The chair for compiler construction was represented by Andres Goens during a special session on “scalable and flexible manycore mapping techniques ” at the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-18) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The session also included talks from Takashi Abe (DENSO, Japan),  Anuj Pathania (with Prof. Tulika Mitra at NUS, Singapore) and Tobias Schwarzer (with Prof. Jürgen Teich at FAU, Germany).  Andres presented his work “On the Representation of Mappings to Multicores”, which argued for abstractly studying the mathematical representations of mappings for different research questions.