[TYPES/announce] LOLA 2012: Call for Participation (early registration by May 31)

[Amal Ahmed]

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               *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

                         LOLA  2012

        Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages

        Sunday 24th June 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia

              A LICS 2012-affiliated workshop

         http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amal/lola2012/

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 *** Early Registration DEADLINE: 31 May 2012 ***


Registration, accomodation, and travel information for LICS and all
affiliated  workshops is on the LICS 2012 web page:  

   http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12/


INVITED TALKS:

 * Jade Alglave (University of Oxford). 

 * Ulrich Schoepp (LMU Munich). 


CONTRIBUTED TALKS:

 * Nikos Tzevelekos and Andrzej Murawski.  Algorithmic Games for Full
   Ground References

 * Jacob Thamsborg, Lars Birkedal, Guilhem Jaber, and Filip
   Sieczkowski.  Kripke Logical Relations for Region Polymorphism
 
 * Tadeusz Litak.  Extending Nakano-style Type Systems and Logics

 * Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, and Jonas Jensen.  Using Coq to
   Generate and Reason About x86 Systems Code

 * Ruy Ley-Wild and Aleksandar Nanevski.  Subjective Concurrent
   Separation Logic 

 * Paul-Andre Mellies.  Strong Monads and Enriched Adjunctions


DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP:

It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures
arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied
to the design of high level programming languages, and to the
development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level
languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level
languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having
little or no essential connection to logic.

However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low
level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key
observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at
the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated
design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such
as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of
programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with the some of
the most advanced contemporary researches in semantics and proof
theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double
orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics,
uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract
machines, implicit complexity and sublinear programming.

The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS, will bring together
researchers interested in the various aspects of the relationship
between logic and low level languages and programs. LOLA is an
informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction
amongst the participants.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

  * Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, co-chair)
  * Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College London and Monoidics Limited)
  * Robert Dockins (Princeton University) 
  * Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) 
  * Xavier Leroy (INRIA Rocquencourt)
  * Andrzej Murawski (University of Leicester)
  * Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software, co-chair)
  * Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology) 
  * Dusko Pavlovic (Royal Holloway, University of London) 
  * Andreas Rossberg (Google)