======== REMINDER of PAT2005 ======== Dates have changed: REGISTRATION is OPEN NOW Fee Waiver applications: 8. May Registration closes 20. May Summer School: Program analysis and transformation Organized by: Computer Science Department (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark Monday-Friday 6-10 June, 2005 Summer School homepage: http://www.diku.dk/PAT2005/ This summer school on Program analysis and transformation will span theory and practice in the field. The overall theme is semantics-based program manipulation, in which practically-motivated operations on programs are solidly based in the semantics of the underlying programming languages. Research profile of the Summer School's topics: This research field began with classical compiler optimisations. These were pragmatically successful and well-automated, but lacking in semantic foundations. This led to the long-pursued goal of truly semantics-based generation of compilers and of abstract machines to implement programming languages. Parallel academic developments included more powerful and interesting program transformations that were developed by hand, one at a time. Major progress has been made in all three areas: semantically well-founded compiler optimisations have been devised and well-automated; compilers and abstract machines can now be generated by semantics-based methods including partial evaluation; and there now exist more powerful, general and well-founded program transformations. The speakers at this Summer School represent the state of the art in this research field. Confirmed speakers and their topics are: Mooly Sagiv (Israel: Tel Aviv) Program analysis using Three-Valued Logic Olivier Danvy (Denmark: Aarhus) On one-step reduction, evaluation, and abstract machines Oege De Moor (UK: Oxford) Incremental execution of transformation specifications Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Cambridge Semantics of static analyses and program transformations Neil Jones (Denmark: DIKU, Copenhagen) Size-change termination analysis of first and higher-order programs Torben Mogensen (Denmark: DIKU, Copenhagen) Introduction to partial evaluation; Program semi-inversion Arne Glenstrup (Denmark: ITU, Copenhagen) Tool tutorial for the Scheme partial evaluators PGG and Similix John Gallagher (Denmark: Roskilde) Program analysis and specialisation using tree automata Robert Glueck (Denmark: DIKU, Copenhagen) Program inversion Kazuhiko Kakehi (Japan: MIST, Tokyo Uniiversity) Attribute grammars and program transformations Prerequisites: Students should have some familiarity with classical compiler optimisations. A basic knowledge of operational semantics of programming languages (eg Structural operational semantics, Natural semantics or Action semantics) would be helpful. Sponsors: The PAT Summer School is partly supported by FIRST Graduate School: http://first.dk/ APPSEM-II: http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~mhofmann/appsem2/ Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/ Danish Natural Science Research Agency: http://www.forsk.dk Web pages: PAT home page: http://www.diku.dk/PAT2005/ (with details on lecture topics, speaker profiles, timetable, etc.) DIKU guest page: http://www.diku.dk/diku/gaester/index.html (with details on local transport, maps, hotels, etc.) Registration: The registration fee is DKK 1100 = EURO 150. This includes lecture materials, lunches and coffees, and a Summer School dinner. A block of rooms will be reserved at a hotel in central Copenhagen -- specifically, the new Cab Inn. Attendees are expected to arrange and pay for their own travel and lodging. Registration will Open: 5. April, 2005 Close: 20. May, 2005. Fee waivers: There will be a limited number of grants covering part or all of the registration fee. Application materials are available at the course's web page at the beginning of the registration period. Local Organisation Committee: Neil Jones neil(a)diku.dk Andrzej Filinski andrzej(a)diku.dk Torben Mogensen torbenm(a)diku.dk Jesper Andersen jespera(a)diku.dk Karin Outzen karino(a)diku.dk