Begin forwarded message: The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science is a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. It was established in 1999. The MGS has two main goals: to provide PhD students with a sound basis for research in the mathematical and practical foundations of computing and to give PhD students the opportunity to make contact with established researchers in the field and their peers who are at a similar stage in their research careers. This year, the MGS is at the University of Nottingham. It will start on 22 April and finish on 26 April. Core Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Category Theory<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/cat.html> CAT Roy Crole<http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/rcrole/> Leicester Denotational Semantics<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/mgs2014-sem.html> DEN Achim Jung<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/> Birmingham Typed Lambda Calculus<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/lam.html> LAM Paul Blain Levy<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/> Birmingham Advanced Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Concurrency, Causality, Reversibility<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ccr.html> CCR Irek Ulidowski<http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/iu3/> Leicester Theory of Randomised Search Heuristic<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/heu.html>s HEU Dirk Sudholt<http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/D.Sudholt/>, Per Kristian Lehre<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pkl/>,Pietro S. Oliveto<http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/index.html>, Christine Zarges<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~zargesc/> Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield Homotopy Type Theory<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/hot.html> HOT Thorsten Altenkirch<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/> Nottingham Infinite Data Structures<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/inf.html> INF Venanzio Capretta<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~vxc/> Nottingham Logical relations and parametricity<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/par.html> PAR Uday Reddy<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~udr> Birmingham Higher-Order Functional Reactive Programming<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/rea.html> REA Neelakantan Krishnaswami<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~krishnan> Birmingham + an invited lecture course on Dependently Typed Programming by Conor McBride. The fee is £440, this includes on campus accommodation with breakfast, lunches, coffees and a workshop dinner! More information is available on http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ from where you also find a link to the registration page<http://store.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=9&catid=4&prodid=359> page. The registration deadline is Friday, 21 March. Please register as soon as possible since there is a limited number of spaces which are allocated on a 1st come 1st serve base. Hope to see you in Nottingham, Thorsten P.S. Please forward to other people who may be interested. -- Prof Graham Hutton Functional Programming Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh 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 send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.