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- 16/11/2009: Lecture on November 23 is CANCELLED
- 14/11/2009: I co-organise 50 Years of Computer Science in Birmingham
- 01/11/2009: This week I will give seminars at INRIA, Saclay and PPS, Paris
- 06/10/2009: New lecture time for CUDA module: Monday 9-11, UG40, Computer Science
- 05/10/2009: New web page for CUDA module
- 27/09/2009: Remedial maths for incoming students
- 24/09/2009: New doctoral student starting, Alex Smith
- 22/09/2009: Synchron 2009 will be held in Dagstuhl
- 07/09/2009: PC member for LICS 2010
- 22/08/2009: Lics tutorial paper Applications of Game Semantics: From Software Analysis to Hardware Synthesis is available online
- 22/08/2009: Lics paper, with Adam Bakewell, Clipping: A Semantics-Directed Syntactic Approximation is available online
- 22/08/2009: paper on function interface models was mentioned on Lambda the Ultimate
- 13/08/2009: an N-Category Cafe comment on my hardware compilation work
- 04/07/2009: most slides from the Bridging the Gap workshop are online
- 22/06/2009: Technology Strategy Board workshop on The Future of Multicore Computing in the UK
- 04/06/2009: Preliminary LICS programme posted
- 03/06/2009: Upcoming workshop in Birmingham: The Programming Challenge of Heterogeneous Architectures
- 15/05/2009: Teaching new module in Autum 2009, Programming Massively Parallel Architectures
- 12/05/2009: Upcoming Seminar at University of Ghent, on 26-27 May
- 09/04/2009: Tacas '09 paper Compositional Predicate Abstraction from Game Semantics (Bakewell, Ghica) posted online
- 19/03/2009: upcoming paper at LICS'09: Clipping: A Semantics-directed syntactic approximation, with Adam Bakewell
- 25/02/2009: upcoming talks at GALOP for myself, my postdoc Adam Bakewell and my student Mohamed Menaa
- 20/02/2009: series of three lectures at the University of Bucharest on game semantics and applications to verification and synthesis (in Romanian)
- 04/02/2009: registration for the Games for Logic and Programming Languages IV (GALOP) workshop is now open.
- 14/12/2008: upcoming new paper with Adam Bakewell, Compositional Predicate Abstraction from Game Semantics; to appear at TACAS'09.
- 04/12/2008: new paper, Function Interface Models for Hardware Compilation, belabors an obvious point.
- 03/12/2008: PC of OpenCert at ETAPS 09.
- 01/12/2008: talk at Synchron'08
- 22/11/2008: upcoming tutorial on applications of game semantics at LICS'09
- 21/11/2008: upcoming (with Peter O'Hearn) special session dedicated to Bob Tennent at MFPS 25
- 16/09/2008: PC of Automatic Program Verification
- 07/07/2008: PC of TLCA 2009.
- 09/06/2008: PC of GlobalComp (a Synasc workshop)
- 26/05/2008: I will no longer have regular office hours. Please email to make an appointment.
- 21/05/2008: The submission site for the APAL special issue associated with GALOP III is now open;
- 14/05/2008: PC for OpenCert/FLOSS;
- 09/05/2008: GaLoP IV will be a part of ETAPS 2009;
- 09/04/2008: course on Games for Software Verification at MGS 2008;
- 08/04/2008: The book Moisil and His Followers is now in print;
- 03/03/2008: The GaLoP III
programme is now on-line;
register here.
- 21/02/2008: departmental seminar at Univerisity of Warwick on A structured approach to VLSI design;
- 06/02/2008:
The APAL
special issue on GaLoP I is now available in print.
- 09/01/2008: During the Spring term I will teach part of the Automatic Verification module
- 09/01/2008: My new office hour for the Spring term is Tuesday, 2.30 - 3.30;
- 10/12/2007: A paper describing Mage was accepted for publication at TACAS 2008: On-the-Fly Techniques for Games-Based Software Model Checking (with Adam Bakewell)
- 18/12/2007: talk at the MGS Chrismas seminar: Geometry of Synthesis
- 06/11/2007: seminar at Oxford University Computing Lab: Lazy games-based software model checking
- 24/10/2007: seminar at Imperial College, Electrical Engineering: Yet another C-to-hardware compiler
Research interests
I am interested in game semantics and its applications: program
verification, program analysis, specification logics, hardware
synthesis.
If you are interested in doing a PhD in this area you should
read this
then e-mail me. Application procedures are
described here.
Publications
Most of my publications
(DBLP) are available on-line.
Research Group
Tools
I was involved in the development of several game-based verification tools. Two of them are available for download:
- Mage: the state of the art tool, which uses on-the fly model checking and approximation refinement;
- GameChecker: an earlier tool which uses FDR as a back end. It supports unbounded integers.
Groups
I am a member of the local Verification,
Principles
of Programming and Modelling research Groups.
Grants
- Epsrc
EP/D070880/1: A Unified Approach to Compositional Software
Modelling, Analysis and Verification (Advanced Fellowship)
- Epsrc
EP/E010180/1: The role of language covers in games-based
abstraction and refinement (visiting grant
for Mike Domaratzki)
- Epsrc EP/D034906/1: Modular Abstraction and Abstraction Refinement: A Game-Semantic
Approach (principal investigator)
Other research-related activities
