Phokion Kolaitis Special Event
An event in honor of Phokion Kolaitis will take place on Sunday 30 June 2019. We will celebrate Phokion for his fundamental contributions of lasting value to the principles of database systems and computational logic, as well as to mathematical logic and computer science at large. The event comprises talks by some of his closest collaborators. Please join this event to honor Phokion!
- When
- Sunday, 30 June 2019, from 2:00pm to 6:15pm
- Where
- Amsterdam Conference Center, Beurs van Berlage Damrak 243,
1012 ZJ Amsterdam, Netherlands (same location as
SIGMOD/PODS conference). - Note
- The SIGMOD organizers require that participants to the event
be registered for the SIGMOD/PODS conference or for the
conference workshops.
PROGRAM
- 2:00-3:30pm:
- Welcome and introduction
- by Georg Gottlob & Wang-Chiew Tan
- The logical approach to constraint satisfaction
- Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
- Data exchange and beyond :: What I've learned from logicians
- Renée J. Miller, Northeastern University
- 3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee break
- 4:00pm - 6:15pm (with a short break at about 5pm)
- Containment of conjunctive queries with inequalities
- Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens
- Learning database queries and schema mappings
- Balder ten Cate, Google
- Computational social choice through the lens of databases
- Benny Kimelfeld, Technion
- Enumerating repairs
- Reinhard Pichler, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
- Generalized quantifiers, games and dependence logic
- Jouko Väänänen, University of Helsinki
- Phokion Kolaitis: My office mate for five years, collaborator, mentor and friend
- Lefteris Kirousis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens