POWVER PhD and PostDoc openings at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
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http://www.powver.org/open-positions/
As part of the ERC Advanced Investigators Grant awarded to
Prof. Holger Hermanns, the five-year project POWVER seeks excellent
applicants for PhD student positions, Postdoc positions, and expert
engineer positions.
Embedded software innovations boost our society. But at the same time,
proprietary embedded software locks us out of the products we own. A
modern electronic device can only be controlled and maintained to the
extent enabled by the proprietary embedded software running the
device.
POWVER addresses this problem as its central concern. It will break
open the (by now) traditional embedded software development process,
so as to empower device users to gain back control over their
devices. To make this possible, POWVER provides them with quantitative
verification technology for system level correctness, safety,
dependability and performability of open embedded software. In this
endeavour, it focusses on embedded software for electric power
management, because electric power is vital for mobile devices and
their longevity. The spearhead application focus will be on light
electric vehicles, set up as a blueprint for other battery-powered
appliances.
To arrive at these objectives, we look for excellent
PhD students,
Postdocs, and
expert engineers
with a solid background
in software verification and quality assurance,
in quantitative formal methods,
in embedded software design,
in systems engineering of battery-powered appliances, or
in development or project management related to electric vehicles.
The POWVER project is carried out at the Chair for Dependable Systems
and Software in the Department of Computer Science of Saarland
University in Saarbrücken, Germany, on Saarland Informatics Campus,
where the department joins forces with the Max-Planck-Institutes for
Informatics and for Software Systems, the German Excellence Cluster
``Multimodal Computing and Interaction'', the German Research Center
for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, the Intel Visual Computing Institute
and several other research institutes, all in all with some 500
researchers, and spanned by the Saarbrücken Graduate School of
Computer Science. Thus, successful applicants will get the possibility
to work in a highly creative international environment and to conduct
very competitive research on a global scale.
PostDoc positions
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Successful candidates hold a PhD degree with a top performance and
have a proven track record in conducting original competitive
scientific research and publishing the results in reputable
conferences and scientific journals. Maturity, self-motivation and the
ability to work both independently and as a team player in local and
international research teams are expected.
Besides a strong theoretical background, interest and experience with
software development, for example verification/analysis tool
prototypes, is very welcome. Good English language skills are
mandatory. The positions are offered for a default period of three years,
starting as soon as possible. A competitive salary and social benefits
will be offered.
PhD positions
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Successful candidates hold an M.Sc. equivalent degree with top
performance in a field that is closely related to computer science,
mathematics or embedded systems engineering. The candidates should
have interest in performing original highly competitive scientific
research, publishing the results in top conferences and scientific
journals. Self-motivation and the ability to work both independently
and as a team player in local and international research teams are
expected. Good English language skills are mandatory. The positions
are offered for a period of three years, starting as soon as possible.
Expert Engineer positions
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Successful candidates hold an academic degree in a field that is
closely related to computer science or systems engineering and should
have a proven track-record in industrial application areas such as
embedded software for electric vehicles, automotive embedded software,
embedded battery management, or electric motor control. Candidates
with management experiences in projects related to electrified cycling
or bike component development are especially encouraged to
apply. Self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and
as a team player in local and international research teams are
expected. Good English language skills are mandatory. The positions
are offered for a default period of three years, starting as soon as
possible. A competitive salary and social benefits will be offered.
Candidates interested in any of these positions are asked to send
further enquiries together with a short statement of research
interests and a short CV to the POWVER principal investigator Holger
Hermanns (hermanns(a)cs.uni-saarland.de) before July 6, 2016.
Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance
with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of
employment, the university actively encourages applications from
women.
Among persons with equal qualification, preference will be given to
people with physical disabilities.
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Call for PARTICIPATION
** THE 2016 UPMARC SUMMER SCHOOL **
The 2016 UPMARC Summer School on Multicore Computing focuses on research trends for scalable and correct multicore programs and systems and will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden during 7-10 June, 2016.
The school is sponsored by the UPMARC research programme of Uppsala University (see upmarc.se<http://upmarc.se/>). In particular, attendance of the summer school is *free*. (There is only a cancellation fee.)
Courses
The school offers lectures given by leading researchers in the area, including:
* Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA
* Marko Bertogna, University of Modena, Italy
* Sebastian Burchardt, Microsoft Research Redmond , USA
* Pontus Ekberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria
* Roland Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Vijay Nagarajan, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Daniel J. Sorin, Duke University, USA
* Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden
In addition, the school will include a session where students will be given the opportunity to present their own research in the area of multicore/parallel computing.
