Students! You have until Sunday to apply for funding to come to both POPL and PLMW!

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Rome

Tuesday January 22, 2013

Co-located with POPL 2013

PLMW web page: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~gds/PLMW/index.html

After the resounding success of the first Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop at POPL 2012, we proudly announce the 2nd SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2013 and organised by Nate Foster, Philippa Gardner, Alan Schmitt, Gareth Smith, Peter Thieman and Tobias Wrigstad.

The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will provide technical sessions on cutting-edge research in programming languages, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community.

We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. Since PLMW will be in Rome this year, we particularly look forward to seeing Eastern European students at the workshop.

This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference, and will also attend the POPL tutorials on Monday 21st January which are free to PLMW registered attendees.

Through the generous donation of our sponsors, we are able to provide scholarships to fund student participation. These scholarships will cover reasonable expenses (airfare, hotel and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference.

Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN

The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome.

APPLICATION for PLMW scholarship:

The scholarship application can be accessed from the workshop web site (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~gds/PLMW/index.html). The deadline for full consideration of funding is 9th December, 2012. Selected participants will be notified from Friday 14th December, and will need to register for the workshop by December 24th.

SPONSORS:

Google Imperial College London Jane Street Monoidics NSF Resource Reasoning SIGPLAN vmware