint with Maths Dept, Different time and place) Olivia Caramello (University of Cambridge)

Friday 30th January (week 2, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B A Game based Abstraction Refinement Framework for Markov Decision Processes Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska (Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Friday 23rd January (week 1, Hilary Term 2009). 14:00, Lecture Theater B LINEAR LOGIC IN LINGUISTICS AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: LAMBEK CALCULUS, PREGROUPS AND THE GEOMETRY OF COGNITION Prof. Claudia Casadio (University of Chieti, Italy)

Friday 5th December (week 8, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B The issues around proving Fermat's Last Theorem in Peano Arithmetic (Joint with Logic Seminar of Maths Department) Angus MacIntyre (School of Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 28th November (week 7, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Description Logic II: Implementation and Optimisation Ian Horrocks (Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Friday 21st November (week 6, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B The locale of random sequences Alex Simpson (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 13th November (week 5, Michaelmas Term 2008). 17:00, Mathematics Department, L3 Models of quantum phenomena Bob Coecke (Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Friday 7th November (week 4, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Functional interpretations, linear logic and games Paulo Oliva (Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 31st October (week 3, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Operational Reconstructions of Hilbert Space Quantum Mechanics - A Guided Tour Paul Busch (Department of Mathematics, University of York)

Friday 24th October (week 2, Michaelmas Term 2008). 14:00, Lecture Theater B Proof systems for intuitionistic logic Roy Dyckhoff (School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.)

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