[TYPES/announce] Multiple Research Positions (3 Doctoral, 5 Post-doctoral) on AI Verification

2020-03-25 Thread Robert Atkey

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AI Secure and Explainable by Construction:

Multiple Research Positions (3 Doctoral, 5 Post-doctoral)

available at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh and Strathclyde Universities, 
Scotland, UK.


Start date: 1 September 2020; End date: 30 August 2023

Postdoctoral Salary Scale: £31,866 to £40,322 per annum

PhD funding: covering PhD fees and stipend for 3.5 years

Closing date for Postdoctoral applications: 1 June 2020


We encourage interested applicants to contact us informally ASAP.

The project has sufficient flexibility to mitigate the effect of 
COVID-19, i.e. by accommodating later start date and remote working.



The project spans several subjects: type theory, automated and 
interactive theorem proving, security, AI and machine learning, 
autonomous systems, natural language processing and generation, legal 
aspects of AI. It will cover two main application areas: autonomous cars 
and chatbots, drawing from expertise and infrastructure provided by 
industrial partners working in these two areas. The project has a 
significant international span, with 12 partners from Academia and 
Industry in Europe (France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway) 
and the US. Researchers joining this project will have excellent 
opportunities to travel to international conferences, organise 
scientific events, spend time with industrial partners, collaborate with 
academic leaders in the field, develop their own research profiles as 
well as gain experience in other AI and CS disciplines.


For further information, and instructions how to apply, please visit:
http://laiv.uk/index.php/vacancies/

Ekaterina Komendantskaya: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ek19/

Robert Atkey: https://bentnib.org/

David Aspinall: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/da/

Burkard Schafer: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafer

Verena Rieser: https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/


[TYPES/announce] 2 PhD studentships, MSP group, University of Strathclyde, UK

2019-06-03 Thread Robert Atkey

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**
***   2 x PhD Positions
***
*** Mathematically Structured Programming Group
*** University of Strathclyde
***
**

Applications are invited for PhD study on any aspect of functional 
programming, type theory, logic, category theory, coalgebra etc. 
Candidates need not have a topic in mind, as we have plenty of ideas! 
The positions are expected to start on 1 October 2019, is fully funded 
for UK or EU students and will last for 3 years. The MSP group at the 
University  of Strathclyde contains some marvellous researchers (if we 
do say so ourselves) and prides itself  on its friendly and welcoming 
atmosphere. Members of the group are Dr Bob Atkey, Dr Ross Duncan,  Dr 
Fredrik Forsberg, Professor Neil Ghani, Dr Clemens Kupke, and  Dr Conor 
McBride.


Anyone interested should in the first instance contact Professor Neil 
Ghani (neil.gh...@strath.ac.uk) and outline their academic background. 
Applications will be considered on a first come, first served basis.


Please distribute to interested parties.




[TYPES/announce] Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School

2019-05-23 Thread Robert Atkey

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 +-+
 | |
 |  Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School  |
 |  The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 5--9 August 2019   |
 |  http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/splv/splv19/  |
 | |
 +-+

The inaugural Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer
School will be held at the University of Strathclyde 5--9 August 2019.
The aim of the school is to provide PhD students with core and
specialised knowledge in the broad area of Programming Language and
Verification research.

COURSES
===

Invited course
--

  Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University)
  "Probabilistic programming"

Core courses


  Phil Wadler (University of Edinburgh)
  "Programming Language Foundations in Agda"

  Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde)
  "Category Theory"

Specialised courses
---

  Chris Brown (University of St Andrews)
  "Parallel Programming"

  Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow)
  "Session Types"

  Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde)
  "Dependently Typed Programming"

  Greg Michaelson and Rob Stewart (Heriot-Watt University)
  "Domain-Specific Languages"


PREREQUISITES
=

The school is aimed at PhD students in programming languages,
verification and related areas. Also researchers and practitioners will
be very welcome, as will strong master's students with the support of a
supervisor. Participants will need to have a background in computer
science, mathematics or a related discipline, and have basic familiarity
with (functional) programming and logic.

