Today, DisCoTec 2025, the 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, kicks off in Lille. My GSSI colleagues Omar Inverso and Emilio Tuosto will deliver an invited talk and a tutorial, respectively. See for details.

The 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference, NORCOM 2025, will be held in the period 16-18 June 2025 at Reykjavik University. See for the conference programme, which includes the "Einar Fest " to celebrate Einar Steingrimsson, and more information.

Breaking news: GSSI PhD graduate Nicola Cotumaccio receives the Canadian CS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024. See. Congrats Nicola!.

On Thursday, 12 June, at 13:00 GMT, Joshua Springer will defend his doctoral dissertation "Computational methods for autonomous multirotor drone landing" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. For more details, see.

This morning, Calvin Santiago Lee successfully defended his PhD thesis proposal entitled "Univalent generalized multicategories" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. Calvin's thesis work is supervised by my colleagues Tarmo Uustalu.

The list of accepted papers for CONCUR 2025, the 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, is now available at .

Tomorrow, Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir will defend her PhD thesis "Living with Technology: Digital Mental Health & Patient Flourishing" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. See for more details.

Our colleague María Óskarsdóttir at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University will publish a book with and her collaborators Cristian Bravo and Sebastian Maldonado!.

Tomorrow, 23 May, at 13:00 GMT, Stian Lybech will defend his PhD thesis at the Department of Computer Science Reykjavik University. Stian's thesis is entitled "A Type Theoretic Approach to Smart Contract Safety". See .for more information.

The deadline to submit papers to GandALF 2025, which will be held in Malta on 16-17 September 2025 is on May 30. See .for information on how to submit.

Our colleagues at TU Wien will host the first Summer School on AI and Cybersecurity in the period 22-26 September 2025. See for more information on this exciting, week-long event. Spread the news!.

Today is the seventh International Women in Mathematics Day --- see . Thanks to all the female mathematicians (construed as the female colleagues who do mathematical work) , who contribute to the academic environment at my department!.

Marco Carbone has a PhD position at the IT University Copenhagen in the PROBABILIST project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-FNU) starting in August or soon thereafter. See the link below for details: .Spread the news!.

Tomorrow, 2 May, at 1 PM, Bjarki Freyr Sveinbjarnarson will defend his PhD thesis entitled "Scaling Data Governance Through Automation and Dynamic Data Spaces" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. Good luck to Bjarki Freyr!.

Last Thursday, 29 April, ICE-TCS, the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science, turned twenty. We started the centre on 29 April 2005, inspired by the experience of BRICS. See for information on the centre. Thanks to my colleagues!.

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Tomorrow, Luka Biedebach will defend her PhD thesis "New Pathways for Unsupervised Machine Learning in Digital Health: Applications and Future Potentials for Sleep" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. See .for more details.