Workshop on Foundations of Computation in Sheffield

Join us on 29-30 January for our Foundations of Computer Science Workshop.

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This workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers interested in the foundations of computer science, but attendance is open for anyone. 

There will be 5 invited speakers from Edinburgh, Liverpool, LSE, Oxford, Warwick and 7 local speakers.

Date: 29-30 January 2024

Venue: Lecture Theatre 2 of the Broad Lane Block (BROAD LT2)

Booking: There is no need to book a place! Please just turn up. If you have any questions about the event please click the link below. 

Further information and talk abstracts

Programme

Monday 29.01.

10:30 – 10:40 Welcome  
10:40 – 11:30 Mutual Exclusion: Possibilities and Impossibilities Rob van Glabbeek (University of Edinburgh)
11:30 – 12:20 Title TBC Sagnik Mukhopadhyay
(University of Sheffield)
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 – 14:50 Title TBC Rahul Santhanam
(University of Oxford)
14:50 – 15:40 Nominal Recursors as Epi-Recursors Andrei Popescu
(University of Sheffield)
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee  
16:10 – 17:00 Expressive Quantale-valued Logics for Coalgebras: an Adjunction-based Approach Harsh Beohar
(University of Sheffield)
17:00 – 17:50 Termination of Higher-Order Probabilistic Programs Charles Grellois
(University of Sheffield)
18:00 – 19:00 Pub (optional)
19:00 – Dinner at Maveli  

Tuesday 30.01.

9:00 – 9:50 Craig Interpolants without Craig Interpolation Frank Wolter
(University of Liverpool)
9:50 – 10:40 Logics and Complexity Theory on Reals with Connections to Neural Networks Jonni Virtema
(University of Sheffield)
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee  
11:10 – 12:00 Moser-Tardos Algorithm with Small Number of Random Bits Oleg Pikhurko
(University of Warwick)
12:00 – 13:40 Lunch  
13:40 – 14:30 A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for the Minimum-Cost Generalized Flow Problem László Végh
(London School of Economics)
14:30 – 15:20 Parameterized Approximation Schemes for Clustering with General Norm Objectives Joachim Spoerhase
(University of Sheffield)
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee  
15:50 – 16:40 Probabilistic Methods for Combinatorial Structures in Isabelle/HOL Chelsea Edmonds
(University of Sheffield)

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