@luca-aceto.bsky.social
Are you there, a coherent EU policy?
open.substack.com/pub/thinink/...
Do read last Friday's piece by @thinink.bsky.social and spread it. We should keep paying heed to her motto: "If we give up, they win.” For starters, let's keep ourselves informed and make thoughtful decisions on what we eat.
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Do read last Friday's piece by @thinink.bsky.social and spread it. We should keep paying heed to her motto: "If we give up, they win.” For starters, let's keep ourselves informed and make thoughtful decisions on what we eat.
Are you there, a coherent EU policy?
It’s me, a conscientious consumer.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Are you there, a coherent EU policy?
open.substack.com/pub/thinink/...
Do read last Friday's piece by @thinink.bsky.social and spread it. We should keep paying heed to her motto: "If we give up, they win.” For starters, let's keep ourselves informed and make thoughtful decisions on what we eat.
open.substack.com/pub/thinink/...
Do read last Friday's piece by @thinink.bsky.social and spread it. We should keep paying heed to her motto: "If we give up, they win.” For starters, let's keep ourselves informed and make thoughtful decisions on what we eat.
Congrats to my colleague Marta K. Larusdottir for being one of the PIs for this project that received funding from NordForsk! I llok forward to following the scientific output of the project.
www.nordforsk.org/projects/pro...
The acceptance rate was 17/216. Is this a good thing? IMHO, answer = no.
www.nordforsk.org/projects/pro...
The acceptance rate was 17/216. Is this a good thing? IMHO, answer = no.
Procurement of AI Systems for Sustainable Healthcare Work Environments (AI-PROCARE)
The AI-PROCARE project seeks to redefine public procurement of AI systems activities to foster sustainable, equitable, and engaging healthcare work environments.
www.nordforsk.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Congrats to my colleague Marta K. Larusdottir for being one of the PIs for this project that received funding from NordForsk! I llok forward to following the scientific output of the project.
www.nordforsk.org/projects/pro...
The acceptance rate was 17/216. Is this a good thing? IMHO, answer = no.
www.nordforsk.org/projects/pro...
The acceptance rate was 17/216. Is this a good thing? IMHO, answer = no.
What We Eat Is Harming Us
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Recommended reading with plenty of food for though, as usual. Thanks @thinink.bsky.social for yeat another thought-provoking post!
news.thin-ink.net/p/what-we-ea...
Recommended reading with plenty of food for though, as usual. Thanks @thinink.bsky.social for yeat another thought-provoking post!
What We Eat Is Harming Us
Scientific review urges urgent reform, regulation, and collective action on UPFs
news.thin-ink.net
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What We Eat Is Harming Us
news.thin-ink.net/p/what-we-ea...
Recommended reading with plenty of food for though, as usual. Thanks @thinink.bsky.social for yeat another thought-provoking post!
news.thin-ink.net/p/what-we-ea...
Recommended reading with plenty of food for though, as usual. Thanks @thinink.bsky.social for yeat another thought-provoking post!
Today, the Icelandic Centre of Excellence for Theoretical Computer Science will host a workshop at Reykjavik University to celebrate Anna Ingolfsdottir's scientific career. See icetcs.github.io/workshop4anna/ for the programme.
Feel free to drop by if you are in Reykjavik.
Feel free to drop by if you are in Reykjavik.
Workshop for Anna Ingólfsdóttir
icetcs.github.io
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today, the Icelandic Centre of Excellence for Theoretical Computer Science will host a workshop at Reykjavik University to celebrate Anna Ingolfsdottir's scientific career. See icetcs.github.io/workshop4anna/ for the programme.
Feel free to drop by if you are in Reykjavik.
Feel free to drop by if you are in Reykjavik.
Reposted
This week's issue is about a very timely cross-border investigation that illustrated the shortfalls of the current system in protecting a crucial asset of European agriculture: farm workers.
Full disclosure: I played a small role mentoring the team behind this.
news.thin-ink.net/p/how-europe...
Full disclosure: I played a small role mentoring the team behind this.
news.thin-ink.net/p/how-europe...
How Europe’s Farm Subsidy Scheme Fails Workers
As lawmakers concentrate on meat bans, the CAP continues to bankroll exploitation in the fields
news.thin-ink.net
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This week's issue is about a very timely cross-border investigation that illustrated the shortfalls of the current system in protecting a crucial asset of European agriculture: farm workers.
Full disclosure: I played a small role mentoring the team behind this.
news.thin-ink.net/p/how-europe...
