[TYPES/announce] 16 Ph.D. positions on Logical Methods in Computer Science (Austria)

[Maffei, Matteo]

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TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and motivated 
students for their joint doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer 
Science (LogiCS).  LogiCS has been established in 2014 and currently includes 
44 students.

http://logic-cs.at/phd/

THE PROGRAM
LogiCS focuses on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful 
applicants will work on interdisciplinary research topics covering
(i) computational logic,
(ii) databases and artificial intelligence,
(iii) computer-aided verification, and
(iv) emerging application domains, such as cyber-physical systems, distributed 
systems, and security & privacy.

FACULTY MEMBERS
Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer 
science community. Students are supervised by leading researchers in their 
fields:

M. Baaz  E. Bartocci  A. Biere  
R. Bloem
A. Ciabattoni  G. Gottlob   T. Eiter
C. Fermueller
R. Grosu  L. Kovacs M. Maffei   
M. Ortiz
R. PichlerU. Schmid   M. Seidl  
S. Szeider
G. Weissenbacher  S. Woltran

Details are provided on http://logic-cs.at/faculty/

POSITIONS AND FUNDING
We are looking for 16 doctoral students, where 30% of the positions are 
reserved for highly qualified female candidates.  The doctoral positions are 
funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian 
Science Fund (details: 
http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/). Additional 
positions will be available through other funding.

HOW TO APPLY
Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS 
web-page
http://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/

The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent master's degree in 
computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Candidates with comparable 
achievements (e.g., bachelor of honors) may be considered on a case-by-case 
basis. Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically.
The positions will be filled on continuous basis till October 2018.
The evaluation of applications will start on 1st of March, 2018.

STUDYING AND LIVING IN AUSTRIA
Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer 
science  community. Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps, are 
surrounded by beautiful nature. Vienna is constantly ranked the city with the 
highest quality of life in the world. Austria has an exciting cultural scene, 
world-famous historical sites, a large international community, varied cuisine, 
and famous coffee houses.

For further information please contact: 
i...@logic-cs.at

[TYPES/announce] Gödel Prize 2018 - Call for Nominations

[Anuj Dawar]

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The Gödel Prize 2018 - Call for Nominations

Deadline: February 15, 2018


The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical
computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing
Machinery, Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
(ACM SIGACT). The award is presented annually, with the presentation
taking place alternately at the International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages, and Programming (ICALP) and the ACM Symposium on Theory of
Computing (STOC). The 26th Gödel Prize will be awarded at the 45th
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming to be
held during July 9-13, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic



The Prize is named in honor of Kurt Gödel in recognition of his major
contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a
letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von Neumann’s death,
in what has become the famous “P versus NP” question. The Prize includes
an award of USD 5,000.


Award Committee: The 2018 Award Committee consists of Moses Charikar
(Stanford University), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), Joan
Feigenbaum (Yale University), Orna Kupferman (Chair, Hebrew University),
Giuseppe Persiano (Università di Salerno), and Omer Reingold (Stanford
University).



Eligibility: The 2018 Prize rules are given below and they supersede any
different interpretation of the generic rule to be found on websites of
both SIGACT and EATCS. Any research paper or series of papers by a
single author or by a team of authors is deemed eligible if:

- The main results were not published (in either preliminary or final
form) in a journal or conference proceedings before January 1st, 2005.

- The paper was published in a recognized refereed journal no later than
December 31, 2017.

The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of
theoretical computer science. Nominations are encouraged from the
broadest spectrum of the theoretical computer science community so as to
ensure that potential award winning papers are not overlooked. The Award
Committee shall have the ultimate authority to decide whether a
particular paper is eligible for the Prize.


Nominations: Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to
the Award Committee Chair: o...@cs.huji.ac.il. Please make sure that the
Subject line of all nominations and related messages begin with “Goedel
Prize 2018.” To be considered, nominations for the 2018 Prize must be
received by February 15, 2018.


A nomination package should include:

1. A printable copy (or copies) of the journal paper(s) being nominated,
together with a complete citation (or citations) thereof.

2. A statement of the date(s) and venue(s) of the first conference or
workshop publication(s) of the nominated work(s) or a statement that no
such publication has occurred.

3. A brief summary of the technical content of the paper(s) and a brief
explanation of its significance.

4. A support letter or letters signed by at least two members of the
scientific community.



Additional support letters may also be received and are generally
useful. The nominated paper(s) may be in any language. However, if a
nominated publication is not in English, the nomination package must
include an extended summary written in English.



Those intending to submit a nomination should contact the Award
Committee Chair by email well in advance. The Chair will answer
questions about eligibility, encourage coordination among different
nominators for the same paper(s), and also accept informal proposals of
potential nominees or tentative offers to prepare formal nominations.
The committee maintains a database of past nominations for eligible
papers, but fresh nominations for the same papers (especially if they
highlight new evidence of impact) are always welcome.


Selection Process: The Award Committee is free to use any other sources
of information in addition to the ones mentioned above. It may split the
award among multiple papers, or declare no winner at all. All matters
relating to the selection process left unspecified in this document are
left to the discretion of the Award Committee.


Recent Winners (all winners since 1993 are listed at
http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/ and
http://eatcs.org/index.php/goedel-prize):


2017: Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith,
Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis, Journal of
Privacy and Confidentiality, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2016 (preliminary
version in Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2006).



2016: Stephen Brookes, A Semantics for Concurrent Separation Logic.
Theoretical Computer Science 375(1-3): 227-270 (2007). Peter W. O’Hearn,
Resources, Concurrency, and Local Reasoning. Theoretical Computer
Science 375(1-3): 271-307 (2007).



2015: Dan