[FOM] [LICS] LICS Newsletter 145

Andrzej Murawski martin at eipye.com
Sun Mar 31 22:53:34 EDT 2013


Newsletter 145
April 1, 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* LICS-RELATED NEWS
   Call for Short Presentations
   Preview of LICS'13
* DEADLINES
   Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
   CONCUR 2013 - Call for Papers
   TACL 2013 - Call for Papers
   ICLP 2013 - Call for Papers
   TYPES 2013 - Call for Participation
   SFM-13:DCS - Call for Applications (School)
   CSL 2013 - Call for Papers
   CALCO Tools 2013 - Call for Papers
   CMSB 2013 - Call for Papers
   FCS 2013 - Call for Papers
   M4M-8 - Call for Papers
   FroCoS 2013 - Call for Papers
   QBF 2013 - Call for Papers
   GandALF 2013 - Preliminary Call for Papers
   PERSYVAL CPS SUMMER SCHOOL - Call for Applications
   FMICS 2013 - Call for Papers
   CALCO Early Ideas Workshop 2013 - Call for Contributions
   Samson at 60 - Call for Participation
   FOPARA 2013 - Call for Papers
   SAT/SMT SUMMER SCHOOL - Call for Participation
   MihalisFest 2013 - Early Call for Participation
* AWARDS
   Ackermann Award 2013 - Second Call for Nominations
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
   PhD Position at Twente on Accelerator Programming
   European PhD Program in Computational Logic


28TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2013)
   Call for Short Presentations
   http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/lics13/lics13-short.html
* AIMS
   As in the past, there will be a short-presentation session during LICS 2013,
   which is intended for descriptions of works in progress, student projects,
   trailers for longer presentations at affiliated workshops, and relevant
   research being published elsewhere; other brief communications may be
   acceptable. Talks can be on any topic related to logic in computer science
   as summarized in the LICS call for papers. Proceedings of these sessions
   will not be published.
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
   Proposals for short (10-minute) presentations must be submitted in the IEEE
   (2-column; 10pt) proceedings format and must be 1 page long, including
   references. The URL for submitting papers is
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=licsshort2013.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission Deadline: 20 April 2013
   Author Notification: 6 May 2013
   Final Version Deadline: 30 May 2013


28TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2013)
   LICS conference: June 25-28, 2013
   Workshops: June 28-29, 2013
   New Orleans, USA
   http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/lics13/
* COLOCATIONS
   The twenty-eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science
   (LICS 2013) will be held in New Orleans, USA, 25-28 June 2013. It
   will be colocated with MFPS (Mathematical Foundations of Programming
   Semantics) and CSF (IEEE Computer Security Foundations).
* INVITED SPEAKERS
   LICS 2013 will feature invited lectures by Rajeev Alur, Joseph Halpern
   (with CSF), Nancy Lynch and Prakash Panangaden. It will also include
   a special session to mark the 80th birthday of Dana Scott, which will
   have the following invited speakers: Andrew Pitts, Steve Awodey, Andrej
   Bauer, Robert Harper, and Dana Scott.
* TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
   Tutorials will be given by Hubert Comon and Jan Rutten (with MFPS).
* AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
   Foundations of Computer Security (FCS)
      http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/fcs13/
   Higher-Order Program Analysis (HOPA)
      http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk
   Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages (LOLA)
      http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/lola2013/
   Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS)
      http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html
* ACCEPTED PAPERS
   http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/lics13/accepted.html

DEADLINES
* CONCUR 2013
   Abstract submission: April 1, 2013
   Paper submission: April 8, 2013
   http://concur-conferences.org/concur2013/
* TACL 2013
   Abstract submission: April 1, 2013
   http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~tacl2013/
* ICLP 2013
   Abstract submission: April 3, 2013
   Paper submission: April 10, 2013
   http://www.iclp2013.org
* TYPES 2013
   Early registration: April 3, 2013
   http://www.irit.fr/TYPES2013/
* SFM-13: DS
   Application deadline: April 4, 2013
   http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/sfm13ds/
* CSL 2013
   Abstract submission: April 8, 2013
   Paper submission: April 15, 2013
   http://csl13.di.unito.it/
* CALCO Tools 2013
   Paper submission: April 8, 2013
   http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools
* CMSB 2013
   Abstract submission: April 8, 2013
   Paper submission: April 15, 2013
   http://ist.ac.at/cmsb13
* FCS 2013
   Paper submission: April 10, 2013
   http://prosecco.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/fcs13/
* M4M-8
   Abstract submission deadline: April 12, 2013
   Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2013
   http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/
* ACKERMANN AWARD 2013
   Deadline for nominations: April 15, 2013
   http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* FroCoS 2013
   Abstract submission: April 15, 2013
   Paper submission: April 22, 2013
   http://frocos2013.loria.fr
* LICS 2013
   Proposals for short presentations: April 20, 2013
   http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/lics13/lics13-short.html
* QBF 2013
   Paper Submission: April 24, 2013
   http://fmv.jku.at/qbf2013/
* GandALF 2013
   Abstract submission: May 1, 2013
   Paper submission: May 8, 2013
   http://gandalf.di.univr.it
* PERSYVAL CPS SUMMER SCHOOL
   Deadline for applications: May 1, 2013
   http://www-verimag.imag.fr/PERSYVAL-Lab-Summer-School-on.html?lang=en
* FMICS 2013
   Paper submission: May 3, 2013
   http://lvl.info.ucl.ac.be/Fmics2013
* CALCO Early Ideas Workshop 2013
   Submission deadline: May 27, 2013
   http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei
* FOPARA 2013
   Draft submission: June 3, 2013
   http://fopara2013.cs.unibo.it


