[FOM] LFCS'20: conference announcment and call for papers

[Artemov, Sergei]

Symposium on LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (LFCS’20), Deerfield Beach, Florida, January 4-7, 2020.

LFCS Steering Committee: Anil Nerode, (Ithaca, NY, General Chair); Stephen Cook (Toronto); Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht); Yuri Matiyasevich (St.Petersburg, Russia); Samuel Buss (San Diego); Gerald Sacks (Cambridge, MA); Andre Scedrov (Philadelphia, PA); Dana Scott, (Pittsburgh, PA - Berkeley, CA).

LFCS topics of interest include, but are not limited to: constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity;  logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification;  logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda and combinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; nonmonotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; other logics in computer science.

LFCS’20 Program Committee: Sergei Artemov (New York, NY) - PC Chair; Eugene Asarin (Paris); Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh, PA); Lev Beklemishev (Moscow); Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI); Samuel Buss (San Diego, CA); Robert Constable (Ithaca, NY); Thierry Coquand (Göteborg); Ruy de Queiroz (Recife); Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv); Melvin Fitting (New York); Sergey Goncharov (Novosibirsk); Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, IL); Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht); Hajime Ishihara (JAIST - Kanazawa); Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland); Roman Kuznets (Vienna); Daniel Leivant (Bloomington, IN); Robert Lubarsky (Boca Raton, FL); Victor Marek (Lexington, KY); Lawrence Moss (Bloomington, IN); Anil Nerode (Ithaca, NY) - General LFCS Chair; Hiroakira Ono (JAIST - Kanazawa);  Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft); Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Chennai); Michael Rathjen (Leeds); Sebastiaan Terwijn (Nijmegen). 

Submission details.
Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Submissions should be made electronically via easychair. Submitted papers must be in pdf/12pt format and of no more than 15 pages, present work not previously published, and must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. 

LFCS issues the best student paper award named after John Barkley Rosser Sr. (1907-1989), a prominent American logician with fundamental contributions in both Mathematics and Computer Science.

Important Dates.
Submissions deadline: midnight September 10, 2019, any time zone.
Notification: October 10, 2019.
Symposium dates: January 4 – 7, 2020.

Local Arrangements.
The venue of LFCS 2020 will be the spectacular Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort, 2096 NE 2nd Street, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441. Website: http://www.wyndhamdeerfieldresort.com

LFCS’20 Local Organizing Committee Chair is Robert Lubarsky, Florida Atlantic University.

Further Information about LFCS’20:  http://lfcs.ws.gc.cuny.edu/ 

Expected sponsorships: The US National Science Foundation (NSF), Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), The City University of New York Research Foundation.