[PT] Midlands Graduate School in Foundations of Computing Science - last chance to register

[PT] Midlands Graduate School in Foundations of Computing Science - last chance to register

[Paul Levy]

Dear colleagues,

The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing  
Science is a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of  
Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. It was established in  
1999. The MGS has two main goals: to provide PhD students with a sound  
basis for research in the mathematical and practical foundations of  
computing and to give PhD students the opportunity to make contact  
with established researchers in the field and their peers who are at a  
similar stage in their research careers.

This year, the MGS is at the University of Nottingham. It will start  
on 22 April and finish on 26 April.

CORE COURSES

* Category Theory   (Roy Crole, Leicester)

* Denotational Semantics  (Achim Jung, Birmingham)

* Typed Lambda Calculus  (Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham)

ADVANCED COURSES

* Concurrency, Causality, Reversibility  (Irek Ulidowski, Leicester)

* Theory of Randomised Search Heuristics     (Dirk Sudholt, Per  
Kristian Lehre,Pietro S. Oliveto, Christine Zarges, Birmingham,  
Nottingham, Sheffield)

* Homotopy Type Theory     (Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham)

* Infinite Data Structures (Venanzio Capretta, Nottingham)

* Logical relations and parametricity  (Uday Reddy, Birmingham)

* Higher-Order Functional Reactive Programming (Neelakantan  
Krishnaswami, Birmingham)

+ an invited lecture course on Dependently Typed Programming by Conor  
McBride (Strathclyde).

The fee is £440, this includes on campus accommodation with breakfast,
lunches, coffees and a workshop dinner!

More information is available on

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/

from where you also find a link to the registration page

<http://store.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=9&catid=4&prodid=359 
 > page.

The registration deadline is Friday, 21 March. Please register as soon  
as possible since there is a limited number of spaces which are  
allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.




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Paul Blain Levy
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
+44 121 414 4792
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl