CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS ______________________________________________________________________ LOLA 2015: Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages Sunday, 5 July 2015, Kyoto, Japan A satellite workshop of ICALP/LICS http://lola15.tcs.ifi.lmu.de ______________________________________________________________________ /Important Dates/ Abstract submission: Monday, 11 May 2015 (extended) Author notification: Friday, 22 May 2015 (extended) LOLA 2015 workshop: Sunday, 5 July 2015 /Invited Speakers/ Nikos Tzevelekos, Queen Mary University of London, UK Katsuhiro Ueno, Tohoku University, Japan /Workshop Description/ It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with some of the most advanced contemporary research in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and resource bounded programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS 2015, will bring together researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Typed assembly languages - Certified assembly programming - Certified and certifying compilation - Relaxed memory models - Proof-carrying code - Program optimization - Modal logic and realizability in machine code - Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code - Parametricity, modules and existential types - General references, Kripke models and recursive types - Continuations and concurrency - Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects /Submission Information/ LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. The program committee will select the workshop presentations from submitted talk proposals, which may take the form either of a *two page abstract* or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing completed work. Abstracts can be submitted using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2015 /Program Committee/ Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University) Shin-ya Katsumata (RIMS, Kyoto University, co-chair) Damiano Mazza (CNRS, LIPN--University Paris 13) Magnus Myreen (University of Cambridge) Ulrich Schoepp (LMU Munich, co-chair) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Nicolas Tabareau (CNRS, INRIA) Noam Zeilberger (Microsoft Research--INRIA)