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Summer School on Games and Computation
MATHFIT SUMMERSCHOOL IN EDINBURGH
GAMES AND COMPUTATION
Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science
JUNE 23-24 1997
The use of games to model various aspects of computation has been
notably successful over the past few years. In particular, two areas
where there has been rapid progress recently are: game semantics and
its applications to programming languages and logic; and the use of
games in verifying properties of concurrent processes.
Game semantics has been used to give the first syntax-independent
constructions of fully abstract models for functional languages such
as PCF and FPC (Abramsky,Jagadeesan and Malacaria, Hyland and Ong,
Nickau, McCusker), for imperative languages such as Idealized Algol
(Abramsky and McCusker), and for languages with non-local control
operators such as call-cc (Ong, Laird). There are promising
applications to object-oriented languages in progress.
In the area of concurrency, games have been used to explicate
bisimulation and proof-search in the modal mu-calculus
(Stirling). This has been applied to the Edinburgh Concurrency
Workbench by Perdita Stevens, and has resulted in improvements to the
efficiency of the implementation.
SPEAKERS
Samson Abramsky, Edinburgh University
Martin Hyland, Cambridge University
Perdita Stevens, Edinburgh University
Colin Stirling, Edinburgh University
Wolfgang Thomas, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel
GRANTS
A small number of grants for the Summer School are available for PhD
students.
Further information and registration forms can be found at:
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/cps/school.html
The Summer School is supported by the U.K. Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council and the London Mathematical Society.
Samson Abramsky and Colin Stirling