************************************************************* Midlands Graduate School 2013 in the Foundations of Computing ************************************************************* The Midlands Graduate School is taking place 8 - 12 April 2013 at the University of Leicester, UK. http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2013/ The School provides an intensive course of lectures on the Foundations of Computing. It is very well established, having run annually for 10 years, and has always proved a popular and successful event. This year we have Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, as guest lecturer. Natasha Alechina, Modal Logic Venanzio Capretta, Coalgebras and Infinite Data Structures Paul Levy, Typed Lambda-Calculus Brian Logan, Multi-agent programming Uday Reddy, Category Theory Eike Ritter, Security and applied pi-calculus Georg Struth, Kleene Algebra Rick Thomas, Formal Languages and Group Theory Philip Wadler, tba The lectures are aimed at graduate students, typically in their first or second year of study for a PhD. However, the school is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about mathematical computing foundations. Early registration fee will be approximately 500 GBP, including accommodation and full board. Details will be announced in January, but we already welcome expressions of interest to mgs.le.2013@gmail.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]