DATES
=

Early Registration deadline: 4 July 2019.
School: Monday 5 August to Friday 9 August 2019.

SPONSORSHIP
===

The summer school is generously sponsored by SICSA, the Scottish
Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, and partially supported by
ERC grant Skye (grant no 682315) and the UK Manycore Network.

We also offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for industry with
attractive benefits -- please get in touch if you are interested.

REGISTRATION


Registration is open at the following address:

   http://tiny.cc/SPLV19-registration

Since the school is sponsored by SICSA, attendance will be *free* for
PhD students affiliated with Scottish universities. The registration
fees in general are as follows:

SICSA student: £0.
Academic: £160.
Industry: £300.

The registration fee covers coffee breaks, lunches and an excursion.


ACCOMMODATION
=

We can offer accommodation in student halls for for students for
£170. Alternatively, there are plenty of hotels, hostels or Airbnbs in
central Glasgow.


FURTHER INFORMATION
===

More information can be found on the school webpage:

  http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/splv/splv19/

Please contact one of the local organisers if you have any questions:

- Bob Atkeyrobert.at...@strath.ac.uk
- Clemens Kupkeclemens.ku...@strath.ac.uk
- Fredrik Nordvall Forsbergfredrik.nordvall-forsb...@strath.ac.uk


[TYPES/announce] Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2018: Final Call for Papers

2018-03-31 Thread Robert Atkey

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Seventh Workshop on
MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK
A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018

http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/

  ** New this time: additional talk proposal category **

  ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) **

The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional
Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from
structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical
Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern
programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support
the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping
programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where
would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming
without temporal logic?  Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The
list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to
reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control.

The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006,
affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was
held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP
workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth
workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The
fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS
2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven,
Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016.

Important Dates:


Abstract deadline:  5th April (Thursday)
Paper deadline:12th April (Thursday)
Notification:  17th May (Thursday)
Final version: 14th June (Thursday)
Workshop:   8th July (Sunday)

Invited Speakers:
=

 - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK
 - Didier Remy, INRIA, France

Program Committee:
==

Andreas Abel  - Chalmers, Sweden
Danel Ahman   - INRIA Paris, France
Robert Atkey  - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair)
Jeremy Gibbons- University of Oxford, UK
Jennifer Hackett  - University of Nottingham, UK
Mauro Jaskelioff  - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Sam Lindley   - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair)
Clare Martin  - Oxford Brookes University, UK
Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Valeria de Paiva  - Nuance Communications, US
Alexandra Silva   - University College London, UK

Submission:
===

Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics
such as:

structured effectful computation
structured recursion
structured corecursion
structured tree and graph operations
structured syntax with variable binding
structured datatype-genericity
structured search
structured representations of functions
structured quantum computation
structure directed optimizations
structured types
structure derived from programs and data

Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if
you have any questions about the scope of the workshop.

(New this time) We accept two categories of submission: full papers of
no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and
extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the
website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not
appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included
in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers.

Full papers (not two page talk abstracts) must report previously
unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another
conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers and talks must
be presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors.

The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a
Creative Commons license.

We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use
this link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018.


[TYPES/announce] Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2018: Call for Papers

2018-03-02 Thread Robert Atkey

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Seventh Workshop on
MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK
A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018

http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/

  ** New this time: additional talk proposal category **

  ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) **

The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional
Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from
structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical
Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern
programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support
the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping
programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where
would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming
without temporal logic?  Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The
list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to
reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control.

The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006,
affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was
held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP
workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth
workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The
fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS
2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven,
Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016.