School Objective
The lecturers will both cover foundations and several emerging areas including the design of scalable data structures, building and maintaining large actor systems, understanding replication and consistency models, and the analysis of real-time multi-core systems. We aim to attract graduate students, scientists and young scientists both from academia and industry. Lectures will help in identifying and addressing fundamental challenges that will enable programmers to leverage the potential performance from the ongoing shift to multi-core programming and cloud computing. Our goal is to provide a stimulating environment for participants to meet and establish contacts with other participants, world-class researchers from academia and industry, local faculty, and other senior scientists.
For more information about the school, please see:
http://www.it.uu.se/research/upmarc/events/SS2016/ss2016/Start.html
We strongly encourage people interested in participating to register as soon as possible.
Deadlines:
• May 2nd for Registration to the Summer School.
Best regards,
Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Kostis Sagonas and Roland Grönroos
Liebe D-CONdianer,
In about two months from now we are hoping to welcome you to *D-CON
2016* in Saarbrücken: March 7/8 are the dates.
We are most happy to announce that the D-CON 2016 invited speaker will
be *Rupak Majumdar* from MPI-SWS.
All relevant information concerning D-CON 2016 is being assembled at:
https://depend.cs.uni-sb.de/index.php?id=598
We are now asking for contributions to the programme, be it topics for
presentations or for general discussion. Please *send us your
suggestions* within a month from now, at the latest on Monday, Feb 8.
Registration is already open, and is performed by sending a brief note
to either myself or to Alexander Graf-Brill
<grafbrill(a)depend.uni-saarland.de>.
Hotel accomodation will be on a *book-your-own* basis. Contact Christa
Schäfer <schaefer(a)cs.uni-saarland.de> if you need assistance with room
bookings.
Be advised to book your hotel as soon as possible. See the website for
hotel suggestions and travel information.
For your travel scheduling: We plan to start D-CON on Monday, March 7 at
09:00, and finish at 15:30 (at the latest) on Tuesday, March 8, so that
presumably all participants are able to get home the same day.
We suggest to plan your arrival for Sunday, March 6 (or earlier, sure).
We are looking forward to seeing you at D-CON 2016 in Saarbrücken!
Beste Grüße,
Holger und Alexander
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hermanns
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: :::: : Department of Computer Science
::::::: ::::::: Saarland University
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
depend.cs.uni-saarland.de Phone:+49 681 302-5630 Fax:-5636
Liebe D-CONdianer,
this is an advance note that the 2016 meeting of D-CON will take place
March 7th and 8th, 2016
in Saarbrücken, on the premises of our campus.
The workshop will tentatively follow the established format of previous
years. I invite suggestions of any kind now, just send them to me.
More info follows soon.
Beste Grüße,
Holger
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hermanns
:::::::::: :::::::::: Dependable Systems & Software
: :::: : Department of Computer Science
::::::: ::::::: Saarland University
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
depend.cs.uni-saarland.de Phone:+49 681 302-5630 Fax:-5636
The Theoretical Computer Science Group (Prof. Barbara Koenig) at the
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) has one open PhD position
paid according to TV-L 13 (full-time). Candidates at post-doc level
can also be considered (and will start with a higher salary level
within TV-L 13).
For more information have a look at our web pages:
http://www.ti.inf.uni-due.de/
Our current main research areas are:
* Verification of graph transformation systems
* Behavioural equivalences and behavioural metrics
Requirements
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You should have or should be in the process of obtaining a MSc or
equivalent degree. We prefer applicants with prior experience in some
of the following topics: graph transformation systems, Petri nets,
verification, concurrency theory, behavioural equivalences, coalgebra,
logic and/or process mining. Good English speaking and writing skills
are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn German.
Applicants for the post-doc position should have or should be in the
process of obtaining a PhD. They should be working on at least one of
the topics mentioned above.
Your Application
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You can obtain further information by adressing your enquiries to:
Barbara Koenig
barbara_koenig(a)uni-due.de
tel.: ++49-203-3793397
If you are interested in the position, please send your e-mail
application to the address given above until 10 April 2015. Your
application should include:
* A description of your interest in the topics listed above, including
your motivation and specific qualifications.
* A curriculum vitae, including an abstract of your graduate thesis
and the name of your supervisor.
* If you are applying for a post-doc position, please include
a list of your publications and the names of possible referees.
Dear colleague,
D-CON '15 is approaching fast and finally we fixed the workshop schedule. It can now be found on the D-CON webpage:
http://moves.rwth-aachen.de/d-con2015/program/
Following the tradition of previous D-CON workshops we would like to organise an (informal) dinner on Wednesday evening starting around 7 p.m.
