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. Assessing uncertainties in x-ray single-particle three-dimensional reconstruction. Jing Liu, Stefan Engblom, and Carl Nettelblad. In Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, volume 98, pp 013303:1-12, 2018.
2. Fine-grained local dynamic load balancing in PDES. Jonatan Lindén, Pavol Bauer, Stefan Engblom, and Bengt Jonsson. In Proc. 6th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, pp 201-212, ACM Press, New York, 2018.
3. Towards Bayesian parametrization of national scale epidemics. Robin Eriksson, Stefan Engblom, and Stefan Widgren. In MATHMOD 2018 Extended Abstracts, pp 65-66, ARGESIM Publisher, Vienna, Austria, 2018.

• 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.

2018-05-30
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.