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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 33, March 2022
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
PODS 2023 - 42st ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Call for Papers - First Submission Cycle

AWARDS - CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS
ACM PODS 2022 ALBERTO O. MENDELZON TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
ACKERMANN AWARD 2022 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

SUMMER SCHOOL - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Joint EDBT-INTENDED School on Data and Knowledge

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
PODS 2023 - 42st ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Call for Papers - First Submission Cycle
https://2023.sigmod.org/calls_papers_pods_research.shtml

* SCOPE: PODS seeks high-quality scientific articles that present principled contributions to modeling, application, system building, and both theoretical and experimental validation in the context of data management. Such articles might be based, among others, on establishing theoretical results, developing new concepts and frameworks that deserve further exploration, providing experimental work that sheds light on the scientific foundations of the discipline, or a rigorous analysis of both widely used and recently developed industry artifacts.

* NOTE: Following the lead from  PODS 2022, please note the following for PODS 2023

1) Submitted papers must be formatted using the standard ACM proceedings stylesheet AND can be up to **8 pages**.

2) PODS 2023 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. However, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas.

* IMPORTANT DATES: Dates for the first submission cycle are as follows.
** First cycle abstract deadline: May 30, 2022
** Full paper submission deadline: June 06, 2022
** Reviews sent to authors: Aug 19, 2022
** Rebuttal phase: August 22 - 26, 2022
** Notification: Sep 05, 2022


AWARDS - CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS:

ACM PODS 2022 ALBERTO O. MENDELZON TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
* Until March 15, 2022

* Nominations are solicited for the PODS 2022 Test-of-Time Award. The award will recognize a paper or a small number of 
papers published in the PODS 2012 proceedings that had the most impact
in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade.
All papers are nominated by default, but the committee welcomes input from our community. Please feel free to nominate a paper if you think it has had
 great impact, even if you have not thoroughly compared it to the other eligible papers. The usual conflict of interest rules apply.
The PODS 2022 Test-of-Time Award Committee consists of Michael Bender,
Michael Benedikt (chair), and Sudeepa Roy
Please send your nominations no later than March 15, 2022. Nominations are confidential and will only be shared among the committee members.
The PODS Test-of-Time Award for 2022 will be presented during the SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference held June 12- June 19, 2022 in Philadelphia, 
USA . The PODS 2012 papers can be found at
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2213556 and also at
https://www.sigmod.org/2012/pods_list.shtml

* Contact: Please email your nominations to Michael (michael.benedikt at cs.ox.ac.uk) with subject line "PODS 2022 ToT Award nomination" together with a brief justification. 


ACKERMANN AWARD 2022 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
  Deadline: 1 July 2022
* INTRODUCTION
  Nominations are now invited for the 2022 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 January 2020 and 31 December 2021
  are eligible for nomination for the award.
* PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD
  The 2022 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL
2023, the annual conference of the EACSL.  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, an invitation to the winner to publish the
  thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS,
  and  financial support to attend the conference.
* JURY
The jury consists of:
  * Christel Baier (TU Dresden);
  * Maribel Fernandez (King’s College London);
  * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay);
  * Delia Kesner (IRIF, U Paris)
  * Slawomir Lasota (U Warsaw)
  * 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;
  * James Worrell (U Oxford).
  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 10 pages) of the thesis
    in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file);  it is recommended to not squeeze as much
   material as possible into these (at most) 10 pages, but rather to use them
   for a gentle introduction and overview, stressing the novel results obtained
in the thesis and their impact;
    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 2022 Submission
   ** Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
  The deadline for submission is 1 July 2022.


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SUMMER SCHOOL - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Joint EDBT-INTENDED School on Data and Knowledge
July 4th-9th, 2022
Bordeaux, France
https://edbtschool22.labri.fr/
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 3rd, 2022
SOME STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE
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The EDBT association and INTENDED AI Chair are happy to announce a jointly sponsored Summer School on Data and Knowledge, which will be hosted in Bordeaux, France, from Monday July 4 to Saturday July 9, 2022. The school will cover a diverse range of topics around foundational database theory and the use of knowledge (constraints, ontologies) in data management, with a special focus on inconsistent, incomplete and more generally "imperfect" data.

We invite students, postdocs, and other researchers interested in learning about the foundational aspects of databases and handling imperfect data to participate in the summer school. Application and registration details can be found on the school website.

PROGRAM

The summer school will feature 11 tutorials from internationally renowned researchers:

* Reasoning with Constraints
   Andreas Pieris, University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Cyprus, Cyprus

* Foundations of Graph Databases
   Pablo Barceló, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

* Provenance
   Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA

* Enumeration
   Nicole Schweikardt, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

* Probabilistic Databases
   Antoine Amarilli, Télécom Paris, France

* Consistent Query Answering
   Jef Wijsen, University of Mons, Belgium

* Quantitative Reasoning about Constraint Violations
   Benny Kimelfeld, Technion, Israel

* Ontology-Mediated Query Answering
   Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen, Germany

* Ontology-Based Data Access Made Practical
   Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; Ontopic s.r.l., Italy; Umeå University, Sweden

* Computational Fact Checking
   Paolo Papotti, EURECOM, France

* Data Quality
   Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium

The school will also feature several social events to encourage discussions between students and lecturers.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for application: April 3, 2022
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2022
Deadline for registration: May 22, 2022
EDBT Summer School: July 4–9, 2022

ORGANIZATION

Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France
Diego Figueira, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France

If you have any questions, please contact us at: edbtschool2022 at easychair.org

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