Full disclosure: I played a small role mentoring the team behind this.
news.thin-ink.net/p/how-europe...
The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited
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The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited
The wealthiest 30% drive 70% of food-related environmental impacts. Can we change how we eat, farm, and share power?
news.thin-ink.net
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-planet...
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-planet...
My ICE-TCS colleague Tarmo Uustalu and his team are organising FroCoS 2025, ITP 2025, TABLEAUX 2025, Rocq 2025 and Lean 2025 from tomorrow till October 2. See
icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-t... for the details.
Thanks to Tarmo for bringing these events to ICE-TCS icetcs.github.io !
icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-t... for the details.
Thanks to Tarmo for bringing these events to ICE-TCS icetcs.github.io !
FroCoS/ITP/TABLEAUX '25
icetcs.github.io
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
My ICE-TCS colleague Tarmo Uustalu and his team are organising FroCoS 2025, ITP 2025, TABLEAUX 2025, Rocq 2025 and Lean 2025 from tomorrow till October 2. See
icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-t... for the details.
Thanks to Tarmo for bringing these events to ICE-TCS icetcs.github.io !
icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-t... for the details.
Thanks to Tarmo for bringing these events to ICE-TCS icetcs.github.io !
GandALF 2025 has just kicked off in Malta. See gandalfsymposium.github.io/2025/ for details. My colleague Antonis Achilleos from the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University will deliver a talk in the morning session based on the paper at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Go Antonis!
Go Antonis!
GandALF 2025
Sixteenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification 16-17 September 2025, Valletta, Malta
gandalfsymposium.github.io
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
GandALF 2025 has just kicked off in Malta. See gandalfsymposium.github.io/2025/ for details. My colleague Antonis Achilleos from the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University will deliver a talk in the morning session based on the paper at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Go Antonis!
Go Antonis!
Path to a Livable Planet news.thin-ink.net/p/path-to-a-... Look no further if you want to read something about food systems this weekend. Thanks to @thinink.bsky.social for her sustained efforts in sharing thought-provoking information on food systems with us every week. It's a lot of work to do so!
Path to a Livable Planet
The World Bank makes a case for putting nature at the heart of economies
news.thin-ink.net
September 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Path to a Livable Planet news.thin-ink.net/p/path-to-a-... Look no further if you want to read something about food systems this weekend. Thanks to @thinink.bsky.social for her sustained efforts in sharing thought-provoking information on food systems with us every week. It's a lot of work to do so!
The ERC has announced the latest batch of Starting Grant recipients. See erc.europa.eu/news-events/... Congrats to the awardees and good luck for their work!
The ERC awards €761m to the next generation of scientists in Europe
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 478 early-career researchers across Europe to receive this year’s Starting Grants. With a total funding of €761 million, these grants support excellent...
erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The ERC has announced the latest batch of Starting Grant recipients. See erc.europa.eu/news-events/... Congrats to the awardees and good luck for their work!
The Sleep Revolution project sleeprevolution.eu/en/home/ (funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020) formally ended on August 29. The project was led by Reykjavik University and several of my colleagues at the Department of Computer Science played a key role in it.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
General Assembly 2025 On Wednesday June 4th and Thursday June 5th the General Assembly for the Sleep Revolution will be held in Berlin, Germany. We have an exciting program for
sleeprevolution.eu
August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Sleep Revolution project sleeprevolution.eu/en/home/ (funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020) formally ended on August 29. The project was led by Reykjavik University and several of my colleagues at the Department of Computer Science played a key role in it.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest --- Please spread the news!
On the 13th of September, at 10:00 - 15:00, the Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated to FKHÍ in Icelandic) will take place.
See forms.gle/vCV6Zm4PEGmL... for further information and the registration form.
On the 13th of September, at 10:00 - 15:00, the Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated to FKHÍ in Icelandic) will take place.
See forms.gle/vCV6Zm4PEGmL... for further information and the registration form.
Forritunarkeppni Háskólanna á Íslandi (FKHÍ) 2025
The contest will take place on the 13th of September (2025-09-13) from 10:00 to 15:00 GMT (UTC+00).
Note that the contest will start exactly at 10:00:00, so it is advisable to be at least 15 minutes e...
forms.gle
August 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest --- Please spread the news!
On the 13th of September, at 10:00 - 15:00, the Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated to FKHÍ in Icelandic) will take place.
See forms.gle/vCV6Zm4PEGmL... for further information and the registration form.
