Our Activities

2013

• Larry Paulson visits the SMAL group (16 July, hosts: Prof. Maribel Fernandez and Christian Urban)
• Christian is at ITP (Rennes, 23 - 26 July)
• Visit by Xingyuan Zhang from the PLA University in Nanjing (27 July - 5 August)
• Christian is at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Nominal Computation Theory (13 - 16 October)

Past

2013

• Christian is at POPL (Rome, 23 - 25 January)
• Christian is at NASA Langley (10 - 21 June, hosts: Dr Cesar Munoz and Dr Mahyar Malekpour)
• Visit by Michael Norrish from NICTA (19 - 22 July)

2012

• Chunhan Wu joins the Nominal Group at King's (25 June)
• Christian gives a talk at the Nominal Sets Meet Automata Theory Workshop (Warsaw, 9 - 10 February)

2011

• Christian gives a talk at Nominal Workshop in Leicester (23 November, host: Dr Roy Crole)
• Christian will give a talk at ITP 2011 (22 - 25 August)
• Alwen Tiu from the Australian National University visits the Nominal Group (19 August)
• Christian gives a talk at ITU (15 August, host: Prof. Lars Birkedal)
• Christian gives a talk at ESOP 2011 (26 - 30 March)
• Cezary gives a talk at ACM SAC 2011 (21 - 24 March, Taipei)
• Christian gives a talk at Uppsala University (3 March, host: Prof. Joachim Parrow)
• Palle Raabjerg from Uppsala University visits the Nominal Group (2 February - 2 March)
• There will be a one-day tutorial about Nominal Isabelle at POPL 2011

2010

• Isabelle/Isar tutorial at University Paris Sud (22 - 23 November, host: Dr Markus Wenzel)
• Christian gives a talk at the University of Sussex (3 November, host: Dr Martin Berger)
• Christian gives an invited talk at WMM'10 (Baltimore, 25 September)
• Christian gives a talk at the Jiao Tong University (20 September, host: Prof. Kenny Zhu)
• Christian gives a course on Isabelle programming at the University of Nanjing (host: Prof. Xingyuan Zhang, 1st - 31st August)
• Christian gives an invited talk at UNIF'10 (Edinburgh, 14 July)
• Talk at ITP (Edinburgh, 11 - 14 July)
• Larry Paulson and Christian organise the Isabelle Developers Workshop (Cambridge, 17 - 18 June)
• Christian gives a talk in the Automated Reasoning Group in Cambridge (8 June)
• Cezary will leave us to take up a research fellowship in Japan. Congratulations! (31 May)
• Christian gives a talk in the Isabelle group (28 May)
• Christian is on the thesis committee of Clement Houtmann (Nancy, 12 March)
• Christian gives a talk in the Automated Reasoning Group in Cambridge (16 February)
• POPL (20th - 22nd January)

2009

• Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar (4th - 9th October)
• Christian is PC-chair of the Workshop on Mechanizing Metatheory
• Jeremy Dawson from the Australian National University visits the Nominal Group (13 - 26 August)
• Yongjian Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing visits the Nominal Group (13 - 25 August)
• Randy Pollack from the University of Edinburgh visits the Nominal Group (17 - 21 August)
• Christian is PC co-chair of TPHOLs (17 - 20 August)
• Christian organises the Isabelle Developers Workshop co-located with TPHOLs (13 - 15 August)
• Cezary Kaliszyk joins the Nominal Group
• Christian visist Prof. T.H. Tse at Hong Kong University (24 - 30 June)
• Christian gives an Isabelle course at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (May/June, hosts: Prof. Huimin Lin and Prof. Yongjian Li)
• Christian gives a talk at Tsinghua University (22 May, host: Prof. Jean-Pierre Jouannaud)
• Christian gives a talk in Darmstadt (21 April, host: Prof. Helmut Veith)
• Stefan visits Jesper Bengtson (20 April - 1 May)
• Christian was at the TAASN'09 workshop as member of the PC (22nd March)
• Jesper Bengtson visits Stefan (23rd February - 5th March)
• Christian is at POPL (18th - 24th January)

