2-5 Sep 2014
Paris, France
Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata Paris, 2-5 September 2014 http://highlights-conference.org/ The Problem. There is a distinct community in theoretical computer science, which studies logic, games and automata. Results produced by this community are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow, and the community rarely gathers. Also, since conferences are mainly used for publication, there are few incentives to make good talks, and some incentives to make bad ones (e.g. splitting one result into many conference papers). The Solution. A new conference: Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata. A visit to this conference gives you a wide picture of the latest research in the area. Also, a chance to meet everybody in the field, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. We intend to achieve this popularity by having no proceedings, a short and cheap event, and building on the tradition of the similar proceedings-free GAMES workshop. NO PROCEEDINGS. There are no proceedings. You present your best work, be it published elsewhere or yet unpublished. SHORT. The conference is three days long. The contributed talks are around ten minutes. CHEAP. The conference fee will be at most 100 EUR. Paris is easy to reach. EVERYBODY IS DOING IT! Let's use the conference model that is so successful in other fields, like mathematics. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Parosh Aziz, Uppsala, Sweden Mikolaj Bojan'czyk, Warsaw, Poland Thomas Colcombet, Paris, France Manfred Droste, Leipzig, Germany Arnaud Durand, Paris, France Kousha Etessami, Edinburgh, UK Zoltan Esik, Szeged, Hungary Martin Grohe, Aachen, Germany Jérôme Leroux, Bordeaux, France Leonid Libkin, Edinburgh, UK Pierre McKenzie, Montreal, Canada Angelo Montanari, Udine, Italy Anca Muscholl, Bordeaux, France Nir Peterman, Leicester, UK Nicole Schweikardt, Frankfurt, Germany Luc Segoufin, INRIA & ENS Cachan, France (PC Chair) Victor Vianu, UCSD, USA ORGANISING COMMITTEE Claire David Florian Horn Sylvain Schmitz Luc Segoufin STEERING COMMITTEE Dietmar Berwanger Mikolaj Bojan'czyk Tomás Brázdil Thomas Colcombet Anuj Dawar Hugo Gimbert Erich Grädel Christof Löding Aniello Murano Moshe Vardi