[Pl-seminar] 8th NEPLS Symposium 2/28/02 - RSVP by MONDAY!

[dqg at engr.uconn.edu]

The eighth New England Programming Languages and Systems Symposium
(NEPLS) will take place on Friday, February 28, 2003 at the University 
of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.  

If you would like to have lunch at the event, PLEASE REPLY to this
announcement by 10:00am on Monday, February 24 indicating that
you will attend.  Please let us know of any dietary preferences you
may have. If you do not request a meal by Monday, you are still
welcome to attend, but we cannot guarantee enough (free) lunches.

The following is the day's program:
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   9:40-10:00
   Breakfast
   
   10:00-11:00
   Invited talk
   Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University (1 hour)
   
   11:00-11:40
   Control Abstractions for Local Search Algorithms
   Laurent D. Michel, Univ. of Connecticut (40 minutes)
   
   11:40-12:10
   Automatic Detection and Repair of Errors in Data Structures
   Brian Demsky, MIT (30 minutes)
   
   12:10-01:10
   Lunch
   
   1:10-1:40
   FLAVERS: A Finite State Verification Technique for Software Systems
   Jamieson M. Cobleigh, U. Mass Amherst (30 minutes)
   
   1:40-2:10
   A Typed representation for XML documents
   Dengping Zhu, Boston University (30 minutes)
   
   2:10-2:40
   Break

   2:40-3:20
   Hybrid Modelling with Automatic Differentiation and Impulses
   Henrik Nilsson, Yale University (40 minutes)
   
   3:20-4:00
   Linguistic Side Effects
   Chung-chieh Shan, Harvard University (40 minutes)
   
   4:00-4:15
   Business Meeting (15 minutes)
==================================================================

The program and the abstracts are available at:

	http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dqg/nepls-02-03.htm

Speakers: Some of you have not yet registered.  Please confirm your
attendance to Dina Goldin <dqg at cse.uconn.edu>

UConn is centrally located, one hour from Yale and from UMass 
Amherst, 75 mins from Brown, and 90 mins from Cambridge.  All 
talks will be held in room 150 of the UTEB Building, which
houses the Computer Science and Engineering department.  Parking
is available at about $4 per day in the North Parking Garage, a 
block away from UTEB.  The directions can be found at:

	http://www.cse.uconn.edu/cse/directions.html

More details about NEPLS are available on the NEPLS webpage:
http://www.nepls.org/  

					 Dina Goldin
					 dqg at cse.uconn.edu

					 Laurent Michel
					 ldm at engr.uconn.edu