Logic and Formal Methods in Computer Science
Advanced Seminar

Schedule
2005-2006

Place: Kaplun 319
Time: Tuesdays, 10:10 - 12:00

Fall Semester


Date Speaker Title (Click for Abstract)
-1. 6 October Jamie Gabbay (King's College) Nominal rewriting
0. 1 November -- (Organizational get together)
1. 8 November Assaf Rinot (TAU Math) Consistency strength of the Milner/Sauer conjecture
2. 15 November Yoram Hirshfeld (TAU Math) Temporal logics for continuous time
3. 22 November Nir Piterman (Lausanne) An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Sequential Infinite-State Systems
4. 29 November Jacob Katz (Intel) Model checking with quantified Boolean formulas
5. 6 December Alex Rabinovich Game semantics
6. 13 December
7. 20 December *** Conference ***
8. 27 December Eyal Amir (Urbana) Lifted First-Order Probabilistic Inference
9. 3 January Dov Gabbay (King's College) What is a logical system 2005?
10. 10 January Nachum Dershowitz Some Aspects of Propositional Horn Theories
11. 17 January Iddo Tzameret Proof complexity generators
12. 24 January Alex Nadel (TAU, Intel) A Clause-Based Heuristic for SAT Solvers
13. 31 January Arnon Avron A Framework for Formalizing Set Theories

Spring Semester


Date Speaker Title (Click for Abstract)
0. 7 March Uri Abraham (Ben Gurion U) Classifying behavior of protocols
1. 14 March   *** Purim ***
2. 21 March Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew U)
Algebras of Measurements: the logical structure of Quantum Mechanics
3. 28 March
*** Elections ***
4. 4 April Janos Makowsky (Technion) Logical aspects of graph polynomials
5. 11 April   *** Spring Break ***
6. 18 April   *** Passover ***
7. 25 April Alexander Rabinovich Undecidability of irrational temporal logics
7b. 27 April ***make-up*** Arnaud Carayol (IRISA, France) Survey on infinite automata
8. 2 May   *** Memorial Day ***
9. 9 May Jamie Gabbay (King's College) Nominal algebra with applications
10. 16 May
11. 23 May Malika More (Clermont-Ferrand) Ash's counting functions and characterization of Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé equivalence for two classes of finite graphs
12. 30 May Anna Zamansky Canonical Gentzen-type calculi with (n,k)-ary quantifiers
13. 6 June Amit Shomrat Uniformization and selection over ordinals and trees
14. 13 June *** Conference ***


Previous years

Organizers: N. Dershowitz and Alexander Rabinovich