Past Meetings, 2011

--: December (no meeting)

40: 17th November

• Sean Seefried, Generic Matrix Multiplication
• Richard Garner, Dependent Types

39: 20th October

• Shane Stephens - Optional Type Inference for JavaScript, and JavaScript Type Contracts, two crazy ideas from ICFP
• Tom Sewell - Translation games in the land of the assembler
• Tony Sloane - Introduction to Partial Evaluation (30-40 mins)

38: 8th September

(This meeting was moved a week earlier due to conflict with ICFP)

• Paul Steckler: A discussion of Oleg's article on how impredicativity breaks type soundness in Haskell.
• Mark Wotton: The Complete Idiots Guide to Template Haskell.
• Ben Lippmeier: Unhygenic letregion and the region phase change in DDC core part 2.

37: 18th August

• Erik de Castro Lopo: ​My recent adventures in DDC land.
• Ben Lippmeier: ​Unhygenic letregion and the region phase change in DDC core.
• Sean Seefried: ​Playspace (web and OpenGL).

36: 21st July

• Ben Lippmeier, ​Joint Evaluation Contexts
• Eric Torreborre, ​specs2: go functional!
• Tony Sloane, ​Functional Pretty Printer Combinators

35: 16th June

• Eric Willigers, ​Type Systems in Theorem Provers
• Raphael Speyer, JoCaml: ​Concurrent Programming with the Join Calculus
• Dominic Verity, ​Category Theory part II

34: May 19th

• Erik de Castro Lopo: Wai, Warp and http-enumerator : OMFG, the types, they hurt my eyes!
• Ben Lippmeier, ​Flattening and Replication in Data Parallel Haskell
• Tom Sewell, ​Theoretical ​Theorem ​Proving (longer talk).

33: April 21st

• Ben Lippmeier, ​Falling Down the Naming Well
• Sean Seefried, ​The Yesod Framework
• Raphael Speyer, ​OSpecl an rspec-inspired testing library for OCaml
• Brian McKenna, ​The Yeti Language
• Open discussion of new FP-Syd scheduling arrangement.

32: March 17th

• Ben Lippmeier, ​Real Time Edge Detection in Haskell

31: February 17th

• Gary Miller, Spreadsheets and Functional Programming
• Paul Steckler, Memories of Type Systems Past

--: January (no meeting)