C A L L    F O R    P A R T I C I P A T I O N

              Second Workshop on Categorical Programming Languages

                            with an Emphasis on Aldor


                       9h00-18h00 Thursday July 11, 2002

             Maison d'Activit'es Culturelles et de Colloques (MACC)
                     University of Lille I, Lille, France.



This workshop is a satellite event to ISSAC 2002, the 2002 International
Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. ISSAC is the annual
flagship conference in the area of symbolic mathematical computation.

The workshop shall focus on the theoretical and practical issues in the
implementation and use of categorical programming languages, with an
emphasis on the Aldor programming language, its compiler, and libraries.

Particular attention shall be directed to the release of Aldor included
as part of the ISSAC 2002 CD, and to priorities for the next release.

The scientific program shall include presentations by

   Manuel Bronstein   --  LibAldor:   the foundational library

   Marc Moreno Maza   --  LibAlgebra: the mathematical library

   Stephen Watt       --  Aldor: the language and compiler

as well as contributed presentations.


Workshop participants shall fall into four groups:

* those who have been central in the establishing the ideas in
  categorical programming languages for computer algebra,

* those who have used categorical programming languages in
  industrial and other non-university settings

* university researchers and students who might wish to use Aldor
  in courses or research projects.

* researchers and students who might wish to contribute to Aldor

Please see http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~watt/catlan2.html for more details
about the workshop and http://www.lifl.fr/ISSAC2002 for matters
relating to location, accomodation and transportation.


Registration
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The workshop is open to general attendees and there is no registration fee.
Places in the workshop shall be made available on a first-come first-serve
basis.

In order to plan for food and refreshments we wish to estimate how many
people shall attend, so we request registration.

Before July 10th registration requests should be sent to

  Ms Bethany Heinrichs   

and should include:

  Name:
  Affiliation:
  Special dietary requirements:
  Previous use of Aldor, if any:

  Do you wish to make a presentation:
  If so, title of presentation: