SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop @ ICFP Nara, Japan (co-located with ICFP 2016) Sunday, September 18th, 2016

http://conf.researchr.org/track/icfp-2016/PLMW-ICFP-2016/

We are pleased to invite students interested in functional programming research to the programming languages mentoring workshop at ICFP. The goal of this workshop is to introduce senior undergraduate and early graduate students to research topics in functional programming as well as provide career mentoring advice. We have recruited leaders from the functional programming community to provide overviews of current research topics and give students valuable advice about how to thrive in graduate school, search for a job, and cultivate habits and skills that will help them in research careers.

This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers and we hope participants will stay through the entire conference.

Through the generous donation of our sponsors, we are able to provide travel scholarships to fund student participation. These travel scholarships will cover reasonable travel expenses (airfare and hotel) for attendance at both the workshop and the main three days of the ICFP conference.

The workshop is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding for their travel and registration fees are welcome. In particular, many student attendance programs provide full or partial travel funding for students to attend ICFP 2016, including the ACM Student Research Competition. More information about student attendance programs at ICFP is available: http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016

Application for Travel Support:

The travel funding application is available from the PLMW webpage. The deadline for full consideration of funding is July 1st, 2016. Selected participants will be notified by July 15th.

Organizers:

Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University Robby Findler, Northwestern University Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University