Student accepted to Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Anthony Young, a first year PhD student from the Department of Informatics, has been accepted to attend the first Heidelberg Laureate Forum. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an opportunity for potentially outstanding early-career PhD students and post-docs in mathematics and computer science to network, interview and be inspired by the winners of the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize and the Turing Award. Anthony was one of only two hundred of the international applicants to be selected to attend.

Commenting on his acceptance, ``It is a huge honour to have been selected. This will be a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with the most distinguished of mathematicians and computer scientists. I hope to learn more about their accomplishments and receive valuable feedback on the direction of my research and advice for after the PhD.’’

Anthony Young is a PhD student in the Software Modelling and Applied Logic Group in the Department of Informatics, supervised by Dr Odinaldo Rodrigues and Dr Sanjay Modgil. Anthony’s academic background is in theoretical physics and mathematical logic. His PhD research interests are non-monotonic logic, belief revision and argumentation theory. Specifically, he would like to model human common-sense reasoning using formal methods from mathematical logic and artificial intelligence.

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