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Call for Participation. CiE 2021: Connecting with computability
by acie＠acie.eu 28 May '21

28 May '21

(Apologies for multiple postings.) ====================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== CiE 2021: Connecting with computability 5 - 9 July 2021 website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1] **Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.** _Registration now open_ CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2]. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and virtually in Salerno (2020) REGISTRATION: ========================= CiE 2021 will be hosted virtually. In order to enhance the social dimension of the conference we will be using gather.town with Zoom integrated. In order to register for CiE 2021, please go to: https://www.cie2021.ugent.be/registration-form/ Registration is free but required. PLENARY SPEAKERS ========================= Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway) Markus Lohrey (Universität Siegen. Germany) Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US) Joan Rand Moschovakis (Occidental College, emerita) Joël Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany) Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Université Paris Diderot, France) Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada) SPECIAL SESSIONS ========================= /Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/ Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) _/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_ Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin) _/Computational geometry/_ Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Maarten Löffler (Utrecht University, Netherlands) /Computational Pangenomics/ Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) _/Proof theory and computation/_ David Fernández Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium) _/Quantum computation and information/_ Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY ========================= The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in Computability, see: https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [3] ORGANIZED BY: ========================= Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University Organizing Committee: David Fernández-Duque, chair (Ghent University) Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University) David Belanger (Ghent University) Ana Borges (University of Barcelona) Liesbeth De Mol (University of Lille) Andreas Debrouwere (Ghent University) Lorenz Demey (Catholic University of Leuven) Eduardo Hermo-Reyes (University of Barcelona) Christian Michaux (University of Mons) Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University) Pawel Pawlowski (Ghent University) Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University) Peter Verdée (Catholic University of Louvain) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ========================= Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay) Christel Baier (TU Dresden) Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Paris-Est) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University) David Bélanger (Ghent University) Joel Day (Loughborough University) Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Université de Lille, PC co-chair) Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS) Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans) David Fernández-Duque (Ghent University) Zuzana Haniková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) Florin Manea (University of Göttingen) Irène Marcovici (Université de Lorraine) Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan) Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova) Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Università di Torino) Paul Shafer (University of Leeds) Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2) Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University) Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore) Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Sergey Verlan (Université Paris Est - Créteil Val de Marne) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair) Damien Woods (Maynooth University) Links: ------ [1] http://www.CiE2021.ugent.be/ [2] https://www.acie.eu/ [3] https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/

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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master’s Students in Computer Science_DL: November 30
by Traxler, Alexandra 26 May '21

26 May '21

Grant: Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master’s Students in Computer Science - Scholarship for women in mathematics/computer science – Annual Deadline: November 30 The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend from motivated and outstanding female master's students who plan to pursue one of the programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English in one of the following semesters: - winter semester 2021/2022 - summer semester 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------- HELMUT VEITH STIPEND ------------------------------------------------------------- The Helmut Veith Stipend is awarded annually to exceptionally talented and motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master's programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English and have (or have the interest to develop) a solid mathematical and technical background in at least one of the areas in which Austrian scientist Helmut Veith worked. The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. The Helmut Veith Stipend's fund is set up by the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), the Wolfgang Pauli Institute, and the colleagues and friends of the late Prof. Veith. ------------------------------------------------------------- Award ------------------------------------------------------------- Students who are awarded the Helmut Veith Stipend receive: -EUR 6000 annually for a duration of up to two years. -Waiver of all tuition fees at TU Wien. ------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Applicants must be eligible for admission to one of the master's programs in computer science at TU Wien that are taught in English. In 2021/2022 those are: • Logic and Computation • Business Informatics • Computer Engineering • Data Science • Media and Human-Centered Computing 2. While applications for funding can be filed before or in parallel with the admissions process, the funding will only be awarded to applicants who have been unconditionally admitted to the master's program. An application for funding does not replace the admissions process; neither does a conditional offer of funding entitle the applicant to study at TU Wien. 3. Female students who meet the following conditions are eligible to apply for the stipend: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics (Bologna first cycle) or equivalent degree • Extensive mathematical and technical knowledge and interest in (at least one of) Helmut Veith's areas of research: -Logic in Computer Science -Formal Methods and Verification -Foundations of Artificial Intelligence -Algorithms and Complexity Theory -Computer Security • Proficiency in English ------------------------------------------------------------- Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------- • Recipients of funding must be committed to demonstrating good progress during their studies, i.e.: -obtain at least 25 ECTS credits from the respective master's curriculum per term on average since the beginning of their master's studies (the deadlines are April 30 for the winter term and November 30 for the summer term), and -achieve a grade average of at most 1.5. • Recipients of funding have to reside in Austria during term time for the duration of their studies. Exceptions and temporary interruptions of the stay during term time (e.g., for internships or research visits) are subject to approval. • The stipend is provided for the duration of the master's program (subject to the conditions listed above), for up to 2 years. ------------------------------------------------------------- Application Process ------------------------------------------------------------- Students are required to submit the following documents: • Cover Letter, describing the type of funding the student is applying for, and all other aspects the student deems relevant for the application • Curriculum Vitae • Motivation Letter, describing why the student wants to study in the program Logic and Computation, why funding is necessary, and with which groups of the faculty the student would be interested to work with during their master's thesis and why. • Reports on university examinations (transcripts) • Diplomas and/or certificates (first degree, bachelor degree, or higher). If the final academic certificate is not yet available at the time of the application deadline, a preliminary certificate (indicating the type of degree and the expected graduation date) signed and stamped by the degree-awarding university must be provided. • Contact details of two referees (for letters of recommendation) • English language certificate (TOEFL or similar) • Copy of passport A certified translation needs to be provided for documents that are not in German or English. Your application must be submitted electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at<mailto:master@logic-cs.at> with the subject "Application" as a single PDF document. The name of the PDF file needs to be "document.pdf" ------------------------------------------------------------- Application Deadline ------------------------------------------------------------- The annual deadline for applications is November 30. ------------------------------------------------------------- Questions? ------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information on the Stipend: http://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend Please do not hesitate to contact master(a)logic-cs.at<mailto:master@logic-cs.at>

