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Invititation to provide feedback on RISC-V ISA Formal Specs
by Rishiyur Nikhil 09 May '19

09 May '19

The RISC-V Foundation (riscv.org) has a task group to develop a Formal Spec for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. The group has been pursuing several approaches: - 3 are written in Haskell - 1 is in SAIL, a DSL with dependent types, intended for ISA specs - 1 is in Kami, a DSL in Coq Most of them are complete enough to boot Linux, i.e., they are not for toy subsets of the ISA. They are expected and intended to become the "official" ISA spec for RISC-V, and to be used in anger, for compliance testing, formal verification of compilers, hardware designs, etc. We would love to get community feedback on these approaches. The following link provides an overview, and links to individual web sites (all on GitHub) for the 5 approaches, and information on how to provide feedback: https://github.com/riscv/ISA_Formal_Spec_Public_Review Thanks very much in advance! Rishiyur Nikhil, Chair, ISA Formal Spec Technical Group

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Announce: Haskell Platform 8.6.5
by Gershom B 08 May '19

08 May '19

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.6.5 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.6.5, cabal-install 2.4.1.0, and stack 1.9.3. It is an incremental release over 8.6.3 intended mainly to make available bugfixes for windows in subsequent revisions in the 8.6 series and otherwise leave everything the same. These windows fixes are important, and it is recommended all windows users upgrade to 8.6.5 whether through the platform installer or some other mechanism. For detail on these changes and fixes see https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190305-ghc-8.6.4-released.html https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190423-ghc-8.6.5-released.html As with the 8.6.3 release, we are only providing core builds. Further, in 8.6.3 we moved from generic linux installers to recommending users install ghc through ghcup. As discussed in the last announcement, we have now moved to recommending os x users also use ghcup rather than a dedicated binary installer. For more details, please see the 8.6.3 announcement at https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2018-December/130371.html Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom

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how to debug segfaults in ghc-compiled executable?
by Johannes Waldmann 08 May '19

08 May '19

Dear Cafe, I keep getting spurious segfaults from a dynamically linked executable compiled by ghc. In dmesg: [402186.145258] pure-matchbox:w[25362]: segfault at 7f98644a5c00 ip 00000000017ab65e sp 00007f98377f9988 error 4 [402186.145262] Code: b8 0a 7e 77 01 48 83 ec 08 48 89 df 48 89 c3 31 c0 ff d3 48 83 c4 08 48 8b 1c 25 50 90 a7 01 48 89 c1 48 6b c9 18 48 83 c1 10 <48> 83 3c 0b 00 74 30 48 8b 1c 25 50 90 a7 01 48 6b c0 18 48 83 c0 How can I find out what part of the program this refers to? The error might be related to external libraries (used by hmatrix-glpk) but I don't know how to verify this. When I look at the output of `nm´ for this executable, I am not seeing any address like 00017ab65e. I do not have a concrete reproducible test case, but the bug happens statistically (say, in one out of 1000 runs). - J.

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 08 May '19

08 May '19

Dear all, If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, open access, deadline 31st May 2019. Please share! Best wishes, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 31st May 2019 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 31st May 2019: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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[TFPIE'19] Final call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming in Education 2019, 11 June 2019, Vancouver, BC, CA
by Peter Achten 08 May '19

08 May '19

TFPIE 2019 Call for papers http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hage0101/tfpie2019/index.html (June 11th, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, co-located with TFP 2019) TFPIE 2019 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: FP and beginning CS students FP and Computational Thinking FP and Artificial Intelligence FP in Robotics FP and Music Advanced FP for undergraduates FP in graduate education Engaging students in research using FP FP in Programming Languages FP in the high school curriculum FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics FP and Philosophy The pedagogy of teaching FP FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. On top of the lecture itself, the presentation can also provide commentary on the lecture. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2019 After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles that will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Dates Submission deadline: May 14th 2019, Anywhere on Earth. Notification: May 20th Workshop: June 11th Submission for formal review: August 18th 2019, Anywhere on Earth Notification of full article: October 6th Camera ready: November 1st Program Committee Alex Gerdes - University of Gothenburg / Chalmers Jurriaan Hage (Chair) - Utrecht University Pieter Koopman - Radboud University, the Netherlands Elena Machkasova - University of Minnesota, Morris, USA Heather Miller - Carnegie Mellon University and EPFL Lausanne Prabhakar Ragde - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Simon Thompson - University of Kent, UK Sharon Tuttle - Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA Note: information on TFP is available at https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html

