Scala rests on a strong theoretical foundation, as well as on practical experience. You can find below a collection of papers, theses, presentations, and other research resources related to the Scala language and to its development.

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• Grants
  Grants related to Scala development and research.
   
• Papers
  Academic papers published on Scala and its background. Includes works on higher-kinded types, the νObj calculus, continuations, actors, the expression problem, and more.
   
• Talks
  Talks and tutorials presented in various academic venues by EPFL researchers. Includes links to many sets of slides about many aspects of the Scala system.
   
• Theses
  Academic theses related to Scala and the design of its functionalities.
   
• Courses
  Scala has been used in several academic courses outside of EPFL. This section includes some of them, and links to the related teaching material.
   
• Presentations
  Additional presentations about Scala, done in various venues. The list is incomplete, as the interest about Scala keeps increasing, and the presentations multiply: please let us know about yours so that we can include it.

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Grants
		Domain Optimized Parallelization using Polymorphic Language Embeddings and Rewritings (DOPPLER) Principal Investigator: Martin Odersky, LAMP, EPFL In collaboration with the Pervasive Parallelism Lab, Stanford University. January 2011

Papers
		Lightweight Modular Staging: A Pragmatic Approach to Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs by Tiark Rompf and Martin Odersky, EPFL GPCE 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 2010
		Language Virtualization for Heterogeneous Parallel Computing by Hassan Chafi, Stanford, Zach DeVito, Stanford, Adriaan Moors, EPFL, Tiark Rompf, EPFL, Arvind K. Sujeeth, Stanford, Pat Hanrahan, Stanford, Martin Odersky, EPFL and Kunle Olukotun, Stanford Onward! 2010, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, USA, October 2010
		Capabilities for Uniqueness and Borrowing by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky, EPFL ECOOP 2010, Maribor, Slovenia, June 2010
		Lightweight language support for type-based, concurrent event processing by Philipp Haller, EPFL Scala Workshop 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2010
		Deprecating the Observer Pattern by Ingo Maier, Tiark Rompf and Martin Odersky, EPFL, Tech Report EPFL-REPORT-148043, March 2010.
		Fighting Bit Rot with Types (Experience Report: Scala Collections) by Martin Odersky, EPFL and Adriaan Moors, K.U.Leuven. FSTTCS 2009, IIT Kanpur, India, December 15 to 17, 2009
		Compiling Generics Through User-Directed Type Specialization by Iulian Dragos and Martin Odersky, EPFL, Fourth ECOOP Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS'2009), Genova, Italy - 6th July 2009
		Implementing First-Class Polymorphic Delimited Continuations by a Type-Directed Selective CPS-Transform by Tiark Rompf, Ingo Maier and Martin Odersky, EPFL, ICFP 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, 31st August - 2nd September 2009
		Modular Visitor Components: A Practical Solution to the Expression Families Problem by Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Oxford University Computing Laboratory ECOOP 2009, Genova, Italy, July 2009.
		Scala Actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky, EPFL Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 410, Issues 2-3, February 2009
		Generics of a Higher Kind by Adriaan Moors, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, In the proceedings of OOPSLA 2008, Nashville (TN), March 2008.
		Implementing Joins using Extensible Pattern Matching by Philipp Haller, EPFL, and Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel COORDINATION 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 2008
		Safe Type-level Abstraction in Scala by Adriaan Moors, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, FOOL 2008, San Francisco (CA), January 2008.
		Translation Correctness for First-Order Object-Oriented Pattern Matching by Burak Emir, EPFL, Qin Ma, OFFIS, Oldenburg, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, Tech Report LAMP-REPORT-2007-003, June 2007.
		Actors that Unify Threads and Events Tech report by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky. January 2007.
		Matching Objects With Patterns Tech report (draft) by Burak Emir, Martin Odersky, and John Williams. January 2007.
		Scalable Programming Abstractions for XML Services by Burak Emir, EPFL, Sebastian Maneth, UNSV Sydney, and Martin Odersky, EPFL Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks, Vol. 4028, pp. 103--126, Springer-Verlag, September 2006.
		Event-Based Programming without Inversion of Control by Philipp Haller, EPFL and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of JMLC 06, Oxford, August 2006.
		A Core Calculus for Scala Type Checking by Vincent Cremet, EPFL, François Garillot, ENS Paris, Sergueï Lenglet, ENS Lyon, and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of MFCS 06, Stará Lesná, August 2006.
		On Embedding Domain-specific Languages with User-friendly Syntax by Gilles Dubochet, EPFL Proceedings of the 1st ECOOP Workshop on Domain-Specific Program Development, pp. 19–22, Nantes, July 2006.
		The Scala Plugin for Eclipse by Sean McDirmid, EPFL and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of the Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop at ECOOP 2006, Nantes, July 3-7, 2006.
		Scalable Component Abstractions by Martin Odersky, EPFL, and Matthias Zenger, Google Proceedings of OOPSLA 2005, San Diego, October 2005.
		The Expression Problem in Scala Report by T.N. Esben & al., Aarhus University, May 31, 2005.
		Inner Classes and Virtual Types by Philippe Altherr and Vincent Cremet, EPFL, I&C Technical Report No. 2005013, March 2005.
		Independently Extensible Solutions to the Expression Problem by Matthias Zenger and Martin Odersky, EPFL, I&C Technical Report No. 200433, March 2004.
		Programmation Multi-niveaux dans Scala by Damien Pous, ENS Lyon, Project report, August 2003.
		A Nominal Theory of Objects with Dependent Types (also known as the "vObj paper") by Martin Odersky, Vincent Cremet, Christine Röckl, Matthias Zenger, EPFL Proceedings of ECOOP 2003, July 2003.
		Scala and AsmL side by side by Stéphane Micheloud, EPFL, Internal paper, May 2003.
		PiLib: A Hosted Language for Pi-Calculus Style Concurrency by Vincent Cremet and Martin Odersky, EPFL Dagstuhl Proceedings: Domain-Specific Program Generation, March 2003.

