FMCS 2007
Foundational Methods in Computer
Science
June 8, 9, 10, 2007
Preliminary Schedule
Thursday June 7
19:00-22:00 Reception
& Registration , Parker Apartment Commons
Friday June 8
08:00-09:00 Breakfast in Computer Science
Lobby, 3rd floor McGregory
Research Tutorials - McGregory Third Floor
09:00-10:30 Session 1: Ernie Manes: Taut Monads
as Distributions: Collections, Dynamic Logic and Topology
10:30-11:00 Break (refreshments) and
registration
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Bob Rosebrugh: Sketches
and database models
12:30-14:30 Lunch break (on your own)
14:30-16:00 Session 3: Steve Bloom: Algebraic
words, trees and ordinals.
16:00-16:30 Break (refreshments)
16:30-17:30 Session 4: Robert Seely: TBA
17:30-18:00 Kim Flak: Differential Categories
and the Bar Construction
Saturday June 9
08:00-09:00 Breakfast in Computer Science
Lobby, 3rd floor McGregory
Research Sessions - McGregory Third Floor
09:00-10:45 Session 5 (Session Chair: Ernie Manes)
09:00-10:00 Paul Hudak: Arrows and Space Leaks
10:00-10:45 Philip Mulry: Composing Monadic Data Types
10:45-11:15 Break (refreshments)
11:15-12:45 Session 6 (Session Chair: Bob Rosebrugh)
11:15-12:00 John MacDonald: Amalgamations of
Categories
12:00-12:45 Susan Niefield: Change of Base for
Relational Variable Sets
12:45-14:15 Lunch and break (on your own)
14:15-16:00 Session 7 (Session Chair: Robert Seely)
14:15-15:15 Robin Cockett: Abstract computability
15:15-16:00 Zippi Arzi-Gonczarowski: ISAAC - A
Foundational Schema for AI
16:00-16:30 Break (refreshments)
16:30-18:00 Session 8 (Session Chair: Robin Cockett)
16:30-17:15 Jim Royer: Complexity-Theoretic Types and
Semantics
17:15-18:00 Pieter Hofstra: Aspects of abstract
computability
18:30
Conference Dinner at Nichols & Beal, Hamilton
Sunday June 10
08:00-09:00 Breakfast in Computer Science Lobby, 3rd
floor McGregory
Research Sessions - McGregory Third Floor
09:00-10:30 Session 9 (Session Chair: Philip Mulry)
09:00-10:00 Steve Awodey Stone Duality, Topology, and
Modality for First-Order logic
10:00-10:30 Henrik Forssell: First-Order Logical
Duality
10:30-11:00 Break (refreshments)
11:00-12:30 Session 10 (Session Chair: John
MacDonald)
11:00-11:30 Francois Dupressoir: A tree transducer
approach to deforestation
11:30-12:00 Marc Comeau: Homotopy Theory of Posets
12:00-12:30 Sean Nichols: Circular datatypes in
linearly distributive categories
12:30
End of Meeting