Lambda the Ultimate

Some of you might be interested in the following Conference during the first weekend in June at UBC in Vancouver, Canada:

Conference: Foundational Methods in Computer Science (FMCS05)

Local organizer: John MacDonald
Location: All sessions are held in WMAX 110 - 1933 West Mall
Dates: June 3-5, 2005

Friday, June 3, 2005

9:00-10:30a.m. Ernie Manes, UMass Amherst, USA
From locally-Boolean rings to sum-ordered categories

11:00-12:30p.m. Vaughan Pratt, Stanford University, USA
Recent developments in Chu spaces

2:30-4:00p.m. Steve Bloom, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Regular words

4:30-6:00p.m. Robin Cockett, University of Calgary
Restriction Categories and Ehresmann's Theorem

Saturday, June 4, 2005

9:00-9:50a.m. Paul Taylor, Manchester, UK
Extension of ASD (from locally compact locales) to and
beyond general locales

9:50-10:30a.m. Cyrus Nourani, USA
Functorial Model Computations

11:00-11:30a.m TBA

11:30-12:15p.m. Art Stone, Vancouver, Canada
2-Dimensional Adjunctions

2:00-2:30p.m. Varmo Vene, University of Tartu, Estonia
Signals and Comonads

2:30-3:00p.m. Bob Rosebrugh, Mt. Allison University
TBA

3:00-3:30p.m. Chris Dutchyn, University of British Columbia
Aspects are Dual to Objects

4:00-5:00p.m. Philip Mulry, Colgate University, USA
Monad Compositions on Recursive Data Types

Sunday, June 5, 2005

9:00- 9:30a.m. Brian Redmond, University of Ottawa,
Categorical Models for Soft Linear Logic

9:30-10:00a.m. X. Guo, University of Calgary,
Range Restriction Categories

10:00-10:30a.m. Dana Harrington, University of Calgary
TBA

10:30-11:00a.m. Break

11:00-11:30a.m. David Oury, McGill University,
TBA

11:30-12:00 Pieter Hofstra, University of Ottawa,
TBA

12:00-12:30p.m. TBA

Last updated: 5/27/05

For further information see the conference website:
http://www.pims.math.ca/science/2005/05fmcs