Dear all,

as promised two weeks ago, here is an update on the current situation of ELS 2020. Thank you all for your patience.

1. Given the evolution of the world-wide situation with regard to the COVID pandemic, it will come as no surprise that we have to cancel the Zurich event.
2. I have consequently closed the registrations, and I will proceed with full refunding this afternoon. Note owever that it will take some time for the money to get back to your accounts.
3. In the meantime, the reviewing process has continued as usual, and I'm happy to announce that thanks to the authors, the PC, and under the supervision of Ioanna, we now have a preliminary programme online! At least, this will already give you a taste of what we have this year.
4. A fallback solution is still under consideration, so stay tuned for updates. What I can tell you right now is this: a fully online event is very unlikely. More likely would be a semi-interactive online event, with the broadcasting of pre-recorded talks and a real-time channel for interaction. We have not completely ruled out the possibility of just postponing the physical event, but that solution is not very probable. Finally, if we go for an online event, I will make sure that it will be free and open for anyone to "attend".

So, this is what I can tell you right now. Finally, I also want to extend my warmest thanks to all the persons who showed their support (notably financial, which is critical), by staying optimistic and registering anyway, hoping for the best. This means a lot.

Stay safe!

		ELS'19 - 12th European Lisp Symposium

			 Hotel Bristol Palace
			    Genova, Italy

			    April 1-2 2019

		   In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN
		In co-location with <Programming> 2019
		  Sponsored by EPITA and Franz Inc.

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

Recent news:
- Submission deadline extended to Friday February 8.
- Keynote abstracts now available.
- <Programming> registration now open:
  https://2019.programming-conference.org/attending/Registration
- Student refund program after the conference.


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 12th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2019

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.


Important dates:
 -    08 Feb 2019 Submission deadline (*** extended! ***)
 -    01 Mar 2019 Notification of acceptance
 -    18 Mar 2019 Final papers due
 - 01-02 Apr 2019 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Programme committee:
  Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
  Marc Battyani, FractalConcept, France
  Pascal Costanza, IMEC, ExaScience Life Lab, Leuven, Belgium
  Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany
  R. Matthew Emerson, thoughtstuff LLC, USA
  Marco Heisig, FAU, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  Charlotte Herzeel, IMEC, ExaScience Life Lab, Leuven, Belgium
  Pierre R. Mai, PMSF IT Consulting, Germany
  Breanndán Ó Nualláin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  François-René Rideau, Google, USA
  Alberto Riva, Unversity of Florida, USA
  Alessio Stalla, ManyDesigns Srl, Italy
  Patrick Krusenotto, Deutsche Welle, Germany
  Philipp Marek, Austria
  Sacha Chua, Living an Awesome Life, Canada

Search Keywords:

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		ELS'17 - 10th European Lisp Symposium

		   VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
			       Belgium

			   April 3-4, 2017

		In co-location with <Programming> 2017
		  Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998. The conference proceedings will be
published in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els17

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.


Important dates:
 -    30 Jan 2017 Submission deadline
 -    27 Feb 2017 Notification of acceptance
 -    20 Mar 2017 Final papers due
 - 03-04 Apr 2017 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Alberto Riva, University of Florida, USA

Programme committee:
  Marco Antoniotti, Università Milano Bicocca, Italy
  Marc Battyani, FractalConcept
  Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Marc Feeley, Université de Montreal, Canada
  Stelian Ionescu, Google
  Rainer Joswig, Independent Consultant, Germany
  António Menezes Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Nick Levine, RavenPack
  Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
  Mark Tarver, Shen Programming Group
  Jay McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  Christian Queinnec, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
  François-René Rideau, Bridgewater Associates, USA
  Nikodemus Siivola, ZenRobotics Ltd
  Alessio Stalla, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

Search Keywords:

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We're happy to announce our second invited speaker for the next European Lisp Symposium (May 9-10 2016, Krakow, Poland). Francis Sergeraert (Institut Fournier, Grenoble, France) will be speaking about lexical closures and complexity. All the details are already on the website...

		 ELS'16 - 9th European Lisp Symposium
	       AGH University of Science and Technology
			    Kraków, Poland

			    May 9-10, 2016

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

		Sponsored by EPITA and AGH University


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 9th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.

