Dr Mike Stannett
PhD
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Progression Tutor (L1, L3)
Sustainability Lead
m.stannett@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1841
+44 114 222 1841
Regent Court (DCS)
Full contact details
Dr Mike Stannett
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Mike Stannett is a theoretical computer scientist attached to the Foundations of Computation Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at Sheffield University. Originally working in hypercomputation theory, his current research mainly concerns Logical Foundations of Relativity Theories and Isabelle/HOL verification of related theorems.
- Research interests
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Dr Stannett is interested in many areas of research, including Unconventional Computing and First-Order Logical Foundations of Physics.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Groups of worldview transformations implied by Einstein’s special principle of relativity over arbitrary ordered fields. The Review of Symbolic Logic. View this article in WRRO
- Specification, Testing and Verification of Unconventional Computations using Generalised X-Machines. International Journal of General Systems, 43(7), 713-721. View this article in WRRO
- Faster than light motion does not imply time travel. CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, 31(9). View this article in WRRO
- Using Isabelle/HOL to Verify First-Order Relativity Theory. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 52(4), 361-378. View this article in WRRO
- Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry : Methods and Applications, 10.
- Using Isabelle to verify special relativity, with application to hypercomputation theory.
- Addressing Self-Management in Cloud Platforms: a Semantic Sensor Web Approach. HotTopiCS '13 Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Hot topics in cloud services, 11-18.
- Computation and Spacetime Structure. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 9(1-2), 173-184.
- Computing the appearance of physical reality. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 219(1), 54-62.
- P Systems Controlled by General Topologies.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7445, 70-81.
- The computational status of physics: A computable formulation of quantum theory. Natural Computing, 8(3), 517-538.
- The case for hypercomputation. APPL MATH COMPUT, 178(1), 8-24.
- View this article in WRRO Groups of Worldview Transformations Implied by Isotropy of Space. Journal of Applied Logic.
Conference proceedings papers
- Experiencing the Sheffield team software project: a project-based learning approach to teaching agile. Proceedings of 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) (pp 1299-1305). Porto, Portugal, 27 April 2020 - 30 April 2020. View this article in WRRO
- An integrated model checking toolset for kernel P systems. Membrane Computing, Vol. 9504 (pp 153-170) View this article in WRRO
- Utilising Stream Reasoning Techniques to Create a Self-Adaptation Framework for Cloud Environments. The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITA. Dresden, Germany, 9 December 2013 - 12 December 2013.
- Using Topological Spaces to Control P Systems. Computability in Europe (CiE) 2012. Cambridge, 18 June 2012 - 23 June 2012.
- On the Role of Stream Reasoning in Run-time Monitoring and Analysis in Autonomic Systems. http://www.seerc.org/dsc2013. Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 September 2013 - 17 September 2013.
- Research group
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Foundations of Computation research group
- Grants
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- Interdisciplinary Workshop of Hypercomputation, EPSRC, 06/2006 to 12/2006, £7,646, as PI
- Hypercomputation Research Network, EPSRC, 01/2008 to 01/2011, £61,074, as PI
- Machine Verification of First-Order Relativity Theories, ROYAL SOCIETY, 01/2012 to 12/2013, £11,960, as PI
- Developing New Robust 'What-if' Models for 'Bitcoin Use' and assessing its Risk, RCUK (JOINT RESEARCH COUNCILS), 08/2014 to 11/2014, £294, as PI
- Research in Pairs, LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, 04/2016 to 04/2016, £810, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the London Mathematical Society
- Visiting Fellow (2012), Isaac Newton Institute
- Professional organisations: AISB, LMS, CiE, ASL.