<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">[Apologies for cross posting, please circulate widely.]</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><b>New submission deadline: March 26, 2018</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><h2 style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;margin:7pt 0px 6pt;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:4pt 0pt 6pt;border-radius:3px"><a name="m_-6750360712947702864_m_8628988360416065393_m_-2167874147972031564_m_1847266643949289970_m_-8496525997831006049_m_-782862013516246736_CFP:1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#000000" size="4">1st <span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">International</span><span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Confer<wbr>ence</span><span> </span>- Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), July 17-18, 2018</font></a></h2><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">The<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">International</span><span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Confer<wbr>ence</span><span> </span>(IFC-18: <a href="http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>ifc18.uni-mainz.de</a>) will take place at the <a href="http://www.uni-mainz.de/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Johannes Gutenberg University</a> of Mainz (Germany) on July 17-18, 2018. It aims at gathering developers and users of the <a href="http://faust.grame.fr/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>programming language</a> to present current projects and discuss future directions for<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>and its community.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">Participants will be able to share their work through paper presentations. A series of round tables on various topics will serve as a platform to brainstorm on<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span>'s features, semantics, tools, applications, etc. to determine future directions for this language. Open spaces for demos and workshops will be available for participants to openly share their ongoing projects with the rest of the community.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">As a special event, the winner of GRAME's<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>Open-Source Software Competition will be announced during IFC-18.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">IFC-18 is free and everyone is welcome to attend!</p><p style="margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" size="4">Call for Papers</font></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">We welcome submissions from academic, professional, independent programmers, artists, etc. We solicit original papers centered around the <a href="http://faust.grame.fr/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust </span>programming language</a> in the following categories:</p><ul style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><li style="margin-left:15px">Original research</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Technology tutorial</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Artistic project report (e.g., installation, composition, etc.)</li></ul><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">Paper should be up to 14 pages in length, non anonymous, and formatted according to <a href="http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/misc/IFC-18-templates.zip" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">this template</a>.<span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><b>Submissions should be carried out via our <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifc18" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">EasyChair portal</a></b>.</p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">All submissions are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional upon changes being made to the paper as directed by reviewers.</p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">Accepted papers will be published on-line as well as in the IFC-18 proceedings paper version. They will be presented by their author(s) at IFC-18 as 15 minutes presentations (+ 5 minutes for questions).</p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">Feel free to contact us if you have any question.</p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><b>Important Dates</b></p><ul style="max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font style="font-size:12.8px" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Papers submission deadline: March 26, 2018  </font><strike style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(36,39,41);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">March 2, 2018</font></strike></li><li style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:15px">Notification of Acceptance: May 5, 2018 <strike style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(36,39,41);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">May 1, 2018</font></strike></li><li style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:15px">Camera-Ready Version: June 1, 2018</li></ul><b style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Call for Round Table Topics</font></b><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">A series of round tables on the following themes will take place both afternoons of IFC-18:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>Tools (e.g., Architectures, IDE,<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>Code Generator, On-Line Services, etc.)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">DSP in<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>and<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>Libraries (e.g., New Algorithms, New Libraries, Missing Functions, etc.)</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>Compiler and Semantics</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Other Topics/Open Session</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt">We solicit topic suggestions from the<span> </span><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Faust</span><span> </span>community for each of these themes. Topics can be submitted by means of <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/0fBYxk28jlRdtqRM2" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">this Google form</a>. They will be introduced during the round tables by the session chair.</p><p style="margin:3pt 0pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="4"><b>Contact</b></font></span></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please, address your questions to: <a href="mailto:ifc18@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ifc18@muwiinfa.geschichte.<wbr>uni-mainz.de</a></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="m_-6750360712947702864gmail-il">Conference</span><span> </span>website: <a href="http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://<wbr>www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de</a></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Albert Gr"af<br>Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany<br>Email:  <a href="mailto:aggraef@gmail.com" target="_blank">aggraef@gmail.com</a><br>WWW:    <a href="https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef</a></div></div>
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