ssi on;
[~bandali/bndl.org] / index.html
index d9d4a62..5e35e8f 100644 (file)
-<!doctype html>
-<html lang="en">
-  <head>
-    <meta charset="utf-8">
-    <meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
-    <meta name="description" content="Amin Bandali is a graduate
-                student at WatForm, the co-host of the Emacs.el
-                podcast, a free software advocate, and a volunteer
-                webmaster for the GNU project."/>
-    <title>Amin Bandali</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" />
-  </head>
-  <body>
-    <header>
-      <h1><a href="images/amin.png">Amin Bandali</a>&rsquo;s personal site</h1>
-      <span id="sub">
-        Graduate student at University of Waterloo supervised by
-        <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy Day</a>
-      </span>
-    </header>
+<!--# set var="title" value="home" -->
+<!--# include virtual="/ssi/pre.html" -->
+<section id="intro">
+<p>Hi, I'm Amin.  I am currently a graduate student at the
+<a href="//watform.uwaterloo.ca">Waterloo Formal Methods</a>
+group at the University of Waterloo, supervised by
+<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy&nbsp;Day</a>.
+The main goal of my research is
+improving <strong>software and systems reliability</strong>
+through application of
+<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods">formal methods</a>.</p>
 
-    <main>
-      <section>
-        <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
-        <table class="btable">
-          <tbody>
-            <tr>
-              <th></th>
-              <th>academic</th>
-              <th>personal</th>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>email</td>
-              <td><a href="mailto:abandali@uwaterloo.ca">abandali@uwaterloo.ca</a></td>
-              <td><a href="mailto:bandali@gnu.org">bandali@gnu.org</a>
-                (<a href="gpg">gpg</a>)</td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>git repos</td>
-              <td><a href="https://git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali">git.uwaterloo.ca/abandali</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bandali">git.sr.ht/~bandali</a></td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>other means</td>
-              <td>see <a href="contact">contact</a> page</td>
-            </tr>
-          </tbody>
-        </table>
-      </section>
+<p>My research at WatForm focuses on formal logic, model checking, and
+verification.  I am also interested in programming languages, proof
+assistants, and their type systems.</p>
 
-      <section>
-        <h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
-        <p>
-          The main goal of my research is improving
-          <strong>software&nbsp;reliability</strong>
-          through application of <em>formal methods</em>.
-        </p>
+<p>On the side, I enjoy
+<a href="//stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a> on
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">elisp</a>
+and <a href="//www.gnu.org/software/guile/">guile</a>.
+I am a GNU <a href="//www.gnu.org/people/#bandali">maintainer</a> and
+<a href="//www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">webmaster</a>,
+a <a href="//www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
+activist, and an <a href="//www.fsf.org/associate/">associate member</a>
+of the <a href="///www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>.
+I'm the co-host of the <a href="//emacsel.com">Emacs.el</a>
+podcast with <a href="//www.pygopar.com">Daniel Gopar</a>, and
+the chief organizer of the
+<a href="//emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> conference.
+I'm also a member of the Systems Committee of the
+<a href="//csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club</a> of
+the University of Waterloo.</p>
+</section>
 
-        <p>
-          My current research at <a href="https://watform.uwaterloo.ca">WatForm</a>
-          focuses on formal logic, model checking, and verification.
-          Specifically, I am working on various optimizations aiming to
-          improve the analysis performance of the Alloy Analyzer on
-          models.
-        </p>
+<section id="papers">
+<h2>Papers</h2>
+<dl>
+<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
+TLA<sup>+</sup>
+<small>
+[ <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
+| <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
+]
+</small>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+Ali Abbassi, <a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
+<a href="//cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br/>
+<em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering
+Workshop (MoDRE)</em><br/>
+Copyright © 2018 IEEE.  All Rights Reserved.  Sadly.
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
 
-        <p>
-          I am also interested in programming languages, type systems, and
-          interactive theorem proving.
-        </p>
+<section id="talks">
+<h2>Talks</h2>
+<dl>
+<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
+<small>
+[ <a href="talks/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf"
+     title="presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference 2017,
+University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017">slides</a>
+| <a href="talks/eecs4080-poster.pdf"
+     title="presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference,
+York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017">poster</a>
+]
+</small>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<a href="//bandali.eu.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
+<a href="//github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
+<a href="//www.cse.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
 
