[TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at the University of Lisbon

[Vasco T. Vasconcelos]

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We welcome applications for a fulltime postdoctoral research position
at the University of Lisbon.

The position is funded by the research project "CONFIDENT -
Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development",
http://gloss.di.fc.ul.pt/content/confident 
, a three year collaborative
project between a team at the Faculty of Sciences (including Vasco T.
Vasconcelos and Antónia Lopes) and another at Técnico (Paulo Mateus
and Pedro Adão).

The objective of the project is the development of tools and
technology for describing, testing, statically verifying, and
inferring communication contracts for the effective construction and
evolution of complex distributed systems, notably RESTful
applications. Particular attention will be given to the validation of
security requirements of APIs. We plan to integrate the theory of
behavioural type systems into a notion of communication contracts,
effective in driving the software development life cycle of RESTful
applications.

We seek applicants with strong interest in some of the following
topics: programming language design and implementation, programming
logics and types, language-based security, verification and testing,
concurrency and distribution.

The contract is for one year, extensible for a second year.
Applicable administrative rules may be found at the FCT site,
http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/index.phtml.en 
.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae in pdf format, contact
details for three referees, and should be sent to

LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory
http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt 
Email: Pedro Gonçalves, pgoncal...@di.fc.ul.pt 
Phone: +351 21 750 05 32

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Vasco
T. Vasconcelos directly.

Application deadline: 30th June 2017.

[TYPES/announce] Second call for talk proposals: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017

[François Pottier]

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   CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS

  HOPE 2017

   The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
Higher-Order Programming with Effects

  September 3, 2017
Oxford, United Kingdom
  (the day before ICFP 2017)

   http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers

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The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers 
interested

in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order
effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks,
contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions.
They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all.

The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will
take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017,
in Oxford, United Kingdom.

# Goals of the Workshop

A recurring theme in many papers at ICFP, and in the research of many ICFP
attendees, is the interaction of higher-order programming with various kinds
of effects: storage effects, I/O, control effects, concurrency, etc. While
effects are of critical importance in many applications, they also make code
harder to build, maintain, and reason about. Higher-order languages (both
functional and object-oriented) provide a variety of abstraction 
mechanisms to

help "tame" or "encapsulate" effects (e.g. monads, ADTs, ownership types,
typestate, first-class events, transactions, Hoare Type Theory, session 
types,

substructural and region-based type systems), and a number of different
semantic models and verification technologies have been developed in 
order to

codify and exploit the benefits of this encapsulation (e.g. bisimulations,
step-indexed Kripke logical relations, higher-order separation logic, game
semantics, various modal logics). But there remain many open problems, 
and the

field is highly active.

The goal of the HOPE workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of
different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting
ideas concerning the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of
higher-order effectful programs.

We want HOPE to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will
thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in
progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published
proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents,
talk slides, etc., to be made available online.

# Call for Talk Proposals

We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals
of at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will
accept longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the
understanding that PC members are only expected to read the first two 
pages of

such longer submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors should
specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed
talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks 
will

also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a
full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not
expected) to read.

We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of
higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in
progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the
relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs, François
Pottier (francois.pott...@inria.fr) and Aleks Nanevski
(aleks.nanev...@imdea.org).

# Important Dates

* Deadline for talk proposals: June 1st, 2017  (Thursday)
* Notification of acceptance:  July 1st, 2017  (Saturday)
* Workshop:September 3, 2017 (Sunday)

# Submission Link

The submission website is https://icfp-hope17.hotcrp.com/ .

# Workshop Organization

Program Co-Chairs:

François Pottier (Inria Paris)
Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute)

Program Committee:

Edwin Brady   University of St Andrews
Pierre-Évariste DagandLIP6/CNRS
Atsushi Igarashi  Kyoto University
Robbert Krebbers  Delft University of Technology
Vivek Nigam   Federal University of Paraíba
Matija PretnarUniversity of Ljubljana
Azalea Raad   Imperial College London
Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research
Filip Sieczkowski University of Wrocław
Niki VazouUniversity of Maryland