Thursday, March 10, 2022

[DMANET] Highlights Extended Stay Support Scheme

This year, financial support is proposed to participants of HIGHLIGHTS 2022
coming from far away and wishing to extend their stay to visit some
research center close to Paris.

Highlights is an annual conference with the goal of integrating the
community of researchers working on logic, games and automata. The 2022
edition of Highlights will happen *from June 28th to July 1st, 2022, in
Paris, France*. The conference will be hosted by Université de Paris, and
happen on the site of Grands Moulins.

Just like other conferences in the field, Highlights proposes tutorials and
invited talks. However the contributed talks are just ten minutes long,
allowing participants to get an overview of a wide range of different
topics in a short amount of time. Additionally, authors are encouraged to
prepare posters about their work, which are then presented and discussed in
poster sessions.

Highlights is an informal event which will take place on-site (barring
unforeseen circumstances), and the preferred form of participation is to
give your talk in-person. Highlights is mostly intended for a local
community of participants who can attend with a limited carbon footprint
(e.g., no plane travel). Before coming from further away, please review how
your trip and international flights are contributing to climate change. If
you do come, we encourage you to make the most of your stay in Paris, e.g.,
by also attending the ICALP'22 conference and/or using this opportunity for
a research visit (see below).

*Conference website:* https://highlights-conference.org/2022/

*HIGHLIGHTS EXTENDED STAY SUPPORT SCHEME *

If you are coming from far away to attend Highlights and wish to do a
research visit while in Paris, we have a scheme in place to help you secure
financial support for your visit, by listing laboratories close to Paris
who can consider funding such visits. This is the Highlights extended stay
support scheme (HESSS). The following laboratories are participating in the
scheme:

-École normale supérieure (Paris), VALDA team, contact: Pierre Senellart
-Télécom Paris (Palaiseau, greater Paris), DIG team, contact: Antoine
Amarilli
-IRIF (Paris), contact: Thomas Colcombet
-CRIStAL (Lille, France), contact: Sophie Tison
-Université de Mons (Mons, Belgium), contact: Véronique Bruyère
-LaBRI (Bordeaux, France), M2F team, contact: Hugo Gimbert
-IGM (Marne-la-Vallée, France), contact: Claire David
-LMF (Orsay, France), contact: Dietmar Berwanger
-CRIL (Lens, France), contact: Stefan Mengel
-IRISA (Rennes), SUMO team, contact: Nathalie Bertrand
-Move team, Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes (Marseilles,
France), contact: Pierre-Alain Reynier

*HOW TO APPLY*

To apply, you should first contact a collaborator in these laboratories,
with whom you are already working or would like to discuss. Once you have a
collaborator, the two of you should get in touch with the laboratory
contact listed above, Cc'ing the Highlights organizers Antoine Amarilli.
You should indicate the planned dates of the visit, the broad theme, and
the country of origin of the visitor.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and should be sent as
early as possible, and *no later than April 15th*. The funding may cover
accommodation and transportation from Paris by train. This scheme is only
available for participants at the Highlights conference, for dates just
before or after Highlights. We stress that it is not intended to cover the
expenses of attending the Highlights conference itself, or attending the
ICALP'22 conference.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Submission: March 18th
Notification: April 1st
HESSS applications: April 15th
Registration: TBA
Conference: June 28-July 1st, 2022

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