It will take place at Restaurant China, located in the city of Kerkrade, Markt 20.
Moreover, the Rolduc team offers a guided tour (about half an hour) through the abbey if we can gather a small group of people.
Please let us know by *23rd of February* whether you would like to join the dinner and/or the guided tour.
Regards,
Christina & Thomas
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D-CON 2015 Organisers
d-con2015(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de
ICALP 2015
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp2015/
Second Call for Papers
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The 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and
Programming (ICALP) will take place in the period 6-10 July 2015 in
Kyoto, Japan. The conference will co-locate with LICS 2015, the 30th
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. The ICALP 2015
conference chair is Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University).
ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, the
main conference will be preceded and/or followed by a series of
workshops.
Important dates
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Submission deadline: Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 23:59 PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8)
Author notification: 15 April 2015
Final manuscript due: 30 April 2015
Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered.
Proceedings
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ICALP proceedings are published in the Springer-Verlag ARCoSS
(Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of
LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Invited Speakers
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Ken Kawarabayashi, NII, Japan
Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
Thomas Moscibroda, MSR Asia, China
Anca Muscholl, Universite Bordeaux, France (Joint with LICS)
Peter O'Hearn, Facebook, UK (Joint with LICS)
Invited Tutorial Speakers (Joint with LICS)
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Piotr Indyk, MIT, USA
Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK
Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University, USA
Masterclass speaker
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Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST, Japan
Topics
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Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical
computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of
interest are:
Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
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* Algorithmic Game Theory
* Approximation Algorithms
* Combinatorial Optimization
* Combinatorics in Computer Science
* Computational Biology
* Computational Complexity
* Computational Geometry
* Cryptography
* Data Structures
* Design and Analysis of Algorithms
* Machine Learning
* Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing
* Randomness in Computation
* Quantum Computing
Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming
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* Algebraic and Categorical Models
* Automata, Games, and Formal Languages
* Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation
* Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory
* Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages
* Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking
* Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems
* Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems
* Program Analysis and Transformation
* Specification, Refinement, Verification and Synthesis
* Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi
Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation:
Models, Algorithms and Information Management
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* Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking
* Formal Methods for Network Information Management
* Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Networks
* Mobile and Wireless Networks and Communication
* Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks
* Networks of Low Capability Devices
* Network Mining and Analysis
* Overlay Networks and P2P Systems
* Specification, Semantics, Synchronization of Networked Systems
* Theory of Security in Networks
Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12
pages, including references, in LNCS style presenting original
research on the theory of Computer Science. All submissions will be
electronic via the EasyChair page for the conference, with three
tracks (A, B and C):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2015
Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference.
No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other publication
outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed.
Submissions must adhere to the specified format and
length. Submissions that are too long or formatted incorrectly may be
rejected immediately. All the technical details that are necessary
for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in
a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of
program committee members. This includes, in particular, the proofs of
all the key theorems in a paper.
Should I submit my paper to Track A or Track C?
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While the scope of Tracks A and B are generally well understood given
their long history, the situation for Track C may be less obvious. In
particular, some clarifications may be helpful regarding areas of
potential overlap, especially between Tracks A and C.
The aim for Track C is to be the leading venue for theory papers truly
motivated by networking applications, and/or proposing theoretical
results relevant to real networking, certified analytically, but not
necessarily tested practically. The motivation for the track was the
lack of good venues for theory papers motivated by applications in
networking. On the one hand, the good networking conferences typically
ask for extended experiments and/or simulations, while the TCS
community is hardly able to do such experiments or simulations. On the
other hand, the good conferences on algorithms tend to judge a paper
based only on its technical difficulty and on its significance from an
algorithmic perspective, which may not be the same as when judging the
paper from the perspective of impact on networks.
Several areas of algorithmic study of interest to track C have a broad
overlap with track A. Graph algorithmics can belong in either, though
if the work is not linked to networking, it is more appropriate in
track A. Algorithmic game theory is another area of major
overlap. Aspects involving complexity, the computation of equilibria
and approximations, belong more in Track A, while results with
applications in auctions, networks and some aspects of mechanism
design belong in Track C.
Finally, it should be noted that algorithms and complexity of
message-passing based distributed computing belong squarely in track
C, while certain other aspects of distributed computing do not fall
under its scope.
Best Paper Awards
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As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best
student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be
eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored
only by students and should be marked as such upon submission.
