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Martín Escardó

Reader in Theoretical Computer Science
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

My current research interests include topological methods in the theory of computation (including topology in higher-type computability theory), algorithmic topology of program types, domains and continuous lattices in analysis and topology , effective and constructive real analysis, exact real-number computation, locale theory, programming language semantics, domain theory, lambda-calculus, functional programming.

The last two are applications of the topological view of computation. But the topological view, discussed in the publications, is interesting on its own right.

I joined Birmingham University in September 2000. My first degree was from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Sul in Brazil, where I also obtained an MSc degree by research. During my undergraduate and MSc studies, I worked in industry. I then went to Imperial College of the University of London for my PhD under the supervision of Mike B. Smyth. After completing this in April 1997, I was a postdoc for one year at Imperial, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh for two years, and then at the University of St Andrews for one year.
By the way, what is computer science?


email: m.escardo at cs dot bham dot ac dot uk office: 212 phone: +44 121 414 2797 fax: +44 121 414 4281

directions: Look for building Y9 in the yellow zone of the Edgbaston campus map. This is about 1 minute walking time from the train station. Turn left when you exit the station, and walk for about 30 meters. Our building is the right-hand one of two red-brick twin buildings facing each other.


Last modified: Tue Dec 2 13:45:27 GMT 2008