Our visitor Daan Leijen gave a quick introduction to his research into using C# lambda expressions to allow programmers to introduce parallelism without the usual overheads. This served as an introduction to C# for most of the audience.
Liyang talked through his side project trying to introduce Conor’s idiom brackets using Template Haskell to do the transformations, he has some slides for more info — link coming soon
Conor then introduced his dissection work, showing how the a tail recursive fold for trees relies on a control structure which can be calculated for any fixed point of a polynomial (in fact any indexed container). This calculation is dissection and it generalises differentiation.