Talks
		Scala - The Next Five Years by Martin Odersky, EPFL Scala Lift Off, June 2009, San Francisco.
		A Scalable Language by Martin Odersky, EPFL Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM 2009), February 2009.
		The Scala Experience — Programming With Functional Objects by Martin Odersky, EPFL Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2007), September 2007.
		Scala Actors -- Scalable Multithreading on the JVM by Philipp Haller, EPFL Invited talk at IBM Development Lab Boeblingen, May 2007.
		The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems? by Martin Odersky, EPFL Google Tech Talks, November 2006.
		Tackling Concurrency — Language or Library ? by Martin Odersky, EPFL Intel PL Seminar Series, November 2006.
		Tutorial on Writing Modular Programs in Scala by Gilles Dubochet and Martin Odersky 13 September 2006 at JMLC, Oxford. Try the full hands-on tutorial (with documentation and source code), and its solution. Both packages contain a Scala compiler and are completely stand-alone.
		Poor Man's Type Classes by Martin Odersky, EPFL IFIP WG 2.8, July 2006.
		The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems? by Martin Odersky, EPFL POPL 2006, January 2006.
		Types for Objects and Modules by Martin Odersky, EPFL Dagstuhl Proceedings: Domain-Specific Program Generation, March 2003.

Theses
		Design Patterns and Scala Master Thesis report by Fredrik Skeel Løkke, DAIMI, Aarhus University. Thesis No. 1336, March 2009. Supervisor: Erik Ernst.
		Object-Oriented Pattern Matching PhD Thesis report by Burak Emir, EPFL, Thesis No. 3899, October 2007.
		An Object-Oriented Programming Model for Event-Based Actors Master Thesis report by Philipp Haller, Karlsruhe University, May 2006. N.B. The software package can be installed using sbaz and the API documentation is available from the author's web page.
		A Typed Intermediate Language and Algorithms for Compiling Scala by Successive Rewritings PhD Thesis report by Philippe Altherr, EPFL, Thesis No. 3509, March 2006.
		Foundations for Scala: Semantics and Proof of Virtual Types PhD Thesis report (draft) by Vincent Cremet, EPFL, Thesis No. 3556, May 2006.
		Compiling Scala for the Java Virtual Machine PhD Thesis report by Michel Schinz, EPFL, Thesis No. 3302, September 2005.

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