The MFPS Organizers oversee the series, deciding the location of each year’s meeting, deciding whether to co-locate with related meetings, and exercising financial oversight for the series. The Organizers also select colleagues to serve as Program Committee Chairs for each year’s meeting, and provide general oversight for the meetings.
The organizers of the first two workshops at Kansas State were Austin Melton and Dave Schmidt, and Michael Main (Boulder) and Michael Mislove (Tulane) joined the group in 1987. Steve Brookes (CMU) joined the group in 1991. Later, Catherine Meadows (NRL), Achim Jung (Birmingham) and Prakash Panangaden (McGill) joined Brookes and Mislove to form the group that remained unchanged through 2020.
MFPS recently increased the number of Organizers to include new permanent members, and we also added Program Committee (Co-)Chairs as members to serve terms of three years, beginning with the year they chair the Program Committee.
Here is the current list of Organizers; those with an * are permanent members:
Andrej Bauer*, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lars Birkedal*, Aarhus University, Denmark
Stephen Brookes*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Achim Jung*, University of Birmingham, UK
Marie Kerjean, LIPN, Paris
Clemens Kupke, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Paul Levy, University of Birmingham
Catherine Meadows*, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Stefan Milius, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany
Michael Mislove*, Tulane University, USA
Joël Ouaknine*, MPI SWS, Germany
Valeria de Paiva, Topos Institute, USA
Prakash Panangaden*, McGill University, Canada
Alexandra Silva*, Cornell University, USA
Alex Simpson, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sam Staton*, University of Oxford, UK