The Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures

Introduction to OASIS

Michaelmas 2004

Jonathan Gratus

Martin H. Escardo

Stephen Cameron

Mike Smyth

Michael Huth

Basil Hiley

Christopher J. Mulvey

David Pym

Frank Valckenborgh

Louis H. Kauffman

Hilary 2005

Trinity 2005

Michaelmas 2005

Hilary 2006

Trinity 2006

Michaelmas 2006

Hilary 2007

Trinity 2007

Michaelmas 2007

Hilary 2008

Trinity 2008

Michaelmas 2004

CONCEPTS OF SPACE

Talks are Friday afternoons at 2:00pm in the Lecture Theatre of the Computing Laboratory, which is at the corner of Parks road and Keble road. Everyone is welcome! Click on the name of the speaker to get some information and see his abstract.

• Friday 15 October (week 1) Jonathan Gratus (University of Wales at Bangor) Spatial Representations, Discrete and Continuous (The Differential Geometry of Information)

• Friday 22 October (week 2) Martin H. Escardo (University of Birmingham) Synthetic topology of data types and classical spaces

• Friday 29 October (week 3) Stephen Cameron (Oxford University) Engineers Do Space Too

• Friday 5 November (week 4) Mike Smyth (Imperial College) Distance in Graphs and Hyperconvexity

• Friday 12 November (week 5) Michael Huth (Imperial College) Topological analysis of refinement

• Friday 19 November (week 6) Basil Hiley (Birkbeck College) The role of non-commutative geometry in algebraic quantum mechanics: a physicist's perspective

• Friday 26 November (week 7) Christopher J. Mulvey (University of Sussex/University of Cambridge) Quantal Spaces

• Friday 3 December (week 8) David Pym (University of Bath) A calculus and logic of resources and processes

Bonus:

• Friday 17 December (week 10) Frank Valckenborgh (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Is there really that much room in Hilbert space?

• Monday 20 December (week 11) Louis H. Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago ) Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing