The 2016 Midlands Graduate School will take place in Birmingham in April. Please let your graduate students know, and anyone else who might be interested in applying. EARLY REGISTRATION (reduced price) until Saturday 5 March Paul Blain Levy ===================================================== Call for Participation MIDLANDS GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING SCIENCE MGS 2016 11-15 April 2016, University of Birmingham http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/mgs2016/ OVERVIEW The Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) was established in 1999 as a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, and later Sheffield. It has two main goals: to equip PhD students with a sound basis for their research by deepening their knowledge on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of computing; and to provide a platform for making contacts with established researchers in the field and with their peers who are at a similar stage in their research careers. This year's MGS is hosted by the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. It will start on 11 April and finish on 15 April. Information about previous events can be found at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS PROGRAMME MGS 2016 consists of ten courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and exercise sessions. Three of the courses are introductory or core; they should be taken by all participants. The other courses are more advanced or specialised. Participants may select them depending on their interests. This year the invited lectures will be given by Prof Steve Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University. In addition there will be a session in which participants can briefly present and discuss their own research. Core Courses: * Category Theory, Venanzio Capretta, Nottingham * Naive Type Theory, Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham * Denotational Semantics, Achim Jung, Birmingham Advanced Courses: * A Denotational Semantics for Weak Memory Concurrency, Steve Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University * Game Semantics, Dan Ghica, Birmingham * Introduction to Coalgebra, Alexander Kurz, Leicester * Security Protocol Verification, Eike Ritter, Birmingham * Linear Logic, Neelakantan Krishnaswami, Birmingham * Distributed Systems and Choreographies, Emilio Tuosto, Leicester * LL and LR Parsing with Abstract Machines, Hayo Thielecke, Birmingham REGISTRATION The early registration deadline for MGS 2016 is Saturday 5 March. The registration fee is ??190 (student/academic rate) or ??290 (anyone else). Instructions for registration can be found at the MGS 2016 website http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/mgs2016/ The registration fee includes coffee breaks and the conference dinner. Lunches can be bought at outlets on campus. ACCOMMODATION We have reserved rooms at the Ibis Budget Hotel, at a price of ??225.50 for 5 nights. There are single rooms (one bed) or triple rooms (two beds) at the same price. Breakfast is an extra ??27.50 per person. TRAVEL MGS 2016 takes place at the School of Computer Science, close to University (Birmingham) railway station. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]