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Programme (videos of talks)

Friday, 23 May 2014

08.30-09.30

Registration and Payment

09.30-10.00

Conference opening

10.00-10.30

Mike Mislove

Title: From Haar to Lebesgue via Domain Theory

10.30-11.00

Stephen Brookes

Title: Grainless models of concurrency

11.00-11.30

BREAK

11.30-12.00

Joel Ouaknine

Title: The Polyhedron-Hitting Problem

12.00-12.30

James Worrell

Title: Ultimate Positivity is Decidable for Linear Recurrence Sequences

12:30-13:00

Franck van Breugel

Title: The Complexity of Computing a Bisimilarity Pseudometric on

Probabilistic Automata

13:00-14:30

LUNCH

14:30-15:00

Samson Abramsky

Title: An Operational Interpretation of Negative Probabilities and No-Signaling Models

15:00-15:30

Bart Jacobs

Title: Perspectives on Quantum Logic

15:30-16:00

Elham Kashefi

Title: TBC

16:00-16:30

BREAK

16:30-17:00

Jan Rutten

Title: The dual equivalence of equations and coequations for automata

17:00-17:30

Vincent Danos

Title: Formal mean field theories for graph rewriting

17:30-18:00

Catuscia Palamidessi

Title: A Multiplicative Variant of the Kantorovich distance suitable to verify Differential Privacy

19:00

Drinks Reception/Buffet Dinner @ St Anne’s College

Saturday, 24 May 2014

09.30-10.00

Gordon Plotkin

Title: Two forms of nondeterminism" 

10.00-10.30

Glynn Winskel

Title: Distributed probabilistic strategies

10.30-11.00

Philip Scott

Title: Coordinatizing Countable MV-Algebras and AF C*-algebras

11.00-11.30

BREAK

11.30-12.00

Frank de Boer

Title: Leaving Traces: A Note on a Sound and Complete Trace Logic for Concurrent Constraint Programs

12.00-12.30

Kim Larsen

Title: Probabilistic Bisimulation Distances and Statistical Model Checking

12:30-13:00

Alexandra Silva

Title: Automata Learning: a Categorical Perspective

13:00-14:30

LUNCH

14:30-15:00

Bob Coecke

Title:  Terminality implies non-signalling (and other abstract nonsense about causality)

15:00-15:30

Ross Duncan

Title: The non-logic of quantum mechanics, or: how I learned to live without propositions-as-types

15:30-16:00

Mingsheng Ying

Title: Quantum Programming: From Superposition of Data to Superposition of Programs

16:00-16:30

BREAK

16:30-17:00

Marta Kwiatkowska

Title: Probabilistic Model Checking of Labelled Markov Processes via Finite Approximate Bisimulations

17:00-17:30

Doina Precup

Title: Bisimulation for Markov Decision Processes Through Families of Functional Expressions

17:30-18:00

Sophia Knight

Title: Asynchronous Public Announcement

Sunday, 25 May 2014

09.30-10.00

Dexter Kozen

Title: Optimal Coin Flipping

 

10.00-10.30

Radha Jagadeesan

Title: TCC, with History

 

10.30-11.00

Jean Goubault-Larrecq

Title: Random Measurable Selections

 

11.00-11.30

BREAK

 

11.30-12.00

Josée Desharnais

Title: Enforcing data-flow and termination-sensitive information flow: a hybrid approach

 

12.00-12.30

Clemens Kupke

Title: Game semantics for the topological mu-calculus

 

12:30-13:00

Radu Mardare

Title: Prolegomena to any future topological semantics for Markov Processes

 

13:00-14:30

LUNCH

 

14:30-15:00

Patrick Hayden

Title: Spacetime quantum secret sharing

 

15:00-15:30

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Title: Word order alternation in Sanskrit via precyclicity in pregroup grammars

 

15:30-16:00

Peter Selinger

Title: Generators and relations for the Clifford groupoid