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Tom de Jong
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Postdoc at the University of Nottingham working on type theory. PhD from the University of Birmingham. Mathematician, computer scientist and runner.

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I'm happy that my proposal for an introductory course on Homotopy Type Theory / Univalent Foundations at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2026 in Prague was accepted!

A great opportunity to make use of @egbertrijke's recently published book, @MartinEscardo's lecture […]
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December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@danielgratzer/115690461702005707

Argh, sorry. But maybe a useful reminder that paper rejections are common, even with good work by (multiple) established people!
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December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The Dutch Functional Programming Day 2026 (also known as the "FP Dag") will be in Nijmegen on Friday, 9 January 2026

https://fpday26.cs.ru.nl
Functional Programming Day 2026
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December 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Junk email:
"I came across your preprint titled "On Small Types in Univalent Foundations" [...]
Your manuscript aligns well with the following journal: Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases"

These diseases must indeed be extremely rare if univalent foundations are relevant... 😂
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I highly recommend the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science. And so do tell me many previous students, some of whom are now well-established academics, including LICS invited speakers.

The courses for 2026 are:

1. Type theory using Agda
2. Category theory
3. Lambda […]
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December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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In this thread, I'd like to (re)advertise my MGS'2019 lecture notes "Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda"

https://martinescardo.github.io/HoTT-UF-in-Agda-Lecture-Notes/HoTT-UF-Agda.html#contents

In the lengthy Introduction, I explain how univalent foundations differ […]
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November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@MartinEscardo is turning 60 this year! In celebration, Eric Finster and I are organizing a two-day workshop on 17-18 December 2025 at the University of Birmingham.
https://tdejong.com/mhe60

The full list of over 20 invited speakers can be found on the website and reflects Martín's diverse […]
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October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The extended version of our LICS'25 paper, titled Constructive Ordinal Exponentiation, is now on arXiv. It has two new sections (Section 6 and 8) on ordinal arithmetic. Everything is formalized in Agda and merged into @MartinEscardo's TypeTopology repository.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14542v5 […]
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October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Are you a PhD student registered in a US institution and interested in conducting part of your doctoral research (4-9 months) in France? Then consider applying for a Chateaubriand Fellowship! https://chateaubriand-fellowship.org/
Chateaubriand Fellowship
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October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Following the Heyting Day symposium held in honour of Jaap van Oosten, Benno van den Berg and I wrote a brief popular article on Jaap's life, his scientific work (categorical realizability) and his other contributions to academic life.
Jaap has done a great deal for mathematical logic in the […]
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October 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Back from holiday and just caught up on @jonmsterling's very interesting HoTTEST talk titled "Is it time for a new proof assistant?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oBkEbKJvnE

#typetheory
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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This week I gave a lecture series at the School on Logical Frameworks and Proof Systems Interoperability. I spoke about programming language techniques for proof assistants. The lecture slides and the reference implementations of a minimalist type theory are available at […]
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September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I enjoyed talking about my expository paper (https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.1) at this wonderful CIRM event this morning.
https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/3377.html

Thanks to Jacopo Emmenegger for the photo!

#typetheory #HomotopyTypeTheory #hott
September 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Assistant/Associate Professor at University of Birmingham UK (apply by 30 September).

The University of Birmingham is recruiting assistant/associate professors in the School of Computer Science.

The Theory of Computation group at Birmingham is world-renowned and we have been actively […]
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September 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
PhD position with Benno van den Berg on the semantics of Homotopy Type Theory (esp. effective Kan fibrations) at the ILLC in Amsterdam!

https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/15777/PhD-Position-in-the-Semantics-of-Homotopy-Type-Theory

Application deadline: 27 September […]
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September 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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We are advertising a Level D/E position in Pure Maths at University of Adelaide (for non-Oz-initiated: E=full Prof, D=one step down).

https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/517088/associate-professor-professor-de-pure-mathematics
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
My paper "Continuous and algebraic domains in univalent foundations" with @MartinEscardo was accepted for publication by the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra! 🎉
https://martinescardo.github.io/papers/continuous-algebraic-domains-in-uf.pdf

This paper has its origin in my very first paper with […]
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August 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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We have a number of academic Assistant/Associate Prof posts open at the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham, UK.

Applications due September 30th.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI907/assistant-or-associate-professor-in-computer-science-research-and-education

If you would […]
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August 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It was both a pleasure and a privilege to deliver 5 90-min blackboard (!) lectures on Categorical Realizability to 20–30 students and fellow lecturers at the European Summer School in #logic, Language and Information (#esslli).
I really enjoyed the interaction with all attendees and appreciated […]
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August 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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ESSLLI 2025 is officially closed! Thank you all so much for being here 🥰 #esslli2025 #logic #language #information #rub
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This paper, by @IgorArrieta , @ayberkt and myself has just appeared in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science.

The patch topology in univalent foundations
Igor Arrieta, Martin Escardo and Ayberk Tosun

Stone locales together with continuous maps form a coreflective subcategory of spectral […]
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August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On my way to Bochum to teach a course on Categorical Realizability at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 😄 #esslli2025 #esslli
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Two small wins yesterday

I have a Word template of a form that I need to complete. Using Word is not fun, especially because the template is relatively complicated, so that, as a Linux user, I'm forced to use a virtual Windows desktop.

Small win #1: I found a LaTeX template emulating the Word […]
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June 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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I am happy to announce that my colleague Paul Blain Levy has won the Alonzo Church Award.

https://siglog.org/winner-of-the-2025-alonzo-church-award/
Winner of the 2025 Alonzo Church Award
The 2025 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented to **Paul Blain Levy** for his fundamental study of effectful λ-calculi through the Call-by-Push-Value calculus. The awardee book and paper are: > Paul Blain Levy. Call-By-Push-Value: A Functional/Imperative Synthesis. Semantics Structures in Computation 2, Springer 2004, ISBN 1-4020-1730-8 > > Paul Blain Levy. Call-by-Push-Value: Decomposing call-by-value and call-by-name. High.-Order Symb. Comput. 19(4): 377-414 (2006) ## The Contribution Initiated by Alonzo Church, the research programme into the λ-calculus as an abstract model of computation has spurred volumes of fundamental research in logic and computation. By the end of the 20th century, the studies of the λ-calculus in its purely logical form and its applied effectful form bifurcated. In an outstanding contribution, Levy has reunited the many existing research streams into the study of one subsuming calculus: Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV). Levy developed and presented an extraordinarily large body of evidence spanning a cross-section of the semantic theory of the λ-calculus and its application to programming language modelling, including: algebraic datatypes, operational semantics, denotational semantics, and equational theories. To date, CBPV remains a unifying starting point in the study of computational and logical phenomena, including: effects, polarisation, term normalisation, type-isomorphisms, and program transformations. In addition to its scientific contribution, the nominated monograph is a unique access-point into the culmination of decades of logic and programming language semantics.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This is your yearly reminder that anyone who publishes CS papers should have a personal website that lists their current position, research interests, publications, and email address.

If you don't, it's basically impossible for me to invite you to a PC […]

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June 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM