[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 32, January 2022

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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 32, January 2022
The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL NOTE

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
ICDT 2023 - 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY
Call for Papers - First Submission Cycle

INTERNSHIP AND PHD POSITION
INRIA Lille (Lille, France) and Télécom Paris

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Joint EDBT-INTENDED School on Data and Knowledge

AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT
Winners of the 2021 Ackermann Award

LAUNCH OF NEW OPEN-ACCESS JOURNAL
TheoretiCS

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EDITORIAL NOTE
* As Thomas Schwentick reported in the September edition, I (Reinhard Pichler) have the pleasure to take over from him the responsibility for this newsletter. 
* I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Thomas for taking care of the newsletter since its inception over 5 years ago.
* If you have any suggestions for further improving the newsletter, please send me an email to newsletter-owner at databasetheory.org 

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
ICDT 2023 - 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY
Call for Papers - First Submission Cycle
https://databasetheory.org/node/134

* ICDT is an international conference series on the principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT, the International Conference on Extending Database Technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.  The 26th edition of ICDT is planned to take place in Ioannina, Greece, from  28–31 March 2023 (tentative dates).
* TOPICS:  We welcome research papers on every topic related to the principles and theory of data management, provided that there is a clear connection to foundational aspects.
* IMPORTANT DATES: Dates for the first submission cycle are as follows: Abstract submission due: March 14, 2022 (AoE), Paper submission due: March 21, 2022 (AoE), Notification: May 20, 2022. The first cycle provides the possibility of a revision.
* SUBMISSION: All submissions will be electronic via Easychair at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icdt2023. Papers must be submitted as PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style, the paper length is limited to 15 pages excluding references.

INTERNSHIP AND PHD POSITION
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/internships/stage-master-cqfd-enum.pdf
* The SPIRALS teams in Inria Lille (France) has funding for a Master's intership of 4-6 moths, which can be followed by a PhD position (3 years). The thesis will be supervised by Pierre Bourhis (Inria Lille) and Antoine Amarilli (Télécom Paris, Palaiseau, France). We are looking for a highly motivated student with a theoretical background in databases, logics, or knowledge representation and AI. The PhD position focuses on the fields of knowledge compilation and enumeration algorithms, applied to efficient query evaluation: 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>

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Joint EDBT-INTENDED School on Data and Knowledge
July 4-9, 2022
Bordeaux, France
* Summer school on database theory, with a special focus on both foundational and practical aspects of handling inconsistent, incomplete and more generally "imperfect" data.
* Detailed schedule and information on how to apply will be diffused shortly. Please save the date!
* Organizers: Meghyn Bienvenu, Diego Figueira
LECTURES AND SPEAKERS
* Reasoning with Constraints - Andreas Pieris
* Foundations of Graph Databases - Pablo Barceló
* Provenance - Val Tannen
* Enumeration - Nicole Schweikardt
* Probabilistic Databases -  Antoine Amarilli
* Consistent Query Answering - Jef Wijsen
* Quantitative Reasoning about Constraint Violations - Benny Kimelfeld
* Ontology-Mediated Query Answering - Carsten Lutz
* Ontology-Based Data Access Made Practical - Diego Calvanese
* Data Cleaning -  Floris Geerts
* Fact Checking - Paolo Papotti

AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT
Winners of the 2021 Ackermann Award
* The Ackermann Award 2021, the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science,
is given to two PhD theses (in alphabetic order)
* Marie Fortin: Expressivity of first-order logic, star-free propositional dynamic logic and communicating automata
* Sandra Kiefer: Power and Limits of the Weisfeiler-Leman Algorithm
* The award will be presented at the 30th Computer Science Logic
(CSL 2022) Conference, the annual meeting of the European Association for
Computer Science Logic. This will be held online, February 14th - 19th, 2022,
organised by the Fundamentals of Computer Science Group at University of Göttingen, Germany.
* A detailed report will be published in the proceedings of CSL 2022

LAUNCH OF NEW OPEN-ACCESS JOURNAL
TheoretiCS has been launched
* We are happy to announce the  launch of TheoretiCS, a new open-access journal dedicated to Theoretical Computer Science. See: https://theoretics-journal.org and also the blog post by Antoine Amarilli at https://databasetheory.org/node/133.
* TheoretiCS is firmly rooted in the Theoretical Computer Science global community. It has involved an unprecedented level of cooperation of representatives of leading conferences from across the entire Theoretical Computer Science community. Its Advisory Board is composed of representatives of most of the main conferences in the field (currently APPROX, CCC, COLT, CONCUR, CSL, FOCS, FoSSaCS, FSCD, FSTTCS, ICALP, ICDT, ITCS, LICS, MFCS, PODC, SoCG, SODA, STACS, STOC, TCC) and of a few further "members-at-large".
* The scope of TheoretiCS is the whole of Theoretical Computer Science, understood in an inclusive meaning.
* Our aim is to rapidly become a reference journal and to contribute to the unity of the Theoretical Computer Science global community. In particular, we will seek to publish only papers that make a very significant contribution to their respective fields, that strive to be accessible to a wider audience within theoretical computer science, and that are, generally, of a quality on par with the very best journals in the field.
* TheoretiCS adheres to the principles of diamond open-access: there is no charge to read the journal, nor to publish in it. The copyright of the papers remains with the authors, under a Creative Commons license.
* The inaugural Editors-in-Chief are Javier Esparza (TU München) and Uri Zwick (Tel Aviv U.). The entire Editorial Board can be seen at www.theoretics-journal.org.
* On that web page, more information can be found, particularly about the submission process.
* Please send feedback and comments to advisory-board at theoretics-journal.org

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