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Programme for 2008

9 December 2008 BCS-FACS Christmas Event
Formal Methods and Safety-Critical Systems
All day event
16-18 September 2008 ABZ 2008 Conference
ASM, B and Z
3 March 2008 Professor Steve Schneider, University of Surrey
TBA
4 February 2008 GC6 Town Hall meeting
All day event

Programme for 2007

17 December 2007 BCS-FACS Christmas Event
Formal Methods In Industry
All day event - sold out!
See also the associated GC6 Workshop on the Verifiable File Store Mini-Challenge, 18 December 2007, BCS London Offices
10 December 2007 Professor Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh
Process Algebra for Collective Dynamics
Joint meeting with BCSWomen
5 November 2007 Professor Samson Abramsky, Oxford University
Games, Interaction and Computation
Joint meeting with The London Mathematical Society
4 June 2007 Dr Ben Moszkowski, De Montfort University
Using Temporal Logic to Analyse Temporal Logic: A Hierarchical Approach Based on Intervals
10 May 2007 Professor Michael Butler, University of Southampton
Incremental Development of Distributed Systems
26 April 2007 Professor Ursula Martin, Queen Mary, University of London
Design verification for control engineering
Joint meeting with BCSWomen
21 March 2007 Professor Egon Börger, University of Pisa, Italy
The Abstract State Machines Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis
5.15pm refreshments for 6pm start
7 February 2007 Professor Michael Jackson, Open University and Consultant
What Can We Expect From Program Verification?
5.15pm refreshments for 5.45pm start
NOTE: The FME AGM will be held beforehand.

Programme for 2006

15 December 2006 BCS-FACS Christmas Event
TFM 2006: Teaching Formal Methods
See proceedings

All day event
24 November 2006 Mike Shields retirement event
Models of Computation and Open Computing

All day event
9 November 2006 Professor Ursula Martin, Queen Mary, University of London
Design verification for control engineering
Postponed until 26 April due to illness
Joint meeting with BCSWomen
4 September 2006 Professor Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle
The Computer Ate my Vote

NOTE: 6pm start
21 June 2006 Dr Anthony Hall, Consultant
Realising the Benefits of Formal Methods
7 June 2006 Professor Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada
The Three Amigos: or why 'There is more to specifying systems that connect to the physical world' than they admit

NOTE: 6pm start
24 April 2006 Professor Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle
Specifying systems that connect to the physical world (Joint work with Ian Hayes and Michael Jackson)

Joint meeting with Formal Methods Europe
3 March 2006 Professor Peter Mosses, University of Wales Swansea
Programming Language Description Languages: From Scott and Strachey to Semantics Online
30 January 2006 Jean-Raymond Abrial, ETH Zurich
Ian Hayes, University of Queensland
Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle
John Tucker, University of Wales

Formal Methods in the Last 25 years

NOTE: 5.30pm start

Joint meeting with Formal Methods Europe

Programme for 2005

8 December 2005 Professor Richard Bornat, Middlesex University
Why separation logic is the bee's knees, and why you should care

NOTE: 6pm start

Joint meeting with Advanced Programming Specialist Group
8 November 2005 Professor Martin Henson, University of Essex
nuZ -- a wide-spectrum logic for specification and program development

21 September 2005 Professor Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow
Formal methods meets biochemical pathways

Joint meeting with BCSWomen

25 July 2005 Professor Dines Bjørner, Technical University of Denmark
Domain Engineering

27 April 2005 Professor Steve Reeves, University of Waikato
FM@Waikato

Seminars are held at the BCS London Offices, near Covent Garden:

BCS London Offices

First Floor, The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London WC2E 7HA

Start time: 5.45pm unless specified otherwise (arrival from 5.15pm)

Seminars are free and open to everyone. Security at the BCS Offices is tight, so please pre-register by contacting Paul Boca.

If you would like to be added to the FACS Events mailing list (FACS-EVENTS@jiscmail.ac.uk), please contact Paul Boca.

FACS would like to thank the following for sponsoring the evening seminars

Praxis

The FACS Evening Seminar Series is organized by:
Paul Boca, Jonathan Bowen, Jawed Siddiqi
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