This talk is about trying to demystify logical relations, one of the common tools of modern theoretical computer science.
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This talk is about trying to demystify logical relations, one of the common tools of modern theoretical computer science, by linking them to basic mathematical concepts, to actual logic and to type theory.
We will draw in methods of coalgebraic reasoning and show how they give rise to notions of bisimulation in process algebra.
About the speaker
Edmund Robinson is a Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He came to Queen Mary in 1995 after previously working in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Queen’s University Ontario and Sussex.
As Head of Computer Science, he was responsible for merging Computer Science and Electronic Engineering and became the founding Head of the new School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.
This has become one of the major academic powerhouses in the UK, with a strong track record in outreach, and supporting diversity and social mobility as well as research. The Department, and then School, has a strong tradition in work in Theoretical Computer Science, with key work on Separation Logic and Session Types both leading to tools that are now used significantly in practice.
Prof. Robinson’s own work has centred on categorical logic and the semantics of logical theories. He is a former chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing.
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