Committees
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Track A: Algorithms, complexity, and games
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Peyman Afshani, Aarhus University, Denmark
Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH, South Korea
Hans Bodlaender Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Karl Bringmann, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany
Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ken Clarkson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Eric Colin de Verdiere, École Normale Supérieure Paris, France
Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw, Poland
David Eppstein, University of California at Irvine, USA
Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Paul Goldberg, University of Oxford, UK
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrei Krokhin, Durham University, UK
Asaf Levin, Technion, Israel
Inge Li Gortz, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Pinyan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Frederic Magniez, Universite Paris Diderot, France
Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan
Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Wolfgang Mulzer, Free University Berlin, Germany
Viswanath Nagarajan, University of Michigan, USA
Vicky Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Michal Pilipczuk, University of Bergen, Norway
Liam Roditty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Rocco Servedio, Columbia University, USA
Jens Schmidt, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Bettina Speckmann (chair), TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Csaba D. Toth, California State University Northridge, USA
Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany
Rob van Stee, University of Leicester, UK
Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy
Track B: Logic, semantics, automata and theory of Programming
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Andreas Abel, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden
Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark,
Luis Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy
Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, France
Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged, Hungary
Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan
Naoki Kobayashi (chair), The University of Tokyo, Japan
Eric Koskinen, New York University, USA
Antonín Kucera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel
Annabelle Mclver, Macquarie University, Australia
Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay, France
Markus Mueller-Olm, University of Münster, Germany
Andrzej Murawski, Univeristy of Warwick, UK
Joel Ouaknine, Univeristy of Oxford, UK
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada
Pawel Parys, University. of Warsaw, Poland
Reinhard Pichler, TU Vienna, Austria
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino, Italy
Jeremy Siek, Indiana University, USA
Track C: Foundations of networked computation:
Models, algorithms and information management
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Ioannis Caragiannis, Univ. Patras, Greece
Katarina Cechlarova, Pavol Jozef Safarik Univ., Slovakia
Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel
Sandor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Paris Diderot, France
Leszek Gasieniec, Univ. Liverpool, UK
Aristides Gionis, Aalto Univ., Finland
Magnus M. Halldorsson (chair), Reykjavik Univ, Iceland
Monika Henzinger, Univ. Wien, Austria
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USAL
Fabian Kuhn, Freiburg, Germany
Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard Univ, USA
Massimo Merro, Univ. Verona, Italy
Gopal Pandurangan, Univ. Houston, USA
Pino Persiano, Salerno, Italy
R. Ravi, CMU, USA
Ymir Vigfusson, Emory Univ., USA
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu Univ., Japan
Dear colleague,
we have received two discussion and 19 talk proposals for D-CON. Thanks for that! To make sure that all speakers/discussion leaders have a decent amount of time (45-minute slot) to present their topics, we are planning to organise two parallel presentation tracks.
We have set up a foodle where you can indicate the discussions/talks you would like to attend:
https://terminplaner2.dfn.de/foodle/D-Con-2015-54cf5
The abstracts of the topics can be found on the D-CON `15 website at
http://moves.rwth-aachen.de/d-con2015/program/
Please fill in the foodle by * 09.02.2015 *.
The program planning is then determined based on the attendees preferences and will be announced on 16.02.2015.
See you in Rolduc!
Regards,
Christina & Thomas
—
D-CON 2015 Organisers
d-con2015(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de <mailto:d-con2015@cs.rwth-aachen.de>
Dear colleague,
the D-CON 2015 Workshop <http://moves.rwth-aachen.de/d-con2015/> is
approaching rapidly. We would therefore like to invite all participants
to propose topics for their presentations or for general discussion.
Please do so
* by the end of this week (30 January) *
such that we can soon start to set up the workshop program.
So far, the following presentations have been announced:
Marieke Huisman (Twente): Invited Talk
[please provide title & abstract]
Sascha Fendrich (Bamberg): Nondeterministic Modal Interfaces
Henning Kerstan (Duisburg-Essen): Behavioral Metrics via Functor Lifting
Stefan Rieger (TWT): Formal Modeling and Analysis in Industry -
Exemplary Application to the European Train Control System (ETCS)
[please provide an abstract]
We are looking forward to an interesting D-CON 2015 Workshop!
Best regards,
Christina & Thomas
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D-CON 2015 Organisers
d-con2015(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de
Liebe D-Conners,
anbei eine aktuelle Übersicht über die Mitgliedszahlen und Kategorien.
Meine Sprecherschaft, ebenso wie die Stellvertretung durch Markus Müller-Olm, geht noch bis März 2016, so dass im Rahmen von D-CON 2015 erst mal keine Neuwahlen anstehen.
Wer sich bei dieser Gelegenheit daran erinnert sieht, doch schon vor längerer Zeit der Fachgruppe beigetreten sein zu wollen, darf dem gerne nun nachkommen. ;-)
BG,
== Uwe ==
