is to develop the insights that enable new tools and approaches to make parallel programming easier, and to demonstrate their effectiveness through prototype implementations on real problems.

1. Verification of timed asynchronous programs. Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Shaan Vaidya. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science: FSTTCS 2018, volume 122 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pp 8:1-16, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2018.
2. C?: A New Modular Approach to Implementing Efficient and Tunable Collections. Stephan Brandauer, Elias Castegren, and Tobias Wrigstad. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2018), pp 57-71, ACM, 2018.
3. SWOOP: software-hardware co-design for non-speculative, execute-ahead, in-order cores. Kim-Anh Tran, Alexandra Jimborean, Trevor E. Carlson, Konstantinos Koukos, Magnus Själander, and Stefanos Kaxiras. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pp 328-343, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018.

• Germán Ceballos, Erik Hagersten och David Black-Schaffer received the Best Student Paper Award at the 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications in Melbourne, Australia.
• Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, Dave Clarke, Elias Castegren, and Huu-Phuc Vo have received the best paper award at COORDINATION 2018 conference for their paper "Forward to a Promising Future."
• Björn Victor, was awarded the Uppsala University Pedagogical Award for 2018 in the area of mathematics, natural sciences, and technology.
• Stefanos Kaxiras, has been inducted in the ISCA Hall of Fame.
• The paper Optimal Dynamic Partial Order Reduction with Observers won one of the TACAS'18 distinguished artifact awards at ETAPS 2018 in April 2018.

2018-12-04
Germán Ceballos: Understanding Task Parallelism: Providing insight into scheduling, memory, and performance for CPUs and Graphics. Ph.D. thesis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1737. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018.

2018-09-14
Kjell Winblad: Dynamic Adaptations of Synchronization Granularity in Concurrent Data Structures. Ph.D. thesis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1684. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018.

2018-05-30
Yunyun Zhu: Caches, Transactions and Memories: Models, Coherence and Consistency. Ph.D. thesis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 nr 1665. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018.

2018-04-10
Jonatan Lindén: Synchronization Techniques in Parallel Discrete Event Simulation. Ph.D. thesis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 nr 1634. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018.

2018-03-02
Afshin Zafari: Advances in Task-Based Parallel Programming for Distributed Memory Architectures
Opponent: Doctor George Bosilca,University of Tennessee.

2018-02-09
Elias Castegren: Capability-Based Type Systems for Concurrency Control
Opponent: Professor Alan Mycroft, Cambridge University.

2018-02-02
Stavros Aronis: Effective Techniques for Stateless Model Checking
Opponent: Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research.

2018-01-17
Static Instruction Scheduling for High Performance on Energy-Efficient Processors. Kim-Anh Tran. Licentiate thesis.

2018-01-12
Othmane Rezine: Verification of networks of communicating processes: Reachability problems and decidability issues
Opponent: Professor Doctor Barbara König, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Past, Present and Future of Parallel Programming