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           Call for Participation

    Midlands Graduate School in Computer Science

               23-27  April 2012

          School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing

Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the Mathematical

Foundations of Computing. It has run annually since 1999, and is

hosted by the Universites of Birmingham, Leicester, and Nottingham in

rotation. The lectures are aimed at PhD students, typically in their

first or second year of study. However, the school is open to anyone

who is interested in learning more about the mathematical foundations

of computing, and all such participants are warmly welcomed. We also

very much welcome students from abroad.

The following courses will be offered:

Introductory Courses:

    * Category Theory

      Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham)

    * Advanced Functional Programming

      Henrik Nilsson (University of Nottingham)

    * Typed Lambda Calculus

      Paul Levy (University of Birmingham)

Advanced Courses:

    * Constructive Mathematics and Type Theory

      Thierry Coquand (University of Gothenburg)

    * Categories and Functors

      Uday Reddy (University of Birmingham)

    * Computing with Infinite Objects

      Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham)

    * Logical Relations

      Andrzej Murawski (University of Leicester)

    * Provability, fixed points and clock ticks

      Tadeusz Litak (University of Leicester)

    * Kleene Algebras

      Georg Struth (University of Sheffield)

LOCATION

The school will be held  in the School of Computer Science,

University of Birmingham. Birmingham is centrally located  in the UK,

and  is easily reachable by road, rail and air (Birmingham

International Airport).

REGISTRATION

The deadline  for registration is  15 March 2012. The registration fee

is 230.

ACCOMMODATION

We have reserved accommodation in the ETAP-hotel for five

nights for 170. Please indicate during registration whether you would

like us to reserve accommodation for you.

FURTHER DETAILS

   Google search - MGS 2012

   Web page      - http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/mgs2012

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Dr Eike Ritter                         Tel.: (+44) 121 41 44772

School of Computer Science             Sec.: (+44) 121 41 43711

The University of Birmingham           Fax.: (+44) 121 41 44281

Edgbaston                              Email: E.Ritter AT cs.bham.ac.uk

BIRMINGHAM, B15 2TT                    Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk

England

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