MFCS 2023: 48TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, August 28th Tuesday, August 29th Wednesday, August 30th Thursday, August 31st Friday, September 1st

Monday, August 28th

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08:30-08:50Coffee Break
09:00-10:00 Session 2

Invited Talk

Location: Amphi F
09:00
Exploring the space of colourings with Kempe changes (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 3A: Combinatorics
Location: Amphi F
10:30
Counting Homomorphisms from Hypergraphs of Bounded Generalised Hypertree Width: A Logical Characterisation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Benjamin Scheidt
10:55
An iterative approach for counting reduced ordered binary decision diagrams (abstract)
PRESENTER: Julien Clément
11:20
Roman Census: Enumerating and Counting Roman Dominating Functions on Graph Classes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kevin Mann
11:45
Counting Computations with Formulae: Logical Characterisations of Counting Complexity Classes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aggeliki Chalki
10:30-12:10 Session 3B: Graphs 1
Location: Amphi G
10:30
Tight Algorithmic Applications of Clique-Width Generalizations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Vera Chekan
10:55
Parameterized Max Min Feedback Vertex Set (abstract)
11:20
Isometric path complexity of graphs (abstract)
11:45
Dynamic constant-time parallel graph algorithms with sub-linear work (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jonas Schmidt
12:10-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session 4A: Automata and Formal Languages 1
Location: Amphi F
14:00
Separating Automatic Relations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rémi Morvan
14:25
Positive Data Languages (abstract)
PRESENTER: Florian Frank
14:50
On the Expressive Power of Regular Expressions with Backreferences (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taisei Nogami
14:00-15:15 Session 4B: Graphs, complexity and logic
Location: Amphi G
14:00
Dynamic Planar Embedding is in DynFO (abstract)
PRESENTER: Asif Khan
14:25
Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs III: When Problems are Tractable on Subcubic Graphs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matthew Johnson
14:50
Logical Equivalences, Homomorphism Indistinguishability, and Forbidden Minors (abstract)
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 5A: Query complexity, Matrix, and Polynomoids
Location: Amphi F
15:45
Support Size Estimation: The Power of Conditioning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gunjan Kumar
16:10
On Property Testing of the Binary Rank (abstract)
16:35
Dependent k-Set Packing on Polynomoids (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tsung-Ta Wu
15:45-17:00 Session 5B: Logic in Computer Science 1
Location: Amphi G
15:45
On the Finite Variable-Occurrence Fragment of the Calculus of Relations with Bounded Dot-Dagger Alternation (abstract)
16:10
On Polynomial-Time Decidability of k-Negations Fragments of FO Theories (Extended Abstract) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alessio Mansutti
16:35
Short definitions in constraint languages (abstract)
Tuesday, August 29th

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08:30-08:55Coffee Break
08:55-09:00 Session 6: MFCS 2024

Presentation of the upcoming MFCS 2024 by Jerzy Marcinkowski, member of the MFCS steering commitee.

