FOM: LICS Newsletter

[Stephen G Simpson]

 From: Martin Grohe <grmail at dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 To: LICS List <grmail at dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 Subject: LICS Newsletter 76
 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:58:30 GMT

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 * Calls for Papers and Conference Announcements
   Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming
   Clifford Lectures and Workshop on the Mathematical 
     Foundations of Programming Semantics
   Symposium on the Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
   TABLEAUX 2002
   Workshop on Complexity in Automated Deduction
   Workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science
   Workshop on Domain Theory
 * Book Announcements
   The pi-Calculus, A Theory of Mobile Porcesses by D.Sangiorgi, D.Walker
   Handbook of Automated Reasoning edited by J.A.Robinson, A.Voronkov
 * Journals
   Special Issue on Proof Carrying Code of the Journal of 
     Automated Reasoning
 * Position Announcement
   Postdoc Positions at Toronto


 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FUNCTIONAL AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING (FLOPS 2002)
   (Co-Located with ACM SIGPLAN ASIA-PEPM 2002)
   Call for Papers
   Aizu, Japan, September 15-17, 2002
   http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2002/
 * Theme. FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning
   functional programming and logic programming. In particular, it
   wants to stimulate the cross-fertilization as well as integration of
   the two paradigms. FLOPS 2002 invites original papers in all areas
   of functional and logic programming, including foundations,
   implementations and applications. Original research papers and
   system descriptions are solicited.
 * Submission is Web-based. In order to submit a paper, authors should
   fill in the submission form available at
   http://www.ucm.es/info/flops2002/www/submit.html 
   where more detailed instructions are given. 
 * Important Dates
   Paper submission: March 1, 2002 
   Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2002
   Final version due: June 25, 2002
 * Program committee. Maria Alpuente (Spain), Wei-Ngan Chin
   (Singapore), Pierre Deransart (France), Moreno Falaschi
   (Italy), Michael Hanus (Germany), Zhenjiang Hu (Co-Chair, Japan), 
   Jan Maluszynski (Sweden), Aart Middeldorp (Japan), Gopalan Nadathur
   (USA), Susumu Nishimura (Japan), Catuscia Palamidessi (USA), Mario
   Rodriguez-Artalejo (Co-Chair, Spain), Francesca Rossi (Italy), Harald
   Sondergaard (Australia), Kwangkeun Yi (Korea), Kazunori Ueda (Japan)


 2002 CLIFFORD LECTURES and EIGHTEENTH MFPS (MFPS 18)  
     First Announcement
     Tulane University
     New Orleans, LA USA, March 20 - 26, 2002
     http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps18.html
 * This year's MFPS workshop - MFPS 18 - will be held in conjunction
   with the 2002 Clifford Lectures, an annual lecture series sponsored
   by the Tulane Mathematics Department.
 * The Clifford Lectures are named in honor of A. H. Clifford, noted
   algebraist and longtime member of the Tulane Mathematics
   Department. The 2002 Clifford Lecturer is Sergei N. Artemov, Gaduate
   Center, CUNY. The lectures will include invited talks by other
   participants. The lectures will take place from midday, March 20,
   2002 through midday, March 23, 2002. A complete list of speakers can
   be found at the web site listed above.
 * The Eighteenth Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of
   Programming Semantics (MFPS 18) will take place at Tulane
   immediately following the Clifford Lectures. The invited speakers
   include Rajeev Alur (Penn), Patrick Cousot (ENS), John Hatcliff
   (Kansas State), John Mitchell (Stanford), John Reynolds (CMU) and
   Doug Smith (Kestrel). In addition there will be three special
   sessions. The remainder to fhe program will consist of talks
   contributed by participants. The available slotts will be allocated
   on a first come - first serve basis.
 * To submit an abstract for a contributed talk, send email to
   mfps at math.tulane.edu giving the title and a short abstract.
 * More information about both meetings can be found at the MFPS 18
   home page http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps18.html 


