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Ron Fox

1/18/2009 4:06:00 PM

For those of us that had to go to their website to figure out what IFL
is:
21st Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

RF

IFL 2009 wrote:
> Call for Papers
> IFL 2009
> Seton Hall University
> SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, USA
> http://tltc.shu.edu/blogs/project...
>
>
> The 21st IFL symposium, IFL 2009, will be held for the first time in the
> USA. The hosting institution is Seton Hall
> University in South Orange, NJ, USA and the symposium dates are September
> 23-25, 2009. It is our goal to make IFL a
> regular event held in the USA. The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring
> together researchers actively engaged in the
> implementation and application of functional and function-based
> programming languages. IFL 2009 will be a venue for
> researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in
> progress, and publication-ripe results related to
> the implementation and application of functional languages and
> function-based programming.
>
> Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2009 will use a post-symposium review
> process to produce a formal proceedings which we
> expect to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
> Science series. All participants in IFL 2009 are
> invited to submit either a draft paper or and extended abstract describing
> work to be presented at the symposium.
> These submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make
> sure they are within the scope of IFL and will
> appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions
> appearing in the draft proceedings are not
> peer-reviewed publications. After the symposium, authors will be given the
> opportunity to incorporate the feedback from
> discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full
> arcticle for the formal review process. These
> revised submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using
> prevailing academic standards to select the best
> articles that will appear in the formal proceedings.
>
>
> TOPICS
>
> IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical as well as
> submissions describing applications and tools.
> If you are not sure if your work is appropriate for IFL 2009, please
> contact the PC chair at ifl2009@shu.edu. Topics of
> interest include, but are not limited to:
>
> language concepts
> type checking
> contracts
> compilation techniques
> staged compilation
> runtime function specialization
> runtime code generation
> partial evaluation
> (abstract) interpretation
> generic programming techniques
> automatic program generation
> array processing
> concurrent/parallel programming
> concurrent/parallel program execution
> functional programming and embedded systems
> functional programming and web applications
> functional programming and security
> novel memory management techniques
> runtime profiling and performance measurements
> debugging and tracing
> virtual/abstract machine architectures
> validation and verification of functional programs
> tools and programming techniques
>
>
> PAPER SUBMISSIONS
>
> Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts
> to be published in the draft proceedings and to
> present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in
> English, conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS series
> format and not exceed 16 pages. The draft proceedings will appear as a
> technical report of the Department of Mathematics
> and Computer Science of Seton Hall University.
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Registration deadline August 15,
> 2009
> Presentation submission deadline August 15, 2009
> IFL 2009 Symposium September 23-25,
> 2009
> Submission for review process deadline November 1, 2009
> Notification Accept/Reject December 22, 2009
> Camera ready version January 15, 2010
>
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>
> Peter Achten University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
> Jost Berthold Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
> Andrew Butterfield University of Dublin, Ireland
> Robby Findler Northwestern University, USA
> Kathleen Fisher AT&T Research, USA
> Cormac Flanagan University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
> Matthew Flatt University of Utah, USA
> Matthew Fluet Toyota Technological Institute at
> Chicago, USA
> Daniel Friedman Indiana University, USA
> Andy Gill University of Kansas, USA
> Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam/Hertfordshire, The
> Netherlands/UK
> Jurriaan Hage Utrecht University, The Netherlands
> Ralf Hinze Oxford University, UK
> Paul Hudak Yale University, USA
> John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology,
> Sweden
> Patricia Johann University of Strathclyde, UK
> Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan
> Marco T. Morazán (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA
> Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA
> Fernando Rubio Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
> Sven-Bodo Scholz University of Hertfordshire, UK
> Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
> Chung-chieh Shan Rutgers University, USA
> David Walker Princeton University, USA
> Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
>
>
> PETER LANDIN PRIZE
>
> The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the
> symposium every year. The honored article is selected
> by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal
> review process. The prize carries a cash award
> equivalent to 150 euros.
>


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Ron Fox
NSCL
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321