Joint workshop of the doctoral colleges LogiCS and UnRAVeL
In the first week of November 2022, the doctoral colleges LogiCS (TU Wien, TU Graz and JKU Linz) and UnRAVeL (RWTH Aachen) held a joint two-day workshop in Vienna. The pre-doc students were able to present their work and exchange ideas during presentations, discussions, and leisure activities. The program was organized by Anna Prianichnikova (Scientific […]
ILOAF: Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations
On the occasion of Professor Dov Gabbay’s 77th birthday, the Logic and Foundations Initiative (ILOAF) has launched the Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations. Dov Gabbay is known in particular for his creation of dozens of specialized Logic Handbooks.
Call for Nominations:
Nominate an outstanding researcher in Logic and Foundations, including Mathematical, Philosophical, and Computational […]
Helmut Veith Stipend Award Ceremony
held during workshop LogiCS / UnRAVeL
As we have unfortunately not been able to hold an award ceremony for the winners of the Helmut Veith Stipend in the past few years due to COVID-19, the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) organized an official ceremony for the winners of 2019-2021 on November 4, 2022. The […]
Talk: Ran Gelles
Based on work with Keren Censor-Hillel, Shir Cohen, and Gal Sela.
Dr. Ran Gelles – Bar-Ilan University
SHORT BIO
Dr. Ran Gelles received his B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) and M.Sc. from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). […]
Computer Science: A Problem Solver’s Paradise
Viktoriia Korchemna
Viktoriia Korchemna, a prae-doc researcher at the Institute of Logic and Computation of TU Wien and winner of the 2018 Helmut Veith Stipend, provides an insight into her life as a young computer scientist.
Studying Logic and Computation in Austria wasn’t Viktoriias plan, “it just happened”. When finishing her bachelor studies of theoretical […]
Vienna Science Festival
The Vienna Science Festival took place at Vienna city hall from September 9-11, 2022. At station 33 in the hall’s courtyard, a fun activity was waiting for visitors of all age groups.
The sorting network works in the following way: Every participant steps on one of the orange squares (the input nodes) and receives a card […]
VCLA celebrates its 10-year-anniversary!
The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) was founded in September 2011 and officially opened in January 2012. During the international symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS) in August 2022, the center seized the opportunity to celebrate its 10-year-anniversary with the audience of the conference as well as VCLA board members.
The celebration […]
Talk: Hans van Ditmarsch
TITLE
Reasoning about Gossip
ABSTRACT
A well-studied phenomenon in network theory since the 1970s are optimal schedules to distribute information by one-to-one communication between nodes that are connected in the network. One can take these communicative actions to be telephone calls, and protocols to spread information this way are known as gossip protocols or epidemic protocols. […]
Hackathon #4GoodAI 2022 Winners Announced!
The winners of the 4th edition of our popular “Hackathon #4GoodAI” have been announced on ada.wien.
From 2nd to 16th March pupils from all over Austria participated in creating a chatbot with Scratch (or a different programming language) on the topic of “Fake News”. The chatbot should help family and friends to recognize and expose fake […]
