ELS 2012 Zadar, Croatia: Call for Participation

European Lisp Symposium 2012, Zadar, Croatia, April 29th - May 1st, 2012

Call for Participation.

Web site: european-lisp-symposium.org

The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The main theme of the 2012 European Lisp Conference is "Interoperability: Systems, Libraries, Workflows". Lisp based and functional-languages based systems have grown a variety of solutions to become more and more integrated with the wider world of Information and Communication Technologies in current use. There are several dimensions to the scope of the solutions proposed, ranging from "embedding" of interpreters in C-based systems, to the development of abstractions levels that facilitate the expression of complex context dependent tasks, to the construction of exchange formats handling libraries, to the construction of theorem-provers for the "Semantic Web". The European Lisp Symposium 2012 solicits the submission of papers with this specific theme in mind, alongside the more traditional tracks which have appeared in the past editions.

Registration:

Until April 15th the registration fee will be reduced. Use the form on european-lisp-symposium.org to register.

Preliminary Program schedule:

Sunday April 29.

• 11:00 Sea & Sun & Coffee (meeting place: The Sea organ & Greeting to the Sun)
• 19:30 - 21:30 Welcome Cocktail at the Garden Bar

Monday April 30.

• 8:30 - 09:00 Registration
• 09:30 - 10:00 Welcome
• 10:00 - 11:00 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Spain
• 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 13:00 Session 1
  • 11:30 - 12:15 Laurent Senta, Christopher Chedeau and Didier Verna. Generic Image Processing with Climb
  • 12:15 - 13:00 Giovanni Anzani, An iterative method to solve overdetermined systems of nonlinear equations applied to the restitution of planimetric measurements
• 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break
• 15:00 - 16:30 Session 2
  • 15:00 - 15:45 Alessio Stalla. Java interop with ABCL, a practical example
  • 15:45 - 16:30 Nils Bertschinger. Embedded probabilistic programming in Clojure
• 16:30 - 17:30 Pascal Costanza, ExaScience Lab, Intel, Belgium
• 17:30 - 18:00 Lightening Talk (1)
• 18:00 - 20:00 Buffet at the University of Zadar

Tuesday May 1.

• 10:00 - 11:00 Ernst van Waning, Infometrics, Netherlands
• 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 13:00 Session 3
  • 11:30 - 12:15 Marco Benelli. Scheme in Industrial Automation
  • 12:15 - 13:00 Gunnar Völkel, Johann M. Kraus and Hans A. Kestler Algorithm Engineering with Clojure
• 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break
• 15:00 - 16:30 Session 4
  • 15:00 - 15:45 Irène Anne Durand. Object enumeration
  • 15:45 - 16:30 Alessio Stalla. Doplus, the high-level, Lispy, extensible iteration construct
• 16:30 - 17:00 Lightening Talk (2)
• 17:00 - 18:00 Announcements & Wrap-up

Venue:

Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set of small islands in the Mediterranean (89 islands, islets and reefs) located only 15 nautical miles south of Zadar – a visit to Kornati is planned as a part of the conference.

Accommodation:

Participants are responsible for their own accommodation arrangements. Reservations should be made directly to the hotels.

When making reservations in hotel Hotel Kolovare, please indicate that you are with ELS 2012 / University of Zadar and you will get a discount. Due to the popularity of the location in spring, an early reservations is recommended.

• Hotel Kolovare * * * *: www.hotel-kolovare.com, +385 23 211 017, +385 203 200

Other accommodation options:

• Hotel Bastion * * * *: www.hotel-bastion.hr, +385 23 / 494 950, info [at] hotel-bastion.hr
• Falkenstiner Hotels & resorts – (Funimation)* * *: www.falkensteiner.com, +385 (0)23 206 400, +385 (0)23 332 065, sales.borik [at] falkensteiner.com
• Hotel Mediteran * * *: www.hotelmediteran-zd.hr, info [at] hotelmediteran-zd.hr
• Hotel Porto * * *: www.hotel-porto.hr, +385-(0)23-292300, hotel.porto [at] zd.t-com.hr
• Hotel Villa Nico * * *: www.hotel-villanico.com, +385 23 331198, +385 23 331960, nico.moric [at] villanico.t-com.hr
• Hotel President * * * *: www.hotel-president.hr, +385 23 337 500+385 (23) 333 696 , info [at] hotel-president.hr
• Hostel Zadar: +385 331-145