Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming

Johan Jeuring johanj@cs.uu.nl
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:10:28 +0100


Summer School and Workshop on Advanced Functional Programming
             St Anne's College, Oxford, UK
                19th to 24th August 2002

       http://www.functional-programming.org/afp/afp4

                 In conjunction with
       Summer School and Workshop on Generic Programming

                 Call for participation

This is the fourth school in a series on schools on Advanced Functional
Programming. Previous schools were held in Baastad, Sweden (1995,
LNCS 925), Olympia, Washington (LNCS 1129), and Braga, Portugal
(LNCS 1608). We have recruited a group of excellent lecturers on
advanced technologies in Functional Programming.


************         Lecturers        ************

* Richard Bird (University of Oxford) and
   Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford):
     Arithmetic Coding with Folds and Unfolds
* Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales):
     Fast Arrays in Haskell
* Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern University):
     Developing Interactive Web Programs in DrScheme
* Cedric Fournet (Microsoft Research) and
   Fabrice Le Fessant (INRIA Rocquencourt):
     Jocaml3, a Language for Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile 
Programming
* Paul Hudak (Yale University):
     Robots, Arrows and Functional Reactive Programming
* Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Tecnology) and
   Colin Runciman (University of York):
     Testing and Tracing Lazy Functional Programs
* Philip Wadler (Avaya Labs):
     XQuery: A Typed Functional Language for Querying XML

In addition, on the afternoon of Monday 19th August there will be a
half-day Introduction to Functional Programming, presented by
Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham).


************         Deadlines         ************

For registration with an early-bird discount:
   17th May 2002

For late registration:
   12th July 2002


************         Organizers         ************

Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University)
Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)


************     Further information    ************


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