SPLS Meeting: Friday 11th November 2011

Location

Heriot-Watt University
Earl Mountbatten Building, Room EM 2.33.

Information on travelling to the university can be found here.

Acknowledgement

This meeting of SPLS has received financial support (free lunch!) from the Complex Systems Engineering theme of SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance.

Programme

11.00 How to be a productive programmer by putting things off until tomorrow
Bob Atkey, University of Strathclyde

11.45 Epic: a library for generating compilers
Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews
12.30 Lunch

13.15 An executable semantics for CompCert
Brian Campbell, University of Edinburgh

14.00 ParaForming: using Refactoring to form Parallel Haskell programs s
Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews

14.45 Row-based effect types for database integration and concurrency
Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh

15.30 Tea/coffee break

16.00 Haskell distributed parallel Haskell
Patrick Maier, Heriot-Watt University

16.45 Java heap resizing policies: from hacked-up heuristics to mathematical methods
Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow

17.30 End