A special event in honor of Ron Fagin's influential and long-lasting research contributions to the principles of database systems will be held during the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference in San Francisco. Organizers: Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden and Lucian Popa (IBM Research - Almaden)

The event took place on Sunday June 26, 2016. 

Program

• 2:00 - 2:15: Opening
• 2:15 - 2:45: 
  • Finite Model Theory: A Personal Perspective [pdf] 
    Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
• 2:45 - 3:15:
  •  Acyclic Hypergraphs [pdf]
    Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University
• 3:15 - 3:45: 
  • Theory and Practice: Collaborating with Ron Fagin on Two Projects in Information Integration [pdf]
    Laura Haas, IBM Research - Almaden
• 3:45 - 4:15: Break
• 4:15 - 4:45: 
  • Foundations of Data Exchange and Metadata Management [pdf] 
    Marcelo Arenas, Catholic University of Chile
• 4:45 - 5:15: 
  • Database Principles in Text Analytics [pdf]
    Benny Kimelfeld, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• 5:15 - 5:45: 
  • The Role of Elegance in Research [pdf]
    Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh
• 5:45 - 6:00: 
  • Personal Reflections
    Ronald Fagin, IBM Research - Almaden