[TYPES/announce] LSFA 2011 - call for participation

[Elaine Pimentel]

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               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:  LSFA 2011

6th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications

                     August 27, 2011

                     Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil

                     http://www.mat.ufmg.br/LSFA2011

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           *** Early registration deadline: July 31st, 2011 ***

           *** Call for grants open ***

           *** Preliminary program now available from the website ***

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Scope

Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent
logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for
formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting
tool development and reasoning.

The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together theoreticians
and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the
theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and the use of such
techniques and results, from the practical side.

Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:

 * Logical frameworks
   o Proof theory
   o Type theory
   o Automated deduction
 * Semantic frameworks
   o Specification languages and meta-languages
   o Formal semantics of languages and systems
   o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks
 * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks
 * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks

LSFA 2011 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in
progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their
preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of
full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so
that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

Invited Speakers

-  Pete Manolios (Northeastern University)
-  Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University)
-  Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio)

Program Committee

Simona Ronchi della Rocca (co-chair, UNITO, Italy)
Elaine Gouvea Pimentel (co-chair, UFMG, Brazil)
Luis Farinas del Cerro (IRIT, France)
Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (UnB, Brazil)
Mario Benevides (Coppe-UFRJ, Brazil)
Eduardo Bonelli (UNQ, Argentina)
Marcelo Correa (IM-UFF, Brazil)
Clare Dixon (Liverpool, UK)
Gilles Dowek (Polytechnique-Paris, France)
William Farmer (Mcmaster, Canada)
Maribel Fernandez (King's College, UK)
Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brazil)
Alwyn Goodloe (NASA LaRC)
Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt Univ, UK)
Delia Kesner (Paris-Jussieu, France)
Luis da Cunha Lamb (UFRGS, Brazil)
Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil)
Flavio L. C. de Moura (UnB, Brazil)
Ana Teresa Martins (UFC, Brazil)
Martin Musicante (UFRN, Brazil)
Claudia Nalon (UnB, Brazil)
Vivek Nigam (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
Luca Paolini (UNITO, Italy)
Jonathan Seldin (Univ-Lethbridge , Canada)
Luis Menasche Schechter (UFRJ, Brazil)

Organizing Committee

Mauricio Ayala-Rincon
Edward Hermann Hauesler PUC-Rio
Elaine Pimentel (Local-chair)
Simona Ronchi della Rocca

Dates

Early registration: July 31st
Call for grants: July 31st
LSFA: August 27th

At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The
paper presentation will be in English.

Venue

Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais and the
third-largest metropolitan area in Brazil. A city surrounded by mountains,
quite big, but still with this countryside town air.

Contact Information

For more information please contact the chairs.

The web page of the event can be reached at:

http://www.mat.ufmg.br/LSFA2011/

Elaine.
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Elaine Pimentel  - DMat/UFMG

Address: Departamento de Matematica
         Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
         Av Antonio Carlos, 6627 - C.P. 702
         Pampulha - CEP 30.161-970
         Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil
Phone:   55 31 3409-5970
Fax:     55 31 3409-5692
http://www.mat.ufmg.br/~elaine
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