Midlands Graduate School in the
Foundations of Computing Science
The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science was established in 1999 as a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham, and in 2007 was joined by the University of Sheffield. The graduate school has two goals:
- To provide PhD students with a sound basis for research in
the mathematical foundations of computing, by means of a broad
education in state-of-the-art topics and techniques;
- To give PhD students the opportunity to make contact with established researchers in the field, and other students at a similar stage in their research careers.
In pursuit of these goals, an annual Spring School is held over
five days during the Easter vacation period, and comprises a
series of technical courses on introductory, advanced, and emerging
topics in the mathematical foundations of computing.
Upcoming
| MGS 2025: | 7-11 April 2025, University of Sheffield |
Further details will be added as soon as they are available.
Format
A typical Spring School consists of eight courses with 4-5 hours of lectures each, with around one third being introductory (or core) courses that are taken by all participants, and the remainder being advanced (or specialised) courses from which each participant selects a subset depending upon their interests. The introductory courses cover topics such as category theory, operational semantics, denotational semantics, lambda calculi, and domain theory.
The range of advanced courses is much broader,
reflecting the particular expertise of the individual lecturers, and
has included topics such as co-algebras, concurrency theory, dependently
typed programming, descriptive complexity, exact real-numbers, game
semantics, intuitionistic logic, proof theory, mathematics of program
construction, mechanised theorem proving, model checking, models of
variable binding, probabilistic verification, quantum programming,
rewriting, semantics of effects, topology of data types, type theory,
and verifying security protocols.
Previous
| MGS 2024: | 8-12 April 2024, University of Leicester |
| MGS 2023: | 02-06 April 2023, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2022: | 10-14 April 2022, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2021: | 12-16 April 2021, University of Sheffield |
| MGS 2019: | 14-18 April 2019, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2018: | 9-13 April 2018, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2017: | 9-13 April 2017, University of Leicester | MGS 2016: | 11-15 April 2016, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2015: | 7-11 April 2015, University of Sheffield |
| MGS 2014: | 22-26 April 2014, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2013: | 8-12 April 2013, University of Leicester |
| MGS 2012: | 23-27 April 2012, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2011: | 11-15 April 2011, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2010: | 28 March - 1 April 2010, University of Sheffield |
| MGS 2009: | 30 March - 3 April 2009, University of Leicester |
| MGS 2008: | 14-18 April 2008, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2007: | 16-20 April 2007, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2006: | 8-12 April 2006, University of Leicester |
| MGS 2005: | 11-15 April 2005, University of Birmingham |
| MGS 2004: | 29 March - 2 April 2004, University of Nottingham |
| MGS 2003: | 31 March - 4 April 2003, University of Leicester |
Older events are available here:
2001-2002,
2000-2001
and 1999-2000.
Organisation
| Graham Hutton | University of Nottingham | Director |
| Martin Escardó | University of Birmingham | Local contact |
| Andrei Popescu | University of Sheffield | Local contact |
| Roy Crole | University of Leicester | Local Contact |