[TYPES/announce] MFPS 2020 -- Call for Participation

[Vladimir Zamdzhiev]

36th International Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming
Semantics — MFPS 2020

June 2 — 6, 2020
To be jointly held with QPL'20.
https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/

# About

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: 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.

# Online Event

MFPS 2020 will be held online, jointly with the 17th International
Conference on Quantum and Physics Logic (QPL) 2020. We will hold a live
meeting using video and online discussion platforms.

Registration is free but mandatory. Please follow this link:
https://forms.gle/Bozgh92BoLUQxVaD7
to register.

# Invited Speakers and Organizers of 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

* 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

* Alexandre Miquel (Montevideo) - plenary speaker
* Pierre Clairambault (Lyon)
* Claudia Faggian (Paris VII)
* Vladimir Zamdzhiev (LORIA, Nancy)

# Accepted Papers

* Gordon Plotkin. A complete axiomatisation of partial differentiation.
* Alejandro Aguirre and Shin-ya Kastumata. Weakest preconditions in
   fibrations
* Abbas Edalat, Amin Farjudian, Mina Mohammadian and Dirk Pattinson.
   Domain Theoretic Second-Order Euler’s Method for Solving Initial Value
   Problems.
* Tao Gu, Alexandra Silva and Fabio Zanasi. Hennessy-Milner Results for
   Probabilistic PDL.
* Linan Chen, Florence Clerc and Prakash Panangaden. Towards a
   classification of behavioural equivalences in continuous-time Markov
   processes.
* Niels Voorneveld. Combining Algebraic Effect Descriptions using the
   Tensor of Complete Lattices.
* Tarmo Uustalu, Niccolò Veltri and Noam Zeilberger. Eilenberg-Kelly
   reloaded.
* Paolo Perrone and Tobias Fritz. Monads, partial evaluations, and
   rewriting.
* Thomas Paine. A pebbling comonad for finite rank and variable logic,
   and an application to the equirank-variable homomorphism preservation
   theorem.
* Ernest Manes. Continuous Monads.
* Roy Crole, Samuele Buro and Isabella Mastroeni. Equational Logic and
   Categorical Semantics for Multi-Languages.
* Nicolas Blanco and Noam Zeilberger. Bifibrations of Polycategories and
   Classical Linear Logic.
* Ryan Kavanagh. Some Properties of Parametrized Fixed Points on
   O-Categories.

# Program

All talks will be available on YouTube and there will be a forum
organised on Slack where participants can discuss the talks. A schedule
will be posted soon on the conference website. See
https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/
for more information.

# Program 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 (Huawei Research and University of Birmingham)
Pierre Hyvernat (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair
Achim Jung (University of Birmingham)
Barbara König (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell 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)

# Organising Committee

Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA)
Aleks Kissinger (University of Oxford)
Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne Université)
Benoît Valiron (U. Paris Saclay)
John van de Wetering (Radboud University Nijmegen — Wiz Team)
James Hefford (University of Oxford — Wiz Team)
Matthew Wilson (University of Oxford — Wiz Team)
Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Loria, Nancy)