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[Vardi-list] Technology is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?
by Moshe Y Vardi 23 May '21

23 May '21

In this year’s Gödel lecture, Moshe Vardi will explain why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society. https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2020?utm_campaign=feed&utm_term=news _______________________________________________ Vardi-list mailing list Vardi-list(a)mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/vardi-list

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Call for Papers: 8th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL'21)
by Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein) 22 May '21

22 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* 8th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL'21) https://www.fedcsis.org/2021/sew-iwcps Organized within 2021 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS'21; IEEE #52320) ***************************** COVID-19 Information **************************** While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS 2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we will be able to meet in person. FedCSIS organizers ******************************************************************************* FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE Programming languages (PLs) are programmers' most basic tools. With appropriate programming languages one can drastically reduce the cost of building new applications as well as maintaining existing ones. In the last decades there have been many advances in PL technology in traditional programming paradigms such as functional, logic, and object-oriented programming, as well as the development of new paradigms such as aspect-oriented programming. The main driving force was and will be to better express programmers' ideas. Therefore, research in programming languages is an endless activity and the core of computer science. New language features, new programming paradigms, and better compile-time and run-time mechanisms can be foreseen in the future. The aim of this session is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. Original papers and implementation reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. This year, a special attention will be given to submissions on programming research in mainstream languages. That can include, but is not limited to: • porting existing results from research languages to mainstream ones to examine their interplay with other features than those carefully cherry-picked for the targeted research. And, • gauging generality of research results by studying their obtainability using different sets of features than originally thought of. Such submission needs to clarify the added value of performing their research in a mainstream language (over a lab one). Topics: Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: • Software language engineering • Interplay between languages and machine learning (and other branches of AI), especially for Code Repair and Code Smells • Interplay between languages and security • Automata theory and applications • Compiling techniques • Context-oriented programming languages to specify the behavior of software systems and dynamic adaptations • Domain-specific languages • Formal semantics and syntax • Generative and generic programming • Grammarware and grammar based systems • Knowledge engineering languages, integration of knowledge engineering and software engineering • Languages and tools for trustworthy computing • Language theory and applications • Language concepts, design and implementation • Markup languages (XML) • Metamodeling and modeling languages • Model-driven engineering languages and systems • Practical experiences with programming languages • Program analysis, optimization and verification • Program generation and transformation • Programming paradigms (aspect-oriented, functional, logic, object-oriented, etc.) • Programming tools and environments • Proof theory for programs • Specification languages • Type systems • Virtual machines and just-in-time compilation • Visual programming languages ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in two categories: Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Each award carries a prize of 300 EUR founded by the Mazowsze Chapter of the Polish Information Processing Society. The awards have been originally associated with the International Symposium on Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (AAIA) held every year as a part of FedCSIS. Currently, all papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the award winners. This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions). Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award PAPER PUBLICATION: • Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file). • The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. • Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. • Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. • Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. • Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. • Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar • Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions. • Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). IMPORTANT DATES: + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 24, 2021, 23:59:59 (UCT-12; there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 14, 2021 + Author notification: July 5, 2021 + Final paper submission and registration: July 26, 2021 + Conference date: September 2-5, 2021 Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. STEERING COMMITTEE: • Janousek, Jan, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic • Luković, Ivan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia • Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia • Slivnik, Boštjan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Rangel Henriques, Pedro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal • Varanda Pereira, Maria Joao, Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE: • Barisic, Ankica, Université Côte d'Azur, France • Blasband, Darius, RainCode Labs, Belgium • Falcou, Joel, Univeristé Paris Sud, France • Fernandes, Joao • Horváth, Zoltán, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary • Kardas, Geylani, Ege University, Turkey • Keir, Paul, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom • Kosar, Tomaz, University of Maribor, Slovenia • Mandreoli, Federica, DII - University of Modena, Italy • Milašinović, Boris, University of Zagreb, Hungary • Papaspyrou, Nikolaos S., National Technical University of Athens, Greece • Porubän, Jaroslav, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia • Ramezanian, Rasoul, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran • Saraiva, Joao, Universidade do Minho, Portugal • Sierra, Jose Luis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain • Singer, Jeremy, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom • Varanda Pereira, Maria Jo?o, Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal • Zaytsev, Vadim, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIR: • Seyed Hossein Haeri, IOHK and University of Bergen, Norway Contact: hossein.haeri(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein), Dr. Software Scientist Formal Methods Team IOHK Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Informatics University of Bergen, Norway ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ICALP 2021: Call for Student Volunteers
by Simon Gay 21 May '21

