CATEGORY THEORY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (CTCS'99) 10-12 SEPTEMBER 1999, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CTCS '99 is the 8th conference on Category Theory and Computer Science. The purpose of the conference series is the advancement of the foundations of computing using the tools of category theory. While the emphasis is upon applications of category theory, it is recognized that the area is highly interdisciplinary. Typical topics of interest include but are not limited to category-theoretic aspects of the following: concurrent and distributed systems constructive mathematics declarative programming and term rewriting domain theory and topology linear logic models of computation program logics, data refinement, and specification programming language semantics type theory Previous meetings have been held in Guildford (Surrey), Edinburgh, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Cambridge, and S. Margherita Ligure (Genova). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE J. Adamek TU Braunschweig (Germany) N. Benton Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK) R. Blute U. Ottawa (Canada) T. Coquand Chalmers (Sweden) M. Escardo LFCS Edinburgh (UK) M. Hasegawa Kyoto Univ. (Japan) M. Hofmann (Chair) LFCS Edinburgh (UK) P. O'Hearn Queen Mary West (UK) D. Pavlovic Kestrel Institute (California) H. Reichel TU Dresden (Germany) G. Rosolini U. Genova (Italy) A. Scedrov U. Penn (Pennsylvania) ORGANISING COMMITTEE S. Abramsky LFCS Edinburgh (UK) P. Dybjer Chalmers U. (Sweden) E. Moggi U. Genova (Italy) A. Pitts U. Cambridge (UK) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE E-mail your contribution as a PostScript file to the programme chair (ctcs99@dcs.ed.ac.uk) to be received by 23 April 1999. Alternatively, you can send 5 hardcopies by air mail to the program chair. Authors with restricted copying facilities may also send a single hardcopy. Please make sure mail submissions arrive before the deadline (submissions postmarked 7 April 1999 will definitely be accepted). We would appreciate an informal notification of intention to submit 2 weeks prior to the deadline. It is anticipated to have at-conference proceedings in the form of a Springer LNCS volume or similar. Details about the publication forum will be given in the 2nd call for papers. IMPORTANT DATES 9 April 1999 Notification of intention to submit 23 April 1999 Submission deadline 4 June 1999 Notification of authors of accepted papers 2 July Deadline for camera ready copies of accepted papers ADDRESS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS Martin Hofmann (ctcs99@dcs.ed.ac.uk) Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Division of Informatics JCMB, King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ UK LOCAL ORGANISATION Monika Lekuse Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Division of Informatics JCMB, King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ UK CONFERENCE E-ADDRESS ctcs99@dcs.ed.ac.uk CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ctcs99/ Watch this URL for later versions of this CFP and further information. RELATED EVENT 2nd APPSEM workshop, 6-9 September 1999.