[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 20, November 2019

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PoDM Newsletter 20, November 2019
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS @ ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   Call for Workshop Proposals


OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS

VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2019 - WINNERS


JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

* PHD STUDENT,  INRIA Lille (Lille, France) and Télécom Paris (south of Paris, France)
* POSTDOCS, Database Group, University of Edinburgh

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS @ ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   Call for Workshop Proposals
   June 8-12 2020,  Santiago de Compostela, Spain
   http://www.ecai2020.eu
   Deadline (extended) 6 December 2019
* Workshops at the intersection of AI and PoDM are strongly encouraged. The ECAI 2020 Organizing Committee aims for a diverse program with many interdisciplinary workshops.
* Proposals must be submitted by December 6th via Easychair.
* For submission guidelines and further information for workshop organizers, please visit http://ecai2020.eu/call-for-papers/workshops/
    Please send any queries to:  workshops-chairs at ecai2020.eu

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OTHER  ANOUNCEMENTS

VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2019 - WINNERS
The winners of this year's VCLA International Student Awards include a thesis from the PoDM community:
- Outstanding Master Thesis Award was given to Martín Muñoz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) for the master thesis "Descriptive Complexity for Counting Complexity Classes"
under the supervision of Marcelo Arenas and Cristian Riveros
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award was given to Alexej Rotar (TU München) for the undergraduate thesis "The Satisfiability Problem for Fragments of PCTL"
under the supervision of Jan Kretinsky
The winners were invited to Vienna to present their thesis in an award ceremony that took place on September 24.
http://www.vcla.at/2019/09/award-ceremony-vcla-international-student-awards-2019/
* The VCLA International Student Awards recognizes young students all over the world who have done outstanding scientific works in the broad field of Logic and Computer Science. It is dedicated to the memory of our dear colleague Helmut Veith (1971-2016).
* The winners of three of the four editions have included students supervised by prominent members of the PoDM community.
* The deadline for submission of nominations for the degrees awarded between November 15th, 2018 and December 31st, 2019 (inclusive) will be announced in January 2020.

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JOB  ANOUNCEMENTS

* PHD STUDENT
* Database Theory and Logic
* joint between INRIA Lille (Lille, France) and Télécom Paris (south of Paris, France)
* 3 years
* Link: https://a3nm.net/work/research/offers/thesis-proposal-cqfd.pdf
* The SPIRALS teams in Inria Lille (France) has funding for a PhD position (3 years) starting in October 2020 or earlier. The thesis will be supervised by Pierre Bourhis (Inria Lille) and Antoine Amarilli (Télécom Paris, Palaiseau, France). The PhD will preferrably be preceded by a Master's internship of 4-6 months. We are looking for a highly motivated student with a theoretical background in databases, logics, or knowledge representation and AI, who is interested in such a position. The PhD position focuses on ontology-mediated query answering, which is a field of database theory which is close to logics, data management and artificial intelligence: please see the link above for details.
* Contact:
  Antoine Amarilli
  DIG team, INFRES department, Télécom Paris
  <antoine.amarilli at telecom-paris.fr>
  Pierre Bourhis
  SPIRALS team, INRIA Lille & CNRS
  <pierre.bourhis at inria.fr>

* POSTDOCS, Database Group, University of Edinburgh
* There are multiple positions open in the database group in Edinburgh,
supported by EPSRC grants on querying incomplete and inconsistent data, on
data wrangling, as well as industry grants covering research on the formal
semantics of relational and graph query languages.
* Special considerations: the members of the group (see below) are fully
aware that a decision to take a postdoc position in the UK in the Fall
of 2019 can only be based on very incomplete and inconsistent data. We are
prepared to discuss special arrangements to mitigate the impact of the
omnipresent lunacy on the quality of life and research of prospective applicants.
* Therefore, if interested, please contact us: Paolo Guagliardo
(paolo.guagliardo at ed.ac.uk), Leonid Libkin (libkin at ed.ac.uk), Andreas
Pieris (apieris at inf.ed.ac.uk)


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