There's a talk tomorrow (11/13) at UPenn, which may be of interest to some folks on the list. The talk is by Guy Blelloch, a huge researcher in parallel programming languages. It's at 3pm in Wu & Chen auditorium in Levine Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. More details are here:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/Blelloch.shtml Sorry for the extremely late notice.