Titles are the spearhead of papers and dissertations, and they pack a lot of information. The goal of this session is to acquire a sense of how to read titles and understand them, and how to compose your own titles. The material of this session is the slides about definitions and titles at http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/communication/. The session is organized as 5 to 6 audience presentations that analyze an existing title, e.g., the title of a paper at ICFP 2020, or that compose a meaningful title describing your own work. You should first interact by email with the organizer at danvy@yale-nus.edu.sg to prepare your presentation, so that you can get over the standard beginners’ mistakes privately and so that your presentation can be useful to the other attendees.

There will also be short presentations by Patty Johann, Harry Mairson, Chris Okasaki, and Jens Palsberg about one of their own titles.