Scott in Scotland: Tuesday 29th June, Edinburgh

Scott in Scotland: Tuesday 29th June, Edinburgh

[Alex Simpson]

                                 Scott in Scotland
                            2-5pm Tuesday 29th June 2010
                   Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK
            http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html

An afternoon of invited talks on semantics of programming languages
associated with Dana Scott's visit to Scotland on a Scottish Informatics
and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) distinguished visiting fellowship.

Jointly sponsored by the SICSA Modelling and Abstraction and Complex
Systems Engineering themes.

INVITED TALKS:

      * Gordon Plotkin (University of Edinburgh)
        A Logic for Algebraic Effects

      * Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde)
        Initial Algebras and Induction Principles - Fibrationally

      * Murdoch James Gabbay (Heriot-Watt University)
        Kripke-style models in which logic and computation have equal standing

      * Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University, Emeritus)
        Semilattices, Domains, and Computability

The meeting will be followed by a wine reception at the Informatics
Forum.

All are welcome to attend, though we politely request notification of
attendance by Tuesday 22nd June for catering purposes.

For more details, see:

      http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html

-- 
Alex Simpson, LFCS, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Email: Alex.Simpson@ed.ac.uk             Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5113
Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als   Fax: +44 (0)131 651 1426







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