News and Events: Conferences

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1 - 4 August 2021, Spatial Cognition 2020/1 (SC 2020/1), Online (Zoom)

Date: 1 - 4 August 2021
Location: Online (Zoom)
Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects in real, virtual or hybrid environments and processed by human or artificial agents. Spatial Cognition includes research from different fields insofar as they are concerned with cognitive agents and space. Research issues in the field range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. SC 2020 will bring together researchers working on spatial cognition from all of these perspectives.

The conference is single-track, and the final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, and keynote talks by Sara I. Fabrikant, Steve Franconeri and Laure Rondi-Reig.

The initial conference was scheduled August 2020 to be held in Riga, Latvia; this is the postponed version of it.The participants will receive the details and updates about Zoom events by email when the registration closes on July 25, 2021.

Submissions for Oral Presentations (short papers) presenting original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Short papers should not exceed 1,200 words (including figures, tables, and references). Some short paper submissions may be accepted for poster presentation.

Submissions for Poster Presentations (abstracts) are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Poster abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including figures, tables, and references).

For more information, see http://sc2020.lu.lv/ or contact .

28 - 30 September 2021, 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams 2021), Virtual

Date: 28 - 30 September 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

Diagrams 2021 is the twelth conference in the series that started in 2000. The multidisciplinary nature of Diagrams means it encompasses: architecture, art, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from these interrelated fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area.

In addition to the Philosophy track, Diagrams 2021 will have two further tracks: Main, and Psychology and Education.

The conference will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside a graduate symposium. We invite submissions for peer review that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows: Long Papers (16 pages), Abstracts (3 pages), Short Papers (8 pages), Posters (4 pages). If the main research contribution of your submission is considered to fit either of the special tracks then you are strongly encouraged to submit to that track.

We also invite proposals for tutorials of 1.5 hours in length. Tutorials are expected to address topics that are of interest to the Diagrams 2021 conference attendees. Tutorials differ from workshops in that they do not solicit contributions from attendees. Previously, attendees have particularly enjoyed tutorials that are interactive and spark debate. Tutorial submission deadline: April 30, 2021.

For more information, see http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021.

7 - 9 October 2021, 13th French Philosophy of Maths Workshop (FPMW 13), Nice (France)

Date: 7 - 9 October 2021
Location: Nice (France)
Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

The thirteenth edition of the French Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop (FPMW) will be held from the 7th to the 9th of October 2021 at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice.

Each year, the workshop program consists of five talks by invited speakers, and five contributed talks,

This year, the invited speakers are: Hourya BENIS SINACEUR (CNRS, IHPST), Valeria GIARDINO (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod), Patrick POPESCU-PAMPU (Université de Lille, laboratoire Paul-Painlevé), Dominique PRADELLE (Sorbonne Université, Archives Husserl) and Dirk SCHLIMM (McGill University).

For the five contributed talks, all topics in the philosophy of mathematics are welcome, no matter their approach. The workshop is also open to philosophical talks presenting a link to mathematics that do not fall under the philosophy of mathematics in a strict sense. The languages of the workshop will be French and English. Young researchers as well as doctoral students are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal. This workshop will be an occasion to have their work discussed by recognized international experts.

27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online

Date: 27 March - 1 April 2021
Location: Online
Deadline: Thursday 15 October 2020

ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:

  • ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
  • FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.

For more information, see https://etaps.org/2021 or contact .

14 - 18 June 2021, Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, & Cognitive Sciences (SemSpace2021), Online

Date: 14 - 18 June 2021
Location: Online
Deadline: Tuesday 6 April 2021

Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021) is the latest edition of a series of workshops that brings together research at the intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science. Using the common ground of vector spaces, the workshop offers researchers in these areas an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between the three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically.

This year we are excited to be (virtually) co-located with IWCS.

We welcome two types of submission:
- Archival papers of up to 8 pages should report on complete, original and unpublished research.
- Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue.
Papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use the IWCS specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken from ACL 2021.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2021/.

6 April 2021, Opening of the Weizsäcker Centre: "Making Responsible Decisions in & about Science", Virtual

Date & Time: Tuesday 6 April 2021, 17:00-20:00
Location: Virtual

The academic activity of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center (University of Tübingen) will be opened with the online event "Making Responsible Decisions in and about Science". Speakers: Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and University of California, San Diego) and Helen E. Longino (Stanford University).

7 - 9 April 2021, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Online (Seville, Spain)

Date: 7 - 9 April 2021
Location: Online (Seville, Spain)
Deadline: Sunday 1 November 2020

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held online in Seville, Spain, on 7-9 April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) for artistic tasks such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

For more information, see http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/.

7 - 9 April 2021, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Online (Seville, Spain)

Date: 7 - 9 April 2021
Location: Online (Seville, Spain)
Deadline: Sunday 1 November 2020

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held online in Seville, Spain, on 7-9 April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) for artistic tasks such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

For more information, see http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/.