Important Dates:


Abstract deadline:  5th April (Thursday)
Paper deadline:12th April (Thursday)
Notification:  17th May (Thursday)
Final version: 14th June (Thursday)
Workshop:   8th July (Sunday)

Invited Speakers:
=

 - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK
 - Didier Remy, INRIA, France

Program Committee:
==

Andreas Abel  - Chalmers, Sweden
Danel Ahman   - INRIA Paris, France
Robert Atkey  - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair)
Jeremy Gibbons- University of Oxford, UK
Jennifer Hackett  - University of Nottingham, UK
Mauro Jaskelioff  - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Sam Lindley   - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair)
Clare Martin  - Oxford Brookes University, UK
Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Valeria de Paiva  - Nuance Communications, US
Alexandra Silva   - University College London, UK

Submission:
===

Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics
such as:

structured effectful computation
structured recursion
structured corecursion
structured tree and graph operations
structured syntax with variable binding
structured datatype-genericity
structured search
structured representations of functions
structured quantum computation
structure directed optimizations
structured types
structure derived from programs and data

Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if
you have any questions about the scope of the workshop.

(New this time) We accept two categories of submission: full papers of
no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and
extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the
website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not
appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included
in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers.

Full papers (not two page talk abstracts) must report previously
unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another
conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers and talks must
be presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors.

The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a
Creative Commons license.

We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use
this link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018.


[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Mathematically Structured Programming 2018

2018-02-08 Thread Robert Atkey

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Seventh Workshop on
MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK
A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018

http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/

  ** New this time: additional short paper category **

  ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) **

The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional
Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from
structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical
Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern
programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support
the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping
programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where
would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming
without temporal logic?  Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The
list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to
reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control.

The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006,
affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was
held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP
workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth
workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The
fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS
2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven,
Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016.

Important Dates:


Abstract deadline:  5th April (Thursday)
Paper deadline:12th April (Thursday)
Notification:  17th May (Thursday)
Final version: 14th June (Thursday)
Workshop:   8th July (Sunday)

Invited Speakers:
=

 - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK
 - Second speaker to be confirmed

Program Committee:
==

Andreas Abel  - Chalmers, Sweden
Danel Ahman   - INRIA Paris, France
Robert Atkey  - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair)
Jeremy Gibbons- University of Oxford, UK
Jennifer Hackett  - University of Nottingham, UK
Mauro Jaskelioff  - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Sam Lindley   - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair)
Clare Martin  - Oxford Brookes University, UK
Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Valeria de Paiva  - Nuance Communications, US
Alexandra Silva   - University College London, UK

Submission:
===

Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics
such as:

structured effectful computation
structured recursion
structured corecursion
structured tree and graph operations
structured syntax with variable binding
structured datatype-genericity
structured search
structured representations of functions
structured quantum computation
structure directed optimizations
structured types
structure derived from programs and data

Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if
you have any questions about the scope of the workshop.

New this time We accept two categories of submission: full papers of
no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and
extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the
website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not
appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included
in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers.

Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted
concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted
papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.  The
proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a
Creative Commons license.

We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use
this link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018.


[TYPES/announce] Off the Beaten Track 2017: Call for Participation

2016-12-15 Thread Robert Atkey

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# Call for Participation: Off the Beaten Track 2017

http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/OBT-2017

21st January 2017

(co-located with POPL 2017, Paris, France)

## Registration

http://popl17.sigplan.org/attending/registration

  ** Early registration deadline: Saturday 17th Dec 2016 **

## Invited Speakers

  - Moa Johansson, Chalmers, Sweden
  - Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK

## Background

Programming language researchers have the principles, tools,
algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all
areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new
problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL
problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This
workshop’s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often
show up in our top conferences, but where programming language
research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will
increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers
and thus increase our community’s impact on the world.

While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like
mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The
workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We
are at least as interested in problems as in solutions.

## Programme

09:00-10:00 Invited talk: Reasoning about Functional Programs: 
Exploring, Testing and Inductive Proofs.

