Call for participation 8th International School on Rewriting - ISR 2015 August 10-14, Leipzig, Germany http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/ISR2015/ * early registration deadline: July 1 * student research posters welcome ===================================================================== The 8th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2015) is aimed at master and PhD students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the study of rewriting concepts and their applications. The school features lectures by renowned researchers in rewriting, and is organized in two parallel tracks: Basic: aimed at students that enter the field. Aart Middeldorp and Sarah Winkler: Introductory Course Advanced: several shorter courses, showing different areas of rewriting research, with applications. David Sabel and Manfred Schmidt-Schauß: Rewriting Techniques for Correctness of Program Transformations Makoto Hamana: Algebraic Semantics of Higher-Order Abstract Syntax and Second-Order Rewriting Santiago Escobar: Term Rewriting applied to Cryptographic Protocol Analysis Hans Zantema: SAT/SMT encodings for rewrite problems Femke van Raamsdonk: Higher-Order Rewriting Alfons Geser: Proving Abstract Rewriting Properties with PVS Georg Moser: Termination and Complexity Detlef Plump: Rule-based Graph Programming Also, we encourage participants to submit a presentation of their research, in the form of a poster. These posters will be reviewed by experts in rewriting, and will be displayed and discussed during the school. ==================================================================== Rewriting is a branch of computer science whose origins go back to the origins of computer science itself (with Thue, Church, Post, and many other prominent researchers). It has strong links with mathematics, algebra, and logic, and it is the basis of well-known programming paradigms like functional and equational programming. In these programming paradigms and corresponding languages, the notions of reduction, pattern matching, confluence, termination, strategy, etc., are essential. Rewriting provides a solid framework for understanding, using, and teaching all these notions. Rewriting techniques are also used in many other areas of software engineering (scripting, prototyping, automated transformation of legacy systems, refactoring, web services, etc.) Rewriting techniques play a relevant role in computing research, education, and industry. International Schools on Rewriting are promoted by the IFIP Working Group 1.6 Term Rewriting. ISR 2015 organizing committee: Alfons Geser, Christine Klöden, and Johannes Waldmann. ==================================================================== Note: ISR 2015 is right after CADE ( http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/cade25/ ) You can go from Berlin to Leipzig in 1 hour by train.