[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ---> CTCS 2004 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS and DEADLINE EXTENSION <--- 10th CONFERENCE ON CATEGORY THEORY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (CTCS'04) August 12-14, 2004 and FIRST GRADUATE STUDENT SUMMER SCHOOL August 9-11, 2004 and 3rd WORKSHOP ON CATEGORICAL METHODS FOR CONCURRENCY, INTERACTION AND MOBILITY (CMCIM 2004) August 11, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Information since last call: - Extended Submission Deadline: April 16th, 2004 - Thomas Streicher gives an invited talk entitled "A Universal Model for Infinitary CPS Language" (see abstract on the conference webpage, and other invited speakers below) - Deadline passed for student grant applications - Accomodation information (important deadlines at May 15th and July 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------- CTCS 2004 is held at the new campus of the IT University of Copenhagen, from Thursday August 12th to Saturday August 14th, 2004. Just before the conference, Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th, there will be a graduate student summer school with lectures on: - Coalgebras, Modal Logic and Stone Duality (Lecturer: Alexander Kurz) - Game Semantics (Lecturer: Guy McCusker) - Operational Semantics (Lecturer: Pawel Sobocinski) - Categorical Models for Concurrency (Lecturer: Thomas Hildebrandt) In between the summer school and the workshop the 3rd CMCIM workshop. See the conference webpage and below for more details on these events. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The purpose of the CTCS conference series is the advancement of the foundations of computing using the tools of category theory. Previous meetings have been held in Guildford (Surrey), Edinburgh (twice), Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Cambridge, S. Margherita Ligure (Genova), and Ottawa. The emphasis is upon applications of category theory, but 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: Coalgebras and computing, Concurrent and distributed systems, Constructive mathematics, Declarative programming and term rewriting, Domain theory and topology, Foundations of computer security, Linear logic, Modal and temporal logics, Models of computation, Program logics, data refinement, and specification, Programming language semantics, Type theory The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special issue of ENTCS (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science). ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Francois Bergeron (Quebec) Martin Hyland (Cambridge) Robin Milner (Cambridge) Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) Thomas Streicher (Darmstadt) ----------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Lars Birkedal, Chair (IT University of Copenhagen) Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge) Masahito Hasegawa (Kyoto University) Bart Jacobs (University of Nijmegen) Ugo Montanari (University of Pisa) Valeria de Paiva (Palo Alto Research Center) Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel Institute) John Power (University of Edinburgh) Edmund Robinson (Queen Mary, University of London) Peter Selinger (University of Ottawa) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE E. Moggi, Chair, (Genova) S. Abramsky (Oxford) P. Dybjer (Chalmers) B. Jay (Sydney) A. Pitts (Cambridge) Local organizing committee: C. Butz T. Hildebrandt A.L. Moerk ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers should be submitted, preferably in electronic form, to ctcs04@itu.dk. Papers are limited to 15 pages, and must be submitted in dvi, postscript, or pdf format, possibly gzipped and/or uuencoded, or sent as a standard email attachment. All submissions must be received by April 16th, 2004 (notice extended deadline). If you cannot submit your paper electronically, please contact the program chair at ctcs04@itu.dk. ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - April 16th, 2004: Submission deadline (extended from April 9th) - June 1st, 2004: Notification of authors of accepted papers - July 1st, 2004: Registration deadline, and Revised papers due ----------------------------------------------------------------- Associated events: FIRST GRADUATE STUDENT SUMMER SCHOOL, August 9-11. Inspired by the success of the graduate student preconference of CTCS'02 in Ottawa, the CTCS of this year will have a graduate student summer school from August 9-11, sponsored by the FIRST graduate school (www.first.dk). The goal is to prepare students (with basic knowledge of category theory) for CTCS, through mini-courses in the basic areas underlying some of the fields of the conference. The school will offer the following mini-courses (5 lectures each): * Coalgebras, Modal Logic and Stone Duality (Lecturer: Alexander Kurz) * Game Semantics (Lecturer: Guy McCusker) * Operational Semantics (Lecturer: Pawel Sobocinski) * Categorical Models for Concurrency (Lecturer: Thomas Hildebrandt) The program for the summer school can be found at: http://www.itu.dk/research/theory/ctcs2004/summerschool.html Registration Deadline: July 1st. CMCIM WORKSHOP, August 11. In between the summer school and the CTCS conference, August 11th, there will be a half-day workshop on Categorical Methods in Concurrency, Interaction and Mobility. The workshop has previously been held in connection with CONCUR 2002 and CONCUR 2003. We invite submissions of extended abstracts (less than 5 pages), presenting recent results, challenges or work in progress. There will be no formal proceedings of the workshop, informal proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Thus, accepted material may be published elsewhere at a later date. Workshop participation is *free*, but requires registration. Registration is done by sending an email to hilde@itu.dk, containing `CMCIM2004-registration' in the subject, and your full name and institution in the body. Submissions should be sent as PostScript files to: hilde@itu.dk, containing `CMCIM-submission' in the subject, and in the body the full names of the author(s), title, and a text-only abstract. Workshop Organizers: Thomas Hildebrandt Alexander Kurz CMCIM Workshop Registration Deadline: July 1st. CMCIM Workshop Submission Deadline: June 21th. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ACCOMODATION OPTIONS We have pre-booked a number of rooms for the conference and negotiated a special rate for CTCS'04 participants in a number of hotels, conveniently situated in the center of Copenhagen, but close to the metro that takes you to the ITU in a few minutes. Please note that you must make a final reservation for one of these rooms prior to July 1st in order to benefit from the pre-booking and the special rates. Cheaper accomodation is possible at a nearby youth hostel during the summer school and conference. Book before May 15th to be sure to get a room. See http://www.itu.dk/research/theory/ctcs2004/accomodation.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE, SUMMER SCHOOL and WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE Updated information is available from Conference: http://www.itu.dk/research/theory/ctcs2004/ Summer School: http://www.itu.dk/research/theory/ctcs2004/summerschool.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP The CTCS conference and summer school are APPSEM-II events, sponsored by the FIRST graduate school (www.first.dk) and the Theory Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (www.itu.dk/English/research/theory/) ----------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER http://www.itu.dk/research/theory/ctcs2004/plakata4.pdf