From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9818 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul B Levy Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Midlands Graduate School 2019 in the Foundations of Computing Science Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:32:19 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Paul B Levy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="114961"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Feb 01 20:03:33 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([198.164.44.56]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gpe68-000Ti9-1R for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:03:32 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:37625) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gpe5r-0001wz-45; Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpe4z-0008HI-Hu for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:02:21 -0400 Content-Language: en-GB Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9818 Archived-At: Midlands Graduate School 2019 14-18 April 2019, Birmingham, UK http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mgs2019/ BACKGROUND: The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. The MGS has been running since 1999, and is aimed at PhD students in their first or second year of study, but the school is open to everyone, and has increasingly seen participation from industry. We welcome participants from all over the world! COURSES: Eight courses will be given. Participants usually take all the introductory courses and choose additional options from the advanced courses depending on their interests. Invited course - Adventures in Property Based Testing, John Hughes Introductory courses - Lambda Calculus, Venanzio Capretta - Category Theory, Thorsten Altenkirch - Univalent Type Theory in Agda, Mart??n Escard?? Advanced courses - Calculating programs, Jennifer Hackett - Type Refinement Systems, Noam Zeilberger - Synthesis of Reactive Systems, Rayna Dimitrova - Monoidal Categories, Higher Categories, Jamie Vicary REGISTRATION: Registration is ??220 for student, academic and independent participants, and ??420 for industry participants. Accommodation is not included; please see the conference webpage for advice. The registration deadline is ** Sunday, 31 March **. Spaces are limited, so please register early to secure your place. SPONSORSHIP: We offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for industry (bronze, silver, gold and platinum), each with specific benefits. Please see the website for further details. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]