Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, a postdoctoral fellow in the Rigorous Software Engineering group, was accepted to the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Science Foundation (DFG). This grant programme is the most prestigious programme for early career researchers from the DFG. It provides funding for an independent research group for a period of six years.

Anne-Kathrin's group will be hosted at MPI-SWS in Kaiserslautern and will develop automated modular synthesis techniques for reliable Cyber-Physical System (CPS) design. Her work draws inspiration from both Control Theory and Computer Science and centers around Reactive Synthesis, Supervisory Control Theory and Abstraction-Based Controller Design.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have coauthored 17 papers at the colocated LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020, two of the top conferences in theoretical computer science. LICS is the premier conference on logic in computer science and ICALP is the flagship conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

MPI-SWS papers:

1. Invariants for Continuous Linear Dynamical Systems. Shaull Almagor, Edon Kelmendi, Joël Ouaknine and James Worrell. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper]


2. The complexity of bounded context switching with dynamic thread creation. Pascal Baumann, Rupak Majumdar, Ramanathan Thinniyam Srinivasan and Georg Zetzsche. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]


3. Extensions of ω-Regular Languages. Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Edon Kelmendi, Rafał Stefański and Georg Zetzsche. LICS 2020. [ Video | Paper ]


4. Rational subsets of Baumslag-Solitar groups. Michaël Cadilhac, Dmitry Chistikov and Georg Zetzsche. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]


5. On polynomial recursive sequences. Michaël Cadilhac, Filip Mazowiecki, Charles Paperman, Michał Pilipczuk and Géraud Sénizergues. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]


6. An Approach to Regular Separability in Vector Addition Systems. Wojciech Czerwiński and Georg Zetzsche. LICS 2020. [ Video | Paper ]


7. The complexity of knapsack problems in wreath products. Michael Figelius, Moses Ganardi, Markus Lohrey and Georg Zetzsche. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]


8. The Complexity of Verifying Loop-free Programs as Differentially Private. Marco Gaboardi, Kobbi Nissim and David Purser. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]


9. On Decidability of Time-bounded Reachability in CTMDPs. Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati and Sadegh Soudjani. ICALP 2020, Track B. [ Video | Paper ]

MPI-INF papers:

1. Scheduling Lower Bounds via AND Subset Sum. Amir Abboud, Karl Bringmann, Danny Hermelin and Dvir Shabtay. ICALP 2020, Track A.  [ Video | Paper ]


2. Faster Minimization of Tardy Processing Time on a Single Machine. Karl Bringmann, Nick Fischer, Danny Hermelin, Dvir Shabtay and Philip Wellnitz. ICALP 2020, Track A. [ Video | Paper ]


3. Hitting Long Directed Cycles is Fixed-Parameter Tractable. Alexander Göke, Dániel Marx and Matthias Mnich. ICALP 2020, Track A. [ Video | Paper ]


4. A (2 + ε)-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Split Vertex Deletion. Daniel Lokshtanov, Pranabendu Misra, Fahad Panolan, Geevarghese Philip and Saket Saurabh. ICALP 2020, Track A. [ Video | Paper ]


5. Hypergraph Isomorphism for Groups with Restricted Composition Factors. Daniel Neuen. ICALP 2020, Track A. [ Video | Paper ]


6. Deterministic Sparse Fourier Transform with an l∞ Guarante. Yi Li and Vasileios Nakos. ICALP 2020, Track A. [ Video | Paper ]

MPI-SP papers:

1. Deciding Differential Privacy for Programs with Finite Inputs and Outputs. Gilles Barthe, Rohit Chadha, Vishal Jagannath, A. Prasad Sistla and Mahesh Viswanathan. LICS 2020. [ Video | Paper ]


2. Universal equivalence and majority on probabilistic programs over finite fields. Charlie Jacomme, Steve Kremer and Gilles Barthe. LICS 2020. [ Video | Paper ]