2008

• Version 0.15 of Nominal Isabelle (22nd December)
• Christian is a visiting research fellow at Princeton (15th September - 13th December)
• Christian gives a talk at MIT (21th November, hosts Prof. Martin Rinard and Dr Cameron Freer)
• Christian gives a talk at NYU (10th November, host Prof. Benjamin Goldberg)
• Christian gives a talk at the kick-off meeting of the PUMA Doctoral Programme (28 September - 3 October, Spitzingsee)
• Christian gives an invited talk at LSFA (26th August, Brazil)
• Stefan gives a talk at at TPHOLs (18 - 21 August, Montreal, Canada)
• Stefan and Christian give a Nominal Isabelle tutorial at IJCAR'08 (11 August, Sydney)
• Christian gives a course on nominal reasoning techniques at the Oregon Programming Languages summer school (22 - 30 July, Eugene, [slides])
• Christian gives a talk at RTA (15 - 17 July, Hagenberg, Austria)
• Christian gives a talk at LICS (24 - 27 June, Pittsburgh)
• Andreas Abel and Christian organise the LFMTP'08 workshop
• Christian gives a talk in Swansea (1 April)
• Christian presents a poster at TTVSI (25 - 26 March, London)
• Stefan gives a talk at TYPES conference (26 - 29 March, Torino, Italy)
• Christian gives a talk at the CANS meeting (10 March, King's College London)
• Christian gives a talk at Imperial College, London (6. March)
• Matthew Lakin (Ph.D. student of Andy Pitts, Cambridge, 18. - 22. February) visits the nominal group, slides [pdf]
• Peter Chapman (Ph.D. student of Roy Dyckhoff, St Andrews) visits the nominal group (11. - 15. February, slides [pdf])
• Christian gives a talk at Yale University, New Haven (24. January)
• Christian gives a talk at Northeastern University, Boston (22. January)
• Christian gives two talks at Indiana University, Bloomington (16. and 18. January)
• Christian has a look what the competition is up to at the POPL workshop on Coq (8. January)
• Version 0.14 of Nominal Isabelle (7. January)

2007

• Christian gives two talks in Saarbrücken (13. and 14. December)
• Jesper Bengtson (Ph.D. student of Joachim Parrow, Uppsala) visits the nominal group (1. - 9. December, slides [pdf])
• James Cheney from LFCS Edinburgh visits the nominal group (29. October - 15. November)
• Version 0.13 of Nominal Isabelle (12. Oktober)
• Talk by Christian at WMM'07 (4. October)
• Randy Pollack from LFCS Edinburgh visits the nominal group (25. - 29. September, slides: [pdf])
• Jeremy Dawson from NICTA Australia visits the nominal group (15. - 25. September)
• Version 0.12 of Nominal Isabelle (18. September)
• Michael Norrish form NICTA Australia visits the nominal group (5. - 9. September, slides: [pdf])
• Julien received a lectureship at the University of Strasbourg - the members of the nominal group say congratulation and thanks for the excellent work he has done in the past year (1. September)
• Temesghen Kahsai from the University of Swansea visits us and tells us about his work on formalising the spi-calculus done under the supervision of Marino Miculan (13. - 16. August)
• Talk by Christian at LFMTP and CADE; talk by Stefan at the Isabelle Workshop (Bremen, 15. - 20. July)
• Course by Christian at the International School on Rewriting (Nancy, 2. - 6. July)
• Version 0.11 of Nominal Isabelle (25. June)
• Talk by Christian at LFCS (Edinburgh, 29. May)
• Talks by Stefan and Christian at the Nominal Workshop at ICMS (Edinburgh, 26. - 28. May)
• Christian was invited researcher at NICTA Canberra and gave a talk (host: Michael Norrish, 5. - 23. May)
• Talk by Stefan at the TYPES Meeting in Udine (2. - 5. May)
• Mathilde Arnaud from the ENS Cachan visits the nominal methods group to do an internship (April - August)
• Version 0.10 of Nominal Isabelle (12. April)
• Version 0.09 of Nominal Isabelle (22. March)
• Talk by Julien at the LogiCal/Proval's seminar, Palaiseau, France (20. March)
• Talk by Christian in St Andrews, UK (13. February)
• Talk by Julien in the group of Xavier Leroy (Paris, 9. February)
• James Cheney visits the nominal methods group (5. - 10. February, slides: [pdf])
• Version 0.08 of Nominal Isabelle (18. January)