How Europe’s Farm Subsidy Scheme Fails Workers As lawmakers concentrate on meat bans, the CAP continues to bankroll exploitation in the fields

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.

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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?

The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited
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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 !

GandALF 2025 Sixteenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification 16-17 September 2025, Valletta, Malta

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!

Path to a Livable Planet The World Bank makes a case for putting nature at the heart of economies

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 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...

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!

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

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!

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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...

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly A quartet of food reports highlight where we are

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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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...

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!

Stars, Stripes, & Supply Chains America imports more of its food than we think

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.

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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.

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!

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
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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/...

Dept. of Computer Science PhD thesis defence - Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir | Háskólinn í Reykjavík Join us for a PhD thesis defence of Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir on her thesis: Living with Technology: Digital Mental Health & Patient Flourishing.

Tomorrow, Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir will defend her PhD thesis "Living with Technology: Digital Mental Health & Patient Flourishing" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University. See www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more details.

Our colleague María Óskarsdóttir at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University will publish a book with and her collaborators Cristian Bravo and Sebastian Maldonado!
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Tomorrow, 23 May, at 13:00 GMT, Stian Lybech will defend his PhD thesis at the Department of Computer Science Reykjavik University. Stian's thesis is entitled "A Type Theoretic Approach to Smart Contract Safety". See
www.ru.is/vidburdir/de... for more information.

The deadline to submit papers to GandALF 2025, which will be held in Malta on 16-17 September 2025 is on May 30. See
gandalfsymposium.github.io/2025/cfp/ for information on how to submit.

Faustian Bargains? When we prioritise profit over principles in the global food system

We are used to trade-offs in our daily lives. Every day, we take calculated risks & give up something in exchange for another. But what happens when we prioritise profit over principles, or political expediency over a sustainable future, in the global food system?

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Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Our colleagues at TU Wien will host the first Summer School on AI and Cybersecurity in the period 22-26 September 2025. See aisec-summerschool.cysec.wien for more information on this exciting, week-long event.

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The Silver Of The Sea About an Icelandic museum dedicated to herring

This week, I spent most of my waking hours in a cavernous conference room in Geneva, concentrating on reading the lines between the diplomatic language and protocols, talking to as many people as possible, and wondering at the wilful blindness of some folks.

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PhD Position in Probabilistic Session Types at the IT University of Copenhagen The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for a PhD position in the PROBABILIST project (PROBABILIstic Session Types), funded by the Indepe

Marco Carbone has a PhD position at the IT University Copenhagen in the PROBABILIST project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-FNU) starting in August or soon thereafter.

See the link below for details:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Dept. of Computer Science PhD thesis defence - Bjarki Freyr Sveinbjarnarson | Háskólinn í Reykjavík Join us for a PhD thesis defence of Bjarki Freyr Sveinbjarnarson on his thesis: Scaling Data Governance Through Automation and Dynamic Data Spaces.

Tomorrow, 2 May, at 1 PM, Bjarki Freyr Sveinbjarnarson will defend his PhD thesis entitled "Scaling Data Governance Through Automation and Dynamic Data Spaces" at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University.
Good luck to Bjarki Freyr!

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