MSR India Summer School on Programming Languages, Analysis and Verification
Microsoft Research India, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, will conduct the Microsoft Research India Summer School on Programming Languages, Analysis and Verification. The school will be held from June 16- June 28, 2008 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
The summer school will consist of lectures by leading experts in the field from around the world. The aim of the school is to introduce students and young researchers to important new areas and the latest results in programming languages, program analysis, and software verification. The school aims to bring the state of the art in research in this area to senior undergraduate students, graduate students, research scholars and faculty members, and to provide a forum for Indian and international researchers to interact.
The participants are expected to have reasonable exposure to the fundamental ideas in programming languages to derive maximum benefit from the lectures. Undergraduate courses in compilers, automata theory and logic are recommended as prerequisites. However, if you have exposure in only some of these prerequisites, and have sufficient enthusiasm about this research area to learn, you can benefit from the school. The lectures are designed to offer self-contained introductions to chosen topics, leading up to some open problems for research.
We wish to emphasize here that this is not a lecture series covering the syllabus of any university course- the objective of the summer school is to bring to the participants the latest research results in the area, and help get them started in doing research.
We hope to scribe these lectures, edit these notes and produce a volume that would be made available along with some web materials. The participants may be expected to write surveys/ tutorials/ web materials or interact with speakers on various research problems of mutual interest. MSR India will support travel and board for a few faculty members and for about 50 to 60 students.
Program Committee
ScheduleJune 16 | Preparatory lectures | June 17 – 21 |
- Shaz Qadeer, Taming Concurrency: A Program Verification Perspective
- Dan Grossman, Programming-Language Motivation, Design, and Semantics for Software Transactions
- Jeff Foster, Improving Software Quality with Type Qualifiers
| June 23 |
Preparatory lectures | June 24-28 |
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Click here for abstracts of talks
How to attend the summer school
Applications for the Summer School are closed; we thank applicants for the overwhelming response! All applicants have been informed of their selection status. Further information pertaining to logistics will be sent to the selected applicants soon.
Please contact indiaerp@microsoft.com for any enquiries.
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