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Chair for Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science
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Javier Esparza

Professor
Chair for Foundations of Software Reliability and Theoretical Computer Science
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität München
Coordinates Office: 03.11.054 (third floor, block 11), Mathematics and Computer Science Building, [How to find it],
E-mail: esparza AT in DOT tum DOT de
Snail: Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München,
Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 München, Germany
Phone: +49 (89) 289 17204
Fax: +49 (89) 289 17207
Assistant: Erika Leber, +49 (89) 289 17234
About me Short biography
Curriculum vitae (PDF)
Teaching Summer 2009
Vorlesung Diskrete Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Interests (no order) Algorithms and tools for the design and verification of reactive and distributed systems
Verification of systems with infinitely many states
Software Model Checking
Program analysis
Formal models for distributed systems: Petri nets and process algebras
Logic and automata theory
Analysis of probabilistic systems
Applications of linear and constraint programming to verification problems
Semantics of parallel programming languages
Analysis and synthesis of asynchronous circuits
Publications in computer science
My book on free-choice Petri nets with Jörg Desel
My book on unfoldings (a partial-order model-checking technique) with Keijo Heljanko

Papers online (plain list)
Papers online (detailed list including bibtex info)
Papers at DBLP
Papers at Google Scholar
Database of the Chair
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Other publications Physics (just two papers)
Computer Science in Medicine (old papers)
Software PEP: Programming Environment Based on Petri Nets
The Model-Checking Kit: An Integrated Platform of Model Checking Tools
Moped: A Model Checker for Pushdown Systems
jMoped: A Test Environment for Java Programs
Current students Stefan Kiefer
Michael Luttenberger
Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth
Christian Kern
Andreas Gaiser
Past students Richard Mayr
Stephan Melzer
Stefan Römer
Christine Röckl
Leonor Prensa-Nieto
Stefan Schwoon
Claus Schröter
Alin Stefanescu
Current post-docs Stefan Schwoon
Jörg Bauer
Past post-docs Tomas Brazdil
Keijo Heljanko
Barbara König
Antonin Kucera
Dirk Nowotka
Monika Maidl
Some talks and courses A computer science look at stochastic branching processes (talk at Workshop on Perspectives in Concurrency Theory, December 08) [pdf]
Solving Monotone Polynomial Equations (talk at TCS '08) [pdf]
Newtonian Program Analysis (talk at ICALP '08) [pdf]
SDSIrep: A Reputation System based on SDSI (talk at several places) [pdf]
Beyond Big-Oh Analysis in Automata Theory (talk at GAMES '07) [pdf]
Computation of certificate chains with alternating pushdown systems (talk at ATVA '06) [pdf]
Rewriting models of boolean programs (talk at RTA '06) [pdf]
Computing rewards in probabilistic pushdown systems (talk at PAuL '06) [pdf]
Verification of Infinite-state Systems (course at the Marktoberdorf Summer School on Logical Aspects of Secure Computer Systems, 2005) [pdf]
Verifying Probabilistic Procedural Programs (talk at FSTTCS '04) [pdf]
An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Software Model Checking (talk at POPL '04) [pdf]
Logic in Automatic Verification (talk at LMPS '03) [pdf]
A False History of True Concurrency (talk at LMPS '03) [pdf]
Some Applications of Petri Nets to the Analysis of Parameterised Systems (talk at WISP '03) [pdf]
Control-flow in Software Model Checking (talk at AVIS '03) [compressed postscript]
Model checking infinite state systems (course at SMC-02, Bertinoro) [pdf]
Model checking finite and infinite state systems (course at the Second School on Computational Logic, Maratea) [pdf]
Verifying broadcast protocols (talk at VCL '00) [compressed postcript]
Verification with unfoldings (talk at CONCUR '99) [compressed postcript]
Grammars as processes (talk at ETAPS '99) [compressed postcript]
Some memberships and professional activities Logical Methods in Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science
IFIP Working Group 2.2 Formal Description of Programming Concepts
Recent and upcoming events Marktoberdorf Summer School 2009. Logics and Languages for Reliability and Security
RO'09. LIX Colloquium Reachability Problems'09
MFCS 2009. 34th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
FOSSACS 2009. 12th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
VMCAI 2009. Tenth International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
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