[TYPES/announce] Metaprogramming Summer School (August 2019): call for applications

[Jeremy Yallop]

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Second International Summer School on Metaprogramming

Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany

11th-16th August 2019
(the week before ICFP'19)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/metaprog/2019/
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Metaprogramming is an approach to constructing programs by treating
program fragments (such as expressions or types) as values that the
program can manipulate. Metaprogramming comes in various forms ---
for example,

* in dependently-typed programming terms appear within types,
  supporting the construction of precise specifications of functions and
  data.

* in multi-stage programming expressions are program values, making it
  possible to write safe program generation programs that can
  significantly improve performance.

* in languages with macros programs execute partly during compilation
  and partly at run-time, eliminating the sharp distinction between
  built-in and user-defined constructs.

* embedded domain-specific languages reuse host language
  features such as syntax and type-checking for convenient definition
  of little languages suited to a particular endeavour.

Metaprogramming has many applications, including genericity, proof
automation, language extensibility and user-defined optimization.

The goal of the summer school is to explore the state-of-the art in
metaprogramming and its applications, covering both theory and
practice.

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Lecturers and courses

Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University)
  From the tagless-final cookbook:
     simple hardware description language and optimization-by-evaluation

Matthew Flatt (University of Utah)
  Building Languages with Racket

Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde)
  TBD

Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research Redmond)
  Meta-F*: efficient meta-programming of the F* compiler at every stage

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Prerequisites

The school is aimed at graduate students in programming languages and
related areas, but is open to researchers, practitioners and strong
masters students with the support of a supervisor. Some experience of
typed functional programming in Haskell, OCaml, Scala, or a similar
language will be assumed.

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Costs

Thanks to the Schloss Dagstuhl subsidies, accommodation costs are as
follows, and the dates are immediately before ICFP'19 (also in
Germany):

Single-occupancy accommodation: €420
Double-occupancy accommodation: €330

Accommodation costs include full board (in a single- or
double-occupancy room, including meals during stay)
from Sunday 11 August (evening) to Friday 16 August (afternoon).

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Application procedure

You will need to complete the online registration form at:

  https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/metaprog/2019/application.html

and ensure your referees send your references to:

  metaprog-2019 at cl.cam.ac.uk

by the application deadline.

TIMETABLE

* 30 June: Application and reference letters deadline.

* 10 July: Notification of acceptance.

* 11 August: Summer school.

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Further information

For any questions relating to the school, please contact the
organisers (Jeremy Yallop, Ohad Kammar, Yukiyoshi Kameyama) at
metaprog-2019 at cl.cam.ac.uk