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STACS 2019 in Berlin --- Second and Last Call for Papers
by Rolf Niedermeier 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

STACS 2019 - Call for papers 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science March 13—16, 2019, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Typical areas include (but are not limited to): * algorithms and data structures, including: design of parallel, distributed, approximation, parameterized and randomized algorithms; analysis of algorithms and combinatorics of data structures; computational geometry, cryptography, algorithmic learning theory, algorithmic game theory; * automata and formal languages, including: algebraic and categorical methods, coding theory; * complexity and computability, including: computational and structural complexity theory, parameterized complexity, randomness in computation; * logic in computer science, including: finite model theory, database theory, semantics, specification verification, rewriting and deduction; * current challenges, for example: natural computing, quantum computing, mobile and net computing, computational social choice. INVITED SPEAKERS Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford), "Computational Complexity and the Independence Polynomial" Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux), "The Many Facets of String Transducers" Petra Mutzel (Dortmund), "Algorithmic Data Analysis" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Christoph Berkholz (Berlin) Benedikt Bollig (Cachan) Karl Bringmann (Saarbrücken) Gerth Stølting Brodal (Aarhus) Maike Buchin (Bochum) David Eppstein (Irvine) Serge Gaspers (Sydney) Edward Hirsch (St. Petersburg) Telikepalli Kavitha (Mumbai) Hartmut Klauck (Singapore) Antonín Kučera (Brno) K Narayan Kumar (Chennai) Dietrich Kuske (Ilmenau) Jérôme Lang (Paris) Sophie Laplante (Paris) Kazuhisa Makino (Kyoto) Barnaby Martin (Durham) Cyril Nicaud (Marne-la-Vallée) Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, co-chair) Jakob Nordström (Stockholm) Christophe Paul (Montpellier, co-chair) Pascal Schweitzer (Kaiserslautern) Shinnosuke Seki (Tokyo) Michał Skrzypczak (Warsaw) Srikanth Srinivasan (Mumbai) Jan Arne Telle (Bergen) Denis Trystram (Grenoble) Takeaki Uno (Tokyo) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg) Stefan Woltran (Wien) TUTORIALS There will be the following two tutorials taking place on March 13, 2019: Tobias Friedrich (HPI Potsdam): "Network Science" Karl Bringmann (MPI Saarbrücken): "Fine-Grained Complexity Theory" SUBMISSIONS Submissions can be uploaded to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2019. Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages (excluding the title page and the references section). The title page consists exclusively of the title of the paper, author information, and abstract. The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file (see http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics) are mandatory; no changes to font size, page geometry, etc. are permitted. Submissions not in the correct format or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, accessible to non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix, to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or to journals is not allowed. PC members are excluded from submitting. There will be a rebuttal period for authors between November 26—29, 2018. Authors will receive the reviews of their submissions (via EasyChair) and have three days to submit rebuttals (via EasyChair). These rebuttals become part of the PC meeting, but entail no specific responses. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium. As usual, these proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain the rights over their work. With their submission, authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program committee chairs to organize the electronic publication of their paper, provided the paper is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2018 (AoE) * Rebuttal: November 26–29, 2018 * Author notification: December 20, 2018 * Final version: January 16, 2019 * STACS 2019: March 13–16, 2019 CONTACT INFORMATION Web: https://stacs2019.akt.tu-berlin.de/ Email: stacs2019(a)akt.tu-berlin.de

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LATA 2019: 1st call for papers
by IRDTA 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

