CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 11th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2012) Madrid, Spain, 25-27 June 2012 http://babel.ls.fi.upm.es/mpc2012 Hotel rooms reserved until: *** 30th May 2012 *** Early registration deadline: *** 6th June 2012 *** BACKGROUND The biennial MPC conferences aim to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably practical and effective in the process of constructing computer programs, broadly interpreted. The 2012 MPC conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 25th to 27th June 2012. VENUE The conference will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain, in the Sala de Grados of the Facultad de Informática of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, right in Madrid's Ciudad Universitaria (city campus), not far from the city centre and other major tourist attractions. Accommodation has been reserved in a nearby 4-star hotel, the VP Jardin Metropolitano. REGISTRATION Conference registration is now open; see http://babel.ls.fi.upm.es/mpc2012/registration.html Registration fees have been kept low thanks to a grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad. The early registration fee is €240, which includes lunches, coffees, and social events. The early registration deadline is 6th June 2012; after this point, the registration fee rises to €340. Hotel reservation is handled separately; see http://babel.ls.fi.upm.es/mpc2012/accom.html We have a block booking of rooms at the conference hotel at a special reduced rate, but only until 30th May 2012; after this point, the rooms will be released and the special rate unavailable. (There are few well-connected budget hotels in the area, and June marks the start of Spain's tourist season with a sharp rise in hotel rates; so we strongly advise you to meet this hotel registration deadline.) INVITED SPEAKERS * Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute (http://software.imdea.org/people/gilles.barthe/) "Probabilistic Relational Hoare Logics for Computer-Aided Security Proofs" * Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~drg/) "The Geometry of Synthesis: How to Make Hardware out of Software" * Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/thoare/) "The Laws of Programming Unify Process Calculi" ACCEPTED PAPERS * "Scheduler-Independent Declassification" Alexander Lux, Heiko Mantel and Matthias Perner * "Elementary Probability Theory in the Eindhoven Style" Carroll Morgan * "Scheduling and Buffer Sizing of n-Synchronous Systems: Typing of Ultimately Periodic Clocks in Lucy-n" Louis Mandel and Florence Plateau * "Deriving Real-Time Action Systems Controllers from Multiscale System Specifications" Brijesh Dongol and Ian J. Hayes * "Calculating Graph Algorithms for Dominance and Shortest Path" Ilya Sergey, Jan Midtgaard and Dave Clarke * "First-Past-the-Post Games" Roland Backhouse * "Reverse Exchange for Concurrency and Local Reasoning" Han-Hing Dang and Bernhard Möller * "Unifying Correctness Statements" Walter Guttmann * "Dependently Typed Programming based on Automated Theorem Proving" Alasdair Armstrong, Simon Foster and Georg Struth * "An Algebraic Calculus of Database Preferences" Bernhard Möller, Patrick Roocks and Markus Endres * "Modular Tree Automata" Patrick Bahr * "Constructing Applicative Functors" Ross Paterson * "Kan Extensions for Program Optimisation, Or: Art and Dan Explain an Old Trick" Ralf Hinze SOCIAL EVENTS The conference excursion will be a guided tour of Madrid's Royal Palace. The banquet will be Northern Spanish cuisine at the Sidreria-Asador Gaztemanu. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jeremy Gibbons University of Oxford, UK (co-chair) Pablo Nogueira Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES (co-chair) Ralph Back Åbo Akademi, FI Roland Backhouse University of Nottingham, UK Eerke Boiten University of Kent, UK William Cook University of Texas at Austin, US Jules Desharnais Université Laval, CA Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Ian Hayes University of Queensland, AU Ralf Hinze University of Oxford, UK Graham Hutton University of Nottingham, UK Johan Jeuring Utrecht Universiteit, NL Christian Lengauer Universität Passau, DE Larissa Meinicke University of Queensland, AU Bernhard Möller Universität Augsburg, DE Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales, AU Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica, TW Dave Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, US Jose Oliveira Universidade do Minho, PT Steve Reeves University of Waikato, NZ Wouter Swierstra Utrecht Universiteit, NL Anya Tafliovich University of Toronto Scarborough, CA LOCAL ORGANIZERS Pablo Nogueira Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Ricardo Peña Universidad Complutense de Madrid Alvaro García IMDEA Software Institute and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Manuel Montenegro Universidad Complutense de Madrid For queries about local matters, please write to pablo@babel.ls.fi.upm.es. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]