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Published: 29th December 2021 DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.351 ISSN: 2075-2180 |
This volume contains the proceedings of the 37th International Conference of Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS) held as one of the first hybrid (online and onsite) conferences during the corona virus pandemic, from the University of Salzburg, Austria. The conference took place from August 30 to September 2, 2021. The local organization was lead by myself, with a great team of "local" organizers including Henning Basold (University of Leiden), Adriana Pratter (University of Salzburg), Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen), Sarah Sallinger (TU Vienna), and Michael Starzinger (University of Salzburg), that I cordially thank for their support. Many thanks go to the MFPS Organizers (Steering Committee), in particular Michael Mislove, for the guidance and financial support. Like in 2015, 2017, and 2019, MFPS was colocated with the Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO). The majority of the record number of registered participants took part online, a happy small fraction was able to enjoy the normal-conference experience.
MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory.
MFPS 2021 continued the tradition of having an exciting group of invited speakers and special session organizers and speakers: We enjoyed listening to four invited talks by Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), joint with CALCO, Amina Doumane (ENS Lyon), Shin-ya Katsumata (NII Tokyo), and Krishna S. (IIT Bombay). In addition, MFPS had four special sessions: (1) Special Session on Termination Analysis and Synthesis, joint with CALCO, organized by Azadeh Farzan (University of Toronto) with Zachary Kincaid (Princeton University) and Florian Zuleger (TU Vienna); (2) Special Session on Probabilistic Programming Semantics organized by Sam Staton (University of Oxford) with Tobias Fritz (University of Innsbruck) and Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana); (3) Special Session on Categorical Type Theory organized by Paul-André Melliès (IRIF, Université Paris Denis Diderot) with Raphaëlle Crubillé (LORIA, Nancy), Nicolò Veltri (Taltech) and Noam Zeilberger (École Polytechnique); and (4) Special Session on String Diagrams organized by Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa) and Pawel Sobocinski (Taltech) with Brendan Fong (Topos Institute) and Fabio Zanasi (UCL).
The conference received submissions from Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Unites States. There were 25 submissions of which 18 were accepted. I thank all programme committee members and external reviewers for their work. The 18 accepted papers are published in this volume (in alphabetical order of the names of first authors). I wish you enjoy reading the papers in this volume as much as we enjoyed listening to the talks.
December 2021, Ana Sokolova
| Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal |
| Henning Basold, University of Leiden, Netherlands |
| Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Stephen Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK |
| Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy |
| Ichiro Hasuo, NII, Japan |
| Helle Hvid Hansen, University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Justin Hsu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA |
| Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK |
| Sandra Kiefer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany / University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Barbara König, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA |
| Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA |
| Joel Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany |
| Prakash Panangaden, McGill University Montreal, Canada |
| Daniela Petrisan, IRIF, Paris 7, France |
| Tatjana Petrov, University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Jurriaan Rot, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, UCL, UK |
| Lutz Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria (chair) |
| Valeria Vignudelli, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France |
| Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Stephen Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK |
| Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA |
| Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA (chair) |
| Joel Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany |
| Prakash Panangaden, McGill University Montreal, Canada |
| Clément Aubert |
| Rebecca Bernemann |
| Pierre Cagne |
| Jacques Carette |
| Jim de Groot |
| Elena Di Lavore |
| Ivan Di Liberti |
| Bartek Klin |
| Cristina Matache |
| Joshua Moerman |
| Sean Moss |
| Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg |
| Atsushi Ohori |
| Maciej Piróg |
| Aloïs Rosset |
| Stefano Tognazzi |
| Davide Trotta |
| Henning Urbat |