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[TFP'19] final call for papers (deadline extension): Trends in Functional Programming 2019, 12-14 June 2019, Vancouver, BC, CA
by Peter Achten 08 May '19

08 May '19

-------------------------------- F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S -------------------------------- ====== TFP 2019 ====== 20th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 12-14 June, 2019 Vancouver, BC, CA https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html == Important Dates == Sumbission Deadline for Draft Papers Thursday, May 16, 2019 ** extended deadline ** Notification for Draft Papers Tuesday, May 21, 2019 ** extended deadline ** TFPIE Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Symposium Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – Friday, June 14, 2019 Notification of Student Paper Feedback Friday June 21, 2019 Submission Deadline for revised Draft Papers (post-symposium formal review) Thursday, August 1, 2019 Notification for post-symposium submissions Thursday, October 24, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (both pre- and post-symposium) Friday, November 29, 2019 The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below at scope). Please be aware that TFP uses two distinct rounds of submissions (see below at submission details). TFP 2019 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2019 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 11. == Scope == The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: On what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: Descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: What lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Debugging and profiling for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific languages New implementation strategies Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2019 program chairs, William J. Bowman and Ron Garcia. == Best Paper Awards == To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. == Instructions to Author == Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2019 Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium. == Pre-symposium formal review == Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted before an early deadline and receive their reviews and notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected in this process may still be accepted for presentation at the symposium, but will not be considered for the post-symposium formal review. == Post-symposium formal review == Papers submitted for post-symposium review (draft papers) will receive minimal reviews and notification of acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback received at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. == Paper categories == There are two types of submission, each of which can be submitted either for pre-symposium or post-symposium review: Extended abstracts. Extended abstracts are 4 to 10 pages in length. Full papers. Full papers are up to 20 pages in length. Each submission also belongs to a category: research position project evaluation overview paper Each submission should clearly indicate to which category it belongs. Additionally, a draft paper submission—of either type (extended abstract or full paper) and any category—can be considered a student paper. A student paper is one for which primary authors are research students and the majority of the work described was carried out by the students. The submission should indicate that it is a student paper. Student papers will receive additional feedback from the PC shortly after the symposium has taken place and before the post-symposium submission deadline. Feedback is only provided for accepted student papers, i.e., papers submitted for presentation and post-symposium formal review that are accepted for presentation. If a student paper is rejected for presentation, then it receives no further feedback and cannot be submitted for post-symposium review. == Format == Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site (http://www.springer.com/lncs) == Program Committee == Program Co-chairs William J. Bowman University of British Columbia Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia Matteo Cimini University of Massachusetts Lowell Ryan Culpepper Czech Technical Institute Joshua Dunfield Queen's University Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh Assia Mahboubi INRIA Nantes Christine Rizkallah University of New South Wales Satnam Singh Google AI Marco T. Morazán Seton Hall University John Hughes Chalmers University and Quviq Nicolas Wu University of Bristol Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University Stephanie Balzer Carnegie Mellon University Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University

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ANN: tensor-safe-0.1.0.1
by Leonardo Piñeyro 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hello everyone, I’m happy to announce a preliminary release of what I called TensorSafe, a library to build structurally correct deep neural networks using dependent types in Haskell. Currently, it also provides the option to compile the models to external frameworks like Keras for Python or Keras JavaScript. I’ve built this as a part of what it is my capstone project to get my degree in computer engineering this year. I’ve learned a ton in a few months, especially thanks to projects like Grenade and the MM Haskell blogs 🙌 I’m still working on details but I think it’s ready for anyone to take a look at it. Any feedback is welcome! • http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tensor-safe • https://github.com/leopiney/tensor-safe Thanks!