-        <p>
-          On the side, I dabble in <a href="https://leanprover.github.io">Lean</a>
-          and <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org">Rust</a>, and enjoy
-          <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a> on
-          <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">Emacs Lisp</a>.
-          I&rsquo;m also a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a>
-          and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html">copyleft</a>
-          advocate, and a volunteer webmaster for the GNU project.
-        </p>
+<section id="projects">
+<h2>Projects</h2>
+<p>Below are a number of free software projects I have worked on:</p>
+<dl>
+<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/george-mode">george-mode</a></dt>
+<dd>Emacs major mode for editing George files</dd>
 
-        <p>
-          You may wish to view my academic <a href="bandali-cv.pdf">curriculum vitae</a>.
-        </p>
-      </section>
+<dt><a href="//git.bandali.eu.org/alloy-catalyst">alloy-catalyst</a></dt>
+<dd>Framework for performance analysis of Alloy models</dd>
 
-      <section>
-        <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
-        <dl>
-          <dt>
-            <strong>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling
-            Languages B, Dash, and TLA<sup>+</sup></strong>
-            (<a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.pdf">pdf</a>,
-            <a href="papers/2018-AbBaDaSe-modre.bib">bib</a>,
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MoDRE.2018.00008">doi</a>,
-            <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/models/2018-modre">models</a>)
-          </dt>
-          <dd>
-            Ali Abbassi, <strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Nancy A. Day,
-            and Jose Serna
-          </dd>
-          <dd>
-            <em>2018 IEEE 8th International Model-Driven Requirements
-              Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)</em>
-          </dd>
-        </dl>
-        <!-- <h3 id="theses">Theses</h3> -->
-      </section>
+<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/unitb-web">unitb-web</a></dt>
+<dd>Web interface for Unit-B</dd>
 
-      <section>
-        <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2>
-        <dl>
-          <dt>
-            <strong>The Magic of Specifications and Type
-              Systems</strong>
-          </dt>
-          <dd><strong>Amin Bandali</strong>, Simon Hudon,
-            Jonathan Ostroff
-          </dd>
-          <dd><a href="presentations/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">Slides</a>
-            presented at
-            <abbr title="Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference">
-              CUCSC 2017</abbr>, University of Toronto, Canada, June
-            15-17, 2017.
-          </dd>
-          <dd><a href="presentations/eecs4080-poster.pdf">Poster</a>
-            presented at
-            <abbr title="Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference">
-              Lassonde USSR Conference</abbr>, York University, Toronto, Canada,
-            August 15, 2017.</dd>
-        </dl>
-      </section>
+<dt><a href="//github.com/unitb/tex2png-hs">tex2png-hs</a></dt>
+<dd>Library and CLI for converting TeX and LaTeX to PNG images</dd>
+</dl>
+</section>
 
-      <section>
-        <h2 id="writings">Writings</h2>
-        <dl>
-          <dt>Will be added soon.</dt>
-          <!-- <dd></dd> -->
-        </dl>
-      </section>
-    </main>
-    <footer>
-      <p>
-        Copyright (c) 2016&ndash;2019 Amin Bandali<br>
-        Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are
-        permitted provided this notice is preserved.<br>
-        The <a href="https://www.gnu.org/graphics/gnu-inside.html">
-        GNU Inside</a> banner is available under the
-        <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">
-          Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License</a>.
-      </p>
-      <div id="gnu-inside">
-        <a href="https://www.gnu.org">
-          <img src="images/gnu-inside.png"
-               alt="GNU Inside!" title="GNU Inside!"/>
-        </a>
-      </div>
-    </footer>
-  </body>
-</html>
+<section id="notes">
+<h2>Notes</h2>
+<p>Here are notes about a variety of topics and issues I care
+about.<!--<br/>
+They're also available via
+<a href="notes.atom">
+<img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
+     alt="subscribe to atom feed">Atom</a>
+and
+<a href="notes.rss">
+<img class="feed-icon" src="/icon-12px.png"
+     alt="subscribe to rss feed">RSS</a> feeds.--></p>
+
+<table class="post-list">
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="computing">How I do my Computing</a></td>
+<td><small>September 14, 2019</small></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><a href="arch-macbook-air">Arch GNU/Linux on MacBook Air 2013</a></td>
+<td><small>November 1, 2016</small></td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</section>
+<!--# set var="copy" value="2016&ndash;2019" -->
+<!--# include virtual="/ssi/post.html" -->