News and Events: Upcoming Events

Please note that this newsitem has been archived, and may contain outdated information or links.

1 May 2018, ILLC Seminar, Bahareh Afshari

Speaker: Bahareh Afshari
Title: On the logic of induction and co-induction
Date: Tuesday 1 May 2018
Time: 11:00-11:50
Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

Modal logic provides an effective language for expressing
properties of state-based systems. When equipped with operators
that can test for infinite behaviour like looping and
reachability, the logic becomes a powerful tool for specifying
correctness of nonterminating, reactive processes such as
communication protocols and control systems. An elegant example
of such a logic is the modal mu-calculus which extends basic
modal logic by two quantifiers for defining inductive and
co-inductive operators. As well as being highly expressive, this
logic enjoys good computational properties (decidability, finite
model property, …) that distinguish it as a central logic in
computer science. In this talk I will introduce the modal
mu-calculus, present some key properties and discuss recent
results regarding its proof theory.

For more information, contact Yde Venema at .

Please note that this newsitem has been archived, and may contain outdated information or links.