Call for Participation: Scheme Workshop 2009

[Note: only one day left to register! --Dave]

2009 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming
Co-Located with the Symposium in Honor of Mitchell Wand

August 22, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.schemeworkshop.org/2009

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

To the delight of all and sundry, the 2009 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop will be held on August 22nd at Northeastern University, and it is a signal honor for me to be able to invite YOU to the WORLD'S FOREMOST WORKSHOP on the marvelous Scheme language, and to present a program PACKED with contributions from familiar faces and new ones, certain to amaze, delight, and edify. Lend us your ears, and we will widen the space between them.

- John Clements

IMPORTANT DATES

August 11, 2009 - Registration deadline
August 22, 2009 - Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming
August 23-24, 2009 - Symposium in Honor of Mitchell Wand

VENUE

Northeastern University
Boston Massachusetts
Curry Student Center Ballroom (Building 50)
346 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

ACCOMMODATION

A limited block of hotel rooms has been reserved for participants of the Scheme Workshop and/or the Mitchell Wand Symposium at hotels in Cambridge and Boston. See the workshop web site for more information, and please note that some of these special rates have already expired.

REGISTRATION

The registration fee will be $40 to help cover the operating costs and lunch accommodations. Please register by August 11, 2009 so that we will have an accurate head count. To register, please send an email to aoeuswreg@brinckerhoff.org with your name and any dietary restrictions for lunch.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• John Clements (Cal Poly State University (organizer & chair))
• Dominique Boucher (Nu Echo)
• Abdulaziz Ghuloum (Indiana University)
• David Herman (Northeastern University)
• Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University)
• Matthew Might (University of Utah)
• David Van Horn (Northeastern University)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Invited: If programming is like math, why don't math teachers teach programming?
Emmanuel Schanzer

Invited Talk on Future Directions for the Scheme Language
The Newly Elected Scheme Language Steering Committee

The Scribble Reader: An Alternative to S-expressions for Textual Content
Eli Barzilay

World With Web: A compiler from world applications to JavaScript
Remzi Emre Başar, Caner Derici, Çağdaş Şenol

Scalable Garbage Collection with Guaranteed MMU
William D Clinger, Felix S. Klock II

Distributed Software Transactional Memory
Anthony Cowley

Sequence Traces for Object-Oriented Executions
Carl Eastlund, Matthias Felleisen

Keyword and Optional Arguments in PLT Scheme
Matthew Flatt, Eli Barzilay

Fixing Letrec (reloaded)
Abdulaziz Ghuloum, R. Kent Dybvig

Descot: Distributed Code Repository Framework
Aaron W. Hsu

A pattern-matcher for miniKanren -or- How to get into trouble with CPS macros
Andrew W. Keep, Michael D. Adams, Lindsey Kuper, William E. Byrd, Daniel P. Friedman

Randomized Testing in PLT Redex
Casey Klein, Robert Bruce Findler

Screen-Replay: A Session Recording and Analysis Tool for DrScheme
Mehmet Fatih Köksal, Remzi Emre Başar, Suzan Üsküdarlı

Interprocedural Dependence Analysis of Higher-Order Programs via Stack Reachability
Matthew Might, Tarun Prabhu

Get stuffed: Tightly packed abstract protocols in Scheme
John Moore

Higher-Order Aspects in Order
Eric Tanter

Peter J Landin (1930-2009)
Olivier Danvy