\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \hoffset=-40pt \voffset=-20pt \textwidth 15.3cm \textheight 22cm % to fit our printers \begin{document} \begin{center}{\huge (Partial) Combinatory Algebras for Sequential Computation}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large Jaap van Oosten}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large University of Utrecht}\end{center} %Provisional title \bigskip The language PCF (a typed $\lambda$ calculus with constants for arithmetic operations and fixed points) is regarded by many as a suitable formalisation of the concept ``sequential functional of higher type''. (The exact relation with Kleene's formalism appears to be not fully understood, however) The quest for ``full abstraction'' (Milner) is the search for mathematically attractive models for PCF. Research has resulted in many, rather complex, categories of domains (Scott domains with extra properties, or extra structure). In my lecture I shall show that some of these categories (at least, the part of them which is generated by the natural numbers) come about in a natural way, as the type structure of (partial) combinatory algebras: defined in the Kleene style, with associates. Apart from a closer analysis of the domains, this gives us these categories as full sub-ccc's of a topos, which is then a model of the statement ``all functionals are sequential''. I hope to arrive at a similar decomposition of the categories of games, of Hyland-Ong and Abramsky-Jagadeesan-Malacaria. \end{document}