[fa.arpa-bboard] Conference Registration Details

arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (07/20/85)

From: Joseph E. Stoy <JES@MIT-XX.ARPA>

CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND ARCHITECTURES

NANCY, FRANCE

16 to 19 September, 1985


REGISTRATION DETAILS

Registration fee:  $150 or FF1300.
Students (send copy of Affiliation card): $55 or FF450.

Late Registration (after August 10): for everyone, $175 or FF1500.

Room Reservation: state the number of people and range of prices
(either FF 120/200 or 210/250: the first is 2 stars, and second 3 stars).

To guarantee the room: FF250.

Please make cheques payable to FPCA85.

Write to
  Danielle Marchand
  Conference FPLCA-85
  CRIN BP 239
  54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex
  FRANCE


Please send any question to the person in charge of local arrangements: 
Pierre Lescanne (pierre@mit-dash.arpa).


PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

MONDAY
9:30 - 10:30    OPENING SESSION
    D A Turner
     Miranda: A non-strict functional language with
     polymorphic types
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00   PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION
    M Welcome   S Skedzielewski
     Dataflow Graph Optimization in IF1

    C Clack   S L Peyton Jones
     Generating Parallelism From Strictness Analysis
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30   SEMANTICS
    M Mauny   P-L Curien   G Cousineau
     The Categorical Abstract Machine

    P Bellot
     Operations fonctionelles dans les systemes de
     Programmation Sans Variables

Coffee
16:00 - 17:00   SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
    S Abramsky   R Sykes
     The Design and Implementation of an Applicative
     Multiprocessor

    M J Shute   P E Osmon   C L Hankin
     COBWEB - A combinator reduction architecture
(Reception)

TUESDAY
9:30 - 10:30    LAZY EVALUATION
    P Wadler
     How to replace failure by a list of successes

    J M R Hughes
     Lazy Memo-functions
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00   MACHINE ARCHITECTURES
    D A Plaisted
     An Architecture for Fast Data Movement in the FFP
     Machine

    J T O'Donnell
     An Architecture that Efficiently Updates
     Associative Aggregates in Applicative Programming
     Languages
Lunch
(Excursion)

WEDNESDAY
9:30 - 10:30    PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION
    T Johnsson
     Lambda Lifting: Transforming Programs to
     Recursive Equations

    S K Debray
     Optimizing Almost-Tail-Recursive Prolog Programs
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00   HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
    M Sheeran
     Designing Regular Array Architectures using
     Higher Order Functions

    M D Ercegovac   M Schlag   D Patel
     vFP: An Environment for Multi-level Specification,
     Analysis, and Synthesis of Hardware Algorithms
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30   STORAGE MANAGEMENT
    J M R Hughes
     A Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithm

    D Brownbridge
     Cyclic Reference Counting for Combinator Machines
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00   SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
    D Wise
     Design for a Multiprocessing Heap with On-board
     Reference Counting

    M F Young
     A Functional Language and Modular Architecture
     for Scientific Computing
(Banquet)

THURSDAY
9:30 - 10:30    TYPES; CONSTRUCTIONS
    R Nikhil
     Practical Polymorphism

    P Dybjer
     Program Verification in a Logical Theory of
     Constructions
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00   COMPILATION AND CODE GENERATION
    V J Bush   J R Gurd
     Transforming Recursive Programs for Execution on
     Parallel Machines

    L Augustsson
     Compiling Pattern Matching
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30   EXECUTION MODELS
    B Goldberg   P Hudak
     Serial Combinators: Optimal Grains of Parallelism

    R B Kieburtz
     The G Machine: A fast, graph-reduction evaluator

(END OF CONFERENCE)


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