[TYPES/announce] Math Research Communities on Homotopy Type Theory, June 4-10, 2017, Snowbird UT

[Dan Licata]

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Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that from June 4-10, 2017, there will be a workshop 
on Homotopy Type Theory, organized as part of the AMS Mathematics Research 
Communities program and held in the Snowbird Resort in Utah.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together advanced graduate students and 
postdocs having some background in one (or more) areas such as algebraic 
topology, category theory, mathematical logic, or computer science, with the 
goal of learning how these areas come together in homotopy type theory, and 
working together to prove new results.  Basic knowledge of just one of these 
areas will be sufficient to be a successful participant.

For more information about the workshop, including the list of sample topics 
that participants may be working on and the registration information, please 
see the website:

http://www.ams.org/programs/research-communities/2017MRC-1

All accepted into the program will receive financial support (room and board at 
the Snowbird Resort and up to $650 towards airfare). Although the application 
deadline is *March 1st, 2017,* early registration will be highly appreciated, 
as it will help us plan the event and ensure that everyone gets the most out of 
it.

The majority of the positions are allocated to U.S. citizens and people who are 
affiliated with U.S. institutions, but a smaller number are also open to 
international participants.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the organizers.

Dan Christensen, Chris Kapulkin, Dan Licata, Emily Riehl, Mike Shulman

[TYPES/announce] POPL'17 Student Research Competition : Call for Submissions

[David Baelde]

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*
* POPL 2017 Student Research Competition : Call for Submissions *
*


POPL 2017 will host a Student Research Competition where undergraduate
and graduate students can present posters. The SRC will consist of
three rounds:

1) Extended abstract round: All students are encouraged to submit an
extended abstract outlining their research (800 words).

2) Poster session at POPL 2017: Based on the abstracts, a panel of
judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the
poster session which will take place at POPL. Students who make it to
this round will be eligible for some travel support to attend the
conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity
to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists
in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next
round. (You will be responsible for transporting your poster to the
conference. If this will be a problem, please contact the chair of the
SRC at .)

3) The presentation: The last round will consist of an oral
presentation at POPL to compete for the final awards in each category
and selection of an overall winner who will advance to the ACM SRC
Grand Finals.

4) Prizes

The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will
receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively.  All six winners
will receive award medals and a one-year complimentary ACM student
membership, including a subscription to ACM’s Digital Library.  The
names of the winners will be posted on the SRC web site.  The first
place winners of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC
Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of
other conference-hosted SRCs.  Grand Finalists and their advisors will
be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid
trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along
with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the
Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing).  The top
three Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and
$200. All Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates.

The ACM, Microsoft Research, and our industrial partners provide
financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more
information about this on the ACM website.

For details on eligibility, on the kind of work that may be submitted,
and on how to submit, please see
  .

### Important Dates

Deadline for submission: November 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2016

### Further Information

For any questions regarding the POPL 2017 SRC,
email the SRC chair at .

[TYPES/announce] LICS 2017 - CFP

[Sam Staton]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Thirty-Second Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS)

20-23 June 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland

http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/


SCOPE

The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and 
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. 
We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric. 

Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, 
automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed 
computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, 
decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, 
formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of 
computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory 
calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, 
logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, 
logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, 
modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process 
calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, 
reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, 
and verification.


IMPORTANT DATES

Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 
words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact 
deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE).

Titles and Short Abstracts Due:  3 January 2017
Full Papers Due: 9 January 2017
Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: 28 Feb - 4 March 2017
Author Notification: 21 March 2017
Final Versions Due for Proceedings:  18 April 2017

Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All
submissions will be electronic via
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2017.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Every extended abstract must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10pt 
format and may be at most 12 pages, including references. LaTeX style files are 
available on the conference website; please use IEEEtran.cls version V1.8b, 
released on 26/08/2015.

The extended abstract must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow 
the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a 
succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief 
explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference and to 
computer science, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical development 
directed to the specialist should follow. References and comparisons with 
related work must be included. (If necessary, detailed proofs of technical 
results may be included in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the 
discretion of program committee members.) Submissions not conforming to the 
above requirements will be rejected without further consideration. Paper 
selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted 
papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are 
not allowed.

Results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, 
including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. The program chair 
must be informed, in advance of submission, of any closely related work 
submitted or about to be submitted to a conference or journal. Authors of 
accepted papers are expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of 
each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. 


SHORT PRESENTATIONS

A session of short presentations, intended for descriptions of student 
research, works in progress, and other brief communications, is planned. These 
abstracts will not be published. Dates and guidelines will be posted on the 
conference website. 


KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER

An award in honour of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best 
student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. The 2017 edition of the 
award is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 
(EATCS). 


SPECIAL ISSUES

Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program 
committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional 
selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in 
Computer Science.