[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 36, October 2022

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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 36, October 2022
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ICDT 2023 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
  Call for Nominations

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
   Transatlantic Seminar on Information Theory

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ICDT 2023 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
  Call for Nominations
  March 28-31, 2023, Ioannina, Greece
  http://edbticdt2023.cs.uoi.gr/

* We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2023 Test of Time Award for the ICDT 2013 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. The ICDT ToT award for 2023 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2023 Joint Conference due to be held on  March 28-31, 2023 in Ioannina, Greece.

* The ICDT 2023 ToT Award Committee consists of Diego Figueira (CNRS, Univ Bordeaux), George Fletcher (Eindhoven University of Technology), and Wang-Chiew Tan (Meta).

* 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. Nominations are confidential and will only be shared among the  committee members. Please email your nominations to all three committee members at diego.figueira at labri.fr, g.h.l.fletcher at tue.nl, wangchiew at gmail.com with subject line “ICDT ToT Award Suggestion”, together with a brief justification.

* Please send your nominations no later than November 13, 2022.


SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
* The first meeting of the transatlantic seminar on Information Theory is scheduled on: October 12, 8:00-9:15am Pacific / 17h-18h15 CET.

* Laszlo Csirmaz, "Around entropy inequalities”.

* This will be an introductory talk on linear inequalities for Shannon's entropy: what the problem is, what the methods are, what is known and what is not known.

* Zoom link: https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99418854103?pwd=TmdNMWYwOWFaeEl2ZTZ6VTJXL2Qvdz09
- Meeting ID: 994 1885 4103
- Passcode: ZFWN22

* Page of the seminar, absolutely simplistic: https://www.lirmm.fr/~romashchen/seminar-aait.html  (the recordings of the talks will be available on this page).
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