Following the success of the first thirteen Programming Languages
Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012-2025, we are pleased to announce the
14th SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located
with POPL 2026. The workshop will take place in person in Rennes, France.

PLMW aims to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate
students to pursue careers in programming language (PL) research. This
workshop will bring together world leaders in PL research and teaching
from both academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on
cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare
for a research career. The workshop will help students imagine how they
might contribute to our vibrant and thriving research community.

We especially encourage women, members of underrepresented minorities,
and people with disabilities to attend PLMW.

This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium
on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before
the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL
conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will
stay for the whole conference.

Our sponsors have generously donated scholarship funds for qualified
students who do not have the funds to attend PLMW. These scholarships
can cover expenses (airfare, hotel, and registration fees) for
attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference itself.

Note that you do not need to apply here if you just want to attend PLMW:
Attendance is open to everybody who is registered to workshops for the day.

We strongly recommend to also apply for student volunteering at POPL if
possible.

Application deadline: November 10 2025 AoE

Scholarship Application Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv8HuJpgsjso6_D_CZtp5AD17HPu2JTLWN2PjdwxKed0q5kw/viewform

Organisers:
Yannick Forster <yannick.forster@inria.fr>
Andrew Hirsch <akhirsch@buffalo.edu>
Jenna DiVincenzo <jennad@purdue.edu>