24TH CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENCY THEORY (CONCUR 2013)
   Call for Papers
   Buenos Aires, Argentina
   August 26-31, 2013
   http://concur-conferences.org/concur2013/
* GOAL
   The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together
   researchers, developers, and students in order to advance
   the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
   - Lorenzo Alvisi (University of Texas Austin, USA)
   - Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
   - Philippe Schnoebelen (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France)
   - Reinhard Wilhelm (Saarland University, Germany)
* TOPICS
   Submissions are solicited in semantics, logics, verification
   and analysis of concurrent systems. The principal topics include
   (but are not limited to):
   - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain
     theoretic models, game theoretic models, process algebras,
     graph transformation systems and Petri nets;
   - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, probabilistic and
     stochastic logics, temporal logics, and resource logics;
   - Models of specialized systems such as biology-inspired systems,
     circuits, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems,
     multi-core processors, probabilistic systems, real-time systems,
     service-oriented computing, and synchronous systems;
   - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems
     such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model
     checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking,
     run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis,
     synthesis, testing, theorem proving, and type systems;
   - Related programming models such as distributed, component-based,
     object-oriented, and web services.
* CO-LOCATED EVENTS
   10th Intl. Conf. on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2013)
   11th Intl. Conf. on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
   (FORMATS 2013)
   8th Intl. Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC 2013)
   There will be co-located workshops, which take place on August 26
   and August 31, and tutorials (associated with QEST) which take
   place on August 26.
* SUBMISSIONS
   CONCUR 2013 solicits high quality papers reporting research
   results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned
   above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
   for publication elsewhere.  Contributions should be submitted
   electronically as PDF, using the Springer LNCS style. Papers
   should not exceed 15 pages in length.
   Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary,
   the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix,
   which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee.
   Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online
   submission system:
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2013
   The CONCUR 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer in the
   ArCoSS subseries of LNCS.  The proceedings will be available at
   the conference.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Abstract Submission:        1st April 2013
   Paper Submission:        8th April 2013
   Paper Notification:        27th May, 2013
   Camera Ready Copy Due:        10t June, 2013
   CONCUR 2012:                27th-30th August, 2013
* AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
   Proposal for workshops are expected to be sent to the Workshops
   Chairs, Eduardo Bonelli (ebonelli at unq.edu.ar) and Diego
   Garbervetsky (diegog at dc.uba.ar), by January 14, 2013.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
   - Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
   - Hernán Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
   Paolo Baldan (Universitá di Padova, IT)
   Eike Best (Universitaet Oldenburg, DE)
   Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, FR)
   Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University, CZ)
   Franck van Breugel (York University, CA)
   Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST, AT)
   Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, US)
   Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
   Daniele Gorla (University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT)
   Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, DE)
   Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul University, US)
   Bengt Jonsson (Uppsala University, SE)
   Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK)
   Ugo Montanari (Universitá di Pisa, IT)
   Prakash Panangaden (McGill University, CA)
   David Parker (University of Birmingham, UK)
   Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
   Nir Piterman (University of Leicester, UK)
   Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft Research, US)
   Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
   Jan Rutten (CWI, NL)
   Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, IT)
   Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, US)
   P.S. Thiagarajan (National University of Singapore, SG)
   Frits Vaandrager (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
   Frank Valencia (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, FR)
   Rob Van Glabbeek (NICTA, AU)
   Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK)
   Lijun Zhang (Technical University of Denmark, DK)


SIXTH CONFERENCE ON TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND CATEGOREIS IN LOGIC (TACL 2013)
   Call for Presentations
   July 28 - August 1, 2013
   Nashville, Tennessee USA
   http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~tacl2013/
* SCOPE
   Studying logics via semantics is a well-established and very
   active branch of mathematical logic, with many applications,
   in computer science and elsewhere. The area is characterized
   by results, tools and techniques stemming from various fields,
   including universal algebra, topology, category theory, order,
   and model theory. The program of the conference TACL 2013 will
   focus on three interconnecting mathematical themes central to
   the semantical study of logics and their applications: algebraic,
   categorical, and topological methods. This is the sixth
   conference in the series Topology, Algebra and Categories in
   Logic (TACL, formerly TANCL). Earlier installments of this
   conference have been organized in Tbilisi (2003), Barcelona
   (2005), Oxford (2007), Amsterdam (2009), Marseilles (2011).
* CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
   Vladimir Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Studies, USA
   Nick Bezhanishvili, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
   Leo Cabrer, University of Oxford, UK
   Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milan, Italy
   George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland
   Alex Simpson, University of Edinburgh, UK
* FEATURED TOPICS
   Contributed talks can deal with any topic dealing with the use
   of algebraic, categorical or topological methods in either
   logic or computer science. This includes, but is not limited to,
   the following areas:
   - Algebraic structures in CS
   - Algebraic logic
   - Coalgebra
   - Categorical methods in logic
   - Domain theory
   - Lattice theory
   - Lattices with operators
   - Many-valued and fuzzy logics
   - Modal logics
   - Non-classical logics
   - Ordered topological spaces
   - Ordered algebraic structures
   - Pointfree topology
   - Proofs and Types
   - Residuated structures
   - Semantics
   - Stone-type dualities
   - Substructural logics
   - Topological semantics of modal logic
* SUBMISSIONS
   Contributed presentations will be of two types:
   - 20 minutes long presentations in parallel sessions and
   - featured, 30 minutes long, plenary presentations.
   The submission of an abstract will be required to be selected
   for a contributed presentation of either kind. While preference
   will be given to new work, results that have already been
   published or presented elsewhere will also be considered.
   More information on the submission procedure, as well as a link
   to the EasyChair system, can be found at the conference web site.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   April 1, 2013: Abstract submission deadline
   May 1, 2013:   Notification to authors
   July 28-August 1, 2013:  Conference
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University
   Guram Bezhanishvili, New Mexico State University
   David Gabelaia, Razmadze Mathematical Institute, Tbilisi
   Nick Galatos (co-chair), University of Denver
   Mai Gehrke, LIAFA, University of Paris Diderot
   Rob Goldblatt, Victoria University, Wellington
   John Harding, New Mexico State University
   Ramon Jansana, University of Barcelona
   Peter Jipsen, Chapman University
   Achim Jung, University of Birmingham
   Alexander Kurz (co-chair), University of Leicester
   Vincenzo Marra, University of Milan
   Hiroakira Ono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
   Alessandra Palmigiano, University of Amsterdam
   Hilary Priestley, St Anne's College, Oxford
   James Raftery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
   Thomas Streicher, Technical University of Darmstadt
   Kazushige Terui, Kyoto University
   Constantine Tsinakis, Vanderbilt University
   Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam
   Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College, University of London
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   Chris Conidis, Vanderbilt University
   Lianzhen Liu, Jiangnan University, China
   Warren McGovern, Florida Atlantic University
   Francesco Paoli, University of Cagliari
   Rebecca Steiner, Vanderbilt University
   Constantine Tsinakis (chair), Vanderbilt University
   William Young, Vanderbilt University