Location: Amphi F
09:00-10:00 Session 7

Invited Talk

Location: Amphi F
09:00
Algebraic Reasoning for (Un)Solvable Loops
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 8A: Algebraic Methods
Location: Amphi F
10:30
Realizing finitely presented groups as projective fundamental groups of SFTs (abstract)
10:55
Multivariate to Bivariate Reduction for Noncommutative Polynomial Factorization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pushkar Joglekar
11:20
A Weyl Criterion for Finite-State Dimension and Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Subin Pulari
11:45
On the complexity dichotomy for the satisfiability of systems of term equations over finite algebras (abstract)
10:30-12:10 Session 8B: Parametrized Complexity
Location: Amphi G
10:30
On the Complexity of Computing Time Series Medians under the Move-Split-Merge Metric (abstract)
10:55
A FPT Algorithm for Spanning Trees with Few Branch Vertices Parameterized by Modular Width (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luisa Gargano
11:20
Deterministic Constrained Multilinear Detection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cornelius Brand
11:45
FPT Approximation and Subexponential Algorithms for Covering Few or Many Edges (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fedor V. Fomin
12:10-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session 9A: Constructive Logics and Semantics
Location: Amphi F
14:00
Formalizing Hyperspaces for Extracting Efficient Exact Real Computation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Holger Thies
14:25
Inductive Continuity via Brouwer Trees (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ayberk Tosun
14:50
Locality Theorems in Semiring Semantics (abstract)
14:00-15:15 Session 9B: Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Location: Amphi G
14:00
Distributed CONGEST Algorithm for Finding Hamiltonian Paths in Dirac Graphs and Generalizations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Moti Medina
14:25
Descriptive complexity for distributed computing with circuits (abstract)
PRESENTER: Antti Kuusisto
14:50
Parallel enumeration of parse trees (abstract)
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 10A: Cryptography, Security, and Quantum
Location: Amphi F
15:45
Speed Me up if You Can: Conditional Lower Bounds on Opacity Verification (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jiří Balun
16:10
Cryptanalysis of a Generalized Subset-Sum Pseudorandom Generator (abstract)
16:35
Distributed Merlin-Arthur Synthesis of Quantum States and Its Applications (abstract)
15:45-17:00 Session 10B: Verification 1
Location: Amphi G
15:45
The Geometry of Reachability in Continuous Vector Addition Systems with States (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tim Leys
16:10
Parikh One-Counter Automata (abstract)
PRESENTER: Arka Ghosh
16:35
OBDD(join) Proofs Cannot be Balanced (abstract)
Wednesday, August 30th

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08:30-09:00Coffee Break
09:00-10:00 Session 11

Invited Talk

Location: Amphi F
09:00
Some Algorithmic Problems on Temporal Graphs (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 12A: Computational and Dynamic Complexity
Location: Amphi F
10:30
A characterization of functions computable in polynomial time and space over the reals with discrete ordinary differential equations. Simulation of Turing machines with analytic discrete ordinary differential equations. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Manon Blanc
10:55
Effective Continued Fraction Dimension versus Effective Hausdorff Dimension of Reals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Akhil S
11:20
Upward Translation of Optimal and P-Optimal Proof Systems in the Boolean Hierarchy over NP (abstract)
PRESENTER: Martin Herold
11:45
On the work of dynamic constant-time parallel algorithms for regular tree languages and context-free languages (abstract)
10:30-12:10 Session 12B: Games 1
Location: Amphi G
10:30
Rational Verification for Nash and Subgame-perfect Equilibria in Graph Games (abstract)
PRESENTER: Léonard Brice
10:55
Solving irreducible stochastic mean-payoff games and entropy games by relative Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration (abstract)
11:20
Relaxed core stability for hedonic games with size-dependent utilities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jannik Peters
11:45
Recontamination helps a lot to hunt a rabbit (abstract)
12:10-14:00Lunch Break
17:00-19:00 Cité du Vin (Bordeaux Wine City)

The social event takes place on Wednesday afternoon. It will start at "Cité du Vin » (Bordeaux Wine City) at 17h00, we will meet at this place before the visit. This place is directly accessible from Talence using Tram B, stop « Cité du Vin ». The museum visit lasts for about 2 hours, including tasting a glass of wine, more details there.

20:00-22:00 Diner at restaurant "Le café du port"

We will go to the restaurant « Le café du port », there. The dinner will start at 20h00. The restaurant is accessible from the museum by walking (40 minutes of a gentle walk by the quays) or by Tramway B, bus 91 or even by boat « Batcub 3 ».