 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF
 SATISFIABILITY TESTING
   Call for Papers, SAT solvers, SAT benchmarks
   May 6-9, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
   http://gauss.ececs.uc.edu/Conferences/SAT2002
 * Topics: Several aspects of Satisfiability testing will be explored
   including: propositional proof systems, search techniques,
   relationship between BDDs and search, applications such as in formal
   verification, probabilistic analysis of SAT algorithms and SAT
   properties, upper bounds on SAT algorithm performance, specific
   solvers, empirical results, quantified boolean formulas, and related
   topics.
 * Invited Speakers: Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA),
   João Marques-Silva (Inst. Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de
   Lisboa), Uwe Schöning (Universität Ulm, Germany)
 * In conjunction with the symposium: SAT Solver Competition (BDD
   packages welcome): see the symposium home page for details.
   Special Mini-Workshop on QBF: see the symposium home page for details.
 * For submission details, see the symposium home page.
 * Important Dates:
   Submission of extended abstracts: February 6, 2002.
   Submission of SAT solvers: March 6, 2002.
   Submission of SAT benchmarks: March 6, 2002.
   Decisions on extended abstracts returned: March 6, 2002.
   SAT Solver Bugfixes: March 27, 2002.
   SAT Solver Competition: Starting April 6, 2002, until the conference.
   Requests to participate without submission: April 10, 2002.
   Conference: May 6 - 9, 2002.
   Submission of final journal articles: May 30, 2002.
 * Program Committee: Dimitris Achlioptas (Microsoft Research, USA),
   Endre Boros (Rutcor, Rutgers University, USA), Nadia Creignou
   (Université del la Méditerranée, Marseille, France), Joe Culberson
   (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Olivier Dubois
   (Université Paris 6, France), Thomas Eiter (Technische Universität
   Wien, Austria) John Franco (University of Cincinnati, USA) Ian Gent
   (St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK) Andreas Goerdt (Chemnitz,
   Germany) Edward A. Hirsch (Steklov Institute of Mathematics at
   St. Petersburg, Russia) Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego, USA)
   Henry Kautz (University of Washington, USA) Lefteris Kirousis
   (University of Patras, Greece) Hans Kleine Büning (Universität
   Paderborn, Germany) Oliver Kullmann (Swansea, Wales, UK) Daniel Le
   Berre (Université d'Artois, France) Chu-Min Li (LaRIA, Université de
   Picardie Jules Verne, France) Hans van Maaren (University of Delft,
   The Netherlands) Paul W. Purdom (Indiana University, USA) Bart
   Selman (Cornell University, USA) Ewald Speckenmeyer (Universität
   Köln, Germany) Allen Van Gelder (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Miroslav
   N. Velev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Toby Walsh (University of
   York, UK) Lintao Zhang (Princeton University, USA)


 TABLEAUX 2002 
   Call for Papers  
   July 30 - August 1, 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark, 
   as part of the Federated Logic Conference FLoC'02
   http://floc02.diku.dk/TABLEAUX/
 * The conference invites papers concerning all aspects - theoretical 
   foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and 
   applications -  of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux 
   and related methods. 
 * All submissions must be done electronically via
   http://www.logic.at/TAB02/ 
   Detailed information on submission categories can be found 
   at http://floc02.diku.dk/TABLEAUX/cfp.html 
 * Important dates
   Submission deadline: February 2, 2002
   Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2002   
   Camera-ready copy due: May 10, 2002 
 * Program committee: 
   Peter Baumgartner (U Koblenz-Landau), Bernhard Beckert (U Karlsruhe),
   Marcello D'Agostino (U Ferrara, Italy),  Roy Dyckhof (U St Andrews),
   Uwe Egly (TU Vienna, co-chair), Christian Fermueller (TU Vienn, co-chair)
   Melvin Fitting (City U of NY), Didier Galmiche (LORIA Nancy), 
   Rajeev Gore (ANU), Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan), Reiner Haehnle 
   (Chamlers U), Ian Horrocks (U Manchester), Christoph Kreitz (Cornell),
   Reinhold Letz (TU of Munich), Fabio Massacci (U Siena), 
   Neil Murray (SU of NY-Albany), Nicola Olivetti (U Torino).


