**************** Submission Deadline is MARCH 21, 2003 ********************* Eighteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE June 22nd - 25th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics CALL FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic in a broad sense. LICS 2003 will take place in Ottawa, Canada, June 22-25, 2003 and will feature invited talks, invited tutorials, and presentations of papers that will appear in the LICS 2003 proceedings. In addition, LICS 2003 will have a session of short (5-10 minutes) presentations. This session is intended for descriptions of work in progress, student projects, and relevant research being published elsewhere; other brief communications may be acceptable. Submissions for these presentations, in the form of short abstracts (1 or 2 pages long), should be entered by following the "Instructions for short presentations" link at the LICS 2003 website http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics/lics03 between March 17th and March 21st, 2003. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 4th, 2003. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, hybrid systems, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logical aspects of computational complexity, logics in artificial intelligence, logics of programs, logic programming, modal and temporal logics, model checking, programming language semantics, reasoning about security, rewriting, specifications, type systems and type theory, and verification. Program Chair: Phokion G. Kolaitis Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Email: kolaitis@cs.ucsc.edu Phone: + 1 831 459 4768 Fax: + 1 831 459 4829 Program Committee: Michael Benedikt, Bell Laboratories Andreas R. Blass, University of Michigan Maria Luisa Bonet, UPC, Barcelona Witold Charatonik, University of Wroclaw Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge Giorgio Ghelli, Universita di Pisa Thomas A. Henzinger, UC Berkeley Alan Jeffrey, DePaul University Assaf J. Kfoury, Boston University Phokion G. Kolaitis, UC Santa Cruz Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ursula Martin, University of St Andrews Paul-Andre Mellies, CNRS & University of Paris 7 Eugenio Moggi, Universita di Genova Ugo Montanari, Universita di Pisa Paliath Narendran, University at Albany SUNY Luke Ong, University of Oxford & National University of Singapore Martin Otto, University of Wales Swansea Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky