International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL Overview This four-day residential International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students, the School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international experts. The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/), a Scottish Funding Council Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at no cost. Confirmed Topics/Speakers - Static and dynamic languages, Prof Phillip Wadler, University of Edinburgh - Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire - New applications of parametricity, Dr Janis Voigtlaender, Technical University of Dresden - Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow - Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van Eekelen/Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radboud University Nijmegen - Context oriented programming, Dr Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Multi-core programming, Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University - Multi-core compilation, Dr Alastair Donaldson, Codeplay Software Ltd - Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University/ Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews - Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Location The Summer School is based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus, set in pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the airport, city and central Scotland: http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm. The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html) and takes place during the Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/), and the associated Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/). Steering Committee Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University (Convenor) (mailto:G.Michaelson@hw.ac.uk) Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews Dr Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde Prof Phillip Wadler, University of Edinburgh