Thursday, August 31st

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08:30-09:00Coffee Break
09:00-10:00 Session 13

Invited Talk

Location: Amphi F
09:00
Online Algorithms with Predictions
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 14A: Operational Search
Location: Amphi F
10:30
Competitive Search in the Line and the Star with Predictions (abstract)
10:55
The Covering Canadian Traveller Problem Revisited (abstract)
11:20
Graph Connectivity with Noisy Queries (abstract)
11:45
Exact and approximation algorithms for routing a convoy through a graph (abstract)
PRESENTER: Martijn van Ee
10:30-12:10 Session 14B: Cuts and Graphs
Location: Amphi G
10:30
Dichotomies for Maximum Matching Cut: H-Freeness, Bounded Diameter, Bounded Radius (abstract)
PRESENTER: Felicia Lucke
10:55
MaxCut Above Guarantee (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ivan Bliznets
11:20
Finding a Highly Connected Steiner Subgraph and its Applications (abstract)
12:10-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session 15A: Online Algorithms
Chair:
Location: Amphi F
14:00
The Online Simple Knapsack Problem with Reservation and Removability (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matthias Gehnen
14:25
Polynomial-Delay Enumeration of Large Maximal Common Independent Sets in Two Matroids (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kazuhiro Kurita
14:50
Rényi-Ulam Games and Online Computation with Imperfect Advice (abstract)
14:00-15:15 Session 15B: Verification 2 and Computational Complexity
Location: Amphi G
14:00
Deciding Predicate Logical Theories of Real-Valued Functions (abstract)
14:25
Checking Presence Reachability Properties on Parameterized Shared-Memory Systems (abstract)
14:50
Query Complexity of Search Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yogesh Dahiya
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 16A: Circuit Complexity
Location: Amphi F
15:45
Lower bounds for Choiceless Polynomial Time via Symmetric XOR-circuits (abstract)
16:10
Depth-3 Circuits for Inner Product (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ziyi Guan
16:35
Exponential Lower Bounds for Threshold Circuits of Sub-Linear Depth and Energy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kei Uchizawa
15:45-17:00 Session 16B: Games 2
Location: Amphi G
15:45
Entropic Risk for Turn-Based Stochastic Games (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jakob Piribauer
16:10
Parameterized Analysis of the Cops and Robber Game (abstract)
16:35
Approximating the Value of Energy-Parity Objectives in Simple Stochastic Games (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mohan Dantam
Friday, September 1st

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08:30-09:00Coffee Break
09:00-10:00 Session 17

Invited Talk

Location: Amphi F
09:00
Modern Parallel Algorithms (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 18A: Automata and Formal Languages 2
Location: Amphi F
10:30
String Diagrammatic Trace Theory (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matthew Earnshaw
10:55
Decomposing Finite Languages (abstract)
11:20
Probabilistic Input-driven Pushdown Automata (abstract)
11:45
Universality and Forall-Exactness of Cost Register Automata with Few Registers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laure Daviaud
10:30-12:10 Session 18B: Graphs 2
Location: Amphi G
10:30
Spartan Bipartite Graphs are Essentially Elementary (abstract)
PRESENTER: Saraswati Nanoti
10:55
Recognizing H-graphs – beyond circular-arc graphs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tim Hartmann
11:20
Modification Problems toward Proper (Helly) Circular-arc Graphs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hanchun Yuan
11:45
A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for MCS Partial Search Order on Chordal Graphs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yongjie Yang
12:10-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:40 Session 19A: Parametrized Complexity
Location: Amphi F
14:00
Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Fair Hitting Set Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Madhumita Kundu
14:25
On the Parameterized Complexity of Computing st-Orientations with Few Transitive Edges (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giacomo Ortali
14:50
Parameterized Complexity of Domination Problems Using Restricted Modular Partitions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Weidong Luo
15:15
Parameterized Approximation Scheme for Feedback Vertex Set (abstract)
PRESENTER: Satyabrata Jana
14:00-15:40 Session 19B: Logic in Computer Science 2
Chair:
Location: Amphi G
14:00
Set Semantics for Asynchronous TeamLTL: Expressivity and Complexity (abstract)
PRESENTER: Max Sandström
14:25
A super-polynomial separation between resolution and cut-free sequent calculus (abstract)
14:50
Ordinal measures of the set of finite multisets (abstract)
15:15
The Compositional Structure of Bayesian Inference (abstract)