From newsletter at databasetheory.org Wed May 1 07:58:05 2019 From: newsletter at databasetheory.org (newsletter at databasetheory.org) Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 09:58:05 +0200 Subject: [Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 17, May 20169 Message-ID: PoDM Newsletter 17, May 2019 The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org TABLE OF CONTENTS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS EDBT SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data Call for Applications PHOKION KOLAITIS SPECIAL EVENT PODS 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sunday, 30 June 2019, from 2:00pm to ~6:15pm 28TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2020) First Call for Papers OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS ESSLLI 2020 - 25nd EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION 3-14 August, 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands https://www.esslli.eu Call for Proposals --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS EDBT SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data Call for Applications 2 - 6 September 2019 Saint Germain aux Monts d’Or, in the surroundings of Lyon (France) https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr * The theme for the 14th EDBT Summer School is "Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data". This five-day summer school follows the successful tradition of previous EDBT schools: stimulating lectures by leading researchers in the field, competitive research challenges to build upon and extend the lectures, and a lively scientific and social program. * Speakers and lecture topics: - “Mining Temporal Networks”. Aristides Gionis, with Polina Rozenshtein. Aalto University - Finland. - “Data Curation and Machine Learning”. Ihab Ilyas. University of Waterloo - Canada. - “Information extraction ​with document spanners and Big data analytics with logical formalisms”. Benny Kimelfeld. Technion - Israel. - “Working with Knowledge Graphs.”. Markus Krötzsch. University of Dresden - Germany. - “Data Curation and Integration at the time of Open Data”. Renée Miller. Northeastern University - USA - “Entity Resolution for Large-Scale Data”. Erhard Rahm, with Eric Peukert . University of Leipzig - Germany. * Abstracts of the lectures can be consulted at https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr/lectures.html * We invite advanced graduate students, postdocs, and other academic and industrial researchers interested in an intensive study of the state-of-the-art techniques for managing data heterogeneity and extracting knowledge from such data to participate in the summer school. Application and registration details can be found on the school website.: https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr. * Participants will receive on request a certificate stating that the course activity is equivalent to 2 ETCS. Some universities may accept such a certificates towards the coursework required for their PhD program. The decision on the recognition of the ECTS depends exclusively on the participant's institute. * Important dates: - Deadline for application. 31 May 2019 - Notification of acceptance. 15 June 2019 - Deadline for registration. 1 July 2019 - Summer school. September 2nd - September 6th, 2019 (arrival on Sunday evening, September 1) PHOKION KOLAITIS SPECIAL EVENT PODS 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sunday, 30 June 2019, from 2:00pm to ~6:15pm http://sigmod2019.org/Kolaitis_Event * An event in honor of Phokion Kolaitis will take place on Sunday 30 June 2019. We will celebrate Phokion for his fundamental contributions of lasting value to the principles of database systems and computational logic, as well as to mathematical logic and computer science at large. The event comprises talks by some of his closest collaborators. Please join the event to honor Phokion! * Note: The SIGMOD organizers require that participants to the event be registered for the SIGMOD/PODS conference or for the conference workshops. * PROGRAM: Welcome and introduction by Georg Gottlob & Wang-Chiew Tan The logical approach to constraint satisfaction Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University Data exchange and beyond: What I've learned from logicians Renée J. Miller, Northeastern University Containment of conjunctive queries with inequalities Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens Learning database queries and schema mappings Balder ten Cate, Google Computational social choice through the lens of databases Benny Kimelfeld, Technion Enumerating repairs Reinhard Pichler, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Generalized quantifiers, games and dependence logic Jouko Väänänen, University of Helsinki Phokion Kolaitis: My office mate for five years, collaborator, mentor and friend. Lefteris Kirousis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens 28TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2020) First Call for Papers January 13-16, 2020, Barcelona, spain https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL2020 Paper submission: July 4, 2020 * AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 4 July 2019 Notifications: 14 October 2019 * PC Chairs Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Anca Muscholl, University of Bordeaux, France * Organizing committee Albert Atserias, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Juan Carlos Martínez, University of Barcelona, Spain * Publication CSL 2020 proceedings will be published by Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics * Venue The conference will be held in the University of Barcelona, Spain. * Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC co-chairs: Maribel Fernandez Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Anca Muscholl anca at labri.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS ESSLLI 2020 - 25nd EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION 3-14 August, 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands https://www.esslli.eu Call for Proposals * Under the auspices of FoLLI the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year in a different European country. It takes place during two weeks in the European Summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both the introductory and advanced levels, attracting around 400 participants each year from all the world. * Proposals for courses and workshops are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computation. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are encouraged. * Each course/workshop will consist of five 90-minute sessions, offered daily in a single week. * Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories: *foundational courses* present the basics of a research area to people with no prior knowledge in that area; *introductory courses* introduce a research field with its basic methods and techniques to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists; *advanced courses* are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of understanding in the current research of a field; *workshops* focus on specialized topics of current interest. * Proposal guidelines available at https://www.esslli.eu/call-for-proposals.html * Proposal submission deadline: 1 June 2019 Notification: 14 September 2019 * Please send any queries to esslli20pc at gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------- The next issue of this newsletter is scheduled for early July 2019. 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