[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 14, November 2018

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PoDM Newsletter 14, November 2018
The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

PODS 2019 - 38th Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
  Call for Research Papers (2nd Cycle)
EPIT 2019 - SPRING SCHOOL ON DATABASES, LOGIC AND AUTOMATA
 Announcement

JOB ANOUNCEMENTS

PHD STUDENT POSITION
  Database Theory and Logic, joint between LaBRI (Bordeaux, FR) and IRIF (Paris, FR)
MULTIPLE POSTDOC POSITIONS
  Database Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (for now UK)
PhD position
  ADREM Data Lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium

OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS

PODS 2019 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
  Call for Nominations

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

PODS 2019 - 38th Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
  Call for Research Papers (2nd Cycle)
  June 30 - July 05, 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  https://databasetheory.org/blog, https://sigmod2019.org
* The Principles of Database Systems (PODS) symposium series, held in
  conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier
  annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical
  foundations of data management, traditional or nontraditional.
* Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
  concurrency & recovery, distributed/parallel databases, cloud computing;
  data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views and
  data warehouses, metadata management; data-centric (business) process
  management, workflows, web services; data management and machine learning;
  data mining, information extraction, search; data models, data structures,
  algorithms for data management; data privacy and security, human-related
  data and ethics; data streams; design, semantics, query languages;
  domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text);
  graph databases and (semantic) Web data; incompleteness, inconsistency,
  uncertainty in data management; knowledge-enriched data management;
  model theory, logics, algebras, computational complexity.
* Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including bibliography.
  PODS 2019 specifically encourages the submission of shorter papers
  as well as papers that make use of the full page allowance.
* Important dates: 2nd Cycle: Abstract submission: Dec 14, 2018; Paper submission: Dec 21, 2018

EPIT 2019 - SPRING SCHOOL ON DATABASES, LOGIC AND AUTOMATA
 Announcement
 April 8-12, 2019, CIRM, Marseille Luminy, France
 Webpage of the event : https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html
* EPIT (École de Printemps d'Informatique Théorique, https://epit.irif.fr/)
 is a French recurrent spring school in theoretical computer science,
 initiated by Maurice Nivat in 1973.
 It has since then spanned many exciting topics in foundational computer science,
 and  has become a major event for the research community in France and beyond.
 The 2019 edition of the EPIT will cover the foundations of data management.
 It will in particular focus on the fruitful interaction between database theory,
 logic and automata.
 A detailed program can be found on the Webpage of the event. In addition,
 poster sessions will be organised, so that participants who are willing to, will be able to
 present their work.
* Lectures are intended to be accessible to a wide audience. No prior knowledge of
 database theory will be assumed, but some familiarity with basic automata theory
 and logic is recommended.
 The EPIT 2019 Spring School is primarily addressed to PhD students and young researchers,
 but more senior participants are also encouraged to join.
 All courses will be given in English.
* The school will take place at CIRM, the International Center for Mathematical Meetings
 (https://www.cirm-math.fr/) in Luminy, Marseille. Registration fees, including
 accommodation and meals at CIRM, will be as moderate as possible (details to be announced soon).
* Organisers : Amélie Gheerbrant  <amelie at irif.fr>, Leonid Libkin <libkin at inf.ed.ac.uk>
 Luc Segoufin  <luc.segoufin at inria.fr>, Pierre Senellart  <pierre at senellart.com>
 Cristina Sirangelo  <cristina at irif.fr>

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JOB ANOUNCEMENTS

PHD STUDENT POSITION
* Database Theory and Logic
* joint between LaBRI (Bordeaux, FR) and IRIF (Paris, FR)
* 3 years
* Link: https://quid.labri.fr/documents/phd.html
* The IRIF lab in Paris and the LABRI lab in Bordeaux, France have funding for a co-supervised PhD studentship in database theory starting in 2019. The PhD topic is in the area of foundations of data management, focusing on querying inconsistent data. This PhD topic is part of a larger projet QUID (Efficient Querying for Incomplete and Inconsistent Data), funded by the French research agency ANR. The project involves researchers from two other research labs in France: École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the Institut Gaspard Monge (Marne-la-Vallée). Candidates should have a strong background in theoretical computer science, preferably in automata, logic, verification, or finite model theory. Some prior knowledge of database theory and systems is also a plus.
* Contact:
Cristina Sirangelo - cristina at irif.fr
Diego Figueira - diego.figueira at labri.fr

MULTIPLE POSTDOC POSITIONS
* Database Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (for now UK)
* Up to 2 years
* Multiple postdoctoral positions are available in the database group in Edinburgh. Topics of interest include: Graph query languges; Semantics of relational query languages; Handling incomplete information; Querying inconsistent data. Both applied and theory candidates are welcome to apply.
* Contacts: Paolo Guagliardo (paolo.guagliardo at ed.ac.uk), Leonid Libkin (libkin at ed.ac.uk), Andreas Pieris (apieris at inf.ed.ac.uk)
* Positions will be approved in the next few days and detailed application
instructions will be posted on dbworld; please search dbworld for Edinburgh postdoc positions and use the URL provided there.

PhD position
* ADREM Data Lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium
* 4 years
* The topics are: 1) Expressive power of linear
algebra and matrix query languages; 2) database
theory in general.
* Contact:
Floris Geerts (http://adrem.ua.ac.be/floris.geerts)

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OTHER  ANOUNCEMENTS

PODS 2019 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
* Call for Nominations
* Nominations are solicited for the PODS 2019 Test of Time Award.
The award will recognize a paper or a small number of papers published in the PODS 2009 proceedings
that had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade.
All papers are nominated by default, but the committee welcomes input from our community.
Please feel free to nominate a paper if you think it has had great impact,
even if you have not thoroughly compared it to the other eligible papers.
The usual conflict of interest rules apply.
* The PODS 2019 ToT Award Committee consists of Dirk Van Gucht, Jianwen Su, and Victor Vianu (chair).
Please email your nominations to Victor (vianu at cs.ucsd.edu) with subject line
"PODS 2019 ToT Award nomination" together with a brief justification.
Please send your nominations no later than December 15, 2018.
Nominations are confidential and will only be shared among the committee members.
* The PODS ToT award for 2019 will be presented during the SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference,
held June 30 - July 5, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* The PODS 2009 papers can be found at
http://www.sigmod09.org/program_pods.shtml or https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1559795

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