[TYPES/announce] Post-doctoral position in coalgebraic logic at DFKI Bremen

2010-12-16 Thread Lutz Schroeder
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The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) is
seeking a

Postdoctoral Researcher

for its Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems Lab in Bremen working in the
area of security policies within the DFG-project GenMod2, which will
start in February 2011.

The project GenMod2 (Generic Algorithms in Modal and Hybrid Logics) is
concerned with the further development of a coalgebraic generic
framework for automatic deduction in various extensions of modal logic,
including probabilistic, strategy-oriented, and non-monotonic logics.
Applications of such logics are found on the one hand in various areas
of knowledge representation, that is, in extensions of description
logic, and on the other hand in the specification and verification of
reactive systems. One of the goals of the project is to increase the
scope and efficiency of the generic modal reasoner CoLoSS.

We expect applicants to have experience in at least one of the following
topics:

Modal logic / description logic
Automatic reasoning
Coalgebra

In the field of innovative software technologies, the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is the leading research
institution in Germany, and in the international science community the
DFKI ranks among the most important “Centers of Excellence” worldwide.
The position is at the postdoctoral level; however, candidates without a
PhD can be considered in case of exceptional qualification. In this
case, the position offers the opportunity to work towards a PhD from the
University of Bremen. The initial employment contract will run for two
years. More information about the lab is available at
http://www.dfki.de/web/research/sks

The DFKI is an equal opportunities employer. Women are especially
encouraged to apply.  Handicapped applicants with equal qualification
will be given preferential treatment.

Applications should be sent to PD Dr. Lutz Schröder, DFKI,
Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5, 28359 Bremen, or via e-mail to
lutz.schroe...@dfki.de.




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PD Dr. Lutz Schröder
Senior Researcher
DFKI Bremen 
Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems
Cartesium, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5
D-28359 Bremen

phone: (+49) 421-218-64216
Fax:   (+49) 421-218-9864216
mail: lutz.schroe...@dfki.de
www.dfki.de/sks/staff/lschrode
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Geschäftsführung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff

Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes

Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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[TYPES/announce] CiE 2011 - 2nd call for papers: Deadline 14 January 2011

2010-12-16 Thread S Barry Cooper
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  CiE 2011: Computability in Europe
  Models of Computation in Context
 Sofia, Bulgaria
27 June 2011 - 2 July 2011

  Second Call for Papers
   Submission Deadline: 14 January 2011
 http://cie2011.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/
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TUTORIALS: Jack Lutz (Ames IA, U.S.A.), Geoffrey Pullum (Edinburgh, U.K.)

PLENARY TALKS: Scott Aaronson (Cambridge MA, U.S.A.), Christel Baier
(Dresden, Germany), Michiel van Lambalgen (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands), Antonio Montalban (Chicago IL, U.S.A.), Alexandra
Shlapentokh (Greenville NC, U.S.A.), Theodore Slaman (Berkeley CA,
U.S.A.), Janet Thornton (Cambridge, U.K.), Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto
ON, Canada).

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
* Computability in Analysis, Algebra, and Geometry (Organizers:
Alexandra Shlapentokh, Dieter Spreen) : Ulrich Berger (Swansea), Vasco
Brattka (Cape Town): Valentina Harizanov (Washington, DC), Russel
Miller (New York, NY).
* Classical Computability Theory (Organizers: Doug Cenzer, Bjørn
Kjos-Hanssen): Mingzhong Cai (Cornell), Rachel Epstein (Harvard),
Charles Harris (Leeds), Guohua Wu (NTU, Singapore)
* Natural Computing (Organizers: Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Ion Petre):
Natalio Krasnogor  (University of Nottingham), Martin Kutrib
(University of Giessen), Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest),
Agustín Riscos-Núnez (University of Seville)
* Relations between the physical world and formal models of
computability (Organizers: Viv Kendon, Sonja Smets): Pablo Arrighi
(University of Grenoble), Časlav Brukner (University of Vienna), Elham
Kashefi (University of Edinburgh),Prakash Panangaden (McGill
University)
* Theory of transfinite computations (Organizers: Peter Koepke, C.T.
Chong): Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington), Sy D.
Friedman (University of Vienna), Wei Wang  (Sun Yat-sen University),
Merlin Carl  (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
* Computational Linguistics (Organizers: Tejaswini Deoskar, Tinko
Tinchev): Klaus U. Schulz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Ian Pratt-Hartmann
(University of Manchester).

CiE serves as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects
of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the
interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in computer
science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics,
philosophy, or physics.

The Programme Committee (Dag Normann and Ivan Soskov co-chairs)
cordially invites all researchers in the area of the conference to
submit their papers (in PDF-format, at most 10 pages) for presentation
at CiE 2011 to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2011. The
best of the accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
of Springer, which will be available at the conference. Other accepted
contributed papers together with abstracts of informal presentations
will appear in our local pre-conference proceedings volume.

We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different
parts of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in
mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage
submissions by female authors (see below for the 'Women in
Computability' grants).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline:January 14, 2011
Notification of Authors:March 12, 2011
Final Version:  April 2, 2011

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the
conference. Submitted papers must describe work not previously
published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a
journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings.  All
papers need to be prepared in LNCS-style LaTeX. Papers should not
exceed 10 pages; full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which
will be read at the reviewers' discretion.

Submissions authored or co-authored by a  Programme Committee member
are not allowed.

GRANTS:

Women in Computability:

In 2011, we continue the programme Women in Computability (funded
from 2008 to 2010 by the Elsevier Foundation) now supported by the
journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (Elsevier). As part of this
programme, we can offer four modest Elsevier Women in Computability
grants for female graduate students or junior researchers. These
grants will be paid as a reimbursement of up to 200 EUR of travel and
accommodation expenses. More information about deadlines and the
application procedure will become available from the CiE 2011 website
in March 2011.

ASL Student Travel Grants:

CiE 2011 is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. All
student members of the ASL