[TYPES/announce] update on MFPS 2020

[Patricia Johann]

In view of the chaotic situation in many places of the world due to the 
pandemic, we are sorry to inform you that we definitely will not be able 
to maintain the physical event of the MFPS and QPL 2020 conferences in 
Paris or, indeed, anywhere else in the world.

We are still working out the details of how to hold a virtual meeting. At 
a minimum, we plan to offer the opportunity to upload pre-recorded 
lectures to an online conference platform. More information on the 
concrete modalities (offline videos, forum, online discussion platform, 
etc) will be forthcoming.

Conference proceedings of the accepted papers will still be published as 
usual.

The final Call for Papers for MFPS is repeated below. Submission deadlines 
remain unchanged.

Best wishes,
Patricia Johann, on behalf of the MFPS and QPL PC chairs




                            Final
                  CALL FOR PAPERS: MFPS XXXVI

            https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/

                 Thirty-sixth Conference on the
                   Mathematical Foundations of
                      Programming Semantics

                  University of Paris Saclay, France
                        June 2-6, 2020

                   Co-located with QPL 2020

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      March 30, 2020: Abstract Submission
      April 3, 2020: Paper Submission
      May 8, 2020: Notification
      May 22, 2020: Final Papers Deadline

              All dates AoE

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The 36th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming
Semantics (MFPS 2020) takes place at University of Paris Saclay,
France, June 2–6, 2020.

MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and
computer science that are related to models of computation in general,
and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a
forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet
and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring
areas is strongly encouraged.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed
systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive
mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages;
formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language
theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type
systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address
applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems,
markets, and networks, for example.

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INVITED SPEAKERS & SPECIAL SESSIONS:

As in previous years, MFPS will have several invited speakers and
special session highlighting areas within programming languages
semantics. We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers
and organizers of special sessions:

Gilles Barthe (IMDEA) - plenary speaker


Christine Tasson (Paris VII) - plenary speaker


Special session on Probabilistic programming languages
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Dexter Kozen (Cornell) - plenary speaker
Fredrik Dahlqvist (London)
Ohad Kammar (Edinburgh)
Radu Mardare (Strathclyde)
Valeria Vignudelli (Lyon)


Special session on Quantum programming - joint with QPL
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Alexandre Miquel (Montevideo) - plenary speaker
Pierre Clairambault (Lyon)
Claudia Faggian (Paris VII)
Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Nancy)


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SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (available from
http://www.entcs.org) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding
bibliography and appendices. Submissions will be via EasyChair:

    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps20

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PROCEEDINGS:

There will be a preliminary proceedings of the conference papers that
will be distributed at the meeting, with a final proceedings published
in ENTCS after the meeting.

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

    Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana)
    Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana)
    Stephen Brookes (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna & INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
    Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham)
    Pierre Hyvernat (Universite Savoie Mount Blanc)
    Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
    Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair
    Achim Jung (University of Birmingham)
    Barbara Koenig (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen)
    Dexter Kozen (Cornell University)
    Neel Krishnaswami (Cambridge University)
    Catherine Meadows (NRL)
    Mike Mislove (Tulane University)
    Joel Ouaknine (MPI-SWS)
    Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
    Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University)
    Maciej Pirog (University of Wroclaw)
    Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University)
    Alexandra Silva (University College London)
    Kristina Sojakova (Cornell University)
    Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg)
    Sam Staton (University of Oxford)
    Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University)

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STEERING COMMITTEE:

The steering committee of the MFPS series consists of Andrej Bauer
(Ljubljana), Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine
Meadows (NRL), Michael Mislove (Tulane), Joel Ouaknine (Max Planck)
and Prakash Panangaden (McGill).

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LOCAL ORGANIZERS:

    Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA)
    Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne)
    Benoît Valiron (University of Paris Saclay)