Moa Johanssen

10:00-10:30 coffee break

10:30-10:55 Can we machine-learn programming language semantics?
Dan Ghica, Khulood Alyahya and Victor Patentasu
10:55-11:20 How Far Apart Should Those Programs Be?
Ugo Dal Lago
11:20-11:45 Programming Quantum Annealers
George Stelle and Scott Pakin
11:45-12:10 Understanding the POSIX Shell as a Programming 
Language

Michael Greenberg

12:10-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Varieties of Programming Experience
Alan Blackwell
15:00-15:25 Bootstrapping the next generation of mathematical social 
machines

Ursula Martin, Alison Pease and Joe Corneli

15:30-16:00 coffee break

16:00-16:25 Designing extensible, domain-specific languages for 
mathematical diagrams
Katherine Ye, Keenan Crane, Jonathan Aldrich and Joshua 
Sunshine

16:25-16:50 Laziness Boxes You In
Jose Manuel Calderon Trilla and Stephen Magill
16:50-17:15 Programming with Epistemic Logic
Markus Eger and Chris Martens
17:15-17:40 Preventing False Discoveries in Adaptive Data 
Analysis: a Programming Language approach

Marco Gaboardi
17:40-18:05 Running Incomplete Programs
Ian Voysey, Cyrus Omar and Matthew Hammer


[TYPES/announce] Off the Beaten Track 2017: Final Call for Talk Proposals; deadline extended

2016-11-10 Thread Robert Atkey

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# Call for Talk Proposals: Off the Beaten Track 2017

http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/OBT-2017

  *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th November ***

21st January 2017

(co-located with POPL 2017, Paris, France)

## Invited Speakers

We an invited speaker for OBT:

  - Moa Johansson, Chalmers, Sweden

with another invited speaker TBC.

## Background

Programming language researchers have the principles, tools,
algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all
areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new
problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL
problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This
workshop’s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often
show up in our top conferences, but where programming language
research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will
increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers
and thus increase our community’s impact on the world.

While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like
mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The
workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We
are at least as interested in problems as in solutions.

## Scope

A good submission is one that outlines a new problem or an
interesting, underrepresented problem domain. Good submissions may
also remind the PL community of problems that were once in vogue but
have not recently been seen in top PL conferences. Good submissions do
not need to propose complete or even partial solutions, though there
should be some reason to believe that programming languages
researchers have the tools necessary to search for solutions in the
area at hand. Submissions that seem likely to stimulate discussion
about the direction of programming language research are encouraged.

Use your imagination. It's hard to imagine how a paper that discusses
programming languages could be considered out of scope. If in doubt,
ask the program chair.

## Previous OBTs

2017 marks the sixth year of OBT and its co-location with POPL. The
previous five workshops were:

  - OBT 2016, St. Petersburg, USA
  - OBT 2015, Mumbai, India
  - OBT 2014, San Diego, USA
  - OBT 2013, Rome, Italy
  - OBT 2012, Philadelphia, USA

## Important Dates

** EXTENDED DEADLINE **

  * 15th November 2016: Submission deadline
  * 8th December 2016: Notification
  * (18th December 2016: POPL early registration)
  * 21st January 2017: Workshop

## Submission

Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obt2017

All submissions should be in PDF format, two pages or less, in at
least 10pt font, printable on A4 and on US Letter paper. Authors are
welcome to include links to multimedia content such as YouTube videos
or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents; it is
up to authors to convince the reviewers to do so.

For each accepted submission, one of the authors will give a talk at
the workshop. The length of the talk will depend on the submissions
received and how the program committee decides to assemble the
program.

Reviewing of submissions will be very light. Authors should not expect
a detailed analysis of their submission by the program
committee. Accepted submissions will be posted as is on this web
site. By submitting a document, you agree that if it is accepted, it
may be posted and you agree that one of the co-authors will attend the
workshop and give a talk there. There will be no revision process and
no formal publication.