29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ICLP 2013)
   Call for Papers
   Istanbul, Turkey
   August 24-28, 2013
   http://www.iclp2013.org
* CONFERENCE SCOPE
   Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP
   has been the premier international conference for presenting
   research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all
   areas of logic programming including but not restricted to:
   - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Non-monotonic
     Reasoning, Knowledge Representation.
   - Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism.
   - Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation,
     Verification, Debugging, Pro- filing, Testing.
   - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility,
     Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques.
   - Related Paradigms: Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic
     Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT-Checking
   - Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation,
     Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and
     Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics.
   In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical
   program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the
   doctoral consortium, and several workshops.
* SUBMISSION DETAILS
   The four broad categories for submissions are as follows. Regular
   papers, including: (1) tech- nical papers for describing
   technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of
   logic programming; (2) application papers, where the emphasis will
   be on their impact on the application domain; (3) system and tool
   papers, where the emphasis will be on the novelty, practicality,
   usability and availability of the systems and tools described.
   Technical communications (4) aimed at describing recent
   developments, new projects, and other materials that are not ready
   for publication as standard papers.  All papers and technical
   communications will be presented during the conference.
   All submissions must describe original, previously unpublished
   research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication
   elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers,
   application papers, and system and tool papers must not exceed 12
   pages plus bibliography: however a new condensed TPLP format may
   be used and the papers may include appendices beyond 12 pages.
   The limit for technical communications is 10 pages. Submissions
   must be made in the condensed TPLP format (http://www.iclp2013.org)
   via the Easychair submission system, available at
    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2013
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Paper registration (abstract):          April 3, 2013
   Submission deadline:                    April 10, 2013
   Notification to authors:                May 21, 2013
   Revision deadline (when needed):        June 21, 2013
   Camera-ready copy due:                  July 18, 2013
   Conference:                             August 24-28, 2013
* PAPER PUBLICATION
   All accepted papers will be published in the journal Theory and
   Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press
   (CUP), in one or more special issues. In order to ensure the
   quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than
   one round of refereeing (within the decision period). Accepted
   technical communications will be published in the online abstract
   of the special issue(s).  The program committee may also recommend
   standard papers to be published as technical communications.
* ICLP 2013 ORGANIZATION
   - General Co-Chairs:
     Esra Erdem                                    Sabanci University
     Joohyung Lee                            Arizona State University
   - Program Co-chairs:
     Terrance Swift                          New University of Lisboa
     Evelina Lamma                              University of Ferrara
   - Workshops Chair:
     Hans Tompits                     Vienna University of Technology
   - Publicity Chair:
     Peter Schueller                               Sabanci University
   - Doctoral Consortium:
     Marco Gavanelli                            University of Ferrara
     Martin Gebser                              University of Potsdam
   - Prolog Programming Contest:
     Bart Demoen                                          K.U. Leuven


19TH MEETING TYPES FOR PROOFS AND PROGRAMS (TYPES 2013)
   Call for Participation
   April 22-26, Toulouse, France
   http://www.irit.fr/TYPES2013/
* AIMS
   The Types Meeting is a forum to present new and on-going work in all
   aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalized
   and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
   - Steve Awodey (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton & Carnegie
     Mellon University, Pittsburgh):
     "Higher Inductive Types in Homotopy Type Theory"
   - Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University):
     "Charge! a framework for higher-order separation logic in Coq."
   - Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt):
     "Types in Proof Mining"
* 34 contributed talks were selected by the program committee
* IMPORTANT DATES
   - main conference: morning of April 23 to midday of April 26
   - early registration until Wednesday, April 3, 23:59 Paris time
   Access to the online registration system is through
   http://www.irit.fr/TYPES2013/Registration.html
   where the fees can be studied offline (several payment options
   are available, in particular safe payment by credit card).
* SATELLITE EVENTS
   - Twelfth international workshop Proof, Computation, Complexity
     (PCC 2013) with 12 selected contributed talks on April 22 and 23
   - tutorial on separation logic by Lars Birkedal in the late afternoon
     of April 22: "An introduction to separation logic, and the benefits
     of going higher-order"
   - Workshop CSPM "Computer Science, Philosophy, Mathematics" in the
     afternoon of April 26, with invited contributions as follows:
     14:30-16:00 Steve Awodey: "Structuralism, Invariance, and Univalence"
     16:15-17:45 Ulrich Kohlenbach: "Proof Theory : From the Foundations
                 of Mathematics to Applications in Core Mathematics"
   All the details are accessible through the main web site of TYPES 2013.


13TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON FORMAL METHODS FOR THE DESIGN OF
COMPUTER, COMMUNICATION AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
   Call for Participation
   17-22 June 2013
   Bertinoro (Italy)
   http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/sfm13ds/
* GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SFM
   Formal methods are emerging in computer science as a prominent
   approach to the rigorous design of computer, communication and
   software systems.
   The aim of the SFM series is to offer a good spectrum of
   current research in foundations as well as applications of
   formal methods, which can be of interest for graduate students
   and young researchers who intend to approach the field.
   This year SFM is an offspring of the workshops QAPL and MLQA
   and is devoted to dynamical systems. It covers topics such as
   chaotic dynamics, information theory, systems biology, hybrid systems,
   quantum computing, and automata-based models and model checking.
* LECTURERS
   Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College London, UK)
   Abbas Edalat (Imperial College London, UK)
   Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software, ES)
   Renato Renner (ETH Zurich, CH)
   Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen, DE)
   Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London, UK)
   Oded Maler (VERIMAG, FR)
   Ion Petre (Abo Akademi, FI)
   Lubos Brim (Masaryk Univ., CZ)
   Luca Bortolussi (Univ. Trieste, IT)
   Andreas Podelski (Univ. Freiburg, DE)
   Jiannis Pachos (Univ. Leeds, UK)
   All participants will receive a copy of a tutorial book published by
   Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
* LOCATION
   SFM-13:DS will be held in the medieval hilltop town of Bertinoro.
   This town is in Emilia Romagna, about 70 km south-east of Bologna,
   at an elevation of about 230 m. It can be reached in a couple of
   hours from the international airport "G. Marconi" of Bologna by
   shuttle (from the airport to the railway station) + train (from
   Bologna to Forli`) + bus/taxi (from the railway station to Bertinoro).
   The closest airport is the "L. Ridolfi" airport of Forli`, which is
   13 km away.
* ORGANIZATION
   Scientific directors:
   - Marco Bernardo         (University of Urbino, IT)
   - Erik de Vink           (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
   - Alessandra Di Pierro   (University of Verona, IT)
   - Herbert Wiklicky       (Imperial College London, UK)
* SECRETARY
   Monica Michelacci      (CRU Bertinoro, IT)
* APPLICATION
   Prospective participants should send by 4 April 2013
   the application form, available on the school website,
   to the two e-mail addresses below:
    Marco Bernardo
    marco.bernardo AT uniurb.it
    Monica Michelacci
    mmichelacci AT ceub.it
* FEES
   The registration fee is 600 euros and includes the school material.
   The accommodation fee is 350 euros and covers the period June 16-23
   (7 nights), double room (to share with another participant),
   half board (breakfast and lunch, dinner of June 16 included,
   lunch of June 23 excluded).
   The reduced accommodation fee for the participants who do not
   need a room is 100 euros and covers the period June 17-22
   (6 lunches).
   A very limited number of grants is available to cover part
   of the registration fee (no grant can be requested to cover
   the accommodation fee or the travel expenses).
   Notification of accepted/rejected applications and grant requests
   will be communicated by April 10.
* Registration to the school is due by April 20.
   No refund is possible for cancellation after May 15.


22ND EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCES ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2013)
   Call for Papers
   Torino, Italy
   September 2-5, 2013
   http://csl13.di.unito.it/
* AIM AND SCOPE
   Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the
   European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The
   conference is intended for computer scientists whose research
   activities involve logic, as well as for logicians working on
   issues significant for computer science.
* LOCATION
   The 22nd EACSL Annual Conferences on Computer Science Logic
   will be held at Museo di Scienze Naturali in Torino from
   Monday 2nd through Thursday 5th of September 2013.
* LIST OF TOPICS OF INTEREST (NON EXHAUSTIVE)
   automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, constructive
   mathematics and type theory, equational logic and term rewriting,
   automata and games, game semantics, modal and temporal logic,
   model checking, decision procedures, logical aspects of
   computational complexity, computational proof theory, bounded
   arithmetic and propositional proof complexity, logic programming
   and constraints, lambda calculus and combinatory logic, domain
   theory, categorical logic and topological semantics, database
   theory, specification, extraction and transformation of programs,
   logical aspects of quantum computing, logical foundations of
   programming paradigms, verification and program analysis, linear
   logic, higher-order logic, non-monotonic reasoning.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Abstract submission: April, 1st 2013
   Paper Submission: April, 8th 2013
   Paper Notification: June, 10th 2013
   Paper final version: July, 1st 2013
   Conference: September, 2nd --- 5th 2013
* SUBMISSION
   Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 15 pages in
   LIPIcs style presenting work not previously published. Papers are
   to be submitted through Easychair.
* SATELLITE EVENTS
   The 14th International Workshop on Logic and Computational
   Complexity (LCC'13) will be held on 6th of September 2013 as
   a satellite event of CSL'13. An international summer school
   on Linear Logic and related topics will be held from 28th
   through 31st of August 2013 as a satellite event of CSL'13.
   Further details will appear on this page as soon as possible.
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   Zena Ariola (University of Oregon)
   Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University)
   Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma, and BUGSENG srl)
   Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden)
   Marc Bezem (University of Bergen)
   Paola Bruscoli (University of Bath, Computer Science Department)
   Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien)
   Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University)
   Ugo Dal Lago (Universita di Bologna)
   Valeria De Paiva (Nuance Communications)
   Reinhard Kahle (CENTRIA and DM, UNL, Portugal)
   Stephan Kreutzer (Technical University Berlin)
   Olivier Laurent (CNRS - ENS Lyon)
   Carsten Lutz (Universitaet Bremen)
   Jean-Yves Marion (Universite de Lorraine, LORIA)
   Damian Niwinski (Warsaw University)
   Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University)
   Elaine Pimentel (UFMG)
   Ruzica Piskac (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS))
   Simona Ronchi Della Rocca CHAIR (Universita di Torino)
   Jan Rutten (CWI)
   Helmut Schwichtenberg (LMU Munich)
   Phil Scott (Dept. of Math & Stats, U. Ottawa)
   Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University)
   Makoto Tatsuta (National Institute of Informatics)
   Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya University)
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   Erika De Benedetti (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Paola Giannini (Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica
(DISIT), Alessandria)
   Mauro Piccolo (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Luca Padovani (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Luca Paolini (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Luca Roversi (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)
   Angelo Troina (Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino)


