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AngloHaskell 2008

The 2008 AngloHaskell meeting will be held at Imperial College in London on Friday August 8th and Saturday August 9th. The precise format is still being discussed, but the first day will be more focussed on talks and the second day on general discussion, hacking and socialising, following the successful format of 2006 and 2007. You don’t have to come for the whole time.

Please do come along - you can find full details and sign up here. Please do offer talks too - it’s generally quite a relaxed atmosphere and you don’t need to be a Haskell guru to have something to contribute.

Erlang Exchange User Groups session

The Erlang Exchange 2008 conference will include a “user groups” session tomorrow (i.e. Thursday 26th June) evening at 6pm. This session will be free to attend as long as you register first using the form on the webpage. Several London programming language user groups will be giving brief (15 minute) presentations - I’ll be talking about “Concurrent and Multicore Haskell”, drawing heavily on Bryan O’Sullivan’s talk to the BayFP user group last month.

Apologies for the short notice.

Next meeting: Paradise, a DSEL for derivatives pricing

The next meeting of the London Haskell User Group will be on Wednesday 25th June from 6:30PM at City University. Lennart Augustsson from Credit Suisse will be talking about his work there:

Creating a new pricing model for a financial derivative model consists of plumbing together generic low level analytics and creating a user friendly interface for the model.

The low level analytics is typically written in C++ and the user interface is often Excel.

We have developed a domain specific embedded language in Haskell for creating pricing models.

The programmer of the pricing model make a high level description of how to put the analytics together and what the user interface should look like, and from this the pricing model is generated.

I’m not sure if Neil will be available to video it this time, so if anyone else has the required equpiment and would like to volunteer to do so, that’d be great!

Edit: I’d accidentally disabled comments on this post. Now fixed, just in case anyone was desperate to make one!

October pubmeet

Following the usual schedule of alternating between talks and pure pubmeets,
the next meeting will be in the Slaughtered Lamb from 6:30pm on Tuesday 30th
October. Hope to see you there!