21 May '21

ICALP 2021 is offering a student volunteer programme which offers free registration in exchange for technical assistance with running the sessions. Please check http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ for details. The main duties of a student volunteer: - To provide support in technical sessions, either for the main conference or workshops or both. This mainly consists of helping presenters to work with the online conference platform. Training will be given. - To help with social sessions, in as-yet-unspecified ways – for example, helping to assign people to groups, or technical troubleshooting. - To answer queries from conference participants, passing such queries to members of the organising committee if necessary. The dates when you will be needed are as follows: - Morning of the 1st and afternoon of the 2nd July for conference rehearsal and training. - Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th July inclusive for the main conference - though you will only be asked to volunteer over two of these days. We will do our best to accomodate preferences in our scheduling. The benefits of volunteering: - Helping with a major event. - Experience for your CV. - Free registration for the conference, including access to social events and invited talks. However, you will not have a free choice of technical sessions because you will be assigned to certain sessions as a volunteer. - Camaraderie with fellow volunteers, and our gratitude - we are planning appreciation events for our student volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please see the draft job description, and email Dr Jess Enright (jessica.enright(a)glasgow.ac.uk) to register your interest, including “ICALP Student Volunteer” in the subject line. Applications are open until sufficient volunteers are recruited, or until June 18th at the latest. You should be notified of the outcome of your application within 5 business days of your application.

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Logica Universalis Webinar - May 19 - A Bunch of Diagrammatic Methods for Syllogistic by Frank Sautter
by Antje Herbst 18 May '21

18 May '21

Join the Logica Universalis Webinar! The next session will be held on Wednesday, May 19 at 4pm CEST with the talk A Bunch of Diagrammatic Methods for Syllogistic<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-019-00220-6> by Frank Sautter<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ufsm.academia.edu_Fran…> (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil) Chair: Itala D'Ottaviano<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pt.wikipedia.org_wiki_…> Member of the Editorial Board of LU Associate Organization: Brazilian Logic Society<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sbl.org.br_&d=DwMG-g&c=…> presented by its president, Cezar Mortari<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fil.cfh.ufsc.br_cezar-…> The Logica Universalis Webinar is a World Seminar Series connected to the journal Logica Universalis<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/>, the book series Studies in Universal Logic<https://www.springer.com/series/7391> and the Universal Logic Project<https://logica-universalis.org/>. It is an open platform for all scholars interested in the many aspects of logic. (See the full program here<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/18988758>.) The sessions take place on Wednesdays at 4pm CEST (click here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Logica+Universali…> to convert to your timezone). They are held via Zoom and are free to attend. Please register in advance. Registration is now open!<https://springer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdu6vrzMiHda_iDhjxw9vA9d7we9gT…> Each session of the webinar is chaired by a member of the editorial board of the journal Logica Universalis (LU), the book series Studies in Universal Logic (SUL) or an organizer of an event of the Universal Logic Project (ULP). Sessions will start with a short presentation of a logical organization related to the region of the speaker or the topic of the talk. The talk (30 min) will focus on a recently published paper in LU, on a book in SUL, on an event or on the ULP. Talks are followed by a discussion (15 min). Video recordings of the seminars are uploaded on the YouTube channel Universal Logic Project<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPS1c5ApuwjuCV9UjXHUN4w>. --- To unsubscribe from these notifications for the Logica Universalis Webinar send a message with 'Unsubscribe' to this e-mail address (antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com>). -- Antje Herbst Associate Editor Mathematics Journals Springer Nature Tiergartenstraße 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany T +49 62214878984 antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com> www.springernature.com<http://www.springernature.com/> -- Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people - helping researchers, students, teachers & professionals to discover, learn and achieve. -- Branch of Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany Registered Office: Berlin / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 91881 B Directors: Martin Mos, Dr. Ulrich Vest, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas

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27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 25th)
by Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 17 May '21

17 May '21

(DEADLINE EXTENDED: *May 25th*) [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. It is scientifically sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2021 EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2021 issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (Oxford Univ Press). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cláudia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) IMPORTANT DATES *May 25, 2021: Full paper deadline * June 29, 2021: Author notification July 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) Arthur Azevedo de Amorim (Boston University, USA) Paul Brunet (University College London, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Justin Hsu (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA, and Univ Birmingham, UK) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Angus Macintyre, Hiroakira Ono, Jouko Väänänen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS It is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death. It is a joint production (still on its course) of The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and George Csicsery (Zala Films): ‘Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani’. “The biographical film is about Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant woman, and Muslim immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. The story of her life will be complemented with sections about Mirzakhani’s mathematical contributions, as explained by colleagues and illustrated with animated sequences. Throughout, we will look for clues about the sources of Mirzakhani’s insights and creativity." (http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/

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ICALP 2021 Call for Participation
by Simon Gay 14 May '21

14 May '21

==================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming ICALP 2021 online from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, 13-16 July 2021 https://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/ ==================================================================== ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). * Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games (PC Chair: Nikhil Bansal, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming (PC Chair: James Worrell, University of Oxford, UK) ================ Invited Speakers ================ Unifying Invited Speakers: Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Toniann Pitassi, University of Toronto, Canada Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Track A Invited Speakers: Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Track B Invited Speaker: Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany ================== Contributed papers ================== http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/accepted/ ================= Conference format ================= * Afternoons, European time, 13-16 July * Full-length invited talks * Contributed papers have 5-minute live talk, live Q&A, 25-minute video available in advance * Workshops: full day, European time, 11-12 July =========================== Workshops - 11-12 July 2021 =========================== * Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs IV Organisers: George B. Mertzios, Paul G. Spirakis, Eleni C. Akrida, Viktor Zamaraev http://community.dur.ac.uk/george.mertzios/Workshops/ICALP-21-Satellite/Tem… * VEST: Verification of Session Types Organisers: Ornela Dardha, António Ravara https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home * 2nd Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages (PRiML 2021) Organisers: Seyed Hossein, Paul Keir * Graph Width Parameters: from Structure to Algorithms (GWP 2021) Organisers: Flavia Bonomo, Nick Brettell, Andrea Munaro, Daniel Paulusma * Combinatorial Reconfiguration Organisers: Takehiro Ito, Jun Kawahara, Yoshio Okamoto https://core.dais.is.tohoku.ac.jp/en/report/event/detail/---id-27.html * Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools Organisers: Jan Křetínský, Maximilian Weininger, Thomas Zeume https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html * Flavours of Uncertainty in Verification, Planning and Optimization (FUNCTION) Organisers: Moritz Hahn, Nils Jansen, Gethin Norman https://function-2021.cs.ru.nl ============ Registration ============ http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ * Author registration until 15 June * Standard registration until 30 June * Late registration from 1 July * Low-cost registration for non-authors * Free registration for PhD students at Scottish universities, sponsored by SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance). Free registrations are limited to 2 author registrations and 30 non-author registrations, and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. ================== Student volunteers ================== We have a student volunteer programme which offers free registration in exchange for technical assistance with running the sessions. Please check http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ for details. =============================== ICALP 2021 Organizing Committee =============================== Simon Gay, Conference Chair Oana Andrei Ornela Dardha Jessica Enright David Manlove Kitty Meeks Alice Miller Gethin Norman Sofiat Olaosebikan Michele Sevegnani ========== Contact us ========== For enquiries on academic programme please contact: Local Organizing Committee Email: icalp2021(a)glasgow.ac.uk For enquiries, registration support, travel and logistics please contact: Easy Conferences Email: info(a)easyconferences.eu Tel: +357 22 591 900 =============== Twitter Account =============== @ICALPconf https://twitter.com/ICALPconf

