<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The 2015 Midlands Graduate School will take place in Sheffield in April.</div><div>Please let your graduate students know, and anyone else who might be</div><div>interested in applying.</div><div><br></div><div>Thorsten Altenkirch</div><div><br></div><div>=====================================================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Call for Participation</div><div><br></div><div>MIDLANDS GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING SCIENCE</div><div><br></div><div>MGS 2015</div><div><br></div><div>07-11 April 2015, University of Sheffield</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html">http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>OVERVIEW</div><div><br></div><div>The Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science</div><div>(MGS) was established in 1999 as a collaboration between researchers</div><div>at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, and later</div><div>Sheffield. It has two main goals: to equip PhD students with a sound</div><div>basis for their research by deepening their knowledge on the</div><div>mathematical and conceptual foundations of computing; and to provide a</div><div>platform for making contacts with established researchers in the field</div><div>and with their peers who are at a similar stage in their research</div><div>careers.</div><div><br></div><div>This year's MGS is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the</div><div> University of Sheffield. It will start on April 07 and finish on April 11.</div><div><br></div><div>Information about previous events can be found at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS">http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAMME</div><div><br></div><div>MGS 2015 consists of nine courses, each with four or five hours of</div><div>lectures and exercise sessions. Three of the courses are introductory</div><div>or core; they should be taken by all participants. The other courses</div><div>are more advanced or specialised. Participants may select them</div><div>depending on their interests.</div><div><br></div><div>This year the invited lectures will be given by Prof Jeremy Gibbons,</div><div>Oxford.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition there will be early evening sessions in which participants</div><div>can briefly present and discuss their own research.</div><div><br></div><div>Core Courses:</div><div><br></div><div>* Category Theory, Roy Crole, Leicester</div><div>* Typed Lambda Calculus, Paul Blain Levy, Birmingham</div><div>* Patterns in Functional Programming, Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford</div><div><br></div><div>Advanced Courses: </div><div><br></div><div>* Homotopy Type Theory, Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham </div><div>* Infinite Data Structures, Venanzio Capretta, Nottingham</div><div>* Security Protocol Verification, Eike Ritter, Birmingham </div><div>* Functional Reactive Programming, Neelakantan Krishnaswami, Birmingham </div><div>* Building Verification Tools with Isabelle, Georg Struth, Sheffield</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>REGISTRATION</div><div><br></div><div>The registration deadline for MGS 2015 is Monday March 16. The</div><div>registration fee is £460 (a reduced fee without accommodation is</div><div>available on request).</div><div><br></div><div>Instructions for registation can be found at the MGS 2015 web site.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html">http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs2015/mgs.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The registration fee includes 5 nights of accommodation with</div><div> breakfasts at Hotel Ibis in Sheffield (from Monday April 06 evening</div><div> to Saturday April 11 morning) as well as lunches, coffee breaks and</div><div> the conference dinner.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TRAVEL</div><div><br></div><div>MGS 2015 takes place in the Sir Frederick Mappin Building of the</div><div>University of Sheffield. Information on traveling to Sheffield and</div><div>finding the venue can be found at the MGS 2015 web site. Train</div><div>station, hotel, lecture halls, restaurants and pubs are all within</div><div>walking distance.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANISATION</div><div><br></div><div>Georg Struth (<a href="mailto:G.Struth@dcs.shef.ac.uk">G.Struth@dcs.shef.ac.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:G.Struth@dcs.shef.ac.uk>">mailto:G.Struth@dcs.shef.ac.uk></a>)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><PRE>
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