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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics
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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics

Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics series have taken place annually since 1985, when the first conference was held at Kansas State University. The goals of the series have been to provide a forum for researchers in all areas surrounding semantics to present their latest research results, and to improve communication and interactions between mathematicians and computer scientists who work in these areas. The areas of relevance include category theory, domain theory, logic and topology on the mathematics side, and type theory, semantics, and the design and implementation of programming languages on the computer science side.

From 1985 through 2004, MFPS meetings alternated between a large conference format featuring invited speakers and refereed, contributed papers, on the one hand, and more informal workshops featuring survey talks by invited speakers and contributed talks by researchers about their latest research, on the other. Beginning in 2005, MFPS adopted a more traditional approach of being a yearly conference with a Call for Papers and publication of its Proceedings of extended abstracts, with a selection of papers from the meeting also being published as a special issue of a journal.

A central theme of the MFPS meetings has been to provide a venue where mathematicians whose research areas are of interest to the semantics community can meet with computer scientists whose research interest is semantics. MFPS also attracts researchers in neighboring areas, and the results of these interactions are that the mathematicians learn of potential applications for their research, and of new, interesting problems which may be amenable to their research techniques. Computer scientists find the interactions profitable, since they provide an opportunity to learn of new results in mathematics which have potential impact for their research, as well as to understand how mathematical techniques can provide clear and concise methods to represent some of the problems they need to solve.


Information about MFPS meetings

MFPS Conferences usually include plenary talks by six or seven leading researchers and several Special Sessions devoted to specific topics. The balance of the program is composed of papers selected from submissions received in response to a Call for Papers.

The Organizers of MFPS are Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine Meadows (NRL), Prakash Panangaden (McGill) and Michael Mislove (Tulane). Michael Main (Colorado), Austin Melton (Kent State) and David Schmidt (Kansas State) were co-founders of the series, and members of the Organizing Committee for many years.

If you wish to obtain further information about MFPS meetings, send email to
mfps@math.tulane.edu.


Proceedings of MFPS meetings

  • Each of the Conferences has produced a Proceedings volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science [Volumes 239, 298, 442, 598, 802].
  • Each of the more informal workshops has led to a Proceedings volume in Theoretical Computer Science:
  • the Proceedings of MFPS 4, which took place at the University of Colorado in April, 1988 appeared as Volume 70 (1990) of TCS,
  • and that of MFPS 6, which took place at Queens University in Kingston, Canada in May, 1990, appeared as Volume 111 (1992).
  • The Proceedings of the MFPS 8, which was held at Oxford, England in April, 1992 appeared as three special issues of TCS: 135 #1, 136 #1, and 138, #2.
  • The Proceedings of the MFPS 10 appeared as issues 1-2 of Volume 228 of TCS.
  • The Proceedings of MFPS 12 will shortly appear as a special issue of TCS.
  • The Proceedings of the MFPS 11 appeared as Volume 1 of the new series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, which is published electronically under the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V. The volume can be accessed at the following URL.
  • The Proceedings of the MFPS 13 appeared as Volume 6 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, which is published electronically under the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V. The volume can be accessed at the following URL.
  • The Proceedings of MFPS 15 appeared as Volume 20 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, which is published electronically under the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V. The volume can be accessed at the following URL.
  • The Proceedings of MFPS 19 appeared as Volume 73 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, which is published electronically under the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V. The volume can be accessed at the following URL when it is available.
  • The Proceedings of MFPS 14 and MFPS 16, Theoretical Compuer Science 315 (2004).