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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/index.html">Home</A><BR> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Nominal/">Nominal Isabelle</A> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/logic.html">People in Logic</A><BR> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/programming.html">Programming Languages</A><BR> |
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<H1>Christian Urban</H1> |
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<B>E-mail</B> |
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christian.urban <I>at</I> kcl ac uk<BR> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk">Department of Informatics</A>, |
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<A HREF="http://www.kcl.ac.uk">King's College London</A>, |
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Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. My office is S1.27 on the 1st floor of the Strand Building. |
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<IMG SRC="new.gif" ALT="" style="" align="left"><A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Cookbook" target="_top">Isabelle Programming Tutorial</A> (draft of a 200-page tutorial on Isabelle programming)<BR><BR> |
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<B>Current Position</B> |
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I am a lecturer in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. |
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This is similar to a position of an assistant professor in other places. In 2011, |
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<A HREF="http://en.itu.dk/" TITLE="ITU, Copenhagen">here</A>, |
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and full professorships |
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<A HREF="http://www.ustcsz.edu.cn/kedweb/" TITLE="IAS, Suzhou">here</A> and |
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<A HREF="http://www.sei.ecnu.edu.cn/En/Default" TITLE="Shanghai">here</A>. |
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I thank all people involved for their efforts. |
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<B>Past Positions</B> |
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In April 2006, I was awarded an <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether">Emmy-Noether</A> |
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Between September 2008 and February 2009, I was an invited research scientist in |
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the <A HREF="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/">Department of Computer Science</A> in Princeton. |
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from 2000 until 2004 I was awarded a Research Fellowship in Cambridge. Before that |
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I did my PhD in Cambridge funded by two scholarships from the German Academic Exchange |
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Service (<A HREF="http://www.daad.de/index.html">DAAD</A>). |
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<B>Skolem Award 2015</B> Together with |
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<A HREF="http://www.cadeinc.org/SkolemAward.html">Thoralf Skolem Award</A>, a ten-year |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Publications/nom-cade-05.ps">paper</A> |
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on Nominal Techniques in Isabelle/HOL from 2005. |
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<B>Research Interests</B> theorem provers, verification, programming languages, compilers, |
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algorithms, proof theory, type systems, concurrency, lambda calculus, unification, |
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regular expressions, computability, complexity, functional and logic programming. |
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<B>Teaching</B> I usually enjoy teaching. At King's my students nominated me for the Teaching |
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Excellence Award in |
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2012 and 2015, and for the best MSc Project supervisor in 2015. |
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In 2014 I received both prizes for Best UG Project Supervisor and for Best |
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<B>Conferences</B> |
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UNIF'06 (member of PC), |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Nominal/activities/lfmtp08/">LFMTP'08</A> (PC co-chair), |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/TAASN.html">TAASN'09</A> (member of PC), |
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<A HREF="http://lsfa09.cic.unb.br/">LSFA'09</A> (member of PC), |
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<A HREF="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~sweirich/wmm/wmm09.html">WMM'09</A> (PC chair), |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/UNIF/UNIF.html">UNIF'10</A> (invited speaker), |
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<B>Nominal Isabelle</B> |
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I currently work on Nominal |
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<A HREF="http://wwwbroy.in.tum.de/~berghofe/">Dr Stefan Berghofer</A>, |
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theorem proving. My funding for this work was provided in 2004 and 2005 by a research |
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