[eurolisp] International Summer School, Advances in Programming Languages

[Pascal Costanza]

Please consider attending the Summer School described below.

International Summer School on  Advances in Programming Languages
25th-28th August, 2009
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL

Overview

This four-day residential International Summer School  on Advances in
Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution,
and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students,  
the
School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of
cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international  
experts.

The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer
Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/) , a Scottish Funding Council
Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at
no cost.

Confirmed Topics/Speakers

·                Static and dynamic languages , Prof Phillip Wadler,  
University of
                 Edinburgh

·                Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr  
Sven-Bodo
                 Scholz, University of Hertfordshire

·                New applications of parametricity , Dr Janis  
Voigtlander, Technical
                 University of Dresden

·                Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott,  
University of
                 Glasgow

·                Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van  
Eekeling/
                  Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radbout University Nijmegen

·                Context oriented programming , Dr Pascal Costanza,  
Vrije Universiteit
                 Brussel

·                Multi-core programming , Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt  
University

·                Multi-core compilation, Dr Alistair Donaldson,  
Codeplay Software Ltd

·                Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr  
Andrew D.  Gordon,
                 Microsoft Research, Cambridge

·                Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg  
Michaelson,
                 Heriot-Watt University/ Prof Kevin Hammond,  
University of St Andrews

·                Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh,  
Microsoft Research,
                 Cambridge

Location

The Summer School is based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton  
campus, set in
pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the  
airport, city and
central Scotland: (http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm).

The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International  
Conference on
Functional  Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html)   
and takes
place during the  Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/ 
) , and the
associated Edinburgh  Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/)  and  
Edinburgh
International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/)  .

Steering Committee

Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University (Convenor)
(mailto:G.Michaelson at hw.ac.uk)

Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews

Dr Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde

Prof Phillip Wadler, University of Edinburgh

Fee

Full rate: £400; (free for SICSA students)

Includes: four nights single room, en-suite accommodation with  
breakfast,
lunch and dinner, plus coffee breaks and session materials.

Day rate: £200; (free for SICSA students)

Includes: lunch, coffee breaks, session materials

Registration of interest

If you are interested in attending the International Summer School,  
please
complete the form available from:
(http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL/ISS-AiPL%20register.doc)
or below, and return it to:  <mailto: ISS-AiPL-register at macs.hw.ac.uk>

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International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages
26th-29th August, 2009
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc at p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Programming Technology Lab
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium