Hello, Please, find below the 1st call for participation for IFL 2018. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ================================================================================ IFL 2018 30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA September 5th-7th, 2018 http://iflconference.org September 5th: Haskell Mini-Course by Galois, Inc, see details below. ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2018 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. ### Keynote Speakers * Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL * Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts Amherst ### Haskell Mini-Course (September 5th, 2018) Mini-course on Haskell by Galois, Inc, presented by David Thrane Christiansen and Jose Manuel Calderon Trilla. Register: Attendance at the course is free, but you must RSVP. (Link to RSVP form can be found at http://iflconference.org) Course Description: Recent versions of the GHC compiler for Haskell feature support for a number of advanced type system features, including pattern-matching functions in the type system (type families), indexed families (generalized algebraic datatypes, or GADTs), type-level data structures (data kinds), and general compile-time metaprogramming (Template Haskell). At Galois, we use these features in a number of our projects, which allows us to build deep embeddings of programming languages and have GHC enforce the target language's type system for us. This style of programming ensures that we only produce well-typed terms, including that we do not forget any of the run-time checks that are necessary to preserve our invariants when accepting input from untyped sources such as files. In the course of developing these projects, some common problems and programming patterns emerged. We developed the `parameterized-utils` library to codify solutions to these problems, and provide necessary generalizations of interfaces from the standard library (Eq, Applicative, Traversable, etc.) We will expect that participants in the course have used Haskell before, but we will not expect everyone to be experts. We will introduce GADTs, type families, and data kinds, and then show how to use them together with the tools from parameterized-utils with an implementation of the simply-typed lambda calculus, including basic AST definitions, evaluation, and parsing. ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Organization and Program committee Chairs: Jay McCarthy & Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Program Committee: * Arthur Chargueraud, Inria, FR * Ben Delaware, Purdue University, USA * Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University, USA * David Darais, University of Vermont, USA * Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK * Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA * Heather Miller, EPFL & Northeastern University, CH & USA * Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK * Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, DE * Laura Castro, University of A Coruna, ESP * Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology, SWE * Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK * Peter Achten, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL * Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA * Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA * Trevor McDonell, University of New South Wales, AUS * Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, JAP ### Venue The 30th IFL is organized by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The City of Lowell is located at the heart of the Merrimack Valley just 30 miles northwest of Boston. Lowell can be easily reached by train or taxi. See the website for more information on the venue.