Dayschool/workshop on Language and Runtime Support for Concurrent Systems

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 *                   Day school / Workshop on                   *
 *      Language and Runtime Support for Concurrent Systems     *
 *           http://www.mm-net.org.uk/workshop171008/           *
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 *   Microsoft Research Cambridge UK, Friday 17th October 2008  *
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We are pleased to announce a day school / workshop on language and
run-time support for concurrent systems.

Transactional memory will be a particular focus of the day, and
there will be presentations from leading researchers in this field,
such as Tim Harris (Microsoft Research Cambridge) and Tony Hosking
(Purdue University). The workshop will include introductory talks,
presentations of research and discussions of future research
directions. However, we welcome contributions on topics other than
transactional memory, including but not limited to:

- memory management for concurrent systems
- compilers for concurrent systems
- hardware and operating support for concurrency
- debuggers and other tools

We aim to strengthen the network of researchers and developers, as
a resource to improve all our results -- be they in research or
commercial application. If you have a new result, tool, or war-story,
the workshop is an ideal informal setting to spread the word about
it.

To contribute a talk or demonstration, please contact the organiser,
Richard Jones, University of Kent. Slots can be of any reasonable
length: please feel free to discuss it with the organisers. 

The day will run from 10am to 5pm. Researchers and developers are
welcome to attend; there is no attendance fee, but registration is
required.  The workshop will be held at Microsoft Research, Cambridge,
UK, who are kindly hosting the workshop. Lunch and coffee/tea will
be provided.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND REGISTRATION

Talks on all aspects of language and run-time support for concurrent
systems will be considered. If you wish to offer a talk or to attend,
please contact the organiser:

    Richard Jones, University of Kent <[email protected]> 
          Deadline for contributions: 3 October 2008

Presentation of recent and ongoing work is welcomed: workshop
presentations are not considered to be publications of original
research (thus do not present a bar to submissions to other conferences
or journals). Informal demonstrations of working systems and tools
are also welcomed.


FURTHER INFORMATION

The workshop will be held at the Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
on Friday the 17th of October, 2008. The day will run from 10am to 5pm.

Cambridge has an award-winning Park&Ride service, and good public
transport connections.  There is some advice on travel and accommodation
if you plan staying overnight at
            http://www.mm-net.org.uk/workshop171008/




This workshop has been organised by MM-NET. MM-NET is a network of
researchers, interested in memory management for programming
languages. The project's mission is to strengthen collaboration
between UK industry and academia to further research and development
of advanced memory management systems. MM-NET's previous workshops
have been highly successful in this respect, bringing together
researchers with interests ranging from logics for reasoning about
memory use to developers of embedded systems.

The organisers are very grateful to Microsoft Research for their
generous support for this meeting, and to the EPSRC for supporting
Tony Hosking's visit to the UK.