Scott in Scotland 2-5pm Tuesday 29th June 2010 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html An afternoon of invited talks on semantics of programming languages associated with Dana Scott's visit to Scotland on a Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) distinguished visiting fellowship. Jointly sponsored by the SICSA Modelling and Abstraction and Complex Systems Engineering themes. INVITED TALKS: * Gordon Plotkin (University of Edinburgh) A Logic for Algebraic Effects * Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde) Initial Algebras and Induction Principles - Fibrationally * Murdoch James Gabbay (Heriot-Watt University) Kripke-style models in which logic and computation have equal standing * Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University, Emeritus) Semilattices, Domains, and Computability The meeting will be followed by a wine reception at the Informatics Forum. All are welcome to attend, though we politely request notification of attendance by Tuesday 22nd June for catering purposes. For more details, see: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als/ScottInScotland/index.html -- Alex Simpson, LFCS, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Email: Alex.Simpson@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5113 Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/als Fax: +44 (0)131 651 1426 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]