About me
Since September 2021, I am a Ph.D. student
at LaBRI,
Université de Bordeaux,
under the supervision of
Diego Figueira and
Nathanaël Fijalkow,
in the Formal Methods
and Models department, in the LX, RATIO and MTV teams.
CV: in English / in French.
Contact: x@u-bordeaux.fr where x = remi.morvan (in French or in English).
I am interested in logic
and its connection with algebra,
including but not limited to automata, algebraic language theory, infinite-duration games, finite model theory and database theory.
For the academic year 2023-2024, we will be in charge of the LX seminar (Logical foundations of computing) with Guillaume Lagarde, don't hesitate to
get in touch if you want to give a talk!
Improving the way we do research
I support the Theoretical Computer Scientists for Future initiative. In particular, I do not take the plane, unless for long visits in a country
not accessible by train.
Some interesting webpages:
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Knowledge (links)
I never thought I would meet someone this excited about knowledge!
Thomas C.
Talks
Separating Automatic Relations, or: Graph Colouring for Impractical Mathematicians
28 Aug. 2023: MFCS '23, Bordeaux (20 min)
slides
Algebras for Regular Relations:
27 July 2023: Highlights '23, Kassel (10 min)
slides
25 June 2023: Structure meets Power '23, online/Boston (20 min)
slides
Approximation and semantic tree-width of conjunctive regular path queries:
21 Apr. 2023: GT DAAL '23, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (20 min)
slides
29 March 2023: ICDT '23, online/Ioannina (25 min)
slides
12 Jan. 2023: MoVe Seminar, Marseille (50 min)
slides
9 Dec. 2022: LINKS Seminar, Lille (50 min)
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6 Dec. 2022: M2F Seminar, Bordeaux (50 min)
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7 Oct. 2022: Journée M2F, Bordeaux (8 min)
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Quantitative algebraic characterisations on truly infinite words:
1 July 2022: Highlights '22, Paris (8 min)
slides
8 June 2022: EJCIM '22, Nice (25 min)
slides
4 Jan. 2022: 6th ANR Delta meeting, online (20 min)
slides
First-order separation over countable ordinals:
5 April 2022: FoSSaCS '22, Munich (25 min)
slides
7 Oct. 2021: LX Seminar, Bordeaux (50 min)
slides
3 Sept. 2021: M2 internship defense, Paris (20 min)
slides
Universal algorithms for parity games and nested fixpoints:
13 Feb 2023: Verification seminar @ IRIF, Paris (50 min)
28 June 2021: 5th ANR Delta meeting, Paris (20 min)
slides
16 Sept. 2020: Highlights '20, online (5 min)
slides
4 Sept. 2019: M1 internship defense, Cachan (20 min)
slides
Publications
2023
Separating Automatic Relations,
with Pablo Barceló
and Diego Figueira,
MFCS 2023.
doi
arXiv
Approximation and Semantic Tree-width of
Conjunctive Regular Path Queries,
with Diego Figueira,
ICDT 2023.
doi
arXiv
2022
Universal Algorithms for Parity Games and Nested Fixpoints,
with Marcin Jurdziński
and K. S. Thejaswini,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 13660.
doi
arXiv
First-order separation over countable ordinals,
with
Thomas Colcombet
and
Sam van Gool,
FoSSaCS '22.
doi
arXiv
2021
First-order separation of transfinite regular languages,
Internship report, MPRI, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
doi
pdf
2019
A deterministic behaviour for realistic price dynamics,
with Philippe Mathieu,
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
doi
pdf