LFCS30

Edinburgh, 12th and 13th April 2016

A celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science. Held in conjunction with WadlerFest 2016, a celebration of Philip Wadler's 60th birthday.

A Celebration Of Thirty Years.

Founded in 1986 by Rod Burstall, Robin Milner, Gordon Plotkin and Matthew Hennessy, the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science is a community of theoretical computer scientists with interests in research topics such as concurrency, semantics, categories, algebra, types, logic, algorithms, complexity, databases, and modelling, and their applications in Computer Science and beyond.

LFCS30 is a celebration of thirty years of innovation in these areas with contributions from current and former members of the LFCS, as well as contributions from LFCS visitors and friends.

Attendees

Schedule

LFCS30 begins with a celebration dinner on Tuesday 12th April at 7pm.

The dinner is held in the Playfair Library Hall, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL.

LFCS30 continues on 13th April with a programme of talks from LFCS members, alumni, and friends.

Programme

Wednesday, 13th April 2016

09:00Gordon Plotkin — LFCS Now and Then [slides] [video]
09:30Furio Honsell — From Computing Science to Politics [slides] [video]
10:00George Cleland
10:30Coffee break
11:00Robert Harper — Two Kinds of Foundations [slides]
11:30John Power — Modelling logic programming: an LFCS adventure [notes]
12:00Jane Hillston — (not) How to join the LFCS [slides] [video]
12:30Lunch
14:00Philippa Gardner — Understanding and Verifying JavaScript Programs [slides]
14:30Samson Abramsky — Some Thoughts on LFCS at 30 [slides] [video]
15:00Philip Scott — Visiting LFCS over the past 25 years [slides] [video]
15:30Coffee break
16:00Kousha Etessami
16:30Peter Buneman — chain.fntolist,erase.applist and How Not to Do Research [slides] [video]
17:00Philip Wadler — A few of LFCS’s greatest hits [slides] [video]

Thanks

Sponsored by SICSA

LFCS30 and WadlerFest 2016 gratefully acknowledge sponsorship from the Modelling and Abstraction theme of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).

Organised by LFCS

The local organising committee of LFCS30 consists of Don Sannella, Stephen Gilmore, Sam Lindley and Magdalena Mazurczak.

Register for LFCS30

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