LATA 2019: 1st call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia March 25-29, 2019 Organized by: Saint Petersburg State University and Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London http://lata2019.irdta.eu/ ************************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2019 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2019 will take place in Saint Petersburg, whose historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The venue will be Saint Petersburg State University. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automatic structures codes combinatorics on words computational complexity concurrency and Petri nets data and image compression descriptional complexity foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2019 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, AT) Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR) Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, DE) Travis Gagie (Diego Portales University, CL) Peter Habermehl (Paris Diderot University, FR) Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI) Radu Iosif (Verimag, FR) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, JP) Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI) Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, CA) Juha Kärkkäinen (University of Helsinki, FI) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, NZ) Sergey Kitaev (University of Strathclyde, UK) Shmuel Tomi Klein (Bar-Ilan University, IL) Olga Kouchnarenko (University of Franche-Comté, FR) Thierry Lecroq (University of Rouen, FR) Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE) Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Filippo Mignosi (University of L'Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Polytechnic University of Madrid, ES) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille, FR) Alexander Okhotin (Saint Petersburg State University, RU) Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR) Matteo Pradella (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT) Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT) Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL) Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, CA) Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK) Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, JP) Hans Ulrich Simon (Ruhr-University of Bochum, DE) William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE) Jorma Tarhio (Aalto University, FI) Stefano Tonetta (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT) Rob van Glabbeek (University of New South Wales, AU) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US) Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US) Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU) Fang Yu (National Chengchi University, TW) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Alexander Okhotin (Saint Petersburg, co-chair) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) Dana Shapira (Ariel) David Silva (London, co-chair) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2019 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://lata2019.irdta.eu/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: November 11, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 16, 2018 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 23, 2018 Early registration: December 23, 2018 Late registration: March 11, 2019 Submission to the journal special issue: June 29, 2019 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david (at) irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master´s Students in Computer Science
by Mihaela Rozman 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] Female students in the field of computer science (CS) who plan to pursue (or are currently pursuing) one of the masters programs in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology TU Wien taught in English are invited to apply for the annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend. The computer science department at Vienna University of Technology TU Wien, has been ranked among the 70 world´s best (THE Times Higher Education Ranking). The annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend for female master students is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. Professor Helmut Veith (1971-2016). The Helmut Veith Stipend was established with generous support of TU Wien, Wolfgang Pauli Institute and with contributions by family and friends of the late Helmut Veith. BENEFITS -EUR 6000 per year -Waiver of tuition fees at TU Wien LOCATION OF MASTER STUDY For study in Austria, at Vienna University of Technology TU Wien FOR FIELD OF STUDY Applicants must be eligible for admission to one of the masters programs in computer science at Vienna University of technology - TU Wien that are taught in English. In 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 those are: Master in Logic and Computation Master in Business Informatics; Master in Computational Logic Master in Computer Engineering ( <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master/technische-inform atik> Technische Informatik) APPLICATION Applications for funding can be filed before or in parallel with the admissions process. Your application must be submitted electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at as a single PDF document, by November 30, 2018. DEADLINE November 30, 2018. INQUIRES Electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at WEBSITE http://www.vcla.at/2018/05/call-for-applications-helmut-veith-stipend-for-fe male-masters-students-in-computer-science DOWNLOAD THE FLYER http://forsyte.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

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Call for Papers: Postproceedings for ThEdu'18 by EPTCS
by Achim D. Brucker 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

(Apologies for duplicates) Open Call for Papers ************************************************************************** Postproceedings for ThEdu'18 by EPTCS Theorem proving components for Educational software http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu18 ************************************************************************** Workshop ThEdu at FLoC Federated Logic Conference 2018 http://www.floc2018.org/ ************************************************************************** THedu'18 Postproceedings: ThEdu's programme comprised seven contributions, presented also in the webpages. Now postproceedings are planned to collect the contributions upgraded to full papers. The contributions' topics are diverse according to ThEdu's scope, and this is a call open for everyone, also those who did not participate in the workshop. All papers will undergo review according to EPTCS standards. THedu'18 Scope: Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems. Topics of interest include: * methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input; * methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions; * combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps; * automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems; * proof and proving in mathematics education. Important Dates * 2nd call for papers: 10 Sep 2018 * Submission (full papers): 18 Nov 2018 * Notification of acceptance: 17 Dec 2018 * Revised papers due: 21 Jan 2019 Submission We welcome submission of papers presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. The authors should comply with the "instructions for authors", LaTeX style files and accept the "Non-exclusive license to distribute" of EPTCS: Instructions for authors (http://info.eptcs.org/) LaTeX style file and formatting instructions (http://style.eptcs.org/) Copyright (http://copyright.eptcs.org/) Papers should be submitted via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu18. In case the contributions finally do not reach the standards of EPTCS in number, there will be an alternative to publish as a techreport at CISUC https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/publications. Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Roman Hašek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking

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RAMiCS 2018 Call for Participation: Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science
by Walter Guttmann 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 17th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science RAMiCS 2018 29 October to 1 November 2018, Groningen, The Netherlands http://www.ramics-conference.org/ GENERAL INFORMATION: Recurrent topics of RAMiCS conferences, held since 1994, include semiring- and lattice-based structures such as relation algebras and Kleene algebras, their connections with program logics and other logics, their use in theories of computing, their formalisation with theorem provers, and their application to modelling and reasoning about computing systems and processes. INVITED TALKS: Philippa Gardner (Imperial College London, UK) Scalable reasoning about concurrent programs Manuel Bodirsky (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Finite relation algebras with normal representations Roland Backhouse (University of Nottingham, UK) The importance of factorisation in algorithm design ACCEPTED PAPERS: Sarah Alexander, Peter Jipsen and Nadiya Upegui On the structure of generalized effect algebras and separation algebras Callum Bannister and Peter Höfner False failure: creating failure models for separation logic Stefano Bonzio, Michele Pra Baldi and Diego Valota Counting finite linearly ordered involutive bisemilattices Maximiliano Cristiá and Gianfranco Rossi A set solver for finite set relation algebra Jessica Ertel, Roland Glück and Bernhard Möller Algebraic derivation of Until rules and application to timer verification Simon Foster, Kangfeng Ye, Ana Cavalcanti and Jim Woodcock Calculational verification of reactive programs with reactive relations and Kleene algebra Malvin Gattinger and Jana Wagemaker Towards an analysis of dynamic gossip in NetKAT Roland Glück Distances, norms and error propagation in idempotent semirings Maria João Gouveia and Luigi Santocanale MIX star-autonomous quantales and the continuous weak Bruhat order Robin Hirsch Decidability of equational theories for sub-signatures of relation algebra Mark Hopkins and Hans Leiß Coequalizers and tensor products for continuous idempotent semirings Jonathan Huerta y Munive and Georg Struth Verifying hybrid systems with modal Kleene algebra Wolfram Kahl Calculational relation-algebraic proofs in the teaching tool CalcCheck Lefteris Kirousis, Phokion Kolaitis and John Livieratos On the computational complexity of non-dictatorial aggregation Dexter Kozen and Matvey Soloviev Coalgebraic tools for randomness-conserving protocols Nikolai Krivulin Algebraic solution of weighted minimax single-facility constrained location problems Pranab Kumar Ghosh and Michael Winter A modal and relevance logic for qualitative spatial reasoning Hans Leiß and Mark Hopkins C-dioids and µ-continuous Chomsky-algebras Koki Nishizawa and Norihiro Tsumagari Composition of different-type relations via the Kleisli category for the continuation monad Giulia Sindoni, Katsuhiko Sano and John G. Stell Axiomatizing discrete spatial relations Michael Winter T-norm based operations in arrow categories PROGRAMME: http://www.ramics-conference.org/?page_id=270 REGISTRATION (early fee before 15 September 2018): http://www.ramics-conference.org/?page_id=202 COMMITTEES: Organising Committee -------------------- Conference Chair: Stef Joosten, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands PC Co-Chair: Jules Desharnais, Université Laval, Canada PC Co-Chair: Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Publicity Chair: Sebastiaan Joosten, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands Programme Committee ------------------- Luca Aceto, Reykjavík University, Iceland/Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Rudolf Berghammer, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Jules Desharnais, Université Laval, Canada Uli Fahrenberg, École Polytechnique, France Hitoshi Furusawa, Kagoshima University, Japan Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Robin Hirsch, University College London, UK Peter Höfner, Data61, CSIRO, Australia Marcel Jackson, La Trobe University, Australia Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, University of Michigan, USA Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Stef Joosten, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands Wolfram Kahl, McMaster University, Canada Barbara König, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Agi Kurucz, King's College London, UK Tadeusz Litak, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Roger Maddux, Iowa State University, USA Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia Szabolcs Mikulás, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Bernhard Möller, Universität Augsburg, Germany José N. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alessandra Palmigiano, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands Damien Pous, CNRS, France Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, UK John Stell, University of Leeds, UK Georg Struth, University of Sheffield, UK Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada

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LSFA 2018 - Call for Participation
by Francicleber M. Ferreira 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

LSFA 2018 - Call for Participation 13th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 September 2018 Fortaleza, Brazil www.lia.ufc.br/~lsfa2018 ============================================================================= *** Early Registration Deadline: 31 August 2018 *** *** List of accepted papers and registration information is available at www.lia.ufc.br/~lsfa2018 *** ============================================================================= The LSFA Community invites you to participate in the 13th Workshop on Logic and Semantic Frameworks, with Application, LSFA 2018. Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. Invited Speakers + Amy Felty, University of Ottawa + Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, Université de Toulouse + Yiannis Moschovakis, University of California, Los Angeles & University of Athens + Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft University of Technology Venue Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, and 5th most preferred touristic destination in Brazil. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Ceará. Find more info on the event's webpage: www.lia.ufc.br/~lsfa2018 Contact lsfa2018 at lia [d] ufc [d] br

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Möglichkeit der Promotion
by Dietrich Kuske 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Ausschreibung (siehe auch https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/al/) An der Fakultät für Informatik und Automatisierung ist im Fachgebiet Automaten und Logik (Fachgebietsleiter Prof. Dr. Dietrich Kuske) zum 1. Oktober 2018 eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in für 3 Jahre zu besetzen. Die Vergütung erfolgt nach den Bestimmungen der Tarifverträge für den öffentlichen Dienst der Länder (TV-L). Die Stelle ist mit Entgeltgruppe E 13 bewertet. Aufgabengebiete • Es sollen Forschungsarbeiten an der Schnittstelle von Automatentheorie und Logik bearbeitet werden. • Es soll die Lehre im gesamten vom Fachgebiet angebotenen Spektrum, insbesondere zur Automatentheorie und zur Logik in der Informatik, unterstützt werden (Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Übungen; Betreuung von Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten; Unterstützung bei der Durchführung von Prüfungen). • Die Übernahme von organisatorischen und Selbstverwaltungsaufgaben im üblichen Rahmen wird erwartet. Einstellungsvoraussetzungen Wir erwarten von Ihnen: • einen sehr guten wissenschaftlichen Hochschulabschluss in Informatik oder Mathematik • sehr gute Kenntnisse in Theoretischer Informatik, vorzugsweise in der Automatentheorie oder der Logik • Fähigkeit zur Veröffentlichung und Präsentation von Forschungsergebnissen im internationalen Rahmen • Bereitschaft zur selbständigen wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit mit dem Ziel der Weiterqualifikation • sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse Die befristete Beschäftigung erfolgt zur Förderung der eigenen wissenschaftlichen Qualifizierung (Promotion). Die TU Ilmenau ist Träger des TOTAL E-Quality-Prädikats. Sie fordert Frauen nachdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. Schwerbehinderte haben bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Qualifikation Vorrang bei der Einstellung. Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Bewerbungsschreiben, Lebenslauf, Zeugniskopien, ggf. Referenzen) richten Sie bitte unter der Kennziffer 73/2018 an die Technische Universität Ilmenau Dezernat für Personal und Recht Postfach 10 05 65 98684 Ilmenau Deutschland bzw. an: bewerbung(a)tu-ilmenau.de. (Anlagen bitte im pdf-Format zusammengefasst in einer Datei anfügen) Eingehende Bewerbungen werden bis zum 1. September 2018 berücksichtigt. Für weitere Informationen können Sie sich gerne an Professor Kuske (dietrich.kuske(a)tu-ilmenau.de), wenden (auch telefonisch unter 03677 691444). Aus Kostengründen wird darum gebeten, die Bewerbungsunterlagen in Kopie einzureichen. Diese verbleiben bei der TU Ilmenau und werden nicht zurückgesandt. Nach Abschluss des Stellenbesetzungsverfahrens werden die Unterlagen nicht berücksichtigter Bewerber/-innen vernichtet. Bei gewünschter Rücksendung der Unterlagen bitten wir, der Bewerbung einen adressierten und ausreichend frankierten Rückumschlag beizufü- gen. Die Ihnen durch die Bewerbung entstandenen Kosten werden durch die TU Ilmenau nicht übernommen. -- Prof. Dr. Dietrich Kuske | FG Automaten und Logik | Tel +49 (0)3677 69 1444 TU Ilmenau | dietrich.kuske(a)tu-ilmenau.de PF 10 05 65 | http://eiche.theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de/kuske D-98684 Ilmenau | www.kleines-paradies-buelow.de

