Frank Stephan's Home Page

Frank Stephan is a professor at the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science of the National University of Singapore.

Frank Stephan's addresses are:

  (1) Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
      Block S17, 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119076
      Primary office is S17#07-04, Telephone +65-6516-2759

  (2) School of Computing, National University of Singpore
      Block COM2, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417
      Secondary office is COM2#03-11, Telephone +65-6516-4246

The email address is fstephan@comp.nus.edu.sg

Maps and explanations

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The Department of Mathematics is located at 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road and the building is known as "S17" and has formerly been known as "SoC1". The office S17#07-04 is room 04 on level 07. The telephone in the office has the number 65162759. It can be reached from Kent Ridge MRT by walk or bus 95.
The building COM2 is the second building of the School of Computing. The office COM2#03-11 is room 11 on level 03. The telephone in the office has the number 65164246. It can be reached from Kent Ridge MRT by bus 95 (Bus Stop Central Library) or from Haw Par Villa MRT by bus 10, 30, 51, 188 (Bus Stop Opp Heng Mui Keng Terrace) and walk afterwards; direct walk from MRT stations is about 30 minutes.

Frank Stephan's schedule for Semester I AY 2025/2026 is as follows;
some more meetings are planned, but not yet put onto the internet:

    Monday    14:00-15:00  Meeting                      COM1#03-11
    Monday    15:00-16:00  Meeting                      COM2#03-11
    Tuesday   12:00-14:00  MA5220 Logic and Foundations S17#07-04
    Tuesday   16:00-17:15  Capstone Seminar             S17#07-04
    Tuesday   17:15-18:15  Meeting                      S17#07-04
    Wednesday 17:00-18:00  Meeting                      S17#04-06
    Thursday  12:00-14:00  MA5220 Logic and Foundations S17#07-04
    Thursday  14:00-15:00  Office Hour                  S17#07-04
    Thursday  15:00-16:00  Meeting                      S17#07-04
    Friday    10:30-11:30  Meeting                      COM2#03-11
    Friday    13:00-14:00  Meeting                      COM2#03-11
    Friday    14:00-15:00  Meeting                      COM2#03-11
    Friday    15:00-16:00  Meeting                      Zoom

Teaching

Logic and Foundations of Mathematics II.
AY 2025/2026 Sem 2.
Capstone project group.
AY 2025/2026 Sem 2.
Logic and Foundations of Mathematics I.
AY 2011/2012 Sem 1, AY 2013/2014 Sem 1, AY 2024/2025 Sem 1.
Computational Complexity AY 2023/2024 Sem 2, AY 2024/2025 Sem 2.
Organising the Logic Seminar jointly with Yang Yue, Goh Jun Le and Wong Tin Lok, see also the homepage of the department on seminars and colloquia. almost every semester.
Advanced Automata Theory.
Lecture Notes: ps-file, pdf-file.
AY 2012/2013 Sem 1, AY 2014/2015 Sem 1, AY 2016/2017 Sem 1, AY 2018/2019 Sem 1, AY 2020/2021 Sem 1, AY 2022/2023 Sem 1.
Mathematical Logic.
AY 2014/2015 Sem 2, AY 2015/2016 Sem 2, AY 2017/2018 Sem 2, AY 2018/2019 Sem 2, AY 2019/2020 Sem 2, AY 2020/2021 Sem 2, AY 2022/2023 Sem 2.
Theory of Computation.
Lecture Notes: ps-file, pdf-file.
AY 2015/2016 Sem 1, AY 2017/2018 Sem 1, AY 2019/2020 Sem 1, AY 2021/2022 Sem 1.
FMS1207M Freshmen-Seminar on Mathematics and Computer Science AY 2006/2007 Sem 1, AY 2007/2008 Sem 1, AY 2008/2009 Sem 1, AY 2009/2010 Sem 1, AY 2011/2012 Sem 1, AY 2012/2013 Sem 2, AY 2013/2014 Sem 1, AY 2014/2015 Sem 2, AY 2015/2016 Sem 2.
Problem Solving for Computing.
AY 2004/2005 Sem 2, AY 2005/2006 Sem 2, AY 2006/2007 Sem 2, AY 2007/2008 Sem 2, AY 2008/2009 Sem 2, AY 2009/2010 Sem 2, AY 2010/2011 Sem 2, AY 2011/2012 Sem 2, AY 2013/2014 Sem 2.
Set Theory.
Lecture notes: ps-file; pdf-file.
AY 2004/2005 Sem 1, AY 2005/2006 Sem 1, AY 2006/2007 Sem 1, AY 2009/2010 Sem 1.
Recursion Theory, Lecture notes: ps-file; pdf-file.
AY 2007/2008 Sem 1, AY 2008/2009 Sem 1.
Computability Theory. Undergraduate version of Recursion Theory.
AY 2004/2005 Sem 2.
Sabbaticals. AY 2010/2011 Sem 1, AY 2017/2018 Sem 1.
Teaching in Germany from 1996 to 2003.
Introduction to Learning Theory.

Research Interests

Recursion Theory and Kolmogorov Complexity.
Learning Theory, in particular Inductive Inference.
Computational Complexity.
Automata and Formal Languages, in particular Automatic Structures.

Scientific Publications

List of Publications; due to copyright reasons, there are only preliminary versions (technical reports, files prior to submission to a journal or conference, long form manuscript of some conference publication) of the publications on that page
Erdoes-Number and List of Coauthors
Overview on some selected papers

Membership of the following scientific Organizations

Research Links

Institute of Mathematical Sciences and conferences organised by it
FPT News: The Paramteterised Complexity Newsletter
Reports on Oberwolfach Meetings: 1996, 2001 (with photo)
Wikipedia Page on Recursion Theory
The Association for Symbolic Logic and its meetings

Frank's Characters

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