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#61 Zurihac Behind the Scenes - Farhad Mehta

Apr 16, 2026 2h 19m

In this episode we talk with Farhad Mehta, one of the main organizers of Zurihac, the biggest Haskell event in the planet. Zurihac happens once a year at Zurich. This year’s Zurihac will be on june…

#60 Conversations on Life, AI, and the PL Job Market - Pedro and Dan

Mar 25, 2026 1h 53m

In this episode me and Dan Plyukhin get together to have a heartfelt conversation. We start by talking about our experiences with meditation, and how it has helped us to have a more balanced…

#59 Category Theory and Inclusivity - Valeria de Paiva

Jan 28, 2026 2h 46m

In this episode of the Type Theory Forall podcast, we are joined by Valeria de Paiva, a Brazilian mathematician and logician whose work has had a lasting influence on category theory, type theory,…

#58 Constructivism and Computational Content - Andrej Bauer

Dec 16, 2025 2h 18m

Andrej Bauer has done his PhD at CMU under Dana Scott, and he stands right on the edge between mathematics and computer science. During our conversation it just feels that he can just go on in depth…

#57 Compilers for Privacy-Preserving Computation, Category Theory, and Keeping a Good Rythm in your PhD - Raghav Malik

Dec 06, 2025 59m

Raghav Malik, has just defended his PhD on the topic of compilers for privacy-preserving computation, and that's a good chunk of our conversation. He has also spent some years in grad school going…

#56 Property Based Testing and PL Grad School Applications - Francille Zhuang

Nov 17, 2025 1h 36m

Francille Zhuang is an undergrad at Purdue University and has been doing research with Benjamin Delaware and Patrick Lafontaine. In this episode we talk about her early research experiences on…

#55 The Death of OO, The Beauty of Scheme, BobKonf, and FunArch - Mike Sperber

Oct 27, 2025 2h 38m

Mike Sperber is the CEO of Active Group, a company designed for Counseling, Development and Training in functional programming. He is a co-organizer of Bob Konf and FunArch, the Co-founder of the…

#54 The Goal of Science is to Communicate Ideas! - Philip Wadler

Sep 29, 2025 1h 50m

Philip Wadler is a well known, celebrated and recognized researcher in the field especially for his unique ability to explain complex ideas in a simple and elegant way. He got his Bachelor in 1977 at…

#53 RustBelt, Iris, and the Art of Writing - Derek Dreyer

Aug 27, 2025 2h 25m

Derek Dreyer is a professor at the Max Planck Institute, in 2024 he was awarded the ACM Fellowship, in 2017 he got the ACM Sigplan Robin Milner Young Researcher Award. And has participated or lead…

#52 Why is Haskell so special - Lennart Augustsson

Jul 10, 2025 1h 30m

Lennart Augustsson has spent the last four decades quietly — and sometimes mischievously — shaping the way we think about code. He co-authored Lazy ML in the early 80s, wrote A Compiler for LML back…

#51 s/Coq/Rocq - Nicolas Tabareau

Jun 04, 2025 1h 42m

In this episode we talk with Nicolas Tabareau, the Head of Gallinette, one of the main teams which develop the Rocq theorem Prover at Inria. The original idea of this interview is to talk about the…

#50 The Expression Problem, Functional Pearls, Program Calculation - Wouter Swierstra

May 14, 2025 2h 6m

Wouter Swierstra is a Math Bachelor’s from the University of Utrecht, has done his PhD with Thorsten Altenkirch at the University of Nottingham, did a post-doc at Chalmers, has experience in the…

#49 Self-Education in PL - Ryan Brewer

Mar 14, 2025 2h 23m

Ryan Brewer is a college dropout who has an incredible blog about PL, Category Theory and Logic. He better define his goal as making Formal Theory more accessible outside the ivory tower of academia,…

#48 Bell Labs - David MacQueen

Jan 21, 2025 2h 10m

In this episode we continue with our conversation with David MacQueen, he is an Emeritus Professor from the University of Chicago, and has worked at Bell Labs for 20 years. Bell Labs began as the…

#47 The History of LCF, ML and HOPE - David MacQueen

Jan 07, 2025 2h 5m

David MacQueen has worked at Bell Labs for around 20 years during it’s Golden Age. Professor at Chicago University for 23 years. He is one of the designers of SML, one of the fathers of HOPE the…

#46 Realizability, BHK, CPS Translation, Dialectica - Pierre-Marie Pédrot

Nov 29, 2024 1h 3m

In this episode Pierre-Marie Pédrot, one of the main Coq/Rocq developers joins us to talk about Krivine, Kleene and Gödel Realizability Models, how it relates to the BHK interpretation and CPS…

#45 What is Type Theory and What Properties we Should Care About - Pierre-Marie Pédrot

Nov 24, 2024 1h 21m

In this episode Pierre-Marie Pédrot who is one of the main Coq/Rocq developers joins us to talk about what is Type Theory, what is Martin-Löf Type Theory, what are the properties we should care about…

#44 Theorem Prover Foundations, Lean4Lean, Metamath - Mario Carneiro

Nov 06, 2024 2h 13m

Mario Carneiro is the creator of Mathlib, Lean4Lean and Metamath0. He is currently doing his Postdoc at Chalmers University working on CakeML. In this episode we talk about foundations of theorem…

#43 PL in the Industry and Summer Schools - Patrick and Eric

Sep 13, 2024 1h 1m

In this episode Eric Bond and Patrick Lafontaine joins us to talk about the life in industry vs the life in academia. Eric is a PhD student at Michigan University under Max New, he works with some…

#42 Distributed Systems, Microservices, and Choreographies - Fabrizio Montesi

Aug 29, 2024 1h 52m

In this episode we talk with Fabrizio Montesi, a Full Professor at the University of South Denmark. He is one of the creators of the Jolie Programming Language, President of the Microservices…

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