[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 23, July 2020

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PoDM Newsletter 23, July 2020
The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFERENCES

PODS 2021 - 40th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
  Call for Papers

JOB  ANNOUNCEMENTS

POSITIONS FOR PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
 LaBRI, Bordeaux

JOB ANOUNCEMENT
 Post-doctoral researcher, University of Edinburgh

OTHER

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

PODS 2021 - 40th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
  Call for Papers
  June 20-25, 2021, Xi'an, China.
* The 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.  For the 40th edition, PODS calls for research papers
  providing original, substantial contributions along the following tracks: deep
  theoretical exploration of topical areas central to data management; new formal
  frameworks that aim at providing a basis for deeper theoretical investigation of
  important emerging issues in data management; validation of theoretical
  approaches from the lens of practical applicability in data management.
* Topics that fit the interests of the symposium 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.
* Important dates: (All deadlines end at 5 PM Pacific Time)
  First submission cycle: Abstract submission: July 02, 2020;
  Paper submission: July 07, 2020; First Notification: September 18, 2020;
  Revised submission: October 16, 2020; Final Notification: November 13, 2020.
  Second submission cycle: Abstract submission: December 11, 2020;
  Paper submission: December 18, 2020; Notification: March 05, 2021.
* Additional details: http://2021.sigmod.org/calls_papers_pods_research.shtml

REPORT ON EDBT / ICDT 2020
* The organizers of EDBT / ICDT 2020 wrote a report on the conference in the hope that it can be useful for others who want to organize a
  conference and deal with COVID-19 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07668). The report has been picked up by
  Communications of the ACM and featured on their blog
  (https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/244379-holding-a-conference-online-and-live-due-to-covid-19/fulltext).
  A main conclusion of the report is that we need to find good ways of improving the social interaction and the networking aspect in virtual
  conferences. Ideas for doing so can be discussed on the databasetheory.org blog.

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JOB  ANNOUNCEMENTS

POSITIONS FOR PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
* Ontology-based data access, data quality, inconsistency handling
* LaBRI, Bordeaux, France
* Starting date: ideally October 1st, 2020, but there is considerable flexibility
* Two 2-year postdoc positions and one 3-year PhD position are currently available in the new INTENDED AI Chair project, whose aim is to develop intelligent, knowledge-based methods for handling imperfect data. The positions have no teaching or administration obligations, but there will be opportunities to engage in teaching and/or student supervision if desired.
* More info: https://intended.labri.fr/hiring.html
* Contact: Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS researcher at LaBRI
(meghyn.bienvenu at labri.fr)

JOB ANOUNCEMENT
* Post-doctoral researcher
* Graph Databases, especially graph query languages
* Flexible working conditions in view of impending brexit
* At least 1 year
* The opening is in the group of Leonid Libkin and Paolo Guagliardo. The main topics of research center around the design and analysis of new graph query languages. Close collaboration with several universities in France (ENS-Paris, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée) and Neo4j (a leading graph database vendor) is expected.
* Contact: Leonid Libkin (libkin at ed.ac.uk), Paolo Guagliardo (paolo.guagliardo at ed.ac.uk).

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 serving as peer reviewers for venues that do not make their research
 publicly available. It has received 240 signatures as of this writing.
* https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/

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