Programming Languages Discussion Group (2026 Spring)

Time: Wednesday 3:35pm - 4:35pm
Location: Gates 310
Organizers: Dexter Kozen and Adrian Sampson
Czar: Karuna Grewal, Mark Barbone


The Programming Languages Discussion Group meets weekly to discuss papers in the area of programming languages, program analysis, and compilers. The goal is to encourage interactions and discussions between students, researchers, and faculty with interests in this area. The seminar is open to everybody interested in languages and compilers. First-year and second-year students are especially encouraged to participate. Participating students should register for the 1-credit course CS 7190.

Talks will be advertised on the pldg-l@cornell.edu list. To join, send a message to pldg-l-request@cornell.edu with the subject “join” and a blank body.

A detailed schedule with abstracts can be accessed here.

Date Topic Presenter Host
Jan 21 Organizational Meeting
Jan 28 Deciding Serializability in Network Systems Guy Amir
Feb 4 TBD Manya Bansal Adrian Sampson
Feb 11 AI meets AR Haoze (Andrew) Wu Adrian Sampson
Feb 18 Two recent type inference papers Mark Barbone
Feb 25 Automated Backward Error Analysis Laura Zielinski
Mar 4 Equational Reasoning in Infinity-Categories Keri D’Angelo
Mar 11 CF-GKAT: A Complete Calculus for Non-Local Control Flow Spencer
Mar 18 CSS for Code: Code Style Sheets + Ragged Blocks Ravi Chugh Justin Hsu
Mar 25 Typed, Algebraic Approach to Parsing Mark Moeller
Apr 1 Spring Break
Apr 8 Automata-Based Expressive Monitoring of Blackbox Systems Karuna Grewal
Apr 15 TBD Katherine Wu
Apr 22 Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering Chris Casinghino Dexter Kozen
Apr 29 TBD Max Fan
May 6 TBD Zach Susag

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