30 April 2021, Workship on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, Virtual

Date & Time: Friday 30 April 2021, 14:30-22:00
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 9 April 2021

The ERC-Starting Grant Truth and Semantics (TRUST 803684) at the University of Bristol is organizing a one-day online workshop on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, e.g., languages with generalized quantifiers, conditionals, modalities etc.

Confirmed Speakers: Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol), Hartry Field (NYU), Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), Lorenzo Rossi (MCMP), Johannes Stern (Bristol).

There are one or two slots for submitted contributions of 45-60min. If you are interested in giving a talk please send a paper or extended abstract of around 1000 words.

For more information, see https://www.truthandsemantics.xyz/event/exprtruth/ or contact Johannes Stern at .

7 - 9 April 2021, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Online (Seville, Spain)

Date: 7 - 9 April 2021
Location: Online (Seville, Spain)
Deadline: Sunday 1 November 2020

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held online in Seville, Spain, on 7-9 April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) for artistic tasks such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

For more information, see http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/.

16 - 20 August 2021, 25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021), Virtual and/or Porto (Portugal)

Date: 16 - 20 August 2021
Location: Virtual and/or Porto (Portugal)
Deadline: Sunday 11 April 2021

DLT is International Conference Series under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas.

DLT 2021 will be held at Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto in an hybrid format with both in person and online participation.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Each paper will be reviewed at least by three reviewers and review process will be single-blind. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style.

For more information, see https://dlt2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ or contact .

9 - 13 June 2021, Conference on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic and Quantum Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, and Set-theoretic and Point-free Topology (BLAST 2021), New Mexico State University / Online

Date: 9 - 13 June 2021
Location: New Mexico State University / Online
Deadline: Sunday 11 April 2021

BLAST is a conference series focusing on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, Set-theoretic Topology, and Point-free Topology. The series circulates between different universities. The central BLAST web page, with links to past meetings, can be found here: http://math.colorado.edu/blast/

This year's installment of BLAST will take place at New Mexico State University. The scientific program will include invited lectures, tutorial lectures, two special sessions, and contributed talks. Due to the current pandemic, the conference will be entirely online.

Abstracts of contributed talks should be submitted through EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blast2021
Please indicate if you would like to submit to a special session. The abstract should not exceed 2 pages.

For more information, see https://math.nmsu.edu/blast-2021/ or contact .

17 July 2021, Tenth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2021), Virtual

Date: Saturday 17 July 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Monday 12 April 2021

ITRS workshops have been held every two years (with the exception of 2020). The ITRS 2021 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. Invited Speaker: Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington). ITRS 2021 is affiliated with FSCD.

Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macropackage and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees.

12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual

The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .

12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual

The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .

12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual

The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .

12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual

The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .

15 - 16 April 2021, Third International Workshop on Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence (FMAI 2021), Virtual

Date: 15 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 7 February 2020

The aims of FMAI 2021 are to:
 - Present success stories about the application of formal methods in AI.
 - Discuss strategies for bringing the Formal Methods and the AI communities closer together.
 - Consolidate collaborations between these two communities and foster new ones.

The programme features 3 invited talks (by Giuseppe de Giacomo, Jane Hillston and Dvijotham Krishnamurthy) and 6 thematic sessions (on Learning, LTL, Logic, Verification, Data, and Games and MAS).

Formerly FMAI 2020, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic the workshop has been postponed to Spring 2021.

18 July 2021, 35th International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2021), Virtual

Date: Sunday 18 July 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 16 April 2021

Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying given (first- or higher-order) terms, either syntactically or modulo a theory. It is a fundamental technique that is employed in various areas of Computer Science and Mathematics. In particular, unification algorithms are key components in completion of term rewriting systems, resolution-based theorem proving, and logic programming. But unification is, for example, also investigated in the context of natural language processing, program analysis, types, modal logics, and in knowledge representation.

UNIF 2021 is the 35th in a series of annual workshops on unification and related topics. Just as it predecessors', the purpose of UNIF 2021 is to bring together researchers interested in unification theory and its applications, as well as closely related topics, such as matching (i.e., one-sided unification), anti-unification (i.e., the dual problem to unification), disunification (i.e., solving equations and inequations) and the admissibility problem (which generalizes unification in modal logics). It will provide a forum for presenting recent (even unfinished) work, and discuss new ideas and trends in this and related fields. UNIF 2021 is associated with FSCD 2021 and will be a purely virtual event.

Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of extended abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style. Topics of interest of the workshop include syntactic and equational unification algorithms, matching and constraint solving, unification in modal, temporal, and description logics, higher-order unification, narrowing, disunification, anti-unification, complexity issues, combination methods, implementation techniques, and applications. We also allow submission of work presented/submitted in/to another conference.

For more information, see https://www.uoh.cl/unif-2021/.

14 - 19 June 2021, 27th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2021), Virtual

Date: 14 - 19 June 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 16 April 2021

The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalised and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming.

This year's TYPES will be held virtually (online), possibly in combination with a physical meeting in Leiden in the Netherlands if the political situation permits that. TYPES 2021 will not only consist of presentations, but also a setup of working groups that get together throughout the week. The hope is that we can retain at least some of the exchange and chatter that is the heart of the TYPES conference series.

TYPES solicits contributed talks to stimulate discussions. The contributed talks are selected on the base of extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages (excluding bibliography) formatted with the LaTeX EasyChair3.5. We encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. In the spirit of workshops, talks may be based on newly published papers, work submitted for publication, but also work in progress.

For more information, see https://types21.liacs.nl/ or contact .

12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual

The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .

15 - 16 April 2021, Third International Workshop on Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence (FMAI 2021), Virtual

Date: 15 - 16 April 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 7 February 2020

The aims of FMAI 2021 are to:
 - Present success stories about the application of formal methods in AI.
 - Discuss strategies for bringing the Formal Methods and the AI communities closer together.
 - Consolidate collaborations between these two communities and foster new ones.

The programme features 3 invited talks (by Giuseppe de Giacomo, Jane Hillston and Dvijotham Krishnamurthy) and 6 thematic sessions (on Learning, LTL, Logic, Verification, Data, and Games and MAS).

Formerly FMAI 2020, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic the workshop has been postponed to Spring 2021.

6 - 9 September 2021, Twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2021), Olomouc (Czech Republic) or Virtual

Date: 6 - 9 September 2021
Location: Olomouc (Czech Republic) or Virtual
Deadline: Sunday 18 April 2021

The TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.  The conference program will include presentation of invited papers (keynote speeches), oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. But as the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD2021 organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary.

The organizing committee invites papers to be presented during the conference, as well as proposals for workshops and demonstrations. Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources, Speech Recognition, Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech, Speech and Spoken Language Generation, Semantic Processing of Text and Speech, Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing, Automatic Dialogue Systems , and Multimodal Techniques and Modelling. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

21 July 2021, The Seventh International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP 2021), Virtual

Date: Wednesday 21 July 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Wednesday 21 April 2021

The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automatic and interactive, during the past decades, has made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture.

Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools for exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation, and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and descriptions of current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement.

Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop.

For more information, see https://pxtp.gitlab.io/2021.

13 - 17 September 2021, 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual

Date: 13 - 17 September 2021
Location: Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual
Deadline: Thursday 22 April 2021

The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication, inclusive of researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology.

FOIS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event: there will be a physical meeting in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, with a remote participation option. FOIS 2021 includes a number of activities: FOIS conference (single track program), workshops, tutorials, an early-career symposium, a demo and industry track, and an ontology show and tell.

FOIS 2021 seeks three types of full-length (14 page) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: Foundational papers (addressing content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems), Application papers (addressing novel methods and systems related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents on the application) and Domain ontology papers (describing a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use).

Related activities, such as workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission formats, for example, short papers or posters.

For more information, see https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/.

22 - 23 April 2021, 15th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2021:15), Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)

Date: 22 - 23 April 2021
Location: Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)
Deadline: Tuesday 15 September 2020

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

ICFCA 2021:15 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Formal Concept Analysis. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Formal Concept Analysis.

22 April 2021, KNAW-webinar: De logica van AI

Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 19:00-20:30
Location: Zoom

[Dutch only]

Artificiële intelligentie moet ons leven verrijken, maar er niet mee aan de haal gaan. Het moet zich houden aan door mensen gehanteerde logica en principes voor rationaliteit, moraliteit en consistentie. Kortom, wij willen machinaal handelen kunnen begrijpen en sturen. Mens en machine moeten elkaar in voldoende mate verstaan om op de gewenste manier met elkaar om te gaan.

Vier sprekers (Catholijn Jonker, Jan Broersen, Rineke Verbrugge en Bart Jacobs) leggen uit welke rol logica, in combinatie met probabilistisch denken, speelt in het onderzoek naar de vervulling van deze wensen.

CfP special issue of "Linguistics and Philosophy" (L&P) on "Super Linguistics"

Deadline: Friday 23 April 2021

The journal Linguistics and Philosophy (L&P) have agreed to publish a special issue of Super Linguistics. Super Linguistics subsumes the application of formal linguistic methodology and methodologies inspired by formal linguistics to diverse non-standard objects. In addition to manuscripts by linguists, we welcome submissions from all relevant fields (such as, but not limited to, biology and musicology) provided that they are super linguistic in nature. To be considered, the manuscript should include a short paragraph outlining in what way the research is super linguistic in nature and how the research advances this new sub-field. Submissions must propose a clear formal analysis based on rich and detailed data. The manuscript submission deadline for this special issue is April 23rd 2021.

