VSL 2014: VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC 2014
LCC Call for Papers

Fifteenth International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity
and Workshop in Honor of Neil Immerman's 60th Birthday
July 12-13, 2014 · Vienna, Austria

LCC 2014/ImmermanFest homepage

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: May 16th, 2014 (extended!)
Authors' notification: May 26th, 2014

Aims and Scope

The Fifteenth International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity and Workshop in Honor of Neil Immerman's 60th Birthday (LCC 2014/ImmermanFest, http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/) will be held in Vienna, Austria, on July 12-13, 2014, as an affiliated meeting of the Vienna Summer of Logic.  The LCC 2014/ImmermanFest program will consist of a first day (July 12th) of talks which include both invited lectures and contributed talks selected by the program committee (based on submitted abstracts), and a second day (July 13th) devoted entirely to invited talks in celebration of Neil Immerman's 60th birthday.

LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present in, for example: finite model theory and descriptive complexity; implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); logic and complexity-theoretic aspects of databases; complexity-mindful program verification and synthesis; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity.

Neil Immerman has made numerous fundamental and inspiring contributions to the connections betweens logic and complexity.  In particular, he has been one of the leading figures in the development of descriptive complexity, which has elucidated intimate and beautiful connections between complexity theory and finite model theory.  This year, day two of LCC 2014 will honor Neil's 60th birthday with a series of invited lectures by some of the leading researchers working in areas that have been influenced by Neil's work.

Programme

The invited speakers on day one of LCC 2014 are:

  • Sam Buss (University of California, San Diego)
  • Georg Moser (University of Innsbruck)

The invited speakers for ImmermanFest (day two) are:

  • Eric Allender (Rutgers)
  • Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge)
  • Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Benjamin Rossman (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)
  • Mooly Sagiv (Tel Aviv University)
  • Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Paper Submissions

There will be no published proceedings for LCC 2014, and we welcome submissions of abstracts based on work submitted or published elsewhere, provided that all pertinent information is disclosed at submission time. Submissions must be in English and in the form of an abstract of about 3-4 pages.  All submissions should be submitted through Easychair at: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc2014 by the deadline.  For additional information see www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/ or email lcc2014@easychair.org

Programme Committee

Steering Committee

Michael Benedikt (Oxford), Ulrich Berger (Swansea, co-chair), Robert Constable (Cornell) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair), Arnaud Durand, Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon), Joerg Flum, Martin Hofmann (U Munich), Neil Jones (Copenhagen), Daniel Leivant (Indiana U), Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy), Simone Martini, Yannis Moschovakis (UCLA), Isabel Oitavem, Luke Ong (Oxford), James Royer (Syracuse), Helmut Schwichtenberg (U Munich)