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title: RPI Logic Group
description: Presentations I gave at the RAIR Lab logic reading group.
aliases:
    - /community/logic-reading-group
---

We hold the NY Capital Region Logic Reading Group Wednesdays at the
Rensselaer AI & Reasoning lab.
I aim to give one presentation a month.
We have a website listing the upcoming talk and past talks
given: [https://rairlab.github.io/logic-group/](https://rairlab.github.io/logic-group/)

## Talks Given

I presented the following:

| Date       | Title                                                        |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 04/23/2025 | Lean 4 as a Programming Language and Theorem Prover (along with James Oswald) |
| 03/26/2025 | What can go into a classical planning model? |
| 12/04/2024 | An Introduction to Situation Calculus (along with James Oswald) |
| 10/16/2024 | Alternative Theories of Uncertainty: Dempster-Shafer and Possibility Theory |
| 03/27/2024 | CryptoSolve: A Tool for the Analysis of Cryptographic Modes of Operation |
| 01/31/2024 | Planning under Qualitative Uncertainty - Initial Thoughts    |
| 01/24/2024 | Spectra: STRIPS-Inspired AI Planner based on Automated Reasoning |
| 10/25/2023 | Introduction to Goal Recognition as Planning                 |
| 10/18/2023 | RAIR Lab Software Overview Workshop (along with James Oswald) |
| 10/4/2023  | Syntactic AC Unification                                     |
| 09/06/2023 | Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability with a Discovery Planning Model |
| 03/22/2023 | ["Automated Theorem Proving with TPTP Workshop"](https://github.com/Brandon-Rozek/TPTP-Examples) |
| 02/08/2023 | ["Interactive Theorem Proving with Lean Part 2"](/blog/lean3-tutorial/) |
| 02/01/2023 | ["Interactive Theorem Proving with Lean Part 1"](/blog/lean3-tutorial/) |
| 10/19/2022 | [Evaluation of the Moral Permissibility of Action Plans](https://gki.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/papers/lindner-etal-aij2020.pdf) by Felix Lindner, Robert Mattmuller, and Bernhard Nebel |
| 09/14/2022 | [Planning Modulo Theories: Extending the Planning Paradigm](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICAPS/article/download/13505/13354) by Peter Gregory, Derek Long, Maria Fox, and J. Christopher Beck. |
| 08/03/2022 | [Coming Up with Good Excuses: What To Do When No Plan Can be Found](https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICAPS/ICAPS10/paper/viewFile/1453/1532) by Moritz Gobelbecker, Thomas Keller, Patrick Eyerich, Michael Brenner, and Bernhard Nebel. |
| 06/28/2022 | [Landmark-based heuristic online contingent planning](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10458-018-9389-9) by Shlomi Maliah, Guy Shani, and Ronen L. Brafman. |
| 06/01/2022 | [AI Planning Annotation for Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.00669) by Junkyu Lee, Michael katz, Don Joven Agravante, Miao Liu, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Tim Linger, Shirin Sohrabi. |
| 05/11/2022 | [The Power of Waiting in Social Laws](https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/KEPS/Papers/KEPS_2021_paper_14.pdf) by Alexander Tuisov, Alexander Shleyfman, and Erez Karpas. |
