International Summer School on
Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development

February 25 to March 1, 2008
Piriápolis, Uruguay 

The aim of the school is the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists. The school is oriented to students and researchers working in computer science and interested in formal techniques for the design and construction of software systems and programming languages.

The school is partially supported by the EU LerNet ALFA project, which implements a joint PhD programme on Software Design and Programming Language Engineering, based on a co-tutoring scheme and conformed by 6 european universities and 5 from Latin America.

List of participants

Courses

Most courses assume knowledge in Functional Programming (FP). Depending on the knowledge and interest manifested by the school participants we might organise a couple of lectures with a brief introduction to FP in the afternoon of Sunday 24th. Please state your FP knowledge and interest in these FP lectures when filling the registration form.

In addition to the courses, there will be some student sessions where PhD students from the LerNet project will expose advances of their thesis.

Schedule, including student sessions

Abstracts of student talks

Lecture Notes

Draft lecture notes

Revised lecture notes will be published after the school as a volume of Springer's LNCS Tutorial Series.

Venue

LERNET 2008 will be held at Argentino Hotel, located in Piriápolis, a seaside city, 100 kms east from Montevideo.

Registration

To register, fill in the registration form.

The deadline for registration has been extended. The new deadline is February 4, 2008. Early registration is encouraged.

Participation fee

The participation fee includes lunches, refreshments during coffee breaks, and an excursion. Accomodation and dinners are not included. Payment should be made in cash at the registration desk the first day of the school. All values are in US Dollars (USD).

Students from Latin America 160 USD
Students outside Latin America 220 USD
Other participants from Latin America 220 USD
Other participants outside Latin America 270 USD

Banquet

The conference dinner is not included in the registration fee and has a cost of 30 USD. If you want to participate, please provide the information in the registration form.

Grants for students

We may be able to offer a reduction in the value of the registration fee to a limited number of students. Priority will be given to students from Latin America.

To apply for a fee reduction, please fill in the registration form and then send an email, with Subject "fee reduction application" and containing the following data, to lernet[at]fing.edu.uy:

The deadline for fee reduction application is January, 31 2008. Note that this deadline has not been extended. Early application is encouraged.

Local information

Information about accomodation, transportation, and other local matters can be found in the following page.

School organisers

Luis Barbosa (Univerity of Minho, Portugal)
Ana Bove (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Jorge Sousa Pinto (Univerity of Minho, Portugal)

Local organisation

Alberto Pardo
Luis Sierra
Carlos Luna

Instituto de Computación
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad de la República
Montevideo, Uruguay

Sponsors

PEDECIBA
CSIC (Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica, Universidad de la República)
TATA Consultancy Services
Microsoft Uruguay

Contact

E-mail: lernet[at]fing.edu.uy