Important dates:

 -   19 Feb 2016 Submission deadline
 -   25 Mar 2016 Notification of acceptance
 -   15 Apr 2016 Early registration deadline
 -   22 Apr 2016 Final papers due
 - 9-10 May 2016 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Irène Durand, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France

Local chair:
  Michał Psota, Emergent Network Defense, Kraków, Poland


Programme committee:
  Antonio Leitao — INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade
    de Lisboa, Portugal
  Charlotte Heerzel — IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  Christian Queinnec — University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France
  Christophe Rhodes — Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
  Didier Verna  — EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
  Erick Gallesio — University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
  François-René Rideau, Google, USA
  Giuseppe Attardi — University of Pisa, Italy
  Henry Lieberman — MIT, USA
  Kent Pitman, HyperMeta Inc., USA
  Leonie Dreschler-Fischer — University of Hamburg, Germany
  Pascal Costanza — Intel Corporation, Belgium
  Robert Strandh — University of Bordeaux, France

Search Keywords:

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The programme committee members for this year's European Lisp Symposium has just been announced. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, on the keyboards...

• Sacha Chua — Toronto, Canada
• Edmund Weitz — University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
• Rainer Joswig — Hamburg, Germany
• Henry Lieberman — MIT, USA
• Matthew Flatt — University of Utah, USA
• Christian Queinnec — University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France
• Giuseppe Attardi — University of Pisa, Italy
• Marc Feeley — University of Montreal, Canada
• Stephen Eglen — University of Cambridge, UK
• Robert Strandh — University of Bordeaux, France
• Nick Levine — RavenPack, Spain

Hello everyone,

it's an immense pleasure to welcome Richard P. "dick" Gabriel as the first keynote speaker of the 7th European Lisp Symposium. You can read about his talk on this page. This will hopefully make people wake up early on the fist day :-)

EDIT and we now have 2 more guest speakers: Pascal Costanza and Gábor Melis! Can't wait!

2014 is going to be a busy year for Lisp. The 7th European Lisp Symposium (Paris, May) will be followed by the International Lisp Conference (August, Montréal). ILC 2014's Call for Papers is just out! And this year, we have a special focus for you...

	       ILC 2014 - International Lisp Conference
			  "Lisp on the Move"

     August 14-17 2014, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

	      Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users

	     http://www.international-lisp-conference.org


Scope:

Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major
influence for almost all programming languages and for all
sufficiently complex software applications.

The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of
Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of
any of the Lisp dialects.  We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to
participate.

We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp
dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but
not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript,
Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, SKILL, HOP etc.

This year's focus will be directed towards integrated solutions,
including mobile computing. We especially invite submissions in the
following areas:

  * Pervasive computing
  * Interoperability
  * Portability
  * Implementation challenges/tradeoffs for embedded/mobile platforms
  * Language support for mobile toolkits and frameworks
  * Language support for distribution
  * Language support for reliability, availability, and serviceability
  * Mobile IDEs
  * Mobile applications

Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not
limited to:

  * Language design and implementation
  * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
  * Applications (especially commercial)
  * Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming
  * Domain-specific languages
  * Programming paradigms and environments
  * Efficient parallel and concurrent computation
  * Language support for managing both manual and automatic GC
  * Theorem proving
  * Scientific computing
  * Data mining
  * Semantic web


Technical Programme:

Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are
invited for the following categories:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 10 pages that describe original
  results.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
  tools, libraries and applications.

  Workshops: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for groups of people who intend
  to work on a focused topic for half a day.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for in-depth presentations about
  topics of special interest for 1 to 2 hours.

  Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for discussions about
  current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel member
  who are willing to partake in a discussion.

The conference will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
registered on-site every day.

For inquiries about any other kind of participation (commercial
exhibits, advertising, prizes, book signing etc.), please see the
contacts below.


Important Dates:

 - May    18, 2014: Submission deadline
 - June   09, 2014: Notification of acceptance
 - June   29, 2014: Final Papers due
 - August 14, 2014: Conference


All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.

Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilc14


Organizing Committee:

General Chair:   Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
Programme Chair: Didier Verna (EPITA Research lab, Paris, France)
Local chair:     Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

Programme Committee:
to be announced


Contacts:

  * General Questions: ilc14-organizing-committee at alu.org
  * Programme Committee: ilc14 at easychair.org


For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org

ELS 2013, the 6th European Lisp Symposium, took place in Madrid on June 3th and 4th.

During the symposium, Nick Levine recorded audio versions of the presentations and collected them here. Nick has also agreed to collect other material from the presenters (slides notably) and put it at the same location. The page is growing up as we speak.

It was good to see you all in Madrid. Thanks to all the presenters and thanks Nick for doing this!

Hello,

just a quick note to let you know that we have finally opened the registration process for ELS 2013. See the bottom the page for more information. It is possible to register via PayPal or via direct bank transfer.

Looking forward to see you all !