[Haskell] Workshop on Generic Programming: Call for Participation (co-located w/ ICFP08)

[Matthew Fluet (ICFP Publicity Chair)]

Dear all,

the Workshop on Generic Programming is only a few days away: 20th
September 2008 (http://www.regmaster.com/conf/icfp2008.html).

==> Invited talk: The Generic Paradigm
==> Lambert Meertens (Utrecht University)

==> We have reserved 20 minutes for *lightning talks*. If you plan to
==> attend and if you would like to give a short talk (about half-baked,
==> exciting, new stuff) please drop me a short note. Slots will be
==> reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Looking forward to seeing you in Victoria, Ralf Hinze

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                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                     Workshop on Generic Programming 2008

                    Victoria, Canada, 20th September 2008

     http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/wgp2008/cfp.{html,pdf,ps,txt}

     The Workshop on Generic Programming is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
     and forms part of ICFP 2008.  Previous Workshops on Generic
     Programming have been held in Marstrand (affiliated with MPC),
     Ponte de Lima (affiliated with MPC), Nottingham (informal
     workshop), Dagstuhl (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), Oxford
     (informal workshop), Utrecht (informal workshop), and Portland
     (affiliated with ICFP).

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Preliminary program
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9:00 - 10:00, Session Chair: Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford)

    Welcome

    Invited talk: The Generic Paradigm
    Lambert Meertens (Utrecht University)

10:30 - 12:00, Session Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford)

    A Functional Model-View-Controller Software Architecture for
    Command-oriented Programs
    Alley Stoughton (Kansas State University)

    A Lightweight Approach to Datatype-Generic Rewriting
    Thomas van Noort (Radboud University Nijmegen), Alexey Rodriguez,
    Stefan Holdermans (Utrecht University), Johan Jeuring (Utrecht
    University and Open University of the Netherlands), Bastiaan
    Heeren (Open University of the Netherlands)

    Lightning talks

13:30 - 15:00, Session Chair: Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford)

    Report from the program chair
    Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford)

    Scala for Generic Programmers
    Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford)

    A Comparison of C++ Concepts and Haskell Type Classes
    Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Patrik Jansson, Marcin Zalewski, Sibylle
    Schupp, Andreas Priesnitz (Chalmers University of Technology and
    University of Gothenburg)

    Lightning talks

15:30 - 17:30, Session Chair: Patrik Jansson (Chalmers University of
    Technology and University of Gothenburg)

    Polytypic Programming in Coq
    Wendy Verbruggen, Edsko de Vries, Arthur Hughes (Trinity College
    Dublin)

    Bialgebra Views: A Way for Polytypic Programming to Cohabit with
    Data Abstraction
    Pablo Nogueira, Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro (Universidad Politecnica
    de Madrid)

    Discussion

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