5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGEBRA AND COALGEBRA IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE, TOOLS WOORKSHOP
   September 3-6, 2013
   Warsaw, Poland
   http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#tools
* SCOPE
   CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with
   interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging
   uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level,
   bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of
   CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer
   Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development
   Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales,
   2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009) and Winchester (UK,
   2011). The fifth edition will be held in Warsaw, the capital of
   Poland.
   As part of CALCO, a workshop dedicated to tools based on algebraic
   and/or coalgebraic principles, CALCO Tools, will be held alongside the
   main conference. Papers of this workshop will be
   included in the CALCO proceedings.
* TOPICS
   CALCO-Tools will take place on the same dates as the main CALCO
   conference, with no overlap between the technical programmes of the
   two events. Topics of interest include systems, prototypes, and tools
   developed specifically for the design, checking, execution, and
   verification of (co)algebraic specifications, but also tools targeting
   different application domains while making core or interesting use of
   (co)algebraic techniques.
   Tool submissions should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format. The
   accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the
   conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time
   of submission. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three
   reviewers; one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and
   use the tool. At least one of the authors of each tool paper must
   attend the conference to demo the tool. To submit a paper please visit
   our easychair submission site at
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcotools2013
* CALCO Tools Dates
   Paper submission:     April 8, 2013
   Author notification:    May 6, 2013
   Final version due:     June 3, 2013


11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (CMSB 2013)
   Call for Papers
   IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
   23-25 September, 2013
   http://ist.ac.at/cmsb13
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Abstract deadline               8 April, 2013
   Paper submission deadline      15 April, 2013
   Author notification            27 May, 2013
   Poster submission deadline     27 May, 2013
   Poster notification            10 June, 2013
   Camera-ready deadline          24 June, 2013
* SCOPE
   CMSB 2013 solicits original research articles on the computational
   modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks,
   data, and corresponding application domains. The conference brings
   together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians,
   engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level
   understanding of biological processes. It covers theory,
   computation, as well as applications.
* TOPICS
   - original paradigms, formalisms, and languages for modeling
     biological processes
   - original models together with their application domains
   - frameworks, techniques, and tools for verifying, validating,
     analyzing, and simulating biological systems
   - high-performance computational systems biology and parallel
     implementations
   - inference from high-throughput experimental data
   - model integration from biological databases
   - multi-scale modeling and analysis methods
   - synthetic biology.
* POSTER TRACK
   CMSB 2013 also solicits poster submissions. The abstract of each
   poster will get 2 pages in the proceedings. Some selected posters
   will also be given slots of short talks at the conference. We
   especially encourage poster submission from experimental
   biologists! In order to facilitate biologists to attend the
   conference and present their work, a limited number of travel
   stipends for students and postdocs presenting biology posters
   will be available.


WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY (FCS 2013)
   Call for papers
   June 29, 2013
   New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
   http://prosecco.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/fcs13/
* The FCS workshop aims at bringing computer security researchers in
   closer contact with the LICS community and giving LICS attendees an
   opportunity to talk to experts in computer security, on the one
   hand, and contribute to bridging the gap between logical methods and
   computer security foundations, on the other.
   FCS'13 will be co-located with LICS'13 (ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic
   in Computer Science), CSF'13 (IEEE Computer Security Foundations
   Symposium), and MFPS'13 (Conference on the Mathematical Foundations
   of Programming Semantics).
* Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning
   techniques, Composition issues, Formal specification, Foundations of
   verification, Information flow analysis, Language-based security,
   Logic-based design, Program transformation, Security models, Static
   analysis, Statistical methods, Tools, Trust management for Access
   control and resource usage control, Authentication, Availability and
   denial of service, Covert channels, Confidentiality, Integrity and
   privacy, Intrusion detection, Malicious code, Mobile code, Mutual
   distrust, Privacy, Security policies, Security protocols.
* Submission format: full papers (15 pages) or short abstracts (1 page)
* Important dates: Submission: April 10, 2013
   Notification: April 30, 2013; Final papers: May 31, 2013


8TH WORKSHOP ON METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M-8)
   Call for Papers
   Lake Placid, New York, June 9, 2013
   http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/
* SCOPE
   The workshop ''Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together
   researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods
   and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ''modal logics'' is
   conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic,
   guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc.
   To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a
   number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations
   aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of
   system demonstrations.
   We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers
   and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools
   which are related to modal logics.
   More information about the previous editions can be found at
    http://www.cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M/M4M8/
* SUBMISSIONS
   Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories.
   In all cases the LNCS style should be used.
   - Regular papers up to 15 pages including bibliography, describing original
     research.
   - System descriptions of up to 12 pages including bibliography, describing
     new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones.
   - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted
     (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but
     pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants.
   Submissions should be made via EasyChair at the following address:
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4m8
* IMPROTANT DATES
   Abstract submission deadline: April 12th, 2013 [firm]
   Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2013 [firm]
   Notification of acceptance: May 19th, 2013
   Camera ready versions due: May 26th, 2013
   Workshop dates: June 9, 2013


9TH SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF COMBINING SYSTEMS (FroCoS 2013)
   Call for Papers
   Nancy, France
   September 18-20, 2013,
   http://frocos2013.loria.fr
   co-located with TABLEAUX 2013
* AIMS
   The aim of the conference is to publish and promote
   progress in research areas requiring the development of general
   techniques and methods for the combination and integration of
   special, formally defined systems, as well as for the analysis
   and modularization of complex systems.
* TOPICS
   Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
   combinations of logics such as combined higher-order, first-order,
   temporal, modal, or other non-classical logics; combinations and
   modularity in ontologies; combination of decision procedures, of
   satisfiability procedures, of constraint solving techniques or of
   logical frameworks; combination and integration methods in SAT and
   SMT solving; combinations and modularity in term rewriting;
   integration of equational and other theories into deductive
   systems; combination of deduction systems and computer algebra;
   integration of data structures into constraint logic programming
   and deduction; hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and
   constraint propagation; hybrid systems in knowledge representation
   and natural language semantics; combined logics for distributed and
   multi-agent systems; logical aspects of combining and modularizing
   programs and specifications.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Abstract submission: 15 Apr 2013
   Paper submission: 22 Apr 2013


INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTIFIED BOOLEAN FORMULAS (QBF 2013)
   Call for Papers
   Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2013
   http://fmv.jku.at/qbf2013/
   Affiliated to and co-located with SAT 2013 conference
* AIMS
   The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas
   (QBF 2013) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical and
   practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it addresses
   (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the state-of-the-art and
   to consolidate on immediate and long-term research challenges.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   April 24 2013: paper submission
   May 20 2013: notification of acceptance
   June 15 2013: camera-ready version of papers
   July 9 2013: workshop
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
   The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on QBF
   and related formalisms with quantifiers. The topics of interest include
   (but are not limited to):
   - QBF applications, encodings and benchmarks
   - Case studies and experimental evaluations
   - Certificates and proofs for QBF
   - Formats of proofs and certificates
   - Implementations of proof checkers and verifiers
   - Decision procedures for QBF
   - Calculi for QBF
   - Data structures, implementation details and heuristics
   - Pre- and inprocessing techniques
   - Structural QBF solving
   - Quantifiers in other formalisms like SMT or CSP
   - Tools related to any aspect of QBF/CSP/SMT reasoning
* SUBMISSION
   Submissions of extended abstracts are solicited and will be managed via
   Easychair: http://fmv.jku.at/qbf2013/submission.html
   Submitted extended abstracts should have an overall length of 4 pages in
   LNCS format excluding references. Authors may decide to include an
   appendix with additional material. Appendices will be considered at the
   reviewers' discretion.


4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GAMES, AUTOMATA, LOGICS, AND FORMAL
VERIFICATION (GANDALF 2013)
   Preliminary Call for Papers
   Borca di Cadore, Dolomites, Italy
   August 29th-31th, 2013
   http://gandalf.di.univr.it/
* OBJECTIVES
   The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia
   and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata,
   Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of
   themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate
   cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially
   welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on
   all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are
   at an early stage of development are also welcome.
* LIST OF TOPICS
   The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the
   following:
     Automata Theory
     Automated Deduction
     Computational aspects of Game Theory
     Concurrency and Distributed computation
     Decision Procedures
     Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification
     Finite Model Theory
     First-order and Higher-order Logics
     Formal Languages
     Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems
     Games and Automata for Verification
     Game Semantics
     Logical aspects of Computational Complexity
     Logics of Programs
     Modal and Temporal Logics
     Model Checking
     Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems
     Program Analysis and Software Verification
     Run-time Verification and Testing
     Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
     Synthesis
* INVITED SPEAKERS
   Alessandro Cimatti (ITC-IRST, Italy)
   Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria)
   Christof Loeding (University of Aachen, Germany)
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Abstract submission: May 1, 2013
   Paper submission: May 8, 2013
   Acceptance notification: June 17, 2013
   Final version: June 26, 2013
   Conference: August 29-31, 2013
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
   Tiziano Villa (University of Verona, Italy)
   Gabriele Puppis (LaBRI, Bordeaux, France)
* ORGANIZING CHAIR
   Pietro Sala (University of Verona, Italy)


PERSYVAL-LAB SUMMER SCHOOL ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
   Call for Applications
   July 8-12, 2013
   Grenoble, France
   http://www-verimag.imag.fr/PERSYVAL-Lab-Summer-School-on.html?lang=en
* IET ICT Labs and PERSYVAL-Lab (Pervasive systems and algorithms at the
   convergence of physical and digital worlds) Based on high-level research
   laboratories present at Grenoble in Mathematics, Computer Science,
   Automatic Control, Signal Processing, and Hardware Architecture, is
   organizing the 1st edition of the CPS Summer School.
* This school will bring together some of the best lecturers from Europe
   and the USA, in a one week programme, and be a fantastic opportunity
   for interaction. It will be held in the campus 
of Grenoble University-France.
* IMPORTANT DATE
   Hard deadline for applications is May 1st 2013. Attendance is limited
   to 80, so we will be selecting amongst the candidates.
* FEES
   Registration fee is EUR350 for students, EUR650 for non-students, which
   includes lunches from Monday 8th through Friday 12th. The registration
   fee only partially covers the costs incurred. The remaining costs are
   covered by the EIT ICT Labs and PERSYVAL-Lab.


18TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL
SYSTEMS (FMICS 2013)
   Call for Papers
   September 23-24, 2013
   Madrid, Spain
   Co-located with SEFM 2013
   http://lvl.info.ucl.ac.be/Fmics2013
* SCOPE
   The  aim of  the  FMICS workshop  series  is to  provide  a forum  for
   researchers who  are interested in the development  and application of
   formal  methods  in industry.  In  particular,  FMICS brings  together
   scientists and engineers who are  active in the area of formal methods
   and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage
   of these  methods. The FMICS  workshop series also strives  to promote
   research  and development for  the improvement  of formal  methods and
   tools for industrial applications.
* TOPICS
   - Design, specification,  code generation and testing  based on formal
     methods.
   - Methods,  techniques  and   tools  to  support  automated  analysis,
     certification, debugging,  learning, optimization and transformation
     of complex, distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems.
   - Verification  and validation  methods that  address  shortcomings of
     existing  methods  with respect  to  their industrial  applicability
     (e.g., scalability and usability issues).
   - Tools for the development of formal design descriptions.
   - Case studies  and experience  reports on industrial  applications of
     formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new
     research directions.
   - Impact of the adoption of  formal methods on the development process
     and associated costs.
   - Application  of  formal methods  in  standardization and  industrial
     forums.
* SUBMISSIONS
   Submissions must  describe authors'  original research work  and their
   results. Contributions should not  exceed 15 pages formatted according
   to  the LNCS  style (Springer),  and should  be submitted  as Portable
   Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site:
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmics2013
   All  submissions must  report on  original research.  Submitted papers
   must  not have  previously appeared  in a  journal or  conference with
   published proceedings  and must not  be concurrently submitted  to any
   other  peer-reviewed  workshop,   symposium,  conference  or  archival
   journal. Any  partial overlap with any such  published or concurrently
   submitted paper must be clearly indicated.
   Submissions  should   clearly  demonstrate  relevance   to  industrial
   application.  Case  study  papers  should  identify  lessons  learned,
   validate  theoretical results  (such  as scalability  of methods),  or
   provide specific motivation for further research and development.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   Paper submission: May 3rd
   Notification: June 24th
   Final version due: July 12th
   Workshop: September 23th-24th
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
   Michael Dierkes (Rockwell Collins, France)
   Charles Pecheur (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)


CALCO EARLY IDEAS WORKSHOP
   September 2, 2013
   Warsaw, Poland
   http://coalg.org/calco13/workshops.html#ei
* SCOPE
   CALCO 2013 will be preceded by the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop,
   dedicated to presentation of work in progress and original research
   proposals. PhD students and young researchers are particularly
   encouraged to contribute. Attendance at the workshop is open to all -
   it is anticipated that many CALCO conference participants will want to
   attend the CALCO Early Ideas workshop (and vice versa).
* TOPICS
   The CALCO Early Ideas Workshop invites submissions on the same topics
   as the CALCO conference: reporting results of theoretical work on the
   mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can
   support methods and techniques for software development, as well as
   experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into
   industrial practice. The list of topics of particular interest is
   shown on the main CALCO 2013 page: http://coalg.org/calco13/.
* SUBMISSIONS
   CALCO Early Ideas presentations will be selected according to
   originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of
   submitted 2-page short contributions.  It can be work in progress, a
   summary of work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere, or
   work that in some other way might be interesting to the CALCO
   audience. A booklet with the accepted short contributions will be
   available at the workshop. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calcoearlyideas2013
   The use of LNCS style is strongly encouraged.
* IMPORTANT DATES
   2-page short contribution submission:  May 27, 2013
   Notification for short contribution:   June 24, 2013
   Final short contribution due:          July 15, 2013
   CALCO Early Ideas Workshop:            September 2, 2013
   10-15 page paper submission:           October 15, 2013
   Notification for paper:                December 15, 2013
   Final paper version due:               January 15, 2014


SAMSON at 60: A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF SAMSON ABRAMSKY, ON THE EVENT OF
HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY
   28-30 May 2013
   Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
   Lecture Theatre B
   http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/sa60/
* TALKS
   Speakers will cover the wide range of subjects to which Samson made
   pioneering contributions, stretching from the semantics of programming
   languages, including domain theory and game semantics, via logic where
   he introduced important notions such as full completeness, to quantum
   computing and quantum foundations, where he is a father of categorical
   quantum mechanics.
* LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
   Conference fee is GBP50 per person for speakers and participants. Cash (in
   sterling pounds) payable on 28th May 2013 at the arrival registration.
   Limited funding is available for students and young researchers. Please
   contact Destiny Chen for further details prior to your booking.
* ORGANISERS
   Bob Coecke, Luke Ong, Prakash Panangaden
* LOCAL ORGANISERS
   Destiny Chen, Aleks Kissinger


3RD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF
RESOURCE ANALYSIS (FOPARA 2013)
   August 29th to 31st, 2013, Bertinoro, Italy
   Co-located with WST 2013
   http://fopara2013.cs.unibo.it
* SCOPE
   The workshop will serve as a forum for presenting original research
   results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (time, space,
   and others) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to
   bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with
   the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both
   theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged. We also
   encourage papers that combine theory and practice. The following list
   of topics is non-exhaustive:
   - resource static analysis for embedded or/and critical systems;
   - logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes;
   - logics closely related to complexity classes;
   - type systems for controlling/inferring/checking complexity;
   - semantic methods to analyse resources, including quasi-interpretations;
   - practical applications of resource analysis;
   - complexity analysis by term and graph rewriting.
* SUBMISSIONS
   FOPARA 2013 is a two-phase workshop. All participants are invited to submit
   a draft paper describing the work to be presented at the workshop. These
   submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure
   they are within the scope of FOPARA and will appear in the draft proceedings
   distributed at the workshop. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings
   are not peer-reviewed publications. After the workshop, authors will be
   given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the
   workshop and will be invited to submit a revised full article for the formal
   review process. These revised submissions will be reviewed by the program
   committee using prevailing academic standards to select the best articles
   that will appear in the formal proceedings. All contributions must be
   written in English, conform to the Springer LNCS series format and not
   exceed 16 pages. The papers selected after the reviewing process will be
   published as a volume of the Springer LNCS series (Springer’s approval
   is pending).
* IMPORTANT DATES
   The following deadlines are strict.
   - Draft Submission: June 3rd, 2013;
   - Notification (Draft): June 21st, 2013;
   - Final Version: July 5th, 2013;
   - Paper Submission: September 30th, 2013;
   - Notification (Paper): December 2nd, 2013;
   - Camera Ready: December 23rd, 2013.


