[Om-announce] PPDP 2014 Call for Participation

[Jacob Johannsen]

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                CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

                   PPDP 2014
            16th International Symposium on
       Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
         Canterbury, Kent, September 8-10, 2014
          http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/ppdp14/

                           co-located with

                  LOPSTR 2014
            24th International Symposium on
        Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
         Canterbury, Kent, September 9-11, 2014
            http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/

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Registration is now open:
   http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2014/ppdp-lopstr-14/

A significant discount is available when registering to both events,
especially as a student (until August 8).

PPDP 2014 features
* an invited talk by Roberto Giacobazzi, shared with LOPSTR:
   "Obscuring Code -- Unveiling and Veiling Information in Programs"
* no fewer than 4 distilled tutorials by
   - Henrik Nilsson and Ivan Perez:
     "Declarative Game Programming"
   - Danko Ilik:
     "Proofs in Continuation-Passing Style:
      normalization of Gödel's System T extended with sums and
      delimited control operators"
   - Jerzy Karczmarczuk:
     "On the Declarative Structure of Quantum Concepts:
      States and Observables"
   - Ralf Laemmel, Andrei Varanovich, and Martin Leinberger:
     "Declarative Software Development"
* a rich program of 22 contributed research talks
* the most influential paper 10-year award for PPDP 2004

Also, please note a change of dates: LOPSTR will start on September 9,
rather than September 10 as previously announced.

Hope to see you in Canterbury.