[TYPES/announce] LOLA call for talk proposals

[Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg]

Call for talk proposals.

LOLA 2019: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages
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Sunday, 23 June 2019, Vancouver, Canada
A satellite workshop of LICS 2019
https://cs.appstate.edu/~johannp/lola19/

Important dates
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 LOLA submission deadline          15 April 2019
 Notification                      13 May   2019
 Workshop                          23 June  2019
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Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2019


Context
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Since the late 1960s it has been known 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 low-level ones have traditionally been seen as having
little or no essential connection to logic.

However, a fundamental discovery of the past two decades 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 some of the most advanced contemporary research 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 resource bounded programming.

The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS, will bring
together researchers interested in the relationships and connections
between logic and low-level languages and programs. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* Typed assembly languages,
* Certified assembly programming,
* Certified and certifying compilation,
* Proof-carrying code,
* Program optimization,
* Modal logic and realizability in machine code,
* Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code,
* Parametricity, modules and existential types,
* General references, Kripke models and recursive types,
* Continuations and concurrency,
* Resource analysis and implicit complexity,
* Closures and explicit substitutions,
* Linear logic and separation logic,
* Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis,
* Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects.



Submission
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LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful
interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on
work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position
presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research
talks describing new results.

The programme committee will select the workshop presentations from
submitted proposals, in the form of a two page abstract (excluding
references, acknowledgements, and appendices). Full papers (published
or unpublished) may be included as appendices, but note that reviewers
are not required to read appendices.

Authors are invited to submit their contribution by 15 April 2019.
Abstracts must be written in English and be submitted as a single PDF
file at EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2019

Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be
judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Submission
should describe novel works or works that have already appeared
elsewhere but that can stimulate the discussion between different
communities at the workshop.

At least one author of an accepted workshop proposal must be
registered for the workshop.

The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to
preclude later publication at another venue.


Invited Speakers
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TBD



Program Committee
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* Amal Ahmed                   Northeastern University
* Simon Castellan              Imperial College
* Jan Hoffmann                 Carnegie Mellon University
* Patricia Johann (co-chair)   Appalachian State University
* Rasmus Møgelberg (co-chair)  IT University of Copenhagen
* Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni   Inria
* Magnus Myreen                Chalmers University of Technology
* Dominic Orchard              University of Kent
* Azalea Raad                  MPI-SWS
* Ulrich Schöpp                LMU Munich
* Nicolas Tabareau             Inria
* Tarmo Uustalu                Reykjavik University

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