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PoDM Newsletter 22, May 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
REPORT ON EDBT / ICDT 2020
JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
IMFD, Chile
RESEARCH POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
POSTDOC POSITIONS,
Oxford University, UK
POSITIONS FOR PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
University of Zurich, Switzerland
AWARDS
ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Call for Nominations
BOOKS
Living in the Algorithmic Age
OTHER
TCS4F MANIFESTO & BLOG
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
PODS 2021 - 40th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Call for Papers
PODS is expected to take place in Xi'an, China, in June 2021.
Dates are still subject to change because of delays in the local conference
organization due to the Coronavirus.
* 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 for the first submission cycle:
Abstract submission: June 26, 2020; Paper submission: July 03, 2020;
First Notification: September 18, 2020; Revised submission: October 16, 2020;
Final Notification: November 13, 2020;
* Additional details: https://databasetheory.org/node/110
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
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS, IMFD, Chile
* Expressive power of modern neural network architectures
* IMFD, Chile
* 1-3 years
* Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PyHp-MRAPWg_0aeinpDGmzJGZbwMtsqC6BqE_4T3KFc/edit?usp=sharing
* The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD Chile, www.imfd.cl) offers an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to advance the understanding of theoretical aspects of modern neural network architectures, more in particular, its expressive and computational power. The coordinators of this project are Professors Pablo Barceló (http://pbarcelo.ing.uc.cl/) and Jorge Pérez (https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~jperez/).
* Contact: Pablo Barceló (pbarcelo at ing.puc.cl)
RESEARCH POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
* Theoretical Computer Science group
* Topic: Graph Databases
* We are seeking for a PhD student or a PostDoc to strengthen our research team in two research projects, funded by the DFG. One of the projects is in cooperation with Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt University) and Stefan Mengel (CNRS, CRIL, Lens)
* Funding is available for ~3 years.
* Interested candidates should contact Wim Martens
(wim.martens at uni-bayreuth.de)
POSTDOC POSITIONS
* Nested data management, Data Integration, and/or Computational Logic
* Oxford University, UK
* Until December 31 2022
* Several postdoctoral positions will be available in Oxford's database
group starting at the end of the summer 2020.
This will include postdoctoral positions on data integation over web data sources and on nested data management, the latter joint with Milos Nikolic at University of Edinburgh. There will also be RA positions in the broad area of computational logic (e.g. proof theory, automata theory), with preference for candidates with an interest in links to data management. The positions have no teaching or administration obligations, although there will be opportunities to teach for those interested in doing so.
* Contact: michael.benedikt at cs.ox.ac.uk
POSITIONS FOR PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
* Where: University of Zurich
* Topics: Database Theory; Databases + Machine Learning
https://fdbresearch.github.io/
* Deadline: June 1, 2020 for full consideration
* To start: flexible, asap preferred
* More info: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/dast/jobs.html
* Contact:
Dan Olteanu (olteanu at ifi.uzh.ch)
Data Systems and Theory group
https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/dast.html
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AWARDS
ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
*** Deadline postponed: 1 July 2020 ***
* INTRODUCTION
Nominations are now invited for the 2020 Ackermann Award.
* ELIGIBILITY
PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS
conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a
university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2018 and 31.12.2019
are eligible for nomination for the award.
* PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD
The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) in
Ljubljana at CSL '21, the annual conference of the EACSL, January
25-28, 2021. The award consists of a certificate, an invitation to present
the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the laudatio in
the CSL proceedings, and financial support to attend the conference.
* JURY
The jury consists of:
* Christel Baier (TU Dresden);
* Michael Benedikt (Oxford University);
* Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw);
* Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay);
* Prakash Panangaden (McGill University);
* Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL;
* Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL;
* Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative.
The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year.
* WHAT TO SUBMIT
The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit
1. the thesis (ps or pdf file);
2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis
in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file);
3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters
by other senior researchers (in English);
supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick
(thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de);
4. a short CV of the candidate;
5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as
a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and
that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period.
* HOW TO SUBMIT
The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman
of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de, with
** Subject: Ackermann Award 2020 Submission
** Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
The deadline for submission is 1 July 2020.
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BOOKS
Living in the Algorithmic Age
By: Gilles Dowek & Serge Abiteboul
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/03/living-in-the-algorithmic-age/
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OTHER
TCS4F MANIFESTO & BLOG
* The TCS4F manifesto aims at reducing the carbon footprint of our
conferences and other professional activities by 50% within 10 years.
* tcs4f.org
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