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   Headlines Upcoming Events

• 6, 8, 13 and 15 February 2012, LogiCIC and LiQuID tutorial
• (New) 15 Feburary 2012, General Mathematics Colloquium, Krzysztof Apt
• (New) 14 February 2012, Logic Tea, Christian Schaffner
• 17 February 2012, DIP Colloquium, Alex Oliver
• (New) 17 February 2012, Seminar on music cognition and computation, Makiko Sadakata
• (New) 29 February 2012, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Joost Joosten
• (New) 2 March 2012, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Ulle Endriss
• 16 March 2012, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting
• 13 April 2012, DIP Colloquium, Katja Jasinskaja
• 27 April 2012, DIP Colloquium, Edgar Onea
• 11 May 2012, DIP Colloquium, Yacin Hamami
• 18 May 2012, DIP Colloquium, Stefan Wintein
• 6-17 August 2012, 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2012), Opole, Poland
• 19-21 September 2012, SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial) -- First Call for Papers, Paris, France

   Upcoming Events

• 6, 8, 13 and 15 February 2012, LogiCIC and LiQuID tutorial
  Speaker: Roberto Giuntini (University of Cagliari)
  Title: The Logics of Quantum Computation: An Introduction
  Date and time: 6, 8, 13 and 15 February 2012, 16:00-18:00
  Location: Room varies, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  In February 2012, Roberto Guintini (University of Cagliari) will give a 4-part LogiCIC and LiQuID tutorial on The Logics of Quantum Computation: An Introduction.

  For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1344

• (New) 15 Feburary 2012, General Mathematics Colloquium, Krzysztof Apt
  Speaker: Krzysztof Apt
  Title: Choosing Products in Social Networks
  Date and time: Wednesday 15 Feburary 2012, 11.15-12.15
  Location: Room C1.112, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  The General Mathematics Colloquium homepage can be found at http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ For more information, please contact Tanja Eisner (t.eisneruva.nl), Hessel Posthuma (h.b.posthumsauva.nl) or Neil Walton (n.s.waltonuva.nl)

• (New) 14 February 2012, Logic Tea, Christian Schaffner
  Speaker: Christian Schaffner
  Title: Position-Based Cryptography
  Date and time: Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:00-18:00
  Location: Room A1.04, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  The Logic Tea homepage can be found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, please contact Umberto Grandi (u.grandiuva.nl), Tong Wang (tongwang01gmail.com) or Matthijs Westera (M.Westerauva.nl).

• 17 February 2012, DIP Colloquium, Alex Oliver
  Speaker: Alex Oliver (Cambridge)
  Title: A Theory of Plural Descriptions
  Date and time: Friday 17 February 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.

• (New) 17 February 2012, Seminar on music cognition and computation, Makiko Sadakata
  Speaker: Makiko Sadakata
  Title: Enhanced perception of various linguistic features by musicians: a cross-linguistic study.
  Date and time: Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00
  Location: Room C3.108, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  Two cross-linguistic experiments comparing musicians and non-musicians were performed in order to examine whether musicians have enhanced perception of specific acoustical features of speech in a second language (L2). These discrimination and identification experiments examined the perception of various speech features; namely, the timing and quality of Japanese consonants, and the quality of Dutch vowels. We found that musical experience was more strongly associated with discrimination performance rather than identification performance. The enhanced perception was observed not only with respect to L2, but also L1. It was most pronounced when tested with Japanese consonant timing.

  These findings suggest the following: 1) musicians exhibit enhanced early acoustical analysis of speech, 2) musical training does not equally enhance the perception of all acoustic features automatically, and 3) musicians may enjoy an advantage in the perception of acoustical features that are important in both language and music, such as pitch and timing.

  For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ahoningh/readinggroup.html

• (New) 29 February 2012, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Joost Joosten
  Speaker: Joost Joosten
  Title: Well-orders in the Japaridze Algebra
  Date and time: Wednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:00
  Location: Room A1.10, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html

• (New) 2 March 2012, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Ulle Endriss
  Speaker: Ulle Endriss
  Title: Aggregating Kripke Frames
  Date and time: Friday 2 March 2012, 16:00
  Location: Room B0.203, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/newsitem.php?id=4966 or http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss (ulle.endrissuva.nl).

• 16 March 2012, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting
  Date and time: Friday 16 March 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room C0.110, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

  The second ILLC Current Affairs Meeting will take place on Friday 16th March next, from 16:00 to 17:30 hours in room C0.110, Science Park 904. At the Current Affairs meetings, ILLC staff and PhD students are informed about matters of importance regarding day-to-day affairs at ILLC, and also about larger issues concerning the ILLC. All ILLC employees are invited to this meeting, which will be followed by drinks in the ILLC Common Room.

• 13 April 2012, DIP Colloquium, Katja Jasinskaja
  Speaker: Katja Jasinskaja (ZAS, Berlin)
  Date and time: Friday 13 April 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.

• 27 April 2012, DIP Colloquium, Edgar Onea
  Speaker: Edgar Onea (Goettingen)
  Date and time: Friday 27 April 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.

• 11 May 2012, DIP Colloquium, Yacin Hamami
  Speaker: Yacin Hamami (Brussels)
  Date and time: Friday 11 May 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.

• 18 May 2012, DIP Colloquium, Stefan Wintein
  Speaker: Stefan Wintein (Tilburg)
  Date and time: Friday 18 May 2012, 16.00-17.30
  Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

  For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.

• 6-17 August 2012, 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2012), Opole, Poland

  The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org/) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.

  For more information, see http://www.esslli2012.pl/

• 19-21 September 2012, SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial) -- First Call for Papers, Paris, France

  The SEMDIAL series of workshops brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2012 the workshop will be hosted by Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) and will include invited talks by Eve V. Clark, Gert-Jan M. Kruiff, and François Recanati. SeineDial will be immediately preceded by a workshop on Dialogue and Contextualism and will feature a special session on The Acquisition of Dialogue.

  For more information, see the SemDial page at http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ or contact raquel.fernandezuva.nl

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