FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

DISC 2017
The 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing
October 16-20th, 2017, Vienna, Austria
www.disc-conference.org/2017/

HIGHLIGHTS

Invited speakers:

  Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, Rennes, France)
  Dana Randall (Georgia Tech, USA)
  Christian Cachin (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland)

Program:

  http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/program/

Workshops:

October 16th:

  FRIDA: Formal Reasoning in Distributed Algorithms
  Workshop on Blockchain Technology and Theory
  TPC: Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Data Structures

October 20th:

  ADGA: Workshop on Advances in Distributed Graph Algorithms
  CoDyn: Workshop on Computing in Dynamic Networks
  HDT: Workshop on Hardware Design and Theory

Dijkstra Prize:

The 2017 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing sponsored by ACM
PODC and EATCS DISC will be presented at DISC this year.
It has been awarded to the paper

  Elizabeth Borowsky, Eli Gafni:
  Generalized FLP impossibility result for t-resilient asynchronous
computations.

The award ceremony will be held at the DISC 2017 banquet.

Celebration of Yoram Moses's 60th birthday

The talks in honor of Yoram will be held on the afternoon of October 17th
by Joe Halpern (Cornell University, USA), Moshe Tenenholtz (Technion,
Israel), Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA), Shafi Goldwasser (MIT, USA),
and Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico).

VENUE AND REGISTRATION

DISC’17 will be held at Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace, at
Schlossallee 8, 1140 Wien (Vienna), in close proximity to the Vienna
Technical Museum, and with views of Schönbrunn Palace.

We cordially invite you to register under

http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/registration/

For information on the venue, hotels, and travelling, please see:

http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/local-arrangements/