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RAMiCS 2021 - Deadline Extension
by luigi.santocanale＠lis-lab.fr 12 May '21

12 May '21

Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please re-distribute as you see fit. DEADLINE EXTENSION We have decided to extend the deadlines for RAMiCS 2021 by *two weeks*, please see below for the new deadlines and the CfP. 19th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science RAMiCS 2021 2 to 5 November 2021, CIRM, Marseille, France https://ramics19.lis-lab.fr/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 28 May 2021 Paper Submission: 4 June 2021 Author Notification: 23 July 2021 Final Version: 12 August 2021 RAMiCS 2021: 2 to 5 November 2021 INVITED TALKS: Marcelo Frias, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina Barbara König, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Dmitriy Zhuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia GENERAL INFORMATION: Since 1994, the RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodological tools in computer science and beyond. RAMiCS 2021 will take place at CIRM, the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques at the beautiful Luminy campus close to Marseille. Depending on the Covid-19 situation, it will take the form of a physical conference, a virtual conference, or a hybrid between the two. There will be no registration fees to the conference. A limited number of grants, covering lodging and catering, are supplied by CIRM and the Archimède Institute. TOPICS: We invite submissions in the general fields of algebras relevant to computer science and applications of such algebras. Topics include but are not limited to: * Theory - algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales - their connections with program logics and other logics - their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages - the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories - their formalisation with theorem provers * Applications - tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification - quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes - algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control - industrial applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submission is via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics2021 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. The proceedings will be published in an LNCS volume by Springer, ready at the conference. Submissions must not be published or under review for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in English using a PDF not exceeding 16 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must provide sufficient information to judge their merits. Additional material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix or by a reference to a manuscript on a web site. Experimental data, software or mathematical components for theorem provers must be available in sufficient detail for referees. Deviation from these requirements may lead to rejection. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Accepted papers must be produced with LaTeX. Formatting instructions and LNCS style files are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html As for earlier RAMiCS conferences, we intend to publish a journal special issue with revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers. COMMITTEES: Organising Committee -------------------- Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Mai Gehrke, LJAD CNRS, France Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole polytechnique, France Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Luigi Santocanale, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France Programme Committee ------------------- Bahareh Afshari, University of Amsterdam, Holland Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Manuel Bodirsky, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Ignacio Fábregas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole polytechnique, France Hitoshi Furusawa, Kagoshima University, Japan Mai Gehrke, LJAD CNRS, France Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roland Glueck, German Aerospace Center, Germany Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Peter Höfner, Australian National University, Australia Ali Jaoua, Qatar University, Qatar Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Sebastiaan Joosten, Dartmouth College, USA Laura Kovacz, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Tadeusz Litak, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany Roger Maddux, Iowa State University, USA Dale Miller, Ecole polytechnique, France Martin Mueller, University of Augsburg, Germany Daniela Petrisan, IRIF, University Paris 7, France Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France David Pym, University College, London, UK Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College, London, UK Luigi Santocanale, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France Georg Struth, University of Sheffield, UK Sam van Gool, IRIF, University Paris 7, France Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada

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CfP: Extended deadline: CompLingInfoReasAI'21 / Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021
by Roussanka Loukanova 11 May '21

11 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021 (CompLingInfoReasAI'21) Salamanca, Spain, 6th-8th October, 2021, HYBRID https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/clirai ** Extended Deadline for paper submissions: 28th May, 2021 ** SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications: - Theorem provers and assistants - Model checkers - Theory of computation - Theory of information - Computational methods of inferences in natural language - Computational theories and systems of reasoning in natural language - Transfer of reasoning in natural language to theorem provers, or vice versa - Transfer of reasoning between natural language, theorem provers, model checkers, and various computational assistants - Computational approaches of computational linguistics for domain specific areas - Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Type theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics, natural language processing, argumentation - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to computational linguistics - Information about space and time in language models and processing == - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language and reasoning - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written or spoken language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams, with written and / or spoken language == - Formal models of argumentations - Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog, interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Argumentation in AI applications, e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences == - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submissions: 28th May, 2021 Notification of acceptance: 18th June, 2021 Camera-ready papers: 2st July, 2021 Conference: 6th-8th October, 2021 PAPER SUBMISSION https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions https://www.dcai-conference.net/submission The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI'21. SUBMITTING PAPERS DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, AISC, series of Springer Verlag. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. CHAIRS Ana Bove, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Roussanka Loukanova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Stockholm University, Sweden Sara Rodríguez, University of Salamanca, Spain ======

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