3RD INTERNATIONAL SAT/SMT SUMMER SCHOOL 2013
   Call for participation
   Aalto University, Otaniemi Campus
   Espoo, Finland, July 3-5th, 2013
   http://satsmt2013.ics.aalto.fi/
* AIMS
   The SAT/SMT Summer School aims at providing graduate students and
   researchers from universities and industry with a comprehensive
   overview of research and methodology in satisfiability testing (SAT)
   and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The lectures cover the
   foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT technologies and
   their applications.
* LECTURERS
   Olaf Beyersdorff, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
   Alessandro Cimatti, IRST, Trento, Italy
   Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
   John Franco, University of Cincinnati, USA
   Enrico Giunchiligia, University of Genova, Italy
   Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin, USA
   Joao Marques-Silva, University College Dublin, Ireland
   Albert Oliveras, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
   Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* REGISTRATION
   Registration for the school is now open. Full details of the
   registration procedure are available at the school website:
   http://satsmt2013.ics.aalto.fi/
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University
   Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University
   Matti Jarvisalo, University of Helsinki


HORIZONS IN TCS: A CELEBRATION OF MIHALIS YANNAKAKIS's 60TH BIRTHDAY
   Early Call for Participation
   Workshop at Center for Computational Intractability (CCI)
   Princeton University, NJ, USA
   August 27-29, 2013.
   http://intractability.princeton.edu/blog/2013/01/mihalisfest-2013/
* See the workshop's webpage for further information,
   including list of speakers.


ACKERMANN AWARD 2013 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
   Second Call for Nominations
* Eligible for the 2013 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics
   specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally
   accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution
   between 1.1.2011 and 31.12.2012.
* Submission details are available at
   http://www.eacsl.org/submissionsAck.html
* The deadline for submission is April 15, 2013
* Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Jury by
   e-mail: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk
* The award consists of
   - a diploma,
   - an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
   - the publication of the laudation in the CSL proceedings,
   - travel support to attend the conference.
* The 2013 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
   annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'13) in Torino (Italy)
   to be held 2-5 September 2013.
* The jury consists of  8  members:
   - T. Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg)
   - A. Dawar (Cambridge, U.K., president of EACSL)
   - T.A. Henzinger (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
   - D. Leivant (Bloomington, USA)
   - D. Niwinski (Warsaw, Poland)
   - L. Ong (Oxford, U.K., LICS representative)
   - S. Ronchi Della Rocca (vice-president of EACSL)
   - W. Thomas (Aachen, Germany)
* The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year.
* The previous Ackermann Award recipients were:
   2005: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Konstantin Korovin, Nathan Segerlind;
   2006: Stefan Milius and Balder ten Cate;
   2007: Dietmar Berwanger, Stephane Lengrand and Ting Zhang;
   2008: Krishnendu Chatterjee;
   2009: Jakob Nordstrom;
   2010: ---- (no award given);
   2011: Benjamin Rossman
   2012: Andrew Polonsky and Szymon Torunczyk


PHD POSITION AT TWENTE ON ACCELERATOR PROGRAMMING
* LOCATION
   The research group Formal Methods and Tools at the University of
   Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) is looking for a PhD researcher
   (4 years) to work on the EU Strep project CARP (Correct and Efficient
   Accelerator Programming), funded by the European Union.
* CARP Project
   In recent years, massively parallel accelerator processors, primarily
   GPUs, have become widely available to end-users. Accelerators offer
   tremendous compute power at a low cost, and tasks such as media
   processing, simulation, medical imaging and eye-tracking can be
   accelerated to beat CPU performance by orders of magnitude. Performance
   is gained in energy efficiency and execution speed, allowing intensive
   media processing software to run in low-power consumer devices.
   The overall aims of CARP are to design techniques and tools for correct
   and efficient accelerator programming:
   - Novel & attractive methods for constructing system-independent
   accelerator programs
   - Advanced code generation techniques to produce highly optimised
   system-specific code from system-independent programs
   - Scalable static techniques for analysing system-independent and
   system-specific accelerator programs, both qualitatively and quantitatively
   The PhD candidate we are looking for is expected to work on the
   development of tools and techniques for correct accelerator programming.
   As a research outcome we expect publications, (prototype) tools, and a
   PhD thesis.
* STARTING DATE
   Starting date of the position: June 1st, 2013, or as soon as possible
   thereafter.
* FURTHER INFORMATION
   - FMT group: http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/
   - Dr. Marieke Huisman (Marieke.Huisman at ewi.utwente.nl)
   - The CARP project: http://fmt.ewi.utwente.nl/files/projects/CARP.d1.pdf
* APPLICATIONS
   Please submit your application before 1st of May, 2013 via
   http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/. We strongly encourage interested
   applicants to send in their applications as soon as possible.
   Your application should consist of:
   - a cover letter (explain your specific interest and qualifications);
   - a full Curriculum Vitae, including a list of all courses + marks, and
     a short description of your MSc thesis; and
   - references (contact information) of two scientific staff members.


EUROPEAN PHD PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC (EPCL)
   http://www.epcl-study.eu/
* EPCL
   The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly
   by four of the leading European universities in the field:
   - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy),
   - Technische Universiteat Dresden (Germany),
   - Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria), and
   - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).
   Further international universities, research organizations and
   enterprises that contribute to Computational Logic or apply results
   from it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser
   University (Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the NICTA (National ICT
   Australia), as well as several companies.
* PROGRAM
   The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the
   European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree
   issued by the partner universities at which the studies have been
   physically performed.  The language of the program is English.
   Financial support is available in the form of positions and
   scholarships. A foundation track and an application-oriented track
   match with career perspectives in university research as well as in
   industrial research.
* REQUIREMENTS
   Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are: A Master's
   degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree;
   the proof of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge
   in the areas Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial
   Intelligence and Declarative Programming.
   The program starts annually in the winter term. Applications for 2013
   have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage
   http://www.epcl-study.eu/
   before the application deadline on 30 April 2013.
* ENQUIRIES
   Prof. Steffen Hoelldobler
   Technische Universitaet Dresden
   Fakultaet Informatik
   International Center for Computational Logic
   Email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de


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