Giuseppe LONGO, short CVFor more, downloadings and updates Go to Longo's main web page
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS (DR Emérite)
Member of the ACADEMIA EUROPAEA, the European Academy of Sciences. Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, USA, 2013 - 2019.
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Research
The main research area Longo has been interested in concerns syntactic
and semantic properties of the "logical base" of functional languages:
Combinatory Logic, Lambda-calculus and their extensions. However, he always
investigated these topics in its broadest setting which relates them to
Recursion Theory, Proof Theory and Category Theory.
In this perspective, Longo worked at some aspects of Recursion
Theory, Higher Type Recursion Theory, Domain Theory and Category Theory
as part of a unified mathematical framework for the theory and the design
of functional languages. In a sense, Longo has always been mostly interested
in the "interconnecting results" or "bridges" and applications among different
areas and to language design. He also worked at the applications of functional
approaches to Object Oriented programming.
He is currently extending his
interdisciplinary interests to Philosophy of Mathematicsand Theoretical Biology. The main project in these areas is an interdisciplinary initiative on Geometry and Cognition (started with the corresponding grant: "Géométrie
et Cognition", 1999 - 2002), focusing on the geometry of physical and biological spaces. The developements of this project lead to a new initiative at DI-ENS, in 2002, the setting up of the research team "Complexité et
information morphologiques" (CIM), centered on foundational problems in the interface between Mathematics, Physics and Biology. The main recent advances concern mathematical and philosophical analyses in Biology (see downloadable publications).
Longo helped to start, by active teaching and students' supervision,
the Graduate Programme in Theoretical Computer Science in the Department
of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, from 1982, when it began,
till 1989, when he left Pisa for Paris. Then from 2000 to 2005 he was a member of the "Conseil Pedagogique" of the DEA (Graduate Studies) in Cognitive Sciences (EHESS-ENS-Polythecnique)
G. Longo has supervised 35 (research-oriented) master theses (or "memoires de DEA/Master") and 21 PhD theses (11 of these former PhD students yield a research/university position in France, 5 in Italy, 1 in GB, 1 in Canada, 1 USA).
E-mail: giuseppe.longo (at) ens.fr
Bureau: III floor, 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris.
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