Sven‑Bodo Scholz – 60th Birthday Celebration

Sven‑Bodo Scholz, Professor of Computer Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen, turned 60 in 2026.

We are delighted to organize this scientific meeting to honor his outstanding contributions to array languages, compilers, functional programming, and high‑performance computing. Over the past decades Prof. Scholz has shaped the way we think about combining productivity and performance on heterogeneous computing systems, and his work continues to influence both academia and industry.

Event Details

Dates: 13th of April
Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Radboud University campus) – exact venue to be announced shortly.
Audience: Open to anyone interested in the topics above and in celebrating Prof. Scholz’s career.

Participation

The meeting is free of charge.
An optional banquet will be held on the evening of April 13th. Attendance at the banquet requires a separate payment made directly to the restaurant.
Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation.

Program

The talks are happening in M1.0.28, which is on the ground floor of Mercator I, Toernooiveld 200-222, Nijmegen

12:00–13:00	Lunch (we meet in the Mercator hall)
13:00–13:30	Pavel Zaichenkov: Fitting the World's Queries into Boxes
13:30–14:00	Philip Hölzenspies: Selling dependent types to SREs; lessons learned from aiming to be boring
14:00–14:30	Thomas Koopman: Matrix Multiplication and Geometry?! — Performance and accuracy?
14:30–15:00	Coffee break
15:00–15:30	Clemens Grelck: Single Assignment C or how it all began
15:30–16:00	Troels Henriksen: SaC did it first!
16:00–16:30	Jordy Aaldering: Bringing SaC to the masses with sac4c
16:30–17:00	Stephan Herhut: SAC. Revisited

In the evening we will have a banquet at 6pm at Grand Cafe Arsenaal 1824, Arsenaalpoort 1, Nijmegen

Participating Online

For those who are willing join online, please concat artjoms.sinkarovs@pm.me for a link.

Contact

For any questions, please contact the organizing committee at artjoms.sinkarovs@pm.me.