[PL-sem-jr] schedule of presentations

[Dale Vaillancourt]

As anybody who knows me can tell you, I am more or less unaffected by
shame and guilt... but the Bronx cheers might make me cry, so I volunteer
for the 24th.

My plan is to present a categorical model of the simply typed lambda
calulus and touch on some of the pros and cons of interpreting the
language in a category versus interpreting it in complete partial orders.
I intend the talk to be accessible to those who haven't studied category
theory at all, and I will devote some time to studying the basic
structures that we'll use to build the model.

-Dale

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, David Herman wrote:

> > I'd like to try to keep a schedule for at least 2-3 weeks in advance.
> > So, do we have any volunteers for presentations for the following
> > weeks?
>
> We should coerce Ryan and Dale (on pain of great shame and the
> occasional Bronx cheer) into doing talks: Dale's mentioned maybe giving
> an introduction to categories, which I would *love* to hear, and Ryan
> expressed interest in the survey of control operators, which would be
> equally fabulous. (I know you guys are busy, but you'd give wonderful
> talks.)
>
> > Failing that, do we have any suggestions for topics that we'd like to
> > cover?  Feel free to suggest a topic that you know nothing about.
> > It's entirely possible that someone else will be interested and be
> > willing to prepare a presentation on that.
> >
> > Also, textbooks are fair game: some folks were thinking about going
> > through some chapters of Pierce, which sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> Of particular interest to me would be a discussion of some of the
> important type systems: STLC, System F, F-sub, and F-sub-omega. And any
> of the prerequisite type theory that goes along with that. Pierce's
> book has a good treatment of them -- I've only skimmed them, but they
> looked good. Any takers?
>
> Dave
>
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