CATEGORY THEORY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (CTCS'99) 10-12 SEPTEMBER 1999, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ctcs99 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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. Previous meetings have been held in Guildford (Surrey), Edinburgh, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Cambridge, and S. Margherita Ligure (Genova). This document contains 1. Invited speakers 2. List of accepted papers 3. Programme committee 4. Registration form A WWW-version containing all this information plus abstract of contributed papers can be found under www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ctcs99 1. Invited speakers ------------------- Ryu Hasegawa Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) Peter Freyd Univ. of Pennylvania (USA) Marcelo Fiore Univ. of Sussex (UK) Doug Smith Kestrel Institute (USA) 2. List of accepted papers (19 out of 39 submissions) -------------------------- Concurrent Realizations of Reactive Systems. Marek Bednarczyk, Andrzej Borzyszkowski Functorial semantics for Petri nets under the individual token philosophy. Roberto Bruni, Jose Meseguer, Ugo Montanari, Vladimiro Sassone Equational Lifting Monads. Anna Bucalo, Alex Simpson, Carsten Fuehrmann Structured Theories and Institutions F Duran, J Meseguer Coalgebra to Algebra Morphisms. A Eppendahl On the Semantics of Message Passing Processes. Lindsay Errington A Fully abstract presheaf semantics for SCCS with finite delay. Thomas Hildebrandt Abstract Games for Linear Logic. Martin Hyland, Andrea Schalk Internal Languages for Autonomous and *-Autonomous Categories. T W Koh and C-H L Ong Dependent Coercions. Zhaohui Luo and Sergei Soloviev Precategories for combining probabilistic automata. Paulo Mateus, Amilcar Sernadas, Cristina Sernadas Monads, shapely functors, and traversals. E Moggi, G Belle, C B Jay Exhausting Strategies, Joker Games and IMLL with Units. A S Murawski and C-H L Ong Hilbert Q-Modules and Nuclear Ideals in the Category of v-Semilattices with a Duality. Jan Paseka A Coalgebraic Foundation for Linear Time Semantics. John Power, Daniele Turi Denotational Completeness Revisited. Thomas Streicher A domain-theoretic semantics of lax generic functions. Hideki Tsuiki A Bi-Categorical Axiomatisation of Concurrent Graph Rewriting. Fabio Gadducci, Reiko Heckel and Merce Llabres. Higher-dimensional syntax. Martin Wehr. 3. 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) 4. Registration form -------------------- Please complete this form and email it to ctcs99-reg@dcs.ed.ac.uk before 19th July 1999. You can also fax the form to +44 131 667 7209 Attn: CTCS-REG or send it to M Lekuse, CTCS-REG, JCMB, KB, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK. ******************************************************* * REGISTRATION FOR CTCS '99 * ******************************************************* A PERSONAL DETAILS ------------------ LAST NAME: _______________________________ FIRST NAME: ______________________________ AFFILIATION: _____________________________ ADDRESS: _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ PHONE NUMBER: ____________________________ FAX: _____________________________________ E-MAIL: __________________________________ WWW (optional): __________________________ DATE OF ARRIVAL: __/__ 1999 DATE OF DEPARTURE: __/__ 1999 ANY SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS (e.g. vegetarian): ______________________ B CONFERENCE FEES ----------------- The conference fee will cover lunches, coffee breaks, and proceedings. (It also includes costs for invited speakers and seminar room bookings.) Regular Student -------------------------------------------- Early registration: GBP115 GBP95 by 19th July Late registration: GBP170 GBP170 after 19th July There will be a conference dinner on Saturday, 11th September. It will cost GBP30 (students GBP15). I will attend the dinner YES ( ) NO ( ) Total fees payable: GBP ____ I have paid the fees by ____________________ on __/__1999. Please pay your fee by - bank draft in GBP - Eurocheque in GBP - any other cheque drawn on a British bank payable to "The University of Edinburgh". Unfortunately, we cannot acccept credit cards and bank transfers. C ACCOMMODATION --------------- We should like to ask you to book your own accommodation directly. The Edinburgh Tourist Board offers a very efficient booking service. You can either book by phone (+44-131-473-3874), fax (+44-131-473-3636) or e-mail (conventions@eltb.org). When you contact them they will supply you with a booking form which lists a number of accommodation types from simple guest houses to 5* hotels. Please book early. Although the Edinburgh International Festival will be over, September is still a very busy time. ---------------------------------------------------------------- **Please state clearly on the accommodation booking form that your accommodation should be within easy reach of the King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh.** ---------------------------------------------------------------- You should receive confirmation of your booking within one day. You need to give them your credit card number which will serve as a security. You will actually have to pay your accommodation directly later. If you do not have a credit card, or you encounter any difficulties in booking your accommodation, then please get in touch with us directly. Please contact (ctcs99-reg@dcs.ed.ac.uk) and state your requirements. The conference will be held in the James Clerk Maxwell Building (Lecture theatre B), King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. You will find maps at http://www.visres.ed.ac.uk/internal/maps. Important dates --------------- 9 April 1999 Notification of intention to submit 23 April 1999 Submission deadline 4 June 1999 Notification of authors of accepted papers 30 July 1999 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers Address for paper submissions ----------------------------- Martin Hofmann Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Division of Informatics JCMB, King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Scotland Local organization ------------------ Monika Lekuse Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Division of Informatics JCMB, King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Scotland Conference e-address ctcs99@dcs.ed.ac.uk -------------------- Conference homepage http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ctcs99 ------------------- Related event 2nd APPSEM workshop, 6-9 September 1999 ------------- http://www.md.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Semantics/APPSEM/index.html