[FOM] Extended deadline: PSC 2014, Proof, Structure, Computation. Vienna, 17-18 July

[Peter Schuster]

Extended deadline for short abstracts: 6 May 2014

PSC 2014: Proof, Structure, Computation.

CSL-LICS Affiliated Workshop

July 17-18, 2014, Vienna, Austria

http://vsl2014.at/psc/

=== Highlights ===

   - PSC welcomes submissions of short abstracts: 1-2 pages in LNCS format
   - Invited speakers: Ulrich Berger and Martin Escardo
   - Post-proceedings are planned for a journal special issue

=== Important Dates ===

   6 May 2014 ............. Abstract submission (extended)
   16 May 2014 ............ Notification to authors
   16 June 2014 ........... Camera-ready abstracts for electronic
proceedings
   17-18 July 2014 ........ PSC in Vienna

=== Scope ===

The extraction of computational content from proofs has a long tradition in
logic, but usually depends on a concrete encoding that allows us to turn proofs
into algorithms. A recent trend in this field is the departure from such
encoding which not only makes it simpler to represent the mathematical content,
but also makes the extracted computational content encoding independent. This
shift in focus allows us to focus on what is relevant: the computational
aspects of proofs and the specification (not representation) of the structures
involved. We now have growing evidence that this move from representations
(e.g. the signed digit representation of the reals) to axioms (e.g. of the real
numbers) is possible. This development largely parallels the step from
assembler to high level languages in programming. As a by-product this move has
already opened up the possibility to gain computational information from
axiomatic proofs in more abstract and genuinely structural areas of mathematics
such as algebra and topology.

=== Invited Speakers ===

   Ulrich Berger (Swansea University, UK)
   Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK)

=== Submissions ===

We welcome 1-2-page abstracts presenting (finished, ongoing, or if
clearly stated even published) work on proof, structure, and computation.
Particular topics of interest are

   *  Proof Theory
   *  Program Extraction
   *  Constructive Mathematics
   *  Topology and Computation
   *  Realisability Semantics
   *  Coalgebra and Computation
   *  Categorical Models
   *  Domain Theory
   *  Interval Analysis

=== Submission Guidelines ===

Abstracts are invited of ongoing, finished, or (if clearly stated) even
published work on a topic relevant to the workshop.

The abstracts will appear in electronic pre-proceedings that will be
distributed at the meeting.

Abstracts (at most 2 pages, in LNCS style) are to be be submitted
electronically in PDF via EasyChair

   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc2014

Accepted communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the
authors.

=== Special Issue ===

We plan to invite extended versions of selected abstract with original
work to post-proceedings in a journal special issue. They will be
peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy.

=== Program Committee ===

   Neil Ghani (University of Strathclyde, UK)
   Helle Hvid Hansen (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
   Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, NL)
   Bjoern Lellmann (TU Vienna, AT)
   Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, FI)
   Dirk Pattinson (ANU, AU), PC chair
   Dieter Probst (University of Bern, CH)
   Peter Schuster (University of Leeds, UK), PC chair
   Alex Simpson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria), PC chair

=== Organizing Committee ===

   Dirk Pattinson (ANU, Australia), PC chair
   Peter Schuster (University of Leeds, UK), PC chair
   Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria), PC chair

=== Contact ===

psc2014 at easychair.org