23-27 April 2012
Birmingham, U.K.
2nd Call for Participation Midlands Graduate School in Computer Science 23-27 April 2012 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. It has run annually since 1999, and is hosted by the Universites of Birmingham, Leicester, and Nottingham in rotation. The lectures are aimed at PhD students, typically in their first or second year of study. However, the school is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the mathematical foundations of computing, and all such participants are warmly welcomed. We also very much welcome students from abroad. The following courses will be offered: Introductory Courses: * Category Theory Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham) * Advanced Functional Programming Henrik Nilsson (University of Nottingham) * Typed Lambda Calculus Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) Advanced Courses: * Constructive Mathematics and Type Theory Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg) * Categories and Functors Uday Reddy (University of Birmingham) * Computing with Infinite Objects Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham) * Logical Relations Andrzej Murawski (University of Leicester) * Provability, fixed points and clock ticks Tadeusz Litak (University of Leicester) * Kleene Algebras Georg Struth (University of Sheffield) LOCATION The school will be held in the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Birmingham is centrally located in the UK, and is easily reachable by road, rail and air (Birmingham International Airport). REGISTRATION The deadline for early registration is 15 March 2012. The registration fee is ??230. After 15 March the registration fee will increase to ??270. The deadline for registration is 13 April. ACCOMMODATION We have reserved accommodation in the ETAP-hotel for five nights for ??170. Please indicate during registration whether you would like us to reserve accommodation for you. Accommodation can only be reserved until 15 March. FURTHER DETAILS Google search - MGS 2012 Web page - http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mgs2012