[Apologies for any duplicate messages] ================== ** ONLINE WORLDWIDE SEMINAR ON LOGIC AND SEMANTICS (OWLS) ** ** https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vicaryjo/owls/ ** The Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics is an online-only series of research talks, highlighting the most exciting recent work in the international computer science logic community. In this time of restricted international travel, a key aim of this series is to provide a forum for informal discussion and social interaction that is so important for the progress of science. To facilitate this, the seminar incorporates in virtual form a number of features more normally associated with physical meetings, including virtual "coffee breaks" before and after the seminar, allowing participants to chat in small groups. (Don't forget to bring your own coffee.) Starting this Wednesday, we are excited to announce the first of our OWLS Young Researcher talks, given by a researcher within 7 years of completing their PhD. A new initiative, these OWLS-YR talks will take place fortnightly, interleaved with regular OWLS talks. Our goal is to give a platform to the excellent work being done by junior members of the community. All members of the community are encouraged to attend these talks. ** UPCOMING PROGRAMME ** Talks take place on Wednesdays at 2pm UTC+1. Abstracts are available at the OWLS homepage. Visit this link to sign up for reminder emails on the day of the talk: https://bit.ly/3cm0GZG - 3 June (OWLS-YR). Dmitry Chistikov, University of Warwick, "Parikh's theorem from the complexity viewpoint" - 10 June (OWLS). Valeria Vignudelli, ENS Lyon, "Monads and quantitative equational theories for nondeterminism and probability" - 17 June (OWLS-YR). Marie Fortin, University of Liverpool, "FO=FO3 for linear orders with monotone binary relations" - 24 June (OWLS). Anupam Das, University of Birmingham - 1 July (OWLS-YR). Amina Doumane, CNRS, ENS de Lyon - 8 July (OWLS). Christine Tasson, IRIF, Paris - 15 July (OWLS-YR). Justin Hsu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, "A separation logic for probabilistic independence" - 22 July (OWLS). Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University ** SEMINAR INFORMATION ** Talks are fully interactive, with audience members able to see the speaker's face at the same time as the slides, and able to ask questions with full audio and video, just as they would in a physical seminar, allowing the nuanced communication that is so critical for modern science. After and before each seminar, the participants split into small groups for informal discussion, an optional feature of the seminars which has already become a favourite feature of the series for many of the regular participants. Everybody is welcome to join these friendly discussions. The seminar series is based on the Zoom technology platform, which is capable of handling large meetings with ease. Visit the OWLS webpage given at the top of this email for more information about the seminar. Best wishes, the organizers: - Nathanaël Fijalkow, CNRS, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France - Charles Grellois, Université Aix-Marseille, France. - S. Krishna, IIT Bombay, India - Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan - Alexandra Silva, University College London - Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology - Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge