Call for Nominations: VCLA International Student Awards
The deadline for (self-)nominations has expired. The recipients of the awards will be announced after August 31, 2024.
The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories:
Outstanding Master Thesis […]
Talk by Nick Bezhanishvili: Degrees of the Finite Model Property for Superintuitionistic and Modal Logics
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(taken from the University of Helsinki)
Nick Bezhanishvili obtained his PhD in 2006 from the ILLC (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation), University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Professors Dick de Jongh and Yde Venema. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Leicester (2006–2008), Imperial College London (2008–2012), and Utrecht University (2012–2013). […]
7th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL) 2023 in Rome, Italy
The 7th International Women in Logic Workshop was a satellite event of the 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023) and was held in Rome, Italy, on 1 July 2023.
The program included four sessions, a poster session, and an informal social event. VCLA Co-Chair Agata […]
6th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL) 2022 in Haifa, Israel
The 6th International Women in Logic Workshop was a satellite event of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022) and was held on July 31, 2022 as a pre-workshop of FLoC 2022 in Haifa, Israel. The workshop was organized by Sandra Alves (Univ. of Porto), Sandra Kiefer (Max Planck Institute […]
Talk by Byron Cook: The Business of Proofs
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Byron Cook is Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL); as well as Vice President and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon Web Services. Byron’s has worked in a variety of areas over the years, including computer and network security, program analysis and verification, programming languages, theorem proving, hardware design, operating systems, and biological […]
Talk by Reiner Hähnle: Context-aware Trace Contracts
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Reiner Hähnle is Professor in Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of TU Darmstadt. He has wide-ranging interests in the formal foundations of software design, programming languages, and quality assurance by verification. He is co-initiator of the KeY project that maintains the well-known, eponymous Java verification tool, and he is co-designer of the […]
Kick-off Meeting: FFG-funded project “Transformer”
The kick-off meeting of the FFG-funded project “Transformer” (call Co-Creation Spaces Climate & Energy) was held on February 29, 2024. The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) is proud to participate in this project, in which six faculties of TU Wien are teaming up to offer extracurricular learning opportunities with a focus on the […]
Talk by Emiliano Lorini: A Rule-based Modal View of Causal Reasoning
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Emiliano Lorini is a senior researcher (“directeur de recherche”) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), co-head of the LILaC team (Logic, interaction, language and computation) at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).
The general aim of his research is to develop formal models of interaction between cognitive agents. He has worked […]
Women in Logic Online (seminar series)
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Valeria de Paiva is a mathematician, logician, and AI scientist, working on natural language processing, logical inference, and all kinds of semantics, especially Dialectica categories. Before Topos, Valeria worked at top industry NLP labs, including Samsung Research America, Nuance, Deem, Cuil, and for many years at Xerox PARC. Before that, she was a professor […]
Helmut Veith Stipend
The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend from motivated and outstanding female master’s students who plan to pursue one of the programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English in one of the following semesters:
– winter semester 2024/2025
– summer semester 2025
The deadline of the current call is November 30, 2024.
For more […]