On the 13th of September, at 10:00 - 15:00, the Icelandic Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated to FKHÍ in Icelandic) will take place.
See forms.gle/vCV6Zm4PEGmL... for further information and the registration form.
The proceedings of CONCUR 2025 are now online. See
conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...
for the links to the full proceedings and to the individual papers.
Thanks to Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, Jaco van de Pol, Andreas Pavlogiannis and everyone involved in the organisation of CONFEST 2025.
conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...
for the links to the full proceedings and to the individual papers.
Thanks to Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, Jaco van de Pol, Andreas Pavlogiannis and everyone involved in the organisation of CONFEST 2025.
Proceedings and Papers
conferences.au.dk
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The proceedings of CONCUR 2025 are now online. See
conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...
for the links to the full proceedings and to the individual papers.
Thanks to Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, Jaco van de Pol, Andreas Pavlogiannis and everyone involved in the organisation of CONFEST 2025.
conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...
for the links to the full proceedings and to the individual papers.
Thanks to Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, Jaco van de Pol, Andreas Pavlogiannis and everyone involved in the organisation of CONFEST 2025.
As part of the ICE-TCS 20th anniversary series, Fabian Kuhn (Freiburg University) dblp.org/pid/26/5426.... will give a seminar entitled "Distributed Coloring Algorithms Based on List Defective Colorings" at Reykjavik University on Wednesday 13 August at 10am in room V102.
Join us if you're in Rvk!
Join us if you're in Rvk!
dblp: Fabian Kuhn
List of computer science publications by Fabian Kuhn
dblp.org
August 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As part of the ICE-TCS 20th anniversary series, Fabian Kuhn (Freiburg University) dblp.org/pid/26/5426.... will give a seminar entitled "Distributed Coloring Algorithms Based on List Defective Colorings" at Reykjavik University on Wednesday 13 August at 10am in room V102.
Join us if you're in Rvk!
Join us if you're in Rvk!
Maxime Roland René Flin will defend his PhD thesis "Distributed Vertex Coloring in Bandwidth Constrained Models" on August 12 at Reykjavik University. See
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more information. Maxime will join Jukka Suomela's group as a postdoc in September.
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more information. Maxime will join Jukka Suomela's group as a postdoc in September.
Dept. of Computer Science PhD thesis defence - Maxime Roland René Flin | Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Join us for a PhD thesis defence of Maxime Roland René Flin on his thesis: Distributed Vertex Coloring in Bandwidth Constrained Models.
www.ru.is
August 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Maxime Roland René Flin will defend his PhD thesis "Distributed Vertex Coloring in Bandwidth Constrained Models" on August 12 at Reykjavik University. See
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more information. Maxime will join Jukka Suomela's group as a postdoc in September.
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more information. Maxime will join Jukka Suomela's group as a postdoc in September.
On Wednesday, 6 August, my colleagues at the Frostbyte research centre www.frostbyte.is will organise a Digital Identity Management Workshop featuring a talk by Michael J. Fischer.See the following links for more details:
www.frostbyte.is/news/2025-ws...
www.ru.is/vidburdir/vi...
www.frostbyte.is/news/2025-ws...
www.ru.is/vidburdir/vi...
Frostbyte
Welcome to the Frostbyte lab
Explore the world of cybersecurity with our state-of-the-art research and innovative solutions.
Frostbyte - T...
www.frostbyte.is
August 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
On Wednesday, 6 August, my colleagues at the Frostbyte research centre www.frostbyte.is will organise a Digital Identity Management Workshop featuring a talk by Michael J. Fischer.See the following links for more details:
www.frostbyte.is/news/2025-ws...
www.ru.is/vidburdir/vi...
www.frostbyte.is/news/2025-ws...
www.ru.is/vidburdir/vi...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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news.thin-ink.net/p/the-good-t...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A quartet of food reports highlight where we are
news.thin-ink.net
August 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-good-t...
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-good-t...
My GSSI colleague Catia Trubiani will be one of the invited speakers at ECSA 2025. See conf.researchr.org/track/ecsa-2... for information on the keynotes.
Congrats to Catia and to the CS@GSSI group as a whole!
Congrats to Catia and to the CS@GSSI group as a whole!
ECSA 2025 - Keynote Speakers - ECSA 2025
Welcome to the website of the ECSA 2025 conference!
The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitione...
conf.researchr.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My GSSI colleague Catia Trubiani will be one of the invited speakers at ECSA 2025. See conf.researchr.org/track/ecsa-2... for information on the keynotes.
