MacQueen Fest

A workshop celebrating David MacQueen's career.
May 12-13, 2012

Program

Saturday, May 12, 2012 (Ryerson 251)

11:30-13:00
Lunch
 
13:00-13:10
Opening remarks
13:10-13:40
Jean-Jacques Lévy — INRIA — Sequentiality in Kahn-Macqueen Networks and the Lambda-Calculus
Slides [pdf]
13:40-14:10
John Reppy — University of Chicago — Concurrency and Parallelism in ML
Slides [pdf]
 
14:10-14:30
Break
 
14:30-15:00
Luca Cardelli — Microsoft Research Cambridge — On Speaking Languages
Slides [pdf]
15:00-15:30
Andrew Appel — Princeton University — Ideal and Other Models of Recursive Polymorphic Types
 
15:30-15:50
Break
 
15:50-16:20
Mike Gordon — Cambridge University — Cryptoki in ML: Birth Pangs of a Project
16:20-16:50
Robert Harper — Carnegie Mellon University — Modules Matter Most
Slides [pdf]
 
18:00
Dinner and reception at the Quad Club
Mads Tofte — IT University of Copenhagen

Sunday, May 13, 2012 (Ryerson 251)

09:00-10:00
Continental Breakfast
 
10:00-10:30
Derek Dreyer — Max Planck Institute for Software Systems — The Difficulty of Improving Upon the Standard ML Module System
Slides [pdf]
10:30-11:00
Zhong Shao — Yale University — VeriML: Revisiting the Foundations of Proof Assistants
Slides [ppt]
11:00-11:30
David MacQueen — University of Chicago — Higher-Order Modules Revisited
 
11:30-11:40
Closing Remarks