# Call for Participation: Off the Beaten Track 2017 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/OBT-2017 21st January 2017 (co-located with POPL 2017, Paris, France) ## Registration http://popl17.sigplan.org/attending/registration ** Early registration deadline: Saturday 17th Dec 2016 ** ## Invited Speakers - Moa Johansson, Chalmers, Sweden - Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK ## Background Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop’s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community’s impact on the world. While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions. ## Programme 09:00-10:00 Invited talk: Reasoning about Functional Programs: Exploring, Testing and Inductive Proofs. Moa Johanssen 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30-10:55 Can we machine-learn programming language semantics? Dan Ghica, Khulood Alyahya and Victor Patentasu 10:55-11:20 How Far Apart Should Those Programs Be? Ugo Dal Lago 11:20-11:45 Programming Quantum Annealers George Stelle and Scott Pakin 11:45-12:10 Understanding the POSIX Shell as a Programming Language Michael Greenberg 12:10-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Varieties of Programming Experience Alan Blackwell 15:00-15:25 Bootstrapping the next generation of mathematical social machines Ursula Martin, Alison Pease and Joe Corneli 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-16:25 Designing extensible, domain-specific languages for mathematical diagrams Katherine Ye, Keenan Crane, Jonathan Aldrich and Joshua Sunshine 16:25-16:50 Laziness Boxes You In Jose Manuel Calderon Trilla and Stephen Magill 16:50-17:15 Programming with Epistemic Logic Markus Eger and Chris Martens 17:15-17:40 Preventing False Discoveries in Adaptive Data Analysis: a Programming Language approach Marco Gaboardi 17:40-18:05 Running Incomplete Programs Ian Voysey, Cyrus Omar and Matthew Hammer