22 - 23 April 2021, 15th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2021:15), Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)

Date: 22 - 23 April 2021
Location: Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)
Deadline: Tuesday 15 September 2020

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

ICFCA 2021:15 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Formal Concept Analysis. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Formal Concept Analysis.

26 July - 13 August 2021, ESSLLI 2021 Student Session, Online

Date: 26 July - 13 August 2021
Location: Online
Target audience: PhD and Master students
Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

The Student Session of the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place online during ESSLLI 2021 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, August 2nd to 13th, 2021.

We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions from PhD and Master (and Bachelor) students are welcome. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally. Selected papers will appear in the Student Session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience.

Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for long presentations and one for short presentations. This means that papers are directly submitted either as long or short. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for short papers, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress.

For more information, see https://www.esslli.eu/programme/student-session or contact Alexandra Pavlova at , or Mina Young Pedersen at .

11 July 2021, 10th International Workshop on Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software (ThEdu'21), Virtual

Date: Sunday 11 July 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems.

ThEdu'21 will be virtual as part of the 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28), the exact details will be in the workshop Web-page as soon as possible. Invited Talk: Gilles Dowek, ENS Paris-Saclay.

We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available online. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be approximately 5 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend ThEdu'21 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration.

Topics of interest include:
 - methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input;
 - methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions;
 - combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps;
 - automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems;
 - proof and proving in mathematics education.

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6 - 9 September 2021, The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021), Birmingham (UK) and Virtual

Date: 6 - 9 September 2021
Location: Birmingham (UK) and Virtual
Deadline: Monday 26 April 2021

TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented.

TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.

Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations;
* sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation;
* related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches);
* flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics;
* systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.);
* implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.);
* extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning;
* techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation;
* theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures;
* applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching.

We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution.

For more information, see https://tableaux2021.org/ or contact Anupam Das at .

19 - 24 July 2021, Logic Colloquium 2021 (LC 2021), Virtual

Date: 19 - 24 July 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

The Logic Colloquium is the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and critical discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry.

The program will feature special sessions on Set Theory, Model Theory, Modal and Epistemic Logic, Proofs and Programs, Computability, and Logic in Cognitive Science and Linguistics.

Due to public health concerns regarding COVID-19, the ASL Executive Committee, in consultation with the local organizers and the ASL European Committee, has made the decision to postpone the 2020 Logic Colloquium. It will take place on July 19-24, 2021, approximately a year later than originally scheduled, as an on-line event.

Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as pdf files, via EasyChair, Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instruction using the ASL abstract style.

For more information, see https://lc2021.pl/ or contact .

CfP special issue of Logic & Logical Philosophy on "Relating Logic & Relating Semantics"

Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

We invite contributions to the Special Issue of Logic and Logical Philosophy (LLP): "Relating Logic and Relating Semantics". Guest editors: Tomasz Jarmużek (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari, Italy).

High quality research papers concerning theory and applications of relating logics and relating semantics, including, but not limited to, the following topics, are welcome:
- applications of relating semantics,
- algebraic interpretation of relating logics,
- comparison of relating semantics with other formal semantics, - history of relating logics,
- modal extensions of relating logics,
- model theory of relating logics,
- philosophical logics defined by relating semantics,
- proof theory for relating logics,
- philosophical foundations of relating logics,
- other related topics (like dependence logic, set-assignment semantics etc.).
Contributions are welcome from philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and computer scientists.

For more information, see http://llp.umk.pl/ or contact Tomasz Jarmużek at , or Francesco Paoli at .

27 June 2021, 5th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2021), Virtual

Date: Sunday 27 June 2021
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Women in Logic 2021 is a satellite event of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'21) to be held virtually on June 29-July 2, 2021.

Our aim is to:
- provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements;
- increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty;
- establish new connections and collaborations;
- foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community.
We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers.

Invited speakers: Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Rineke Verbrugge.

Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at LICS 2021? Please join us on June 27 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic!Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 30, 2021 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure.

30 April 2021, Workship on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, Virtual

Date & Time: Friday 30 April 2021, 14:30-22:00
Location: Virtual
Deadline: Friday 9 April 2021

The ERC-Starting Grant Truth and Semantics (TRUST 803684) at the University of Bristol is organizing a one-day online workshop on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, e.g., languages with generalized quantifiers, conditionals, modalities etc.

Confirmed Speakers: Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol), Hartry Field (NYU), Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), Lorenzo Rossi (MCMP), Johannes Stern (Bristol).

For more information, see https://www.truthandsemantics.xyz/event/exprtruth/ or contact Johannes Stern at .