Theoretical computer science

Subfield of computer science and mathematics

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2025 Justus Becker assumes the role of BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, starting from 2025 onwards.
April 14 2025 BCTCS 41 to be held at the University of Strathclyde from April 14-16, organized by Alasdair Lambert, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, and Sean Watters.
2025
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation planned to be held in Porto, Portugal, continuing the alternating venue tradition between Latin America and US/Europe/Asia.
2024 Sean Watters takes over as BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2024 to 2025.
2024
Busy beaver
The 5-state busy beaver (BB(5)) was definitively proven using a formal proof in the Coq proof assistant.
2024
Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
SPAA was co-located with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC).
2024
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
ANTS XVI conference planned at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA
2024
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
Erik Mulder won the Selfridge Prize at ANTS XVI for his paper on 'Fast square-free decomposition of integers using class groups'.
June 10 2024
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
30th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2024) held in Bern, Switzerland from June 10-13, with editors George Metcalfe, Thomas Studer, and Ruy de Queiroz
April 4 2024 BCTCS 40 to be held at the University of Bath from April 4-5, organized by James Davenport and Thomas Powell.
2023 Oana Andrei becomes the latest Secretary of BCTCS, following Michele Zito.
2023 David Kutner becomes BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2023 to 2024.
2023
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS conference held in Bordeaux, France, with PC chairs Sylvain Lombardy, Jérôme Leroux, and David Peleg. Proceedings published as LIPIcs 272.
2023
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Received 'C' ranking on The CORE Conference Ranking Exercise - CORE Portal.
July 2023
Busy beaver
Riebel further reduced the Turing machine state count to 745 states.
July 11 2023
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
29th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2023) held in Halifax, NS, Canada from July 11-14, with editors Helle Hvid Hansen, Andre Scedrov, and Ruy de Queiroz
2022 Peace Ayegba assumes the role of BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2022 to 2023.
2022
Rounding
The CORE-MATH project was launched, providing correctly rounded functions in 4 rounding modes for x86-64 processors.
2022
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
Harald Helfgott and Lola Thompson were awarded the Selfridge Prize at ANTS XV for their paper on 'Summing mu(n): a faster elementary algorithm'.
2022
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
ANTS XV conference held at University of Bristol in Bristol, United Kingdom
2022
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS conference held in Vienna, Austria, with PC chairs Stefan Szeider, Robert Ganian, and Alexandra Silva. Proceedings published as LIPIcs 241.
September 20 2022
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
28th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2022) held in Iaşi, Romania from September 20-23, with editors Agata Ciabattoni, Elaine Pimentel, and Ruy de Queiroz
2021 Michael McKay becomes BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2021 to 2022.
2021 Olga Petrovska becomes the latest Treasurer of the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, taking over from Matthew Hague.
2021
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS conference held in Tallinn, Estonia, with PC chairs Filippo Bonchi and Simon J. Puglisi. Proceedings published as LIPIcs 202.
2021
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Workshop held online due to global pandemic
October 5 2021
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
27th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2021) held as a Virtual Event from October 5-8, with editors Alexandra Silva, Renata Wassermann, and Ruy de Queiroz
2020 Filippos Pantekis takes over as BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2020 to 2021.
2020 Michele Zito takes over as Secretary of BCTCS, succeeding David Manlove.
2020
Chemical computer
University of Glasgow researchers created a chemical computer using 3D-printed parts and magnetic stirrers to control BZ medium oscillations, enabling binary logic gate computation and pattern recognition.
2020
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
ANTS XIV conference held at University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, moved online due to COVID-19 pandemic, published in OBS volume 4
2020
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
Jonathan Love and Dan Boneh received the Selfridge Prize at ANTS XIV for their paper on 'Supersingular curves with small non-integer endomorphisms'.
2020
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Workshop planned for Lima, Peru but cancelled
2019 Barnaby Martin begins his presidency of BCTCS, succeeding Faron Moller.
2019 Karl Southern becomes BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2019 to 2020.
2019
Chemical computer
Harvard University published expanded research on their chemical Turing machine, including systems for Chomsky type-2 and type-3 languages.
2019
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS conference held in Aachen, Germany, with PC chairs Peter Rossmanith, Pinar Heggernes, and Joost-Pieter Katoen. Proceedings published as LIPIcs 138.
September 2019
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
26th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2019) published in Information and Computation, Volume 287, edited by Ruy de Queiroz
July 2 2019
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
26th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2019) held in Utrecht, The Netherlands from July 2-5, with editors Rosalie Iemhoff, Michael Moortgat, and Ruy de Queiroz
2018 Sofiat Olaosebikan assumes the role of BCTCS Postgraduate Representative, serving from 2018 to 2019.
2018 Matthew Hague assumes the role of Treasurer, serving from 2018 to 2021.
2018
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
Michael Musty, Sam Schiavone, Jeroen Sijsling, and John Voight won the Selfridge Prize at ANTS XIII for their paper on 'A database of Belyĭ maps'.
2018
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
ANTS XIII conference held at University of Wisconsin, Madison in Madison, WI, USA, published in OBS volume 2
2018
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS conference held in Liverpool, UK, with PC chairs Igor Potapov, Paul Spirakis, and James Worrell. Proceedings published as LIPIcs 117.
December 2018
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2018) published in Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Volume 31, Issue 4, edited by Lawrence Moss & Ruy de Queiroz
July 24 2018
Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
25th International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2018) held in Bogotá, Colombia from July 24-27, with editors Lawrence S. Moss, Ruy de Queiroz, and Maricarmen Martínez

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