## Organisers

General chair:

  - Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs, USA
  Programme chair:

  - Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK

Programme committee:

  - Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  - Chris Martens, North Carolina State University, USA
  - Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge, UK
  - Wren Romano, Google Inc., USA
  - Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  - KC Sivaramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, UK
  - Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University, Netherlands


[TYPES/announce] Off the Beaten Track 2017: Call for Talk Proposals

2016-10-10 Thread Robert Atkey

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# Call for Talk Proposals: Off the Beaten Track 2017

http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/OBT-2017

21st January 2017

(co-located with POPL 2017, Paris, France)

## Background

Programming language researchers have the principles, tools,
algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all
areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new
problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL
problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This
workshop’s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often
show up in our top conferences, but where programming language
research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will
increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers
and thus increase our community’s impact on the world.

While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like
mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The
workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We
are at least as interested in problems as in solutions.

## Scope

A good submission is one that outlines a new problem or an
interesting, underrepresented problem domain. Good submissions may
also remind the PL community of problems that were once in vogue but
have not recently been seen in top PL conferences. Good submissions do
not need to propose complete or even partial solutions, though there
should be some reason to believe that programming languages
researchers have the tools necessary to search for solutions in the
area at hand. Submissions that seem likely to stimulate discussion
about the direction of programming language research are encouraged.

Use your imagination. It's hard to imagine how a paper that discusses
programming languages could be considered out of scope. If in doubt,
ask the program chair.

## Previous OBTs

2017 marks the sixth year of OBT and its co-location with POPL. The
previous five workshops were:

  - OBT 2016, St. Petersburg, USA
  - OBT 2015, Mumbai, India
  - OBT 2014, San Diego, USA
  - OBT 2013, Rome, Italy
  - OBT 2012, Philadelphia, USA

## Important Dates

  * 10th November 2016: Submission deadline
  * 8th December 2016: Notification
  * (18th December 2016: POPL early registration)
  * 21st January 2017: Workshop

## Submission

Please submit your talk proposal via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obt2017

All submissions should be in PDF format, two pages or less, in at
least 10pt font, printable on A4 and on US Letter paper. Authors are
welcome to include links to multimedia content such as YouTube videos
or online demos. Reviewers may or may not view linked documents; it is
up to authors to convince the reviewers to do so.

For each accepted submission, one of the authors will give a talk at
the workshop. The length of the talk will depend on the submissions
received and how the program committee decides to assemble the
program.

Reviewing of submissions will be very light. Authors should not expect
a detailed analysis of their submission by the program
committee. Accepted submissions will be posted as is on this web
site. By submitting a document, you agree that if it is accepted, it
may be posted and you agree that one of the co-authors will attend the
workshop and give a talk there. There will be no revision process and
no formal publication.

## Organisers

General chair:

  - Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs, USA
  Programme chair:

  - Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK

Programme committee:

  - Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  - Chris Martens, North Carolina State University, USA
  - Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge, UK
  - Wren Romano, Google Inc., USA
  - Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  - KC Sivaramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, UK
  - Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University, Netherlands


[TYPES/announce] 6 Month Postdoc Position

2011-08-17 Thread Robert Atkey
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6 Month Postdoc Position
Mathematically Structured Programming Group
University of Strathclyde
Scotland

We have the potential to apply for funds for a 6 month post doctoral
position. The idea is that the successful candidate would spend those 6
months writing a full scale grant to fund themselves for the next 3
years.

The postdoctoral position would be within the Mathematically Structured
Programing group at the University of Strathclyde whose research
focusses on category theory, type theory and functional programming.
Current staff include Neil Ghani, Patricia Johann, Conor McBride, Peter
Hancock, Robert Atkey and 6 PhD students. 

The candidate we are looking for should be highly self motivated and
appreciate that without beauty, we are lost.

Unfortunately, the deadline is extremely short and so any interested
candidates should contact me immediately. I can then tell you more about
what we would need to do. 

From more information, please contact:

Professor Neil Ghani
n...@cis.strath.ac.uk
http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ng/
http://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/