User:DPMulligan

I'm a post-doctoral computer scientist at the University of Bologna, Italy, working on a verified compiler for a large subset of the C programming language. Prior to this, I was a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, working on nominal techniques, context calculi and proof terms for incomplete derivations.

My homepage is here. I also run a blog on name binding (nominal techniques, higher-order abstract syntax, de Bruijn indices etc.) and that can be found here.

I'm originally from Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Pages started

 * Rippling, meta-level heuristic guidance for inductive proof.


 * IsaPlanner, a proof planning system for Isabelle.


 * Nominal techniques, a group of related techniques for working with, and simplifying the reasoning about, languages with name binders.


 * Nominal terms, a metalanguage for embedding object languages with name binding constructs into.

Pages I've made significant contributions to

 * Lambda calculus, a formal system that internalises the notion of function


 * Unification, the process of synthesising a substitution that identifies two input terms