Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 » admin http://vsl2014.at Wed, 13 May 2015 10:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 VSL keynote recordings now online http://vsl2014.at/2014/08/vsl-keynote-recordings-now-online/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/08/vsl-keynote-recordings-now-online/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:06:33 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=5162 Missed one of the VSL keynote talks by Dana Scott, Christos Papadimitriou, Alex Wilkie, Franz Baader and Edmund Clarke? Never mind, you can now (re)watch all the keynote talks online:

Dana Scott · Christos Papadimitriou · Alex Wilkie · Franz Baader · Edmund M. Clarke

Dana Scott: VSL Opening
Christos Papadimitriou: Computational Ideas and the Theory of Evolution – Abstract

Alex Wilkie: The theory and applications of o-minimal structures – Abstract

Franz Baader: Ontology-Based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems – Abstract

Edmund M. Clarke: Verification of Computer Systems with Model Checking – Abstract

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Photos now online http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-now-online/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-now-online/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:33:41 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=5132 All photos now available online!

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KR 2014 Best Paper Awards http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/kr-2014-best-paper-awards/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/kr-2014-best-paper-awards/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:25:31 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4198 The best contributions to the 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning are awarded prizes in two categories.

The 2014 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize

The best paper of the conference receives the 2014 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal which goes to:

Leonid Libkin

for his paper entitled

Certain Answers as Objects and Knowledge

(presented today at 2:30pm in EI7)

The 2014 Marco Cadoli Student Paper Prize

The best paper of the conference whose main author is a student receives the 2014 Marco Cadoli Student Paper Prize. It is sponsored by KR Inc. and goes to:

Elena Botoeva, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev

for their paper on

Query Inseparability for Description Logic Knowledge Bases

The award ceremony will take place today (Wed July 22nd) following the

Great Moments in KR invited talk by
Sheila McIlraith entitled “Situation Calculus: The last 15 years”

at 6:30pm in EI7.

More information on: www.kr.org/KR2014

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Funded Doctoral Positions in Austria http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/funded-doctoral-positions-in-austria/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/funded-doctoral-positions-in-austria/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:36:09 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=1566 Funded Doctoral Positions in Computer Science in Austria announced.

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[Photos] LogicLounge: Gottlob, Zach, Bloem, Cook http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-logiclounge-gottlob-zach-bloem-cook/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-logiclounge-gottlob-zach-bloem-cook/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:51:29 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4119 Meeting place for friends of logic at Heuer Coffee Bar Garden Restaurant during Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 • Insights in exactly one hour live and in public • Tribute to antique philosophical symposium

Treffpunkt für FreundInnen der Logik im “Heuer am Karlsplatz” während des Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 • Erläuterungen in exakt einer Stunde live und vor Publikum • Reverenz an antikes philosophisches Symposium

There are two more dates of LogicLounge coming up:

  • July 22: Drones with a guilty conscience: the ethics of Artificial Intelligence
    Moshe Vardi (Rice U) – Herbert Hrachovec (U Wien)
  • July 23: Female logics
    Magdalena Ortiz (TU Wien), Ruzica Piskac (Yale U) – Tanja Traxler (Der Standard)

http://vsl2014.at/logiclounge/

Photos © VSL 2014 / Photography: Nadja Meister

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[Photos] VSL Banquet II http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-vsl-banquet-ii/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-vsl-banquet-ii/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:51:42 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4130 Photos © VSL 2014 / Photography: Nadja Meister

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VCLA International Student Awards http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/vcla-international-student-awards/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/vcla-international-student-awards/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:34:32 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4081 VCLAThe Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms announces the first edition of the

VCLA International Student Awards

and calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories:

Outstanding Master Thesis Award

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

In both categories, the work must make an original contribution to a research field that can be classified as part of Logic in Computer Science, understood broadly as the use of logic as a tool that enables computer programs to reason about the world. The main areas of interest include:

  • Databases and Artificial Intelligence: Answer-Set Programming, Datalog, query languages, novel database-theoretical methods, logic programming, description logics, knowledge representation and reasoning, argumentation, planning, preferential reasoning.
  • Verification, ranging from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems.
  • Computational Logic, proof theory, cut elimination, proof mining, interpolants, automated deduction, non-classical logics, computational complexity, SAT, QSAT, CSP.

The degree must have been awarded no earlier than November 1st, 2012. Students that obtained the degree at the Vienna University of Technology are excluded from nomination. The committee will select a winner for each category. The winners will be invited to Vienna to present their project and participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the Outstanding Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a prize of 1,200 Eur, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of 800 Eur. The decisions of the committee are not appealable.

More information and nomination instructions: http://logic-cs.at/award/

Important dates:
Nomination deadline: November 15, 2014 (AoE)
Notification of the committee’s decision: Mid January, 2015
Award ceremony: Spring 2015

Award committee

Ezio Bartocci Simone Bova Michael Fink
Robert Ganian Igor Konnov Tomer Kotek
Roman Kutzmets Magdalena Ortiz Revantha Ramanayake
Mantas Simkus Daniel Weller Florian Zuleger
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[Photos] VSL Reception II http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-vsl-reception-2/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-vsl-reception-2/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:49:00 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4101 Photos © VSL 2014 / Photography: Nadja Meister

VSL Reception II

VSL Reception II

VSL Reception II

VSL Reception II

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[Photos] 2nd FLoC Panel: Computational Complexity and Logic: Theory vs. Experiments http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-2nd-floc-panel/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-2nd-floc-panel/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:35:17 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4095 Photos © VSL 2014 / Photography: Sara Meister

2nd FLoC Panel

2nd FLoC Panel

2nd FLoC Panel

2nd FLoC Panel

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[Photos] FLoC Plenary Talks http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-floc-plenary-talks/ http://vsl2014.at/2014/07/photos-floc-plenary-talks/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:05:43 +0000 http://vsl2014.at/?p=4085 FLoC plenary talks by Véronique Cortier (Electronic voting: how logic can help?) and Orna Kupferman (From Reachability to Temporal Specifications in Game Theory)

Photos © VSL 2014 / Photography: Sara Meister

Orna Kupferman Orna Kupferman Véronique Cortier Véronique Cortier

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