Nesta 4a-feira ao meio-dia (horário de Brasília). JM
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jamie Vicary A reminder of the OWLS debate tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3pm UTC. Everybody is welcome to join at zoom.us/j/177472153. -------------------- Dear all, The entire community is invited to participate in a debate on the future of the conference system in theoretical computer science. Organized as a special event as part of the Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics (OWLS), this will provide a rare community-wide opportunity for us to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our current system in a time of climate change, COVID and other stresses, and consider if we can do better. The scope of the debate is all aspects of our publishing and community traditions, characterised by prestige earned mostly through publication in competitive conferences, and frequent local and international travel. Possible topics for discussion include the need to publish in conferences for career progression, which usually involves burning carbon; wasted reviewing effort when good papers are rejected from highly competitive conferences; the extent of our responsibility as a community to respond to climate change; alternative publishing models, like the journal-focussed system used in mathematics; high costs of conference travel and registration; virtual conference advantages, disadvantages and best practice; improving equality, diversity and access; consequences and response to COVID-19; and the role of professional bodies. These topics have many tight relationships, and need to be discussed together to gain a full understanding of the issues involved. OUR PANEL To discuss these issues, we have an excellent panel with a wide range of experience: - Dr Brendan Fong, MIT (brendanfong.com) is a postdoctoral researcher with considerable experience organizing virtual conferences and seminars (act2020.mit.edu), and an Executive Editor of the new open-access journal Compositionality. - Dr Nicole Immorlica (www.immorlica.com) is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and has recently co-founded the Virtual Chair conferencing system (www.virtualchair.net). - Professor Delia Kesner, University of Paris (irif.fr/~kesner) has served on the Steering Committee of six conferences and workshops, and is currently the SC Chair of FSCD, the most recent iteration of which was organized at short notice as a virtual event (fscd2020.org). - Professor Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania (cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce) has served as PC chair of a range of events including POPL and ICFP, and has written powerfully on the need for the computer science community to adapt to the reality of climate change. - Professor Thomas Schwentick, TU Dordmund (https://ls1-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/de/kontakt-thomas-schwentick) is the President of the European Association for Computer Science Logic. He was a co-creator of the tcs4f.org online pledge, and is currently setting up a new open-access TCS journal. - Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University (cs.rice.edu/~vardi) is Senior Editor of the journal Communications of the ACM, and founded the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC). He has long been a vocal commentator on structural problems with computer science publishing. WHEN AND WHERE The debate will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 2 September) at 3pm UTC, which corresponds to the following times in a range of cities around the world: 8am San Francisco -- 10am Houston -- 11am Philadelphia -- 4pm London -- 5pm Paris -- 11pm Shanghai -- midnight Tokyo -- 1am Sydney The event will take place on Zoom at the following address. No password or registration is required. - zoom.us/j/177472153 WEBPAGE This event is organized as part of the OWLS seminar series. For more information, a calendar you can embed, and to sign up for reminder emails, visit the event webpage: - https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vicaryjo/owls/ READING Members of the community may enjoy the following articles, related to the topic of the debate. - Antoine Amarilli, Thomas Colcombet, Hugo Férée and Thomas Schwentick (2020), "Pledge for Sustainable Research in Theoretical Computer Science", https://tcs4f.org/ - Boaz Barak (2016), "Computer Science should Stay Young", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202644-computer-science-should-stay-young/fulltext - Lance Fortnow (2009), "Time for Computer Science to Grow Up", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34492-viewpoint-time-for-computer-science-to-grow-up/fulltext - Benjamin Pierce (2020), "Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243024-conferences-in-an-era-of-expensive-carbon/fulltext - Moshe Vardi (2020), "Publish and Perish", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/1/241717-publish-and-perish/fulltext We hope you will join us for what promises to be a memorable and exciting event. Please forward this message to your research group, and others who may be interested to participate. Best wishes, Jamie -- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para logica-l+unsubscr...@dimap.ufrn.br. Para ver esta discussão na web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/d/msgid/logica-l/CAO6j_LjOTMy7kFxgsf7dGhwjwnW%2BNhts5suoNbT6dS0puux2fg%40mail.gmail.com.