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CSL 2018 - Final Call for Participation
by EACSL 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

Final Call for Participation ======================================== Computer Science Logic 2018 Birmingham, United Kingdom 4–7 September <http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18/> ======================================== ** The early bird registration period has been extended till 7 August ** The European Association for Computer Science Logic and the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham kindly invite you to take part in the 2018 edition of CSL. The day after the conference, there will be a free workshop honouring Achim Jung on occasion of his 60th birthday. # The Conference Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL 2018 will be the 27th edition in the series. ## Invited Speakers * Bob Coecke — University of Oxford * Emmanuel Filiot — Université Libre de Bruxelles * Catuscia Palamidessi — École Polytechnique * Christine Tasson — Université Paris Diderot * Szymon Toruńczyk — Uniwersytet Warszawksi ## Programme Thirty-six contributions were selected for presentation at CSL 2018. A full listing is available at <http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18/acceptedpapers/> A preliminary programme has also been published. # Achim Jung Fest — “An Intersection of Neighborhoods” (8 Sep) For thirty years, Achim Jung has been at the forefront of research in the fields of Programming Language Semantics, Topological Logic, and, more broadly, the intersection of Computer Science, Logic, and Mathematics. The day following CSL there will be a workshop in commemoration of his career on occasion of his 60th birthday. For more information, please see <http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18/AJFest/> ## Invited Speakers * Samson Abramsky — University of Oxford * Thorsten Altenkirch — University of Nottingham * Mai Gehrke — Université Côte d'Azur * Michael Huth — Imperial College * Ho Weng Kin — Nanyang Technological University * Jimmie Lawson — Louisiana State University * Michael Mislove — Tulane University * Frank Pfenning — Carnegie Mellon University * Alex Simpson — University of Ljubljana # Registration The fees for the conference and associated events are ------------------------------------------- ------- Early Bird Conference (Standard) £300 Early Bird Conference (Student) £240 Regular Conference (after 7 August) £350 Conference Dinner £48 Excursion Black Country Living Museum £32 Achim Jung Fest *free* ------------------------------------------- ------- To register, please follow the link and information provided on the CSL website <http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/csl18> For any questions please contact Dan R. Ghica <D.R.Ghica(a)cs.bham.ac.uk>

