Scholarships for the 1996 Summer School on
Advanced Functional Programming
The National Science Foundation has provided funding to enable us to
offer scholarships to the 1996 Summer School on Advanced Functional
Programming. Students who wish to attend the school may receive
scholarships of up to $500 towards fees (tuition, room and board)
needed to attend the school. To apply for a scholarship please return
a completed registration form together with the following additional
information:
1) Name
2) email address
3) School affiliation and current standing (graduate or undergraduate? year?)
4) Amount of scholarship requested ($500 maximum. Please request only the
amount needed so that scholarships can be extended to as many students
as possible).
5) In no more than one page, explain your interest in functional programming
in general, and your interest in attending the summer school
specifically. Include a short explanation to justify why scholarship
support should be extended to you.
Send registration and scholarship application materials to Lynette
Osborne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). We prefer an electronic response using the
electronic form at the url:
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/summerschool96.html#Application
and emailing the additional scholarship information. If necessary the following
address or fax may be used.
Lynette Osborne
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 91000
Portland, OR 97291-1000
USA
phone (503) 690-1476, fax (503) 690-1548.
Scholarship awards will be announced no later than July 30, 1996, and
sooner if at all possible. In particular, prompt responses will be given
immediate consideration.
General Information on the Summer School, follows:
The 1996 Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming will be
hosted by the Oregon Graduate Institute located in Portland,
Oregon. It follows on the success of a similar school held in
Baastad, Sweden in 1995. This year's school will be held 100+
miles to the north of Portland at The Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington, on the southern shore of the Puget
Sound. Evergreen is located five miles outside of Olympia,
Washington, and lies in the heart of a 1,000-acre forest. The
Summer School will begin on the evening of Sunday Aug 25th, and
end Friday Aug 30th.
This year's lectures will focus on state-of-the-art topics that
are considerably more application-oriented than those of the
Baastad School. We have invited to the summer school speakers
who have experience in using functional languages to build large
systems. The topics that will be covered in the summer school
are as follows:
* "Haskore, specifying electronic music", Paul Hudak
* "Polytypic typing", Johan Jeuring
* "Systems programming", Peter Lee
* "Functional data structures", Chris Okasaki
* "GUI programming using Concurrent Haskell", Simon Peyton Jones
* "Miniaturizing functional programs", Colin Runciman
* "Functional parsers", Doaitse Swierstra
* "Programming in the large using SML modules", Mads Tofte
Like last year, each lecturer will have a three hour slot, some
of which may be taken up by practical exercises. The pattern of 1
hour lecture, 1 hour exercise and break, and 1 hour lecture
worked well in the past, and we plan to repeat it. The lecture
notes from the school will be published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS
series.
For more information and registration form, please see our web
page at URL:
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/summerschool96.html
The program organizers are:
* Tim Sheard, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oregon Graduate Institute,
* John Launchbury, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oregon Graduate Institute,
* Erik Meijer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oregon Graduate Institute.
Local arrangements/registration will be handled by Lynette Osborne
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), phone (503) 690-1476, fax (503) 690-1548.
