[TYPES/announce] SERPL 2020 CFP

[Harley D. Eades III]

Please find below the CFP for the Southeast Regional Programming Languages
Seminar a regional workshop in the Southeast US.

We have a good amount of student travel funding, and dedicated funding for
people who identify as LBGTQ+,  woman, other under represented minorities,
and undergraduates.

So even if you or someone you know is not in the region, we would still
love their submission.

Please pass this call along to any interested people.

Very best,
Harley

Call For Contributions

The Second Annual Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar (SERPL)

May 8, 2020, Augusta University, Augusta Georgia

More Information at:

https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/SERPL/

=Scope=

The Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar (SERPL) seeks to
bring together researchers in the Southeastern United States working in
the design, analysis, and application of programming languages to build
new collaborations among students and researchers.

We invite contributions in the form of student -- both undergraduate
and graduate -- research talks on topics related to programming
language research from theory to practice to interdisciplinary
applications.

SERPL consists of a full day of research talks from undergraduate and
graduate students and one keynote speaker.

We are extremely excited to announce that the keynote speaker is:

*Franklyn A Turbak*
   *Title: Blocks Programming: A Rich Domain for PL Research*
   *Associate Professor in Computer Science at Wellesley College*

   *Abstract*: Blocks programming languages represent program syntax
    trees as compositions of visual code fragments. They are an
    increasingly popular way to introduce programming and
    computational thinking. Tens of millions of people have used
    blocks environments like Scratch, Snap!, MIT App Inventor,
    Blockly, Pencil Code, Alice/Looking Glass, AgentSheets/AgentCubes,
    and Code.org's curricula to learn programming and create
    computational artifacts for themselves, their families, and their
    communities. But blocks programming is not just for beginners;
    environments like GP and domain-specific blocks languages are
    targeted at hobbyists, scientists, artists, business people, and
    other casual programmers.

    Many members of the Programming Languages (PL) research community
    are either unaware of blocks languages or dismiss them as "just
    for kids" or "not real programming". As someone who spent many
    years working in the areas of functional programming, type
    systems, and semantics before focusing on blocks programming, I
    will argue that blocks languages are a rich domain for PL research
    that combines traditional PL topics with other usually
    underemphasized areas that should be more front-and-center in the
    PL research community, including usability, learnability, and
    computer science education. I will give examples of blocks
    language projects I've worked on with students in my TinkerBlocks
    research group at Wellesley College and with members of the MIT
    App Inventor group.

=Travel Support=

SERPL is graciously supported by the National Science Foundation
(NSF).

We are accepting applications for student travel support to SERPL.

In addition, we have set aside a portion of our student travel awards
for funding undergraduate students, women, underrepresented
minorities, and LBGTQ+ people.

Student travel grant applications can be submitted on the
SERPL website (see above).

=Important Dates=

Talk Abstracts Due: March 20th, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: April 3rd, 2020
Student Travel Grant Application Due: April 10th, 2020
Student Travel Grant Notification: April 17th, 2020
Registration closes: April 24th, 2020
Seminar: May 8, 2020

=Submission Instructions=

Please submit in the form of a single PDF file a two page talk
abstract.  All submissions should be prepared using LaTeX using the
authors favorite style with a font size of no smaller than 11 points,
and a margin of no smaller than one inch.

All submission should be submitted via the SERPL website (see above).

There will be no formal proceedings, but all abstracts and slides
will be posted on the SERPL website.

=Organizers=

Harley Eades III (chair), Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University
Chris Martens (cochair), Computer Science (CSC) Department, North Carolina
State
Clément Aubert (cochair), Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University

=Sponsors=

The National Science Foundation (NSF)
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