CFP: WiL 2018: Second Women in Logic Workshop

Affiliated with the Thirty-Third Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 9-12 July 2018 (http://lics.siglog.org/lics18/) and held as part of the Federated Logic Conference 2018 (FLoC), 6-19 July 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/).

We are holding the second Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2018) as a LICS associated workshop this year. The workshop follows the pattern of meetings such as Women in Machine Learning (WiML, http://wimlworkshop.org/) or Women in Engineering (WIE, (http://www.ieee-ras.org/membership/women-in-engineering) that have been taking place for quite a few years.

Women are chronically underrepresented in the LICS community; consequently they sometimes feel both conspicuous and isolated, and hence there is a risk that the under-representation is self-perpetuating.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for women in the field to increase awareness of one another and one another’s work, to combat the feeling of isolation. It will also provide an environment where women can present to an audience comprised of mostly women, replicating the experience that most men have at most LICS meetings, and lowering the stress of the occasion; we hope that this will be particularly attractive to early-career women.

Topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the usual Logic in Computer Science (LICS) topics. These are: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification.

Paper submission deadline:  31 March 2018

Author notification:  8 May 2018

Contribution for Informal Proceedings:  31 May 2018

Contributions should be written in English and can be submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 10 pages), short papers (with a maximum of 5 pages), or talk abstracts (1 page).

Provisional formatting instructions: Papers and abstracts should be prepared in latex using the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings 2-column 10pt format.  The LaTeX style file is available from http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/.

The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to the WiL 2018 Easychair page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2018) before the submission deadline of 31 March 2018, anywhere on Earth.

We plan to publish an informal post conference volume at ENTCS or other equally visible outlet.