What is PLMW?
The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) aims to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. The workshop brings together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop aims to engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community.We especially encourage women and under-represented minority students to attend PLMW.
PLMW 2016
After the resounding success of the first four Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, the 5th SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop will be co-located with POPL 2016. in St. Petersburg, Florida. PLMW will be held immediately before POPL, on Tuesday, January 19. PLMW sponsors have generously offered financial aid for students to travel to Florida and attend PLMW and the main conference. This year PLMW received more than 160 student applications from 23 different countries. The organizers were able to provide sponsor funding for 62 applicants – 35 of which from US universities, the rest studying in 14 different countries. PLMW 2016 is open for registration to all students interested in programming languages research (funded or not), and this year more than 90 attendees are expected!
Attending and social activities
All funded students are staying at the main conference Hilton hotel. On the evening of the 19th, after the last PLMW session, organizers, speakers, and panellists plan to form groups with students and have dinner together in nearby restaurants, where the PLMW discussions can continue in a more casual setting.
Tue 19 JanDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
08:50 - 09:00 | |||
09:00 - 10:00 | |||
09:00 30mTalk | Grad School: A Survival Guide PLMW Matthew Might University of Utah, USA Media Attached | ||
09:30 30mTalk | Theorem Provers are a PL Researcher's Best Friend PLMW Xavier Leroy Inria Media Attached | ||
10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 30mTalk | Academia or Industry? PLMW Aarti Gupta Princeton University Media Attached | ||
11:00 30mTalk | Refining Types with SMT PLMW Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego Media Attached | ||
11:30 30mTalk | How to Write Papers So People Can Read Them PLMW Derek Dreyer MPI-SWS Media Attached | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | Student Interaction Activity PLMW | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Automata and Coinduction PLMW Alexandra Silva Radboud University Nijmegen Media Attached | ||
15:00 30mTalk | Unaccustomed As I Am to Public Speaking PLMW John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology Media Attached | ||
16:00 - 17:00 | |||
16:00 30mTalk | Two Notions of Beauty in Programming PLMW Robert Harper Carnegie Mellon University Media Attached | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Highs and Lows of a Language Researcher PLMW Greg Morrisett Cornell University Media Attached | ||
17:00 - 17:45 | |||
17:00 45mTalk | Young Researcher Panel Session, with panelists: Mark Batty (Kent), Mike Carbin (MIT), Lindsey Kuper (Intel), Ilya Sergey (UCL) PLMW Dimitrios Vytiniotis Microsoft Research, Cambridge Media Attached | ||
Scholarship applications
PLMW sponsors have generously donated scholarship funds for qualified students to attend PLMW. These scholarships should cover reasonable expenses (airfare, hotel, and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome as well.
Access the scholarship application form here.
The deadline for full consideration of funding is Friday, October 23. Selected participants will be notified by November 15 or earlier.