Obituary for Maurice Nivat

A terrible loss for the theoretical computer science Community

Maurice Nivat, professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Paris VII 'Denis Diderot', left us on September 21 at the age of 79 after fiercely fighting for more than one year against a terrible illness. The role of Maurice in our field has been overwhelming. First of all he has been a great scientist who contributed fundamental research work in a variety of fields ranging from formal languages and automata theory to semantics and, more recently, to tilings and discrete geometry. His rigorous and deep algebraic approach, inherited from his mentor Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, has permeated for long time the French school of theory of computing. In his academic activity he raised an incredible series of brilliant computer scientists who are now among the most prominent researchers in their domain.

Nomination of candidates for the EATCS Council Election 2017

The list of the Nominations of candidates for the EATCS Council Election 2017 approved at the General Assembly, at ICALP 17, is the following

ICALP 2018 - First Call for Papers

http://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~icalp2018

The 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on July 9-13, 2018.

Call for Papers (pdf)

IPEC Nerode Prize 2017 - Nomination

The EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize 2017 for outstanding papers in the area of multivariate algorithmics is awarded to

Fedor V. Fomin (University of Bergen, Norway) Fabrizio Grandoni (IDSIA, University of Lugano, Switzerland) and Dieter Kratsch (Université de Lorraine - Metz, France)

for their paper

A Measure & Conquer Approach for the Analysis of Exact Algorithms Journal of the ACM 65 (5): Article 25, 2009.

Call for papers - 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk

Submission Deadline: October 16, 2017

http://www.complexis.org/

Nomination of candidates for the EATCS Council Election 2017

Dear EATCS Member,

The term of office of the following eight Council members, who were elected in 2013, expires this year:

Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Poland (Elected in 2013)
Pierre Fraigniaud, France (Elected in 2013)
Christos Kaklamanis, Greece (Elected in 2013)
Catuscia Palamidessi, France (Elected in 2013)
Giuseppe Persiano, Italy (Elected in 2013)
Alberto Policriti, Italy (Elected in 2013)
Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, Italy (Elected in 2013)
Thomas Wilke, Germany (Elected in 2013)
Peter Widmayer, Switzerland (Elected in 2013)

The complete list of current elected and appointed EATCS Council members can be found at

http://eatcs.org/index.php/council.