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Upcoming deadline: 4-years fully funded PhD scholarships in Austria - LogiCS Doctoral College on Logical Methods in Computer Science with a special call for women in CS
by Mihaela Rozman 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] Applications are invited for a 4-year fully funded PhD studentship in LogiCS Doctoral College - Logical Methods in Computer Science. ======================================== The faculty of the LogiCS doctoral college is looking for 16 doctoral students, where 30% of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. ======================================== LogiCS - Logical Methods in Computer Science is a joint doctoral program of TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz, Austria, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). ======================================== Deadline: Friday 31 August 2018. ======================================== Website: http://logic-cs.at/phd/ ======================================== TOPICS OF RESEARCH LogiCS focuses on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work on interdisciplinary research topics covering (i) computational logic, (ii) databases and artificial intelligence, (iii) computer-aided verification, and (iv) emerging application domains, such as cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, and security & privacy. ======================================== FACULTY MEMBERS - Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Students are supervised by leading researchers in their fields: E. Bartocci / A. Biere / R. Bloem / A. Ciabattoni / G. Gottlob / T. Eiter / R. Grosu / L. Kovacs / M. Maffei / M. Ortiz / U. Schmid / M. Seidl / S. Szeider / G. Weissenbacher / S. Woltran - See: <https://dblp.uni-trier.de/> https://dblp.uni-trier.de/ - Details are provided on: http://logic-cs.at/phd/faculty/ ======================================== POSITIONS AND FUNDING - 4-years fully funded 16 positions, where 30% of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. - The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/ ). - Additional positions will be available through other funding. ======================================== HOW TO APPLY - The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. - Candidates with comparable achievements (e.g., bachelor of honors) may be considered on a case-by-case basis. - Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. - Applications will be screened: September 1, 2018 - The positions will be filled on continuous basis till October 2018. - Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. ======================================== ADMISSION Detailed information: http://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ ======================================== RESEARCH; STUDY; LIFE IN AUSTRIA - Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. See: www.vcla.at - Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps, are surrounded by beautiful nature. Vienna is constantly ranked the city with the highest quality of life in the world. Austria has an exciting cultural scene, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, varied cuisine, and famous coffee houses. ======================================== FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact: info(a)logic-cs.at

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HIGHLIGHTS 2018: 1st Call for Participation
by Nathanaël Fijalkow 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Please register and attend HIGHLIGHTS 2018! The programme is here: https://easychair.org/smart-program/Highlights2018/index.html REGISTRATION DEADLINE:* 31 AUGUST 2018* *************** HIGHLIGHTS 2018: 6th annual conference on Highlights of LOGIC, GAMES, and AUTOMATA 18-21 September 2018, TU Berlin http://highlights-conference.org SATELLITE EVENTS: + ErichFest: Symposium to Celebrate Erich Grädel’s 60th Birthday, 17 September + Workshop on the Theory of Regular Cost Functions and Beyond, 21 September (afternoon) ================================================ HIGHLIGHTS 2018 is the 6th conference on Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata that aims to integrate the diverse research community working in the areas of Logic and Finite Model Theory, Automata Theory, and Games for Logic and Verification. Individual papers are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them challenging to follow. A visit to the annual Highlights conference offers a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet and interact with most of the members of the research community. The speakers are encouraged to present their best recent work at Highlights, whether already published elsewhere or not. The conference is short (from 19 September to the mid-day on 21 September) and it is preceded by the Highlights Tutorial Day (18 September). The participation costs are modest and Berlin is easy to reach. The Contributed Presentations will be around ten minutes long. All speakers will be also invited to contribute to a Poster Session, which will open new ways of interaction at the conference for the whole Highlights community. KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS + Andrei Bulatov, The Complexity of Constraints: Dichotomies and Beyond + Nicole Schweikardt, Constant Delay Enumeration of Query Results + James Worrell, Algebraic Invariants for Affine Programs TUTORIALS + Amir Abboud, Fine-Grained Complexity and Hardness in P + Christoph Berkholz, Interactions Between Proof Complexity and Finite Model Theory + Joost-Pieter Katoen, Principles of Probabilistic Programming INVITED SESSIONS + Chair: Christel Baier, Multi-Objective Reasoning in Probabilistic Models (Speakers: Stefan Kiefer, David Parker) + Chair: Martin Grohe, Logic and Learning (Speakers: Kristian Kersting, Daniel Neider, Dan Olteanu) SPOTLIGHT TALKS + Stéphane Gaubert, Nonarchimedean Convex Programming and Its Relation to Mean-Payoff Games + Laura Kovács, Symbol Elimination for Program Analysis + Jan Křetínský, A Journey from LTL to Your Favourite Automaton + Amaury Pouly, Continuous Models of Computation: Computability, Complexity, Universality + Jeffrey Shallit, Finite Automata and Additive Number Theory

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