Address

Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik
RWTH Aachen
D-52056 Aachen

Phone:	+49-241-80-21726
Fax:	+49-241-80-22215
Room:	4114a (E1) / Ahornstr. 55
Email:	pago [AT] logic.rwth-aachen.de

Office Hours

Whenever the door is open.

Research

• Descriptive Complexity Theory
• Proof Complexity
• Choiceless Polynomial Time

Awards

Computer Science Department's Teaching Award for the course "Mathematical Logic" 2019

Teaching

• Winter Term 2020
• Mathematical Logic II
• Winter Term 2019
• Seminar Logic, Complexity, Games: Logics for Reasoning about Uncertainty, Dependence and Independence
• Summer Term 2019
• Mathematical Logic
• Winter Term 2018
• Seminar Logic, Complexity, Games: Computational Social Choice

Selected talks

• Slides for the talk "A Finite-Model-Theoretic View on Propositional Proof Complexity", held at the Simons online workshop on Theoretical Foundations of SAT/SMT Solving, Berkeley 2021
• Slides for the talk "Limitations of Choiceless Definability", held at CSL 2021, Ljubljana

Recent Publications

• B. Pago. Choiceless Computation and Symmetry: Limitations of Definability. In 29th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2021) (C. Baier and J. Goubault-Larrecq, Eds.), vol. 183 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pp. 33:1–33:21, Dagstuhl, Germany. Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
• E. Grädel, M. Grohe, B. Pago, and W. Pakusa. A Finite-Model-Theoretic View on Propositional Proof Complexity. Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. Volume 15, Issue 1, 2019.
• E. Grädel, B. Pago, and W. Pakusa. The Model-Theoretic Expressiveness of Propositional Proof Systems. In 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017), 2017.

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