[net.announce.arpa-internet] Conference announcement - Environments

conradi%vax.runit.unit.uninett@NTA-VAX.ARPA (Reidar Conradi) (02/24/86)

From: Reidar Conradi <conradi@vax.runit.unit.uninett>

                                 Invitation to

         "International Workshop in Advanced Programming Environments"

                           June 16-18 (Mon-Wed), 1986

             Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Sponsored by IFIP's WG2.4 for system programming languages, and several
Norwegian organizations.  (Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT is pending
official ACM approval.)

Workshop Committee:
   Bill Waite,     general chair  (University of Colorado, Boulder)
   Mary Shaw,      program chair  (CMU,Pittsburgh)
   John Nestor,    ass.prog.chair (SEI,Pittsburgh)
   Lynn R. Carter, editor         (Genrad,Phoenix)
   Reidar Conradi, org. chair     (Trondheim)
   Tor M.Didriksen,ass.org.chair  (Trondheim)
   Dag H. Wanvik,  ass.org.chair  (Trondheim)
   Else J. Svork}s,treasurer      (Trondheim)
Local arrangements:
   Tore J|rgensen, course secretariat leader (Trondheim)

Audience: 100 persons of which 40-50 are invited speakers, WG2.4 members and
local people. Open registration for the remaining 50-60 attendees. These will
be subject to screening by curriculum vitae.

Conference fee: US $150, which covers the conference itself, proceedings (which
will be published as a book on Springer Verlag) + coffee and lunches.
Accommodation is available ranging from US $30 to $100 / night.

30-40 grants for travel support are available, maximum US $750 each.  Speakers
and students have priority. The round-trip air fare U.S.-Oslo is US $800-900,
Oslo-Trondheim US $130-200. A variety of conjunctive travel packages in Norway
will be offered.

Conference setting: Trondheim in mid-June should give you a taste of "The Land
ot the Midnight Sun". Sunset at 23:30 (daylight saving time), temperatures from
10 to 25 degrees centigrade. The city was founded in 997 and lies by a fjord in
the middle of Norway, 500 km north of Oslo, 600 km south of the arctic circle.
Academia and research: Norway's only technical university with 5500 students
and SINTEF, Norway's largest research complex.

Feb.15-Mar.31: Open (but screened) registration, accompanied by a one page
             curriculum vitae and an  optional  grant-application  for  travel
             support, with official signature certifying the need. Send to:

               PE Workshop
               Course Secretariat
               7034 Trondheim-NTH
               Norway

Apr.15:        Confirmation of attendance registration.

For preliminary information, contact:
  Reidar Conradi
  Division of Computer Science
  Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim-NTH
  NORWAY
  phone   : +47 7 593440 (secr)
  net addr: conradi%vax.runit.unit.uninett@nta-vax.arpa