Please excuse this spam-style mailing. I've also attached a poster in the hope that you might it useful. Richard Jones Garbage Collection & Memory Management Summer School 20-21 July 2004, Canterbury, UK The performance of today's memory-hungry applications depends on efficient dynamic memory management, whether managed explicitly through new/delete or automatically by a garbage collector. With the increasing use of managed code, whether Java Virtual Machines or Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, the economic importance of automatic memory management has never been greater. The Summer Schoool provides participants with an opportunity to hear leading practitioners from both industry and universities. The school is directed at postgraduate research students, academics who wish to get involved in this field and industrial researchers and developers who want to apply state of the art memory management techniques to real problems. The presenters include David Bacon (IBM TJ Watson Research Center), Emery Berger (U. Massachusetts), Hans Boehm (HP), Dave Detlefs (Sun Microsystems), Rick Hudson (Intel), Richard Jones (U. Kent, Canterbury), Eliot Moss (U. Massachusetts), Ryan Sciampacone (IBM Ottawa). The registration fee for the 2 day Summer School is 130 GBP (free of VAT) and includes all workshop materials, lunches and refreshments, and the Summer School Dinner on 20th July. Bed and breakfast accommodation is also available in en-suite accommodation on campus at a rate of 30 GBP per night. For more details, see http://www.mm-net.org.uk/school/ or mail school@mm-net.org.uk The Summer School is organised by the UK Memory Management Network (http://www.mm-net.org.uk). We are grrateful for the kind support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk).