SIGLOG Monthly 176 November 1, 2015 ******************************************************************* * Past issues of the newsletter are available at http://lics.siglog.org/newsletters/ * Instructions for submitting an announcement to the newsletter can be found at http://lics.siglog.org/newsletters/inst.html ******************************************************************* TABLE OF CONTENTS * NEWS SIGLOG Executive Committee - Call for nominations LICS 2016 - Call for Papers ACM SIGLOG Announcement The Godel Prize 2016 - Call for Nominations VCLA International Student Awards: Call for Nominations 2015 * DEADLINES Forthcoming Deadlines * CALLS IJCAR 2016 - Call for Workshop Proposals CAV 2016 - Call for Workshop Proposals CMCS 2016 - Call for Papers CAV 2016 - Call for Papers FSCD'16 - Call for papers ABZ 2016 - Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials KR 2016 - Call for Papers ACM CPSS 2016 - Call for Papers WoLLIC 2016 - Call for Papers COMPLEXITY 2016 - Call for Participation * JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships PhD & Postdoc Position at Jacobs University Bremen SIGLOG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Deadline for submitting your name for the ballot: November 25, 2015. * Elections for the SIGLOG Executive Committee will take place in 2016. The four positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary will be voted on then. Any professional member of the ACM who is a member of SIGLOG can run for office. * In January the candidates will publish their vision statements in the SIGLOG Newsletter and the elections will take place later in the year. * Please contact the Chair of the Nominating Committee, Dale.Miller@inria.fr, by November 25, 2015 if you would like to run in this election. THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2016) Call for papers July 5-8, 2016, New York City, USA http://lics.siglog.org/lics16/ * SCOPE The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. * IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). - Titles and Short Abstracts Due: January 11, 2016 - Full Papers Due: January 18, 2016 - Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: March 14-18, 2016 - Author Notification: April 4, 2016 - Final Versions Due for Proceedings: May 2, 2016 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2016. * SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every full paper must be submitted in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 10pt format and may not be longer than 10 pages, including references. The LaTeX style file is available from the conference website. * KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honor of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. * SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. * SPONSORSHIP The symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGLOG and the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, in cooperation with the Association for Symbolic Logic and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. * PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Natarajan Shankar, SRI International * CONFERENCE CHAIR Eric Koskinen, IBM Research * WORKSHOP CHAIR Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Cachan * PUBLICITY AND PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Sam Staton, U. Oxford * GENERAL CHAIR Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University * LICS STEERING COMMITTEE M. Abadi, R. Alur, P. Bouyer-Decitre, K. Chatterjee, M. Grohe, M. Hasegawa, T. Henzinger, E. Koskinen, S. Kreutzer, O. Kupferman, D. Miller, M. Mislove, L. Ong, C. Palamidessi, N. Shankar, A. Silva, S. Staton, M. Vardi. ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT http://siglog.acm.org * The ACM has recently chartered a Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG). Its first Chair is Prakash Panangaden, the other officers are Luke Ong (vice-Chair), Natarajan Shankar (Treasurer) and Alexandra Silva (Secretary). * The ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science is the flagship conference of SIGLOG. SIGLOG will also actively seek association agreements with other conferences in the field. A SIGLOG newsletter (SIGLOG News) is also published quarterly in an electronic format with community news, technical columns, members' feedback, conference reports, book reviews and other items of interest to the community. * One can join SIGLOG by visiting https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/siglist/gensigqj_siglist.cfm It is possible to join SIGLOG without joining ACM (the SIGLOG membership fee is $25 and $15 for students). THE GODEL PRIZE 2016 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel * Deadline: January 31, 2016 * The Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT). The award is presented annually, with the presentation taking place alternately at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) and the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). The 24th Godel Prize will be awarded at the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, 11-15 July 2016 in Rome, Italy. * AWARD COMMITTEE The winner of the Prize is selected by a committee of six members. The EATCS President and the SIGACT Chair each appoint three members to the committee, to serve staggered three-year terms. The committee is chaired alternately by representatives of EATCS and SIGACT. The 2016 Award Committee consists of Moses Charikar (Stanford University), Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University), Kurt Mehlhorn (Max Planck Institute), Joseph Mitchell (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Andrew Pitts (chair, University of Cambridge) and Madhu Sudan (Harvard University). * NOMINATIONS Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award Committee Chair Andrew.Pitts@cl.cam.ac.uk. Please make sure that the Subject line of all nominations and related messages begin with "Goedel Prize 2016". To be considered, nominations for the 2016 Prize must be received by January 31, 2016. VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2015 http://logic-cs.at/award/award-call-2015/ * The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms announces the 2015 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards and calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: - Outstanding Master Thesis Award, to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis for obtaining a Masters degree or equivalent (2nd cycle Bologna process). - Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, to be given to the author of an outstanding thesis or final project for obtaining a Bachelors degree or equivalent (1st cycle Bologna process). In both categories, the work must make an original contribution to a research field that can be classified as part of Logic in Computer Science, understood broadly as the use of logic as a tool that enables computer programs to reason about the world. The main areas of interest are: Databases and Artificial Intelligence, Verification, Computational Logic The committee will select a winner for each category. The winners will be invited to Vienna to present their project and participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the Outstanding Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a prize of 1,200 EUR, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of 800 EUR. * IMPORTANT DATES: Nomination deadline: November 15, 2015 (AoE) Notification of the committee's decision: early February 2016 Award ceremony: Spring 2016 DATES * IJCAR 2016 Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15th, 2015. http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/ijcar2016 * CAV 2016 Call for Workshop Proposals Proposals are due by December 1st. http://i-cav.org/2016/workshops/ * CMCS 2016 Call for papers April 2-3 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Abstract regular papers: 4 January 2016 Submission regular papers: 13 January 2016 http://www.coalg.org/cmcs16 * CAV 2016 Call for Papers July 17-23, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://i-cav.org/2016/ Abstract submission: January 17, 2016 (Sunday) Paper submission: January 29, 2016 (Friday) * FSCD'16 Call for Papers June 22-26, 2016, Porto, Portugal http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ Abstract submission due: 29 January 2016 * ABZ 2016 Research paper and answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016 Short paper submission: February 4, 2016 Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016 http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/ * KR 2016 Call for papers Conference: Cape Town, South Africa, 25-29 April 2016 Submission of title and abstract deadline: 21 November 2015 http://kr.org/KR2016/ * ACM CPSS 2016 Call for papers Xi'an, China - May 30, 2016 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'16) http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss16/ * WoLLIC 2016 Call for Papers August 16th-19th, 2016, Puebla, Mexico http://wollic.org.wollic2016/ * SPECIAL SEMESTER ON COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND PROOF COMPLEXITY 2016 April-June 2016 Chebyshev Laboratory at St.Petersburg State University Organized jointly with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. http://en.chebyshev.spb.ru/complexity2016 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED REASONING (IJCAR 2016) Call for Workshop Proposals July 1-2, 2016, Coimbra, Portugal http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/ijcar2016 * Workshop proposals on IJCAR-related topics are solicited. Proposals that promise to bring new topics into IJCAR, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a forum for more detailed discussion on central topics of continuing importance are highly welcome. Proposals that close the gap between automated reasoning and related areas, e.g., formal methods or software engineering, are especially encouraged. * Proposals must contain information sufficient to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop must have one or more designated organizers, and may have a programme committee as well. * Proposals must be limited to three pages and provide at least the following information: + Title. + Description of the workshop topic and goals. (Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic?) + Intended audience. (From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect?) + Organization of the workshop. (Describe the intended format of the workshop, its expected duration: one day, Friday, July 1st (preferred) or Saturday, 2nd; or two days, July 1st-2nd. + Information (a) whether papers presented to the workshiop are invited papers or are selected by peer review; (b) if the workshop makes makes part of a series (continuing the past workshops on a regular basis); (c) if the workshop comprises a program competition. + Organizers' details. (Provide affiliations, backgrounds and contact details (email, etc.) of organizers) * Proposals should be sent as plain text or as PDF to the workshop chair Reinhard Kahle: kahle@mat.uc.pt. * For more information, including fees and provided services, please contact also the workshop chair at kahle@mat.uc.pt. * Important dates: - Express of interest: at any time. - Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15th, 2015. - Notification: December 15th, 2015. 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2016) Call for Workshop Proposals July 17-23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://i-cav.org/2016/workshops/ * AIMS The 2016 Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Workshops provides an opportunity for participants to discuss topics in the broader verification related domains. CAV 2016 Workshops will be held before the main conference on July 17th and 18th. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshop chair along with the program chairs and members of the steering committee. Proposals must consist of the following two parts: -- Part I: Technical Information -- A short (about 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance and relevance to CAV, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the verification community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). -- Part II: Organizational Information -- Further information: http://i-cav.org/2016/workshops/ * IMPORTANT DATES: Proposals are due by December 1st by email to the Workshop chair. Organizers will be notified by December 8th, 2015. * For further enquiries or information, please contact: Zachary Kincaid (CAV 2016 Workshop Chair) University of Toronto email: zkincaid@cs.toronto.edu http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zkincaid 13TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COALGEBRAIC METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CMCS'16) Call for papers 2-3 April 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands http://www.coalg.org/cmcs16 * OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope, areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches) - Coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.) - Coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming - Model checking, theorem proving and deductive verification using coalgebraic techniques - Coalgebraic data types, type systems and behavioural typing - Proof principles and (coinductive) definitions for coalgebras (e.g. with bisimulations or invariants) - Coalgebras and algebras - Coalgebraic specification and verification - Coalgebras and (modal) logic - Coalgebra and control theory (notably of discrete event and hybrid systems) - Coalgebra in quantum computing - Coalgebra and game theory - Tools exploiting colgebraic techniques * VENUE AND EVENT CMCS'16 will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, co-located with ETAPS 2016 on 2 - 3 April 2016. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract regular papers: 4 January 2016 Submission regular papers: 13 January 2016 * KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jiri Adamek, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany * INVITED SPEAKERS Andreas Abel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Filippo Bonchi, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France * SPECIAL SESSION There will be a special session on weighted automata, organized by Borja Balle, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom * PC CHAIR Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo, Japan 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV 2016) Call for Papers July 17-23, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://i-cav.org/2016/ * IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 4pm EST. Abstract submission: January 17, 2016 (Sunday) Paper submission: January 29, 2016 (Friday) Author response period: March 23-25, 2016 (Wednesday-Friday) Author Notification: April 15, 2016 (Friday) Conference: July 17-23, 2016 * SCOPE CAV 2016 is the 28th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM. * PAPER SUBMISSION -- new this year: Double-blind submissions -- Further information: http://i-cav.org/2016/ * CHAIRS Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University, USA Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada * CAV Award Committee Ahmed Bouajjani (Chair), Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Tom Ball, Microsoft Research Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University Natarajan Shankar, SRI International * WORKSHOP CHAIR Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto, Canada * ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIR Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin, USA * PUBLICITY CHAIR Roopsha Samanta, IST, Austria FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL STRUCTURES FOR COMPUTATION AND DEDUCTION (FSCD'16) Call for Papers June 22-26, 2016, Porto, Portugal http://fscd2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ * The FSCD conference series (http://fscdconference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new emerging models of computation such as quantum computing and homotopy type theory. The name of the new conference comes from an unpublished but important book by Gerard Huet that strongly influenced many researchers in the area. * Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are: 1. Calculi (Lambda calculus; Logics; Rewriting systems; Proof theory; Type theory and logical frameworks; Homotopy type theory) 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction (Type systems; Induction, coinduction; Matching; Unification; Completion; Orderings; Strategies; Tree automata; Model building and model checking; Proof search; Constraint solving and decision procedures) 3. Semantics (Operational semantics and abstract machines; Game Semantics and applications; Domain theory and categorical models; Quantitative models; Quantum computation and emerging models in computation) 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems (Type Inference and type checking; Abstract Interpretation; Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity; Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties; Symbolic computation) 5. Tools and Applications (Programming and proof environments; Verification tools; Libraries for proof assistants and interactive theorem provers; Case studies in proof assistants and interactive theorem provers; Certifications; Applications of formal systems inside and outside of CS) * Important dates: Abstract submission due: 29 January 2016; Paper Submission: 5 February 2016; Rebuttal: 21-23 March 2016; Notification: 6 April 2016 5TH INTERNATIONAL ABZ 2014 CONFERENCE (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z) Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials May 23-27, 2016 Linz, Austria http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/ * The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. * Types of submission: -- Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. -- Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. -- Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2014. -- Application in industry papers reporting on work or experiences on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. * Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2016 * Important Dates: Workshop proposal submission: October 16, 2015 Research paper, Answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016 Short and industry paper submission: February 4, 2016 Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016 Tutorial proposal notifications: March 14, 2016 * Detailed information can be found on the conference website * Contact: Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE (klaus-dieter.schewe@scch.at) 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING (KR 2016) Call for papers Cape Town, South Africa, 25-29 April 2016 http://kr.org/KR2016/ Co-located with DL 2016 [http://www.dl.kr.org] and NMR 2016 [http://www.kr.org/NMR/] * KR 2016 IMPORTANT DATES -- Submission of title and abstract: 21 November 2015 -- Paper submission deadline: 28 November 2015 -- Notification of acceptance: 21 January 2016 -- Camera-ready papers due: 19 February 2016 -- Conference: 25-29 April 2016 * AIMS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is an exciting, well-established field of research. In KRR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KRR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, such as automated planning and natural language understanding, among others, as well as to fields beyond AI, including databases, software engineering, the semantic web, computational biology, and the development of software agents. * SUBMISSION INFORMATION For complete details, see the 'Submission information' page at http://www.kr.org/KR2016 * CONFERENCE CHAIRS - General: Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) - Program: James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK) - Local Organization: Thomas Meyer (University of Cape Town and CAIR, South Africa) - Doctoral Consortium: Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS, France), Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) - Sponsorship and Publicity: Ivan Varzinczak (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 2ND ACM CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM SECURITY WORKSHOP (ACM CPSS 2016) Call for papers Xi'an, China - May 30, 2016 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'16) http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss16/ * IMPORTANT DATES Submission due: Dec 5, 2015 Notification: Feb 15, 2016 Camera-ready due: March 15, 2016 * AIMS Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. * STEERING COMMITTEE Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) Chair * PROGRAM CHAIRS Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * PUBLICITY CHAIR Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) * PUBLICATION CHAIR Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) * CONTACT Email: cpss2016@easychair.org CPSS Home: http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/cpss/ 23rd WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (WoLLIC 2016) Call for Papers August 16th-19th, 2016, Puebla, Mexico http://wollic.org.wollic2016/ * 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. * 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; philosophical logic. * IMPORTANT DATES: Mar 14, 2016: Paper title and abstract deadline Mar 21, 2016: Full paper deadline, Apr 22, 2016: Author notification May 6, 2016: Final version deadline (firm). SPECIAL SEMESTER ON COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND PROOF COMPLEXITY April-June 2016 * Chebyshev Laboratory at St.Petersburg State University Organized jointly with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. * Events include a WORKSHOP ON PROOF COMPLEXITY, May 17-20, 2016, St. Petersburg, organized by Sam Buss and Pavel Pudlak, keynote speaker Jan Krajicek; and a WORKSHOP ON LOW-DEPTH COMPLEXITY, May 23-25, 2016, St. Petersburg, organized by Ben Rossman and Rahul Santhanam, keynote speaker Ryan Williams. * Short courses will be held before each workshop. * Graduate student, postdocs and other researchers may apply for funding for both short or extended visits throughout the semester. * To inquire about participation, or apply for funding, please fill out the form on the web page or email the organizers directly. * Web page: http://en.chebyshev.spb.ru/complexity2016. * Organizers: Sam Buss and Edward A. Hirsch. SIMONS-BERKELEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2016. * DEADLINE for applications: 15 December, 2015 The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for academic year 2016-17. Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships are an opportunity for outstanding junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by Fall 2016) to spend one or both semesters at the Institute in connection with one or more of its programs. The programs for 2016-17 are as follows: - Algorithms and Uncertainty (Fall 2016) - Logical Structures in Computation (Fall 2016) - Foundations of Machine Learning (Spring 2017) - Pseudorandomness (Spring 2017) Applicants who already hold junior faculty or postdoctoral positions are welcome to apply. In particular, applicants who hold, or expect to hold, postdoctoral appointments at other institutions are encouraged to apply to spend one semester as a Simons-Berkeley Fellow subject to the approval of the postdoctoral institution. Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2016. Information about the Institute and the above programs can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu. PHD & POSTDOC POSITION AT JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN * Jacobs University Bremen is a private, English-speaking research university in Germany. The KWARC group conducts research on the representation and management of formal and informal knowledge in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Our interests cover the whole range from formal to informal knowledge and include - logics and foundations of mathematics - formalizing/verifying knowledge - informal and semi-formal documents (specifications, papers, webpages, etc.) - domain-specific applications (spreadsheets, CAD, etc.) - knowledge management (search, user interfaces, system integration, etc.) We build systems that cover these diverse areas uniformly and integrate across domains, languagues, and tools, always combinng logical correctness, wide-range applicability, and large-scale inter-operability. * DETAILS & POSSIBLE TOPICS http://www.jacobs-university.de/jobs/phd-and-postdoc-positions-kwarc-group * CONTACT DETAILS & APPLICATIONS For further information and enquiries about this post please contact Prof. Michael KohlhaseApplications (including the usual documents) should be directed to the same email address.
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