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PLMW at ICFP: Call for Scholarship Applications (due 17 May)
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 07 May '19

07 May '19

ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Co-located with ICFP'19 PLMW web page: https://icfp19.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-ICFP-2019 The purpose of the programming languages mentoring workshop (PLMW) is to encourage senior undergraduate and early career (first or second year) to pursue careers in programming language research. We are specifically interested in attracting groups who have traditionally not had the opportunity to participate in research in functional programming. This workshop will be a combination of learning about the work being done in several areas of programming language research and mentoring with respect to helping students prepare for graduate school and the rest of their career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on the kind of research typically performed after obtaining a Ph.D. The workshop will engage students, specifically interested in programming language research, in a process of imagining how they might contribute to the world. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. 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 ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. ## Travel Scholarship Applications (Due 17 May) Please fill out this form by 17 May to apply for travel funding. https://forms.gle/QEvBateG7PRywB336 See the PLMW web page for additional details. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome.

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Haskell Platform / GHC 8.6.5
by Philipp Hausmann 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi All I noticed that the Windows Download Link on https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html points to the 8.6.3 version. When can we expect an updated Haskell Platform release to be available? To give some background, we had some trouble where students got Access Violation crashes on Windows machines using GHC 8.6.3 which is fixed on GHC 8.6.5. In the end we updated to GHC 8.6.5 using the Binary GHC release, but this is quite ugly as it requires fiddling with the PATH... Best, Philipp

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Final CFP: Haskell Symposium due this Friday
by Richard Eisenberg 07 May '19

07 May '19

================================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2019 Berlin, Germany 22--23 August, 2019 http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2019/ ================================================================================ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2019 will be co-located with the 2019 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). **NEW THIS YEAR**: We will be using a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. See further information below. The Haskell Symposium presents original research on Haskell, discusses practical experience and future development of the language, and promotes other forms of declarative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts; * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementers, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Submission Details ================== Early and Regular Track ----------------------- The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Strong papers submitted to the early track are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit to the regular track. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Formatting ---------- Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM proceedings. For details, see: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format It is recommended to use the `review` option when submitting a paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews. Functional pearls, experience reports, and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing ---------------------------------- Haskell Symposium 2019 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. Author names and institutions must be omitted, and 2. References to authors’ own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A reviewer will learn the identity of the author(s) of a paper after a review is submitted. Page Limits ----------- The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits: Regular paper: 12 pages Functional pearl: 12 pages Experience report: 6 pages Demo proposal: 2 pages There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. In all cases, the list of references is not counted against these page limits. Deadlines --------- Early track: Submission deadline: 15 March 2019 (Fri) Notification: 19 April 2019 (Fri) Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 10 May 2019 (Fri) Notification: 21 June 2019 (Fri) Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers: 30 June 2019 (Sun) Deadlines are valid anywhere on Earth. Submission ---------- Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and authors should be aware of ACM's policies on plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism) The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Papers should be submitted through HotCRP at: https://haskell19.hotcrp.com/ Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Supplementary material: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). Resubmitted Papers: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference have the option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to see how his/her comments have been addressed, the principal editor will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. Travel Support ============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://pac.sigplan.org) Proceedings =========== Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance (http://authors.acm.org/main.html) Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings. All accepted papers and proposals will be posted on the conference website one week before the meeting. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Program Committee ================= Ki-Yung Ahn Hannam University Christiaan Baaij QBayLogic B.V. José Manuel Calderón Trilla Galois, Inc Benjamin Delaware Purdue University Richard Eisenberg (chair) Bryn Mawr College Jennifer Hackett University of Nottingham Kazutaka Matsuda Tohoku University Trevor McDonell Utrecht University Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods Nadia Polikarpova University of California, San Diego Norman Ramsey Tufts University Christine Rizkallah University of New South Wales Eric Seidel Bloomberg LP Alejandro Serrano Mena Utrecht University John Wiegley Dfinity Foundation Thomas Winant Well-Typed LLP Ningning Xie University of Hong Kong If you have questions, please contact the chair at: rae(a)richarde.dev ================================================================================

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