[TYPES/announce] Scott in Scotland: Tuesday 29th June, Edinburgh

[Alex Simpson]

Several of the talks at the meeting announced below are relevant
to the types mailing list.
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                                Scott in Scotland
                           2-5pm Tuesday 29th June 2010
                  Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK
           http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html

An afternoon of invited talks on semantics of programming languages
associated with Dana Scott's visit to Scotland on a Scottish Informatics
and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) distinguished visiting fellowship.

Jointly sponsored by the SICSA Modelling and Abstraction and Complex
Systems Engineering themes.

INVITED TALKS:

     * Gordon Plotkin (University of Edinburgh)
       A Logic for Algebraic Effects

     * Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde)
       Initial Algebras and Induction Principles - Fibrationally

     * Murdoch James Gabbay (Heriot-Watt University)
       Kripke-style models in which logic and computation have equal standing

     * Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University, Emeritus)
       Semilattices, Domains, and Computability

The meeting will be followed by a wine reception at the Informatics
Forum.

All are welcome to attend, though we politely request notification of
attendance by Tuesday 22nd June for catering purposes.

For more details, see:

     http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html

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Alex Simpson, LFCS, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Email: Alex.Simpson at ed.ac.uk             Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5113
Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als   Fax: +44 (0)131 651 1426







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