Hac NYC/Talks

If you'd like to give a talk, announce it here; tell us your name, the title of the talk, a short description. Please also let us know if you won't be attending Saturday afternoon and want to present at another time.

The first talk will begin around 4pm, Saturday afternoon in the main room.

Location: Etsy Labs 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Suite 712

Talks

Talk Name	Speaker	Description
An invitation to Homotopy Type Theory	Gershom Bazerman	You won't know HoTT or understand it at the end of this talk. But you may understand at least what the domain is, why it is of interest, and even maybe have some notion of what "univalence" could be and why it is reasonable to expect that it should compute.
TypeFamilies in 20 Minutes or Less	Brandon Simmons	A tutorial introduction to my favorite GHC extension; at the end of the talk you should have a good idea of what TypeFamilies is all about, and a sense of where you might use it in your own code.
Concurrent programming with async and STM	John Wiegley	An introduction to using STM and async to write safe and effective concurrent code.
The learn-physics project	Scott Walck	Can you learn physics solely by reading Haddock pages? Probably not, but it could be a fun way to learn for some people. The learn-physics project aims to provide readable code that exposes the structure of physical theory and allows the calculation of quantities of physical interest. So far, it's mainly electromagnetic theory.
Haskell Tales from the Lab	Greg Hale	A brief account of a biologist's very pleasant experience with STM and Snap, for processing brain data and getting into web development.
Yet Another Idea for Automatic Superclass Instances	Richard Eisneberg	The Applicative-Monad Proposal is great in theory, but annoying in practice. I have a new idea for how to get (mostly) automatic superclasses that I would love feedback on.