{"id":428,"date":"2021-04-28T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easyconferences.eu\/lics2021\/?page_id=428"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T10:08:30","slug":"best-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/easyconferences.eu\/lics2021\/best-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#8c8c8c&#8221; top_divider_color=&#8221;#b53319&#8243; bottom_divider_style=&#8221;arrow3&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-26px|auto||auto||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">LICS 2021 Distinguished Papers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; width=&#8221;80.7%&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fusible numbers and Peano Arithmetic &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffe.cs.illinois.edu\/\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jeff Erickson<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabrielnivasch.org\/\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Gabriel Nivasch<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0and Junyan Xu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Positive first-order logic on words &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.kuperberg\/\">Denis Kuperberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inapproximability of Unique Games in Fixed-Point Logic with Counting &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jamie.tuckerfoltz.com\">Jamie Tucker-Foltz<\/a>. (co-winner of Kleene Award for Best Student Paper)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Separating Rank Logic from Polynomial Time &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/alg.cs.uni-kl.de\/team\/lichter\/\">Moritz Lichter<\/a>. (co-winner of Kleene Award for Best Student Paper)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lacon- and Shrub-Decompositions: A New Characterization of First-Order Transductions of Bounded Expansion Classes &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ac.tuwien.ac.at\/people\/dreier\/\">Jan Dreier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Logic for Locally Complete Abstract Interpretations &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.di.unipi.it\/~bruni\">Roberto Bruni<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.sci.univr.it\/~giaco\/\">Roberto Giacobazzi<\/a>, Roberta Gori and Francesco Ranzato.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbit-Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces and Weighted Register Automata &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/people\/mikolaj-bojanczyk\">Miko\u0142aj Boja\u0144czyk<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mimuw.edu.pl\/~klin\">Bartek Klin<\/a>\u00a0and Joshua Moerman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Universal Skolem Sets &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Florian Luca,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-sws.org\/~joel\/\">Joel Ouaknine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.comlab.ox.ac.uk\/oucl\/work\/james.worrell\/\">James Worrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compositional Semantics for Probabilistic Programs with Exact Conditioning &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Dario Stein and Sam Staton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimal Taylor Algebras as a Common Framework for the Three Algebraic Approaches to the CSP &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Libor Barto, Zarathustra Brady,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/~abulatov\/\">Andrei Bulatov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcs.uj.edu.pl\/Kozik\">Marcin Kozik<\/a>\u00a0and Dmitriy Zhuk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LICS 2021 Distinguished Papers Fusible numbers and Peano Arithmetic &#8211;\u00a0Jeff Erickson,\u00a0Gabriel Nivasch\u00a0and Junyan Xu. 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