Programme

Monday 2nd April

14:00 Registration
15:45 Welcome
16:00 Kilburn 1.1: BCTCS invited lecture
 
Mike Edmunds:
The Antikythera Mechanism and the 
early history of mechanical computing
17:30 Christie Library: Cheese and Wine Reception
   

Tuesday 3rd April

9:00 Registration
9:30 Kilburn 1.1: BCTCS/ARW invited lecture
 
Reiner Hähnle:
Formal verification of software product families
10:30 Tea/Coffee
11:00 Kilburn 1.1: BCTCS contributed papers Kilburn 1.4: BCTCS contributed papers
 
Phillip James: Domain-specific languages and 
   automatic verification
Richard Barraclough: A unifying theory of 
   control dependence and its application 
   to arbitrary program structures
Patrick Totzke: Weak bisimulation approximants 
   for BP processes
Giles Reger: Quantified event automata: towards 
   expressive and efficient runtime monitors
Andrew Lawrence: Extracting a DPLL Algorithm


David Love: Why Don't Cantor's Sets Compute?

12:30 Lunch
13:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS invited lecture
 
 Nicole Schweikardt
 On the expressive power of logics with 
 invariant uses of arithmetic predicates
14:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed paper Kilburn 1.4: BCTCS contributed paper
 
Robert Piro: Model-theoretic characterisation of 
   TBoxes and the TBox rewritability Problem

Christopher Thompson-Walsh: Extending a Rule-Based 
   Biological Modelling Language Semantics with 
   Containment
15:00 Tea/Coffee
15:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed papers Kilburn 1.4 BCTCS contributed papers
 
Stanislaw Kikot: The length of query rewriting for 
   OWL 2 QL
Paolo Guagliardo: On the relationship between view 
   updates and logical definability
Chiara Del Vescovo: The modular structure of an ontology: 
   atomic decomposition
Michael Gabbay: A very simple, explicit construction 
   of some models of beta-equality and beta-eta-equality
Tie Hou: Modeling a language of realizers using 
   domain-theoretic semantics
Hugh Steele: Double glueing and MLL full completeness
17:00 End of day 2

Wednesday 4th April

9:00 Kilburn 1.1 ARW invited lecture
 
Daniel Kroening
SAT over an Abstract Domain
10:00 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed paper Kilburn 1.4: BCTCS contributed paper
 
Jian Song: 4-coloring H-Free Graphs when H is small

Martin Sticht: A Game-Theoretic Decision Procedure
   for the constructive Description Logic cALC
10:30 Tea/Coffee
11:00 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed papers Kilburn 1.4 BCTCS contributed papers
 
Jude-Thaddeus Ojiaku: Online makespan scheduling
   of linear deteriorating jobs on parallel machines
Tom Grant:  Maximising lifetime for fault-tolerant
   target coverage in sensor networks
Mihai Burcea: Online multi-dimensional dynamic bin
   packing of unit fraction and power fraction items
Christopher Hampson: Modal Products with the difference 
   operator
Brandon Bennett: An 'almost analytic' sequent calculus
   for first-order S5 with constant domains
Chris Banks: Towards a logic of biochemical processes

12:30 Lunch
13:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS LMS invited lecture
 
 Rod Downey
 Fundamentals of Parametrized Complexity I
14:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed paper Kilburn 1.4: BCTCS contributed paper
 
Yavor Nenov: Computability of topological logics
   over Euclidean spaces
Evelyn-Denham Coates: Optimum sort algorithms with 
o(N) moves
15:00 Tea/Coffee
15:30 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed papers Kilburn 1.4 BCTCS contributed papers
 
Martin Adamcik: Collective reasoning under
   uncertainty and inconsistency
Murdoch Gabbay: Game semantics using nominal techniques

Arnoud Pastink: Approximate Nash Equilibria in an 
   uncoupled setup with limited communication
Thomas Gorry: Communication-less agent location discovery

Dirk Sudholt: The analysis of evolutionary algorithms: why 
   evolution is faster with crossover.
Yanti Rusmawati: Dynamic networks as concurrent systems and 
 supervised evolution
17:00 BCTCS Committee Meeting
19:30 Little Yang Sing: BCTCS Dinner

Thursday 5th April

9:00 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS LMS invited lecture
 
 Rod Downey
 Fundamentals of Parametrized Complexity II
10:00 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed paper
   
Sam Jones: Groups, formal language theory and 
   decidability
10:30 Tea/Coffee
11:00 Kilburn 1.1 BCTCS contributed papers
   
Domagoj Vrgoc: Regular expressions for data words
Laurence Day: The silence of the Lambdas
Alistair Stewart: Polynomial time algorithms for 
   multi-type branching processes and stochastic 
   context-free grammars
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Close of conference
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