[TYPES/announce] HOPE 2015 workshop @ ICFP - call for talk abstracts

[Lars Birkedal]

Reminder:
    Deadline for HOPE 2015 abstracts is on June 12, 2015
    Details below.
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                           HOPE 2015

                The 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
              Higher-Order Programming with Effects

                        August 30, 2015
                      Vancouver, Canada
                   (the day before ICFP 2015)

              http://users-cs.au.dk/birke/hope-2015/

HOPE 2015 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. We recommend preparing proposals of
at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will accept
longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the understanding
that PC members are only expected to read the first two pages of such longer
submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors 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, Lars Birkedal
(birkedal at cs.au.dk) and Neel Krishnaswami (N.Krishnaswami at cs.bham.ac.uk).


Deadline for talk proposals: 	June 12, 2015 (Friday)

Notification of acceptance:   	July 3, 2015 (Friday)

Workshop:    	 August 30, 2015 (Sunday)

The submission website is now open:

        https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hope2015


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Invited Speaker
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Aaron Turon, Mozilla

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Workshop Organization
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Program Co-Chairs:

Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University)
Neel Krishnaswami (University of Birmingham)


Program Committee:

Viviana Bono (Università di Torino)
Pierre Clairambault (ENS Lyon)
Mike Dodds (University of York)
Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo)
Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh)
Rasmus Møgelberg (IT University of Copenhagen)
Tahina Ramananandro (Reservoir Labs Inc.)
Kasper Svendsen (Aarhus University)
Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University)
Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College)
Noam Zeilberger (MSR-Inria)