2nd Central-European Functional Programming School CEFP 2007 Cluj-Napoca, June 23-30, 2007 http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/cefp2007/ First Announcement - Call for participation - Call for PhD student presentation Aims and Scopes: The Central-European Functional Programming School (CEFP) is an intensive summer school series in the field of functional programming. The main goal is to bring together computer scientists, researchers, graduate and especially PhD students. The school would like to promote the research and the education of the functional programming languages, software technologies and programming methodologies. The second CEFP school will be organized by the Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca / Kolozsvár / Klausenburg) between 23-30 June, 2007. The previous school was held in Budapest, Hungary, July, 2005. The invited lecturers are prominent researchers in the field, and they will present state-of-the-art functional programming techniques. Beside the lectures practical courses will be held. The school includes a workshop for PhD students to present their work and get feed-back from the lecturers. Invited Lecturers: Rinus Plasmeijer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands): iTasks: Defining Interactive Workflows for the Web Werner Kluge (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany): Abstract Lambda Calculus Machines Marko van Eekelen (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Proving Properties of Lazy Functional Programs Tim Sheard (Portland State University, USA): The Omega Programming Language Ralf Hinze (Universität Bonn, Germany): Generics Three additional short courses will be given: Zoltán Horváth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary): Refactoring Erlang Programs Zoltán Csörnyei (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary): Lambda-Calculus Horia F. Pop (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): A Tutorial on Object Orientedness in Functional Programming Submissions: PhD students are invited to submit the abstract of their presentations to be included in the workshop programme. Each presentation can be of max. 25 minutes. The full paper version can be submitted after the summer school. It is under negotiation to publish the revised lectures and the selected and reviewed papers in LNCS Volume. Venue: Cluj-Napoca / Kolozsvár / Klausenburg, formerly the capital of Transylvania, is one of the most beautiful medieval cities with a huge multicultural and historical inheritance. Surrounded by marvelous hills and mountains, the city provides fascinating environment for experiencing the unique ambience of a diversified culture, society and nature. Registration and costs: The registration fee (260 Euro) includes the course materials distributed during the school, the post-school volume, lunches, the excursion and the summer school banquet. For further information, accommodation possibilities and registration please visit the web-page of the event: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/cefp2007. The deadline for registration and submissions is 1 June 2007.