PHOKION KOLAITIS SPECIAL EVENT: PODS 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sunday, 30 June 2019, from 2:00pm to ~6:15pm http://sigmod2019.org/Kolaitis_Event
* An event in honor of Phokion Kolaitis will take place on Sunday 30 June 2019. We will celebrate Phokion for his fundamental contributions of lasting value to the principles of database systems and computational logic, as well as to mathematical logic and computer science at large. The event comprises talks by some of his closest collaborators. Please join the event to honor Phokion!
* PROGRAM: Welcome and introduction by Georg Gottlob & Wang-Chiew Tan The logical approach to constraint satisfaction Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University Data exchange and beyond: What I've learned from logicians Renée J. Miller, Northeastern University Containment of conjunctive queries with inequalities Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens Learning database queries and schema mappings Balder ten Cate, Google Computational social choice through the lens of databases Benny Kimelfeld, Technion Enumerating repairs Reinhard Pichler, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Generalized quantifiers, games and dependence logic Jouko Väänänen, University of Helsinki Phokion Kolaitis: My office mate for five years, collaborator, mentor and friend. Lefteris Kirousis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
* Note: The SIGMOD organizers require that participants to the event be registered for the SIGMOD/PODS conference or for the conference workshops. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.