 WORKSHOP ON COMPLEXITY IN AUTOMATED DEDUCTION
   (affiliated with CADE-18)
   July 25-26 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Aim of the workshop: The Workshop on Complexity in Automated
   Deduction will bring together researchers who work on or have a
   serious interest in problems that are in the interface between
   automated deduction and computational complexity.  The aim of the
   workshop is to enhance the interaction between automated deduction
   and computational complexity through invited and contributed talks
   that will present comprehensive overviews, report on state-of-the
   art advances, and expand the horizons of this area of research.
 * Invited speakers: Marco Cadoli (Università di Roma La Sapienza,
   Roma, Italy), Hubert Comon (LSV, ENS Cachan, France), Erich Grädel
   (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Martin Grohe (University of Edinburgh, UK),
   Phokion G. Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA),
   Paliath Narendran (SUNY Albany, USA), Reinhard Pichler (Siemens AG
   Austria and TU Wien, Vienna, Austria), Pavel Pudlák (Mathematical
   Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic), Andrei
   Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK)
 * Contributed talks: In addition to the invited presentations, there
   will be contributed talks. If you are interested in giving such a
   contributed talk, please send an abstract, preferably as a
   PostScript attachment, to Miki.Hermann at loria.fr no later than
   Friday, May 17, 2002.  
 * Organizers: Georg Gottlob (TU Wien, Vienna, Austria), Miki Hermann
   (LORIA, Nancy, France), Michael Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, France)
 * Important dates:
   Submission of abstracts for contributed talks:    May 17, 2002
   Notification of acceptance:                       June 6, 2002
   Deadline for final versions of accepted papers:   June 20, 2002
   Workshop:                                         July 25 and 26, 2002


 WORKSHOP ON FIXED POINTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (FICS'02)
   (affiliated with LICS'02)
   Preliminary Call for Papers
   July 20-21, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark
   http://floc02.diku.dk/FICS/
 * Theme: Construction and reasoning about properties of fixed points,
   categorical, metric and ordered fixed point models, continuous
   algebras, relation algebras, fixed points in process algebras and
   process calculi, regular algebras of finitary and infinitary
   languages, formal power series, tree automata and tree languages,
   infinite trees, the mu-calculus and other programming logics, fixed
   points in relation to dataflow and circuits, fixed points and the
   lambda calculus, fixed points in logic programming and data bases.
 * Paper submission: Authors are invited to send three copies of an
   abstract not exceeding three pages to the PC cochair Anna
   Ingolfsdottir.  Electronic submissions in the form of uuencoded
   postscript files are encouraged and can be sent to annai at cs.auc.dk.
 * Submissions are to be received before April 15, 2002.
 * Invited speakers: L. Aceto (Aalborg), D. Kozen (Cornell), A. Labella
   (Rome), G. Winskel (Cambridge, provisional).  
 * Program Committee: J. Adamek (Braunschweig), R. Backhouse
   (Nottingham), S. Bloom (Hoboken NJ), J. Bradfield (Edinburgh), R. De
   Nicola (Florence), Z. Esik (cochair, Szeged), I. Guessarian (Paris),
   A. Ingolfsdottir (cochair, Aalborg), W. Kuich (Vienna), A. Labella
   (Rome), M. Mislove (Tulane), D. Niwinski (Warsaw).
 * Proceedings: Preliminary proceedings containing the abstracts of the
   talks will be available at the meeting. Final proceedings will be
   published after the meeting as a special issue of the journal
   Theoretical Informatics and Application
   (http://www.edpsciences.org/docinfos/ITA/).


