Call for Papers IFL 2009 Seton Hall University SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, USA <a href=http://tltc.shu.edu/blogs/projects/IFL2009/>http://tltc.shu.edu/blogs/projects/IFL2009/</a> The 21st IFL symposium, IFL 2009, will be held for the first time in the USA. The hosting institution is Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, USA and the symposium dates are September 23-25, 2009. It is our goal to make IFL a regular event held in the USA. The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2009 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2009 will use a post-symposium review process to produce a formal proceedings which we expect to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All participants in IFL 2009 are invited to submit either a draft paper or and extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium. These submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL and will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not peer-reviewed publications. After the symposium, authors will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full arcticle for the formal review process. These revised submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using prevailing academic standards to select the best articles that will appear in the formal proceedings. TOPICS IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical as well as submissions describing applications and tools. If you are not sure if your work is appropriate for IFL 2009, please contact the PC chair at ifl2009@shu.edu. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  language concepts  type checking  contracts  compilation techniques  staged compilation  runtime function specialization  runtime code generation  partial evaluation    (abstract) interpretation  generic programming techniques  automatic program generation  array processing  concurrent/parallel programming  concurrent/parallel program execution  functional programming and embedded systems  functional programming and web applications  functional programming and security  novel memory management techniques  runtime profiling and performance measurements  debugging and tracing  virtual/abstract machine architectures  validation and verification of functional programs    tools and programming techniques PAPER SUBMISSIONS Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts to be published in the draft proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in English, conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS series format and not exceed 16 pages. The draft proceedings will appear as a technical report of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Seton Hall University. IMPORTANT DATES Registration deadline                                       August 15, 2009 Presentation submission deadline              August 15, 2009 IFL 2009 Symposium                                        September 23-25, 2009 Submission for review process deadline  November 1, 2009 Notification Accept/Reject                              December 22, 2009 Camera ready version                                     January 15, 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Achten                       University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Jost Berthold                       Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Andrew Butterfield             University of Dublin, Ireland Robby Findler                     Northwestern University, USA Kathleen Fisher                   AT&T Research, USA Cormac Flanagan              University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Matthew Flatt                        University of Utah, USA Matthew Fluet                       Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Daniel Friedman                 Indiana University, USA Andy Gill                                University of Kansas, USA Clemens Grelck                  University of Amsterdam/Hertfordshire, The Netherlands/UK Jurriaan Hage                      Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ralf Hinze                              Oxford University, UK Paul Hudak                           Yale University, USA John Hughes                        Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Patricia Johann                    University of Strathclyde, UK Yukiyoshi Kameyama        University of Tsukuba, Japan Marco T. Morazán (Chair)  Seton Hall University, USA Rex Page                                University of Oklahoma, USA Fernando Rubio                    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Sven-Bodo Scholz               University of Hertfordshire, UK Manuel Serrano                     INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Chung-chieh Shan                Rutgers University, USA David Walker                         Princeton University, USA Viktória Zsók                          Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary PETER LANDIN PRIZE The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 euros.