Congrats to Catia and to the CS@GSSI group as a whole!
Congrats to Catia and to the CS@GSSI group as a whole!
Reposted
Over the past 10 yrs, U.S.'s reliance on imported foods has increased significantly: its purchase of fruits, seafood, vegetables, beverages & cereal preparations now outpace its exports to the tune of $58.7 billion, said an analysis from @rethinktrade.bsky.social.
news.thin-ink.net/p/stars-stri...
news.thin-ink.net/p/stars-stri...
Stars, Stripes, & Supply Chains
America imports more of its food than we think
news.thin-ink.net
July 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Over the past 10 yrs, U.S.'s reliance on imported foods has increased significantly: its purchase of fruits, seafood, vegetables, beverages & cereal preparations now outpace its exports to the tune of $58.7 billion, said an analysis from @rethinktrade.bsky.social.
news.thin-ink.net/p/stars-stri...
news.thin-ink.net/p/stars-stri...
Today, DisCoTec 2025, the 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, kicks off in Lille. My GSSI colleagues Omar Inverso and Emilio Tuosto will deliver an invited talk and a tutorial, respectively. See www.discotec.org/2025/programme for details.
Programme
The website of DisCoTec - the International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques
www.discotec.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today, DisCoTec 2025, the 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, kicks off in Lille. My GSSI colleagues Omar Inverso and Emilio Tuosto will deliver an invited talk and a tutorial, respectively. See www.discotec.org/2025/programme for details.
The 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference, NORCOM 2025, will be held in the period 16-18 June 2025 at Reykjavik University.
See norcom2025.github.io for the conference programme, which includes the "Einar Fest " to celebrate Einar Steingrimsson, and more information.
See norcom2025.github.io for the conference programme, which includes the "Einar Fest " to celebrate Einar Steingrimsson, and more information.
NORCOM 2025 16-18 June 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland
norcom2025.github.io
June 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference, NORCOM 2025, will be held in the period 16-18 June 2025 at Reykjavik University.
See norcom2025.github.io for the conference programme, which includes the "Einar Fest " to celebrate Einar Steingrimsson, and more information.
See norcom2025.github.io for the conference programme, which includes the "Einar Fest " to celebrate Einar Steingrimsson, and more information.
Breaking news: GSSI PhD graduate Nicola Cotumaccio receives the Canadian CS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024. See
cscan-infocan.ca/current-year...
Nicola was also awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award 2024 of the Italian Chapter of the EATCS. Congrats Nicola!
cscan-infocan.ca/current-year...
Nicola was also awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award 2024 of the Italian Chapter of the EATCS. Congrats Nicola!
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cscan-infocan.ca
June 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Breaking news: GSSI PhD graduate Nicola Cotumaccio receives the Canadian CS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024. See
cscan-infocan.ca/current-year...
Nicola was also awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award 2024 of the Italian Chapter of the EATCS. Congrats Nicola!
cscan-infocan.ca/current-year...
Nicola was also awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award 2024 of the Italian Chapter of the EATCS. Congrats Nicola!
On Thursday, 12 June, at 13:00 GMT, Joshua Springer will defend his doctoral dissertation "Computational methods for autonomous multirotor drone landing" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University.
For more details, see
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de...
For more details, see
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de...
Dept. of Computer Science PhD thesis defence - Joshua Springer | Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Join us for a PhD thesis defence of Joshua Springer on his thesis: Computational methods for autonomous multirotor drone landing
www.ru.is
June 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
On Thursday, 12 June, at 13:00 GMT, Joshua Springer will defend his doctoral dissertation "Computational methods for autonomous multirotor drone landing" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University.
For more details, see
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de...
For more details, see
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de...
This morning, Calvin Santiago Lee successfully defended his PhD thesis proposal entitled "Univalent generalized multicategories" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. Calvin's thesis work is supervsed by my colleagues Tarmo Uustalu. Congratulations to Calvin and Tarmo!
June 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This morning, Calvin Santiago Lee successfully defended his PhD thesis proposal entitled "Univalent generalized multicategories" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. Calvin's thesis work is supervsed by my colleagues Tarmo Uustalu. Congratulations to Calvin and Tarmo!
The list of accepted papers for CONCUR 2025, the 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, is available at conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...
CONCUR 2025
conferences.au.dk
June 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The list of accepted papers for CONCUR 2025, the 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, is available at conferences.au.dk/confest2025/...