Winter 2010

Date Topic Felicitator
6 Jan Organizational meeting Comrades
13 Jan Directed-Complete Partial Orders and Scott Topologies
Summary: Cpos, PCF, and Control (Sec. 1.1 and 3.1)
Andy Plummer
20 Jan Denotational Semantics of PCF
Summary: John Longley's notes on PCF
Amadio & Curien Lambda calculus, PCF
Scott Topologies (Cont.)
Summary: Cpos, PCF, and Control (Sec. 3.2 and 3.3)
Pat Reidy



Andy Plummer
27 Jan Denotational Semantics of PCF (Cont.)
Summary: John Longley's notes on PCF
Amadio & Curien Lambda calculus, PCF
Pat Reidy
3 Feb Call-by-name material Pat Reidy
10 Feb Call-by-value and Fischer CPS
Summary: Cpos, PCF, and Control (Sec. 5.1)
Andy Plummer
17 Feb Simulating Control with Monads: A Paean to Ceiling Cat Andy Plummer
24 Feb Continuations in Natural Language: A Gentle Introduction to CPS Grammars Andy Plummer
3 Mar Dynamic semantics (CPS version) Carl Pollard
Scott Martin
10 Mar No Meeting