The 24th Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics Conference will take place on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania from Thursday, May 22 through midday Sunday, May 25, 2008. The program includes plenary lectures by Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge), Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel and Oxford), Benjamin Pierce (Penn), Phil Scott (Ottawa) and James Worrell (Oxford). In addition to special sessions on Systems Biology, on Security and on Type Theory, there will be a session honoring Phil Scott on his 60th birthday year. The remainder of the program will consist of the papers accepted from those submitted for presentation at the meeting; the list of accepted papers is now available on the conference web site. In addition to MFPS 24, a Tutorial Day on Category Theory and Computer Science will take place on Wednesday, May 21. This has been organized by Phil Scott, and will have lectures by Marcelo Fiore (Cambridge), Nicola Gambino (Leicester), Pieter Hofstra (Ottawa) and Peter Selinger (Dalhousie). Detailed information about all these activities is available at the conference web site, http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps24.htm Registration information is also available on the web site; the deadline for reservations at the conference hotel is April 20, so we recommend those interested in attending the meeting register within the next week or so. Best regards, MIke Mislove =============================================== Professor Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 862-3441 Department of Mathematics FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Tulane University URL: http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA ===============================================