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ICFP 2018
Sun 23 - Sat 29 September 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Videos are available online.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring and utilising functional or declarative programming languages to solve numerically oriented problems including but not limited to

  • Embedded domain specific languages for expressing numerical problems and generating efficient code e.g. generating llvm à la Julia / Haskell accelerate
  • Use of types to ensure static correctness of matrix and higher rank computations e.g. use Naperian aka representable functors for statically type APL-like programming
  • Dynamical systems / solving systems of ODEs
  • PDEs using e.g. grid-based methods, method of characteristics, method of lines
  • Inferring parameters for statistical models using techniques such as Sequential Monte Carlo / Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
  • Data exploration, reproducibility
  • Use of e.g SMT theorem proving, interval and affine arithmetic and function derivatives to prove error bounds for programs using floating point arithmetic
  • Formal verification of numerical analysis programs for example using e.g the Coq proof assistant
  • Global approximation methods chebyshev polynomials
  • Compiler optimisations
  • Exact real arithmetic / interval arithmetic
  • Using type systems to annotate values with physical units

Invited Speaker

Eva Darulova of MPI-SWS (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) will give the keynote.

Eva Darulova

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10:20 - 11:20
Talks INPFL at Texas Special
Chair(s): Dominic Steinitz Tweag I/O
10:20
30m
Talk
Hasktorch: A Comprehensive Haskell Library for Differentiable Functional Programming
NPFL
Sam Stites Sentenai, Austin Huang Pfizer
10:50
30m
Talk
APLicative Programming with Naperian Functors
NPFL
Jeremy Gibbons Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
11:20 - 12:00
Talks IINPFL at Texas Special
Chair(s): Dominic Steinitz Tweag I/O
11:20
40m
Talk
Error analysis almost for free
NPFL
Eva Richter Potsdam University, Matti Richter Potsdam University
13:30 - 14:30
Talks IIINPFL at Texas Special
Chair(s): Jeremy Gibbons Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
13:30
30m
Talk
A Haskell Interface to Sundials via inline-c
NPFL
14:00
30m
Talk
On the Calculation of Functions in the Algebra of Physical Space
NPFL
Nathan Waivio https://github.com/waivio
14:30 - 15:10
Talks IVNPFL at Texas Special
Chair(s): Dominic Steinitz Tweag I/O
14:30
40m
Talk
Manifolds as Haskell types
NPFL
Justus Sagemüller Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie
15:30 - 16:10
Talks VNPFL at Texas Special
Chair(s): Dominic Steinitz Tweag I/O
15:30
40m
Talk
Exact Real Arithmetic for Geometric Operations
NPFL
Pavel Panchekha University of Washington

Call for Papers

We invite submissions in the form of an abstract of 200-300 words (half a page to a page). There will be no proceedings although we hope to be able to make videos of the talks available.

Talks can be on experiences of using functional languages in numerical applications and also on theoretical aspects of numerical computing in functional languages.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

  • Embedded domain specific languages for expressing numerical problems and generating efficient code e.g. generating llvm à la Julia / Haskell accelerate
  • Use of types to ensure static correctness of matrix and higher rank computations e.g. use Naperian aka representable functors for statically typed APL-like programming
  • Dynamical systems / solving systems of ODEs
  • PDEs using e.g. grid-based methods, method of characteristics, method of lines
  • Inferring parameters for statistical models using techniques such as Sequential Monte Carlo / Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
  • Data exploration, reproducibility
  • Use of e.g SMT theorem proving, interval and affine arithmetic and function derivatives to prove error bounds for programs using floating point arithmetic
  • Formal verification of numerical analysis programs for example using e.g the Coq proof assistant
  • Global approximation methods by e.g. Chebyshev polynomials
  • Compiler optimisations
  • Exact real arithmetic / interval arithmetic / ball arithmetic
  • Using type systems to annotate values with physical units

In case it is not obvious, all submissions should be related to numerical methods and functional programming.

Instructions to authors

Abstracts should be submitted online via hotcrp and submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF).

Related Links

Dates

  • Friday 13th July Submission Deadline
  • Friday 10th August Author Notification
  • Thursday 27th September Numerical Methods in Functional Programming Workshop