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CUFP 2016 Call for tutorials
CUFP 2016 Call for Tutorials
Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) is an annual meeting
co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming
which this year will take place in Nara, Japan from … to … of
September 2016. CUFP aims to bridge the gap between academia and users
applying functional programming in practice. CUFP provides
high-quality practical tutorials covering state-of-the-art techniques
and tools for functional programming. There will be a mix of tutorials
on introduction and advanced level, such that anyone that wants to
learn something new has an opportunity to do so.
We are seeking proposals for half-day tutorials to be presented during
the first two days of the meeting, ... and ... September. Submission
deadline is May 25th, but the earlier you submit, the better!
Among the suggested topics for tutorials are:
Introductions to functional programming languages. In the past we have
had introductions to Clojure, Erlang, F#, Haskell, ML, OCaml, Scala,
Scheme and others.
Advanced programming languages concepts and applications, such as
Lens, Agda, Idris and others
Applying functional programming in particular areas, including the
web, high-performance computing, finance.
Tools and techniques supporting state of the art functional
programming. In the past we have had tutorials on QuickCheck, Elm and
others.
Tutorial proposals should address the following points:
Title
Abstract (about 200 words) including
Tutorial Objectives: by the end of this tutorial you will be able to …
Intended audience: e.g. beginners, those with a working knowledge of X, …
Speaker Bio: Joe Bloggs is ...
Infrastructure required: For example, will participants need access to
a particular system? Do they need to download anything prior to the
tutorial? Can they be expected to have this on a laptop, or does it
need to be provided by the meeting?
Other minor information which will help us market your tutorial.
Tutorials should be submitted using the following talk submission
form. Deadline for submission is May 25, 2016. Notification of
acceptance is two weeks later.
Tutorial Agreement
While CUFP does not pay tutorialists, they will be compensated with
admission credits to CUFP and ICFP, as outlined below.
If a tutorial has 5 or more registrants, the tutorialist will receive
free admission to CUFP, including the two days of tutorials and the
day of the CUFP workshop.
If a tutorial has 10 or more registrants, the tutorialist will
additionally receive a $250 voucher that can be used to register for
any of the other ICFP events, including ICFP itself.
Note that we reserve the right to cancel tutorials with fewer than 5
registrants, but we will try hard to avoid having to do so. No
compensation will be awarded for cancelled tutorials.
If you have any questions, email Roman Gonzalez: romanandreg at gmail
dot com or Takayuki Muranushi: … at ... dot com
The 2016 conference is going to be held in Nara, Japan from September
...-.... Once again, it is co-located with ICFP 2016.
CUFP tweets @cufpconference.
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