Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU!Stephen.Brookes From: Stephen.Brookes@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: MFPS91 program Message-ID: <9101181856.AA02969@irt.watson.ibm.com> Date: 18 Jan 91 18:56:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events , Stephen.Brookes@proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu Lines: 108 MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAMMING SEMANTICS (MFPS91) March 25-28, 1991 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Pittsburgh, Pa 15213 CONFERENCE PROGRAM INVITED SPEAKERS The following have agreed to be invited speakers at MFPS91: Jon Barwise, Indiana University John Reynolds, Carnegie Mellon University Dana Scott, Carnegie Mellon University Mitchell Wand, Northeastern University Glynn Winskel, Aarhus University CONTRIBUTED PAPERS The following papers have been selected by the program committee: On Relating Concurrency and Nondeterminism Luca Aceto (University of Sussex, UK) HSP type theorems in the category of posets Michael Barr (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Program Correctness and Matricial Theories Stephen L. Bloom (Stevens Institute of Technology) Zoltan Esik (A. Joszef University, Bolyai Institute, Szeged, Hungary) Tradeoffs in true concurrency: Pomsets and Mazurkiewicz Traces Bard Bloom (Cornell University) Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Leicester, UK) Continuous Functions and Parallel Algorithms on Concrete Data Structures Stephen Brookes and Shai Geva (Carnegie Mellon University) The Equivalence of Two Semantic Definitions for Object-Oriented Languages Kim B. Bruce (Williams College) Call-by-Value Combinatory Logic and the Lambda-Value Calculus Bruce F. Duba and John Gateley (Rice University) Simultaneous Substitution in the Typed Lambda Calculus John Gray (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) An Upper Power Domain Construction in terms of Strongly Compact Sets Reinhold Heckmann (Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken) Cartesian Closed Categories of Domains and the Space Proj(D) Michael Huth (Tulane University) Decomposition of Domains Achim Jung (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany) Leonid Libkin (University of Pennsylvania) Hermann Puhlmann (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany) On Continuous Time Agents S. Kasangian (University of Milan, Italy) A. Labella (University of Rome, Italy) Liminf Progress Measures Nils Klarlund (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) Typed Homomorphic Relations Extended with Subtypes Gary T. Leavens and Don Pigozzi (Iowa State University) Equations for if-then-else Ernest G. Manes (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Connections Austin Melton, Bernd S. W. Schroeder, and George E. Strecker (Kansas State University) An Algorithm for Analyzing Communicating Processes Nicolas Mercouroff (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France; and Brandeis University) A Simple Language Supporting Angelic Nondeterminism and Parallel Composition Michael W. Mislove (Tulane University) Frank J. Oles (IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center) Primitive Recursive Functionals with Dependent Types Neal Nelson (Oregon Graduate Institute) An exper model for Quest Giuseppe Rosolini (University of Parma, Italy) Nonwellfounded Sets and Programming Language Semantics J.J.M.M. Rutten (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam) >From Operational to Denotational Semantics Scott F. Smith (The Johns Hopkins University) A Monoidal Closed Category of Event Structures Guo Qiang Zhang (University of Georgia) FURTHER DETAILS The schedule of talks will be posted later. Local arrangements and travel information appear in separate message. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The organizers of MFPS91 are pleased to acknowledge the support of the Office of Naval Research (Computer Science Division).