seminar
The following talks took place in the past or are scheduled for the FACS Lab Seminar series:
2011
- Dr Hannes Diener, University of Siegen, Germany
Constructive Reverse Mathematics
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Charlotte Kestner, University of Leeds, UK
Measurability in Modules
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 16h00, M 214
2010
- Prof Conrado Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Searching with Dice
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Sasha Rubin, Research Visitor, UCT
What are automatic structures?
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Christian Geist, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Computer-Aided Proofs for Impossibility Theorems in Social Choice Theory
Thursday, 16 February 2010, 16h00, M 207
- Dr Stéphane Le Roux, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Sequential Game Theory: A Formal and Abstract Approach
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
2009
- Thomas Birch, University of Cape Town
Algorithmic Randomness on Metric Spaces and the Random Core Operation
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Benedikt Löwe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reduction Functions as Strategies in Infinite Games
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Pavol Safarik, University of Darmstadt, Germany
On the Computational Content of Bolzano-Weierstraß
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Safari Mukeru, University of South Africa, Pretoria
Some Recent Results on Sets of Multiplicity via Brownian Motion
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Eric Allender, Rutgers University, USA
On the Complexity of Numerical Analysis
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Dieter Spreen, University of Siegen, Germany
Effective Inseparability in a Topological Setting
Wednesday 7 October 2009, 15h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Arno Pauly, University of Cambridge, UK
How Discontinuous is Computing Nash Equilibria?
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof André Nies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Randomness and Complexity
Thursday 17 September 2009, 13h00, M 320 (Colloquium)
- Dr Alexander Ferrein, Robotics and Agents Research Laboratory, Duncan MacMillan Lab, UCT
Readylog - A Logic-based Agent Programming Language for Autonomous Robots
Thursday 21 May 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Guido Gherardi, University Bologna, Italy
Alan Turing and the Foundations of Computable Analysis
Friday 24 April 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Klaus Keimel, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Semantics for Languages Combining Probability and Nondeterminism
Thursday 5 March 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Ross Pinsky, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Card Shuffles, Random Walks on Groups and Increasing Subsequences in Random Permutations
Thursday 26 February 2009, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
2008
- Prof Dieter Spreen, University of Siegen, Germany
An Intrinsic Characterization of Effective Topologies
Thursday 4 December 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Klaus Weihrauch, University of Hagen, Germany
On the Definition of Computability in Analysis
Thursday 13 November 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Symbolic Verification in Presburger-Definable Infinite-State Transition Systems
Thursday 6 November 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- PD Dr Norbert Müller, University of Trier, Germany
Jordan Areas and Grids
Thursday 25 September 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Gareth Boxall, University of Leeds, UK
Notions of Independence in Model Theory
Thursday 14 August 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Volker Bosserhoff, University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
On Computable Bases in Banach Spaces
Thursday 22 May 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Guido Gherardi, University Bologna, Italy
Incomputability and Ontological Weight: Reverse Mathematics and Computable Analysis (Finally) Meet
Thursday 10 April 2008, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Clemens Heuberger, University of Graz, Austria
Hamming Weight of the Non-Adjacent-Form under Various Input Statistics
Thursday 13 March 2008, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Stephan Wagner, University of Stellenbosch
Enumeration Problems for Classes of Self-Similar Graphs
Friday 22 February 2008, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Conrado Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms: What's It Good For?
Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
2007
- Dr Holger Spakowski, University of Cape Town
An Improved Exact Algorithm for the Domatic Number Problem
Thursday 29 November 2007, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Jeffery Zucker, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Talks on Analog Computation
Wednesday 30 May 2007, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
Thursday 31 May 2007, 13h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Peter Schuster, University of Munich, Germany
Problems as Solutions
Monday 19 March 2007, 15h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
2006
- Prof Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Logic and Computation in Finitely Presentable Infinite Structures
Thursday 30 November 2006, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Dr Paul Taylor, University of Manchester, UK
Seminar Series on Abstract Stone Duality (ASD)
Thursdays 5-19 October 2006, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Guido Gherardi, University of Siena, Italy,
Effective Borel Degrees of Some Topological Functions
Thursday 8 June 2006, 14h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Vasco Brattka, University of Cape Town,
Plottable Real Number Functions and the Computable Graph Theorem
Friday 21 April 2006, 16h00, Great Westerford Building, Newlands
- Prof Stephen Harnish, Visiting Researcher and Bluffton University, Ohio, USA,
Bisimulations and Pictures of Sets: A survey of hyperset theories,
their key modeling tools, and applications to computer science
Wednesday 5 April 2006, 15h30, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Dieter Spreen, University of Siegen, Germany,
On Effectivity and Continuity of Multifunctions
Friday 24 March 2006, 15h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
2005
- Prof Cristian S. Calude, University of Auckland, New Zealand,
Complexity, Provability and Incompleteness
Monday 28 November 2005, 11h00, M 320
- Prof Atsushi Yoshikawa, Kyushu University, Japan,
An Exotic Example of a Self-Adjoint Partial Differential Operator
Monday 21 November 2005, 10h00, Room M 200
- Prof Petrus H. Potgieter, University of South Africa, Pretoria,
"Hypercomputing" Zeno machines
Tuesday 13 September 2005, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
- Prof Ingrid Rewitzky, University of Stellenbosch,
Duality via Truth
Tuesday 24 May 2005, 16h00, M 111 (Seminar Room)
These information will regularly be updated.
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