Lambda the Ultimate

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CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS

HOPE 2014

The 3rd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
Higher-Order Programming with Effects

August 31, 2014
Gothenburg, Sweden
(the day before ICFP 2014)

http://hope2014.mpi-sws.org

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HOPE 2014 aims at bringing together researchers interested in the
design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order
effectful programs. It will be *informal*, consisting of invited talks,
contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions.

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Goals of the Workshop
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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 it hard to build, maintain, and reason
about one's code. 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
posted on this website.

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Call for Talk Proposals
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We solicit proposals for contributed talks. Proposals should be at
most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format, and 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 at the address hope2014 AT mpi-sws.org.

Deadline for talk proposals: June 13, 2014 (Friday)

Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2014 (Friday)

Workshop: August 31, 2014 (Sunday)

The submission website is now open:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hope2014

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Workshop Organization
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Program Co-Chairs:

Neel Krishnaswami (University of Birmingham)
Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford)

Program Committee:

Zena Ariola (University of Oregon)
Ohad Kammar (University of Cambridge)
Ioannis Kassios (ETH Zurich)
Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo)
Paul Blain Levy (University of Birmingham)
Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA)
Scott Owens (University of Kent)
Sam Staton (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania)

The Avail programming language was released yesterday, but it didn't receive the attention it deserves.

Avail is a multi-paradigmatic general purpose programming language whose feature set emphasizes support for articulate programming
I believe the authors are being a bit modest!

The most interesting thing about Avail is it's programmable (turing-complete) type system that enables strongly typed multiple method dispatch. To me, Avail appears to be a happy marriage between smalltalk, maude, and (dare i say) coq?

Although, I'm not totally sold on the persuasive use of unicode - yet.