 WORKSHOP ON DOMAIN THEORY (Domains VI)  
   Call for Abstracts 
   Birmingham, 16-19 September 2002.
   http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wd6/
 * AUDIENCE. The Workshop on Domains is aimed at computer scientists 
   and mathematicians alike who share an interest in the mathematical
   foundations of computation. It will focus on domains, their
   applications and related topics.  Previous meetings were held in
   Darmstadt (94,99), Braunschweig (96), Munich (97) and Siegen
   (98). The emphasis is on the exchange of ideas between participants
   similar in style to Dagstuhl seminars.
 * INVITED SPEAKERS. Ulrich Berger (Wales Swansea), Thierry Coquand
   (Goeteborg), Jimmie Lawson (Louisiana State), John Longley
   (Edinburgh), Dag Normann [to be confirmed] (Oslo), Prakash
   Panangaden (McGill), Uday Reddy (Birmingham), Thomas Streicher
   (Darmstadt).
 * SCOPE. Domain theory has had applications to programming language
   semantics and logics (lambda-calculus, PCF, LCF), recursion theory
   (Kleene-Kreisel countable functionals), general topology (injective
   spaces, function spaces, locally compact spaces, Stone duality),
   topological algebra (compact Hausdorff semilattices) and analysis
   (measure, integration, dynamical systems). Moreover, these
   applications are related - for example, Stone duality gives rise to
   a logic of observable properties of computational processes.
   Talks in any area of interaction with domain theory are welcome.
 * SUBMISSIONS. Abstracts will be dealt with on a first-come/
   first-served basis. Please email one-page abstracts to
   domainsvi at cs.bham.ac.uk . Authors will hear from the programme 
   committee within one or two weeks of submission. 
 * DEADLINE : 30 April 2002 
 * PROGRAMME COMMITTEE. Martin Escardo (Birmingham), Achim Jung
   (Birmingham), Klaus Keimel (Darmstadt), Alex Simpson (Edinburgh). 


 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
   The pi-Calculus, A Theory of Mobile Porcesses
   by Davide Sangiorgi and David Walker
   Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN 0-521-78177-9
   http://uk.cambridge.org/order/WebBook.asp?ISBN=0521781779
 * A detailed text on the pi-calculus, a mathematical model highly
   suited to describing mobile systems, the components of which
   communicate and change their structure.
 * The book is written at the graduate level, assuming no prior
   acquaintance with the subject, and is intended for computer
   scientists interested in mobile systems.
 * See above url for ordering information


 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
   Handbook of Automated Reasoning
   edited by J. Alan Robinson and Andrei Voronkov
   MIT Press, 2001, ISBN two-volume set 0-262-18223-8
   Vol. 1, 0-262-18221-1, Vol. 2, 0-262-18222-X
   http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262182238
   Available in the USA and dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada only
 * Automated reasoning has matured into one of the most advanced areas
   of computer science. It is used in many areas of the field,
   including software and hardware verification, logic and functional
   programming, formal methods, knowledge representation, deductive
   databases, and artificial intelligence. This handbook presents an
   overview of the fundamental ideas, techniques, and methods in
   automated reasoning and its applications. The material covers both
   theory and implementation. In addition to traditional topics, the
   book covers material that bridges the gap between automated
   reasoning and related areas. Examples include model checking,
   nonmonotonic reasoning, numerical constraints, description logics,
   and implementation of declarative programming languages.
 * The book consists of eight parts. After an overview of the early
   history of automated deduction, the areas covered are reasoning
   methods in first-order logic; equality and other built-in theories;
   methods of automated reasoning using induction; higher-order logic,
   which is used in a number of automatic and interactive
   proof-development systems; automated reasoning in nonclassical
   logics; decidable classes and model building; and
   implementation-related questions.
 * Ordering information. See the URL above.


 SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING
   Proof-Carrying Code
   Call for Papers
   http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~afelty/jar-pcc/
 * Topics.  Proof-carrying code and related approaches which use formal
   reasoning to enhance safety and reliability of software.  Original
   results and study of tools and methods for proof generation, proof
   checking, and their integration with code generation/compilation.
 * Submission.  Manuscripts should be unpublished works and not
   submitted elsewhere.  Revised and enhanced versions of papers
   published in conference proceedings that have not appeared in
   archival journals are eligible for submission.  All submissions will
   be reviewed according to the usual standards of scholarship and
   originality.  The deadline for submissions is February 22, 2002.
 * Guest editor.  Amy Felty (afelty at site.uottawa.ca).


 POSTDOC POSITIONS AT TORONTO
   Department of Computer Science
   University of Toronto
 * The theory group is offering a number of postdoctoral fellowships in
   the areas of computational complexity, combinatorics, graph theory,
   and distributed systems.  The fellowships are for one year,
   beginning September, 2002, with a possible extension to two years.
   Candidates should send applications to Steve Cook
   (sacook at cs.toronto.edu) including a CV, a list of publications, a
   statement of research interests, and a list of referees.
 * Applications are expected by 15 January, 2002.