NWO organises an information meeting on Friday afternoon 2 June for researchers who want to apply for a Rubicon, Veni, Vidi or Vici. Besides information on the Talent Scheme, we will share information on various aspects of the rounds, from recognition and rewarding to persuasive writing. There will also be an opportunity to meet NWO staff members involved in the NWO Talent Scheme.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

On Monday 22 May the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation will host a workshop on Causation and Modality in Logic and Language. The workshop will be hybrid. Everyone who is interested in causation in philosophy, linguistics and/or logic is very welcome to attend.

The speakers are Sander Beckers (Amsterdam), Ivano Ciardelli (Padua), Bridget Copley (Paris 8), Angelica Hill (UMass Amherst), Thomas Icard (Stanford), Mingya Liu (Humboldt), Dean McHugh (Amsterdam), and Prerna Nadathur (Ohio).

The workshop is followed by the PhD Defense of Dean McHugh on Tuesday 23 May.

The European Digital DemocracY network (EDDY) is having its second online meetup on Wednesday, May 17th at 15h00 (Berlin) on the theme of Digital Divides, featuring Eva de Valk (Dutch Policy Officer for Digital Inclusion) and Jan van Dijk (University of Twente).

As they become increasingly integrated into our lives, autonomous systems are used to execute more and more tasks that have both normative and epistemic relevance. This has led to a growing literature in machine ethics aiming at addressing the question of how to build autonomous systems that can, first, acquire and properly reason about normative and observational information, and, second, use this information to interact with other agents and the environment in a way that is responsible and, at the same time, explainable.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together philosophers, logicians, and computer scientists in order to explore these topics from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Abstract:
Corruption in auctions, where an auctioneer engages in bid rigging with one (or several) of the bidders, occurs rather frequently in practice, especially in the public sector (e.g., in construction and procurement auctions). We study the social welfare loss caused by corrupt auctioneers, both in single-item and multi-unit auctions.

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg launched a lecture series in 2013 to celebrate the singular achievements of Pelle Lindström, former professor of logic at the department.
Annually, a distinguished logician is invited to deliver a general lecture to the public, and a specialized presentation at the logic seminar.

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg launched a lecture series in 2013 to celebrate the singular achievements of Pelle Lindström, former professor of logic at the department.

Annually, a distinguished logician is invited to deliver a general lecture to the public, and a specialized presentation at the logic seminar.

This is a hybrid talk. Contact the organizer for a link.

On May 11 and 12 we will have an informal workshop devoted to weak type theories. Speakers include: Rafael Bocquet, Matteo Spadetto, Sam Speight and Theo Winterhalter.

On Wednesday 26 April, Assia Mahboubi will give her inaugural lecture, preceded by a mini symposium. Everything takes place in the main building ("hoofdgebouw") of VU Amsterdam.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

This is a hybrid talk, you can contact the organizer for a link to the online meeting.

The UvA campuses Amsterdam Science Park, Roeterseiland and Universiteitskwartier will offer researchers the opportunity to look into each other's (research) kitchens, to encourage the use of each other's facilities. During the first Amsterdam Research Facility Visit on 6 April, researchers in the social sciences and humanities are welcome to visit the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) at the Amsterdam Science Park.

How does a researcher investigate Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT)? And why is it important to do this? If you want to know the answers to these questions, come visit SignLab’s open house on Monday, April 3rd, 2023! Both deaf and hearing researchers from SignLab Amsterdam, Hogeschool Utrecht and the Dutch Sign Centre (Nederlands Gebarencentrum) will present about what they have been working on and what they have found. All presentations are about research on NGT. Topics that will be covered include plurals in NGT, different ways to ask a question in NGT, the development of sign language avatars, and different sentence types in NGT. All presentations will be given in NGT, and there will be interpreters present. You’re welcome to drink a cup of coffee or tea from 16:30, the presentations will start at 17:00.

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, and many predict that it and similar ‘large language models’ will have a major impact on education, learning, science and publishing. The ILLC – home to Amsterdam’s largest research group studying language models – invites lecturers, students, and collaborators to a morning on ChatGPT & the university.

How does it work? What can it do, and what can it not do? What are some of the ethical and legal dilemma’s when using this technology? We’ll have some short talks and demonstrations, and plenty of time to answer your questions. With: Prof Raquel Fernández (dialogue systems), Dr Jelle Zuidema (explainable AI), Dr Jelke Bloem (digital humanities), Dr. Sandro Pezzelle (responsible AI), and others.

We invite everyone working in the area of social choice to join us on 27-28 March 2023 in Amsterdam for the 1st Amsterdam/Saint-Etienne Workshop on Social Choice.

Local colleagues and students are very welcome to attend but are asked to register by the deadline indicated.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

This is a hybrid event, please contact the organizer for a link to the online meeting.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

In this talk we will explore the basic ideas of category theory as an alternative framework for mathematical thought. We will use CT to help us reframe familiar ideas, and explore some new ones. If you've ever heard one of your peers look at some daunting new concept and say "Oh! This is just..." and say a word you swore you knew the meaning of, but apparently don't, this talk is for you. My goal is not to teach you category theory: there are professionals to do that. My goal is to help you understand what it is, and why it seems to capture the obsession of everyone who studies it.

Abstract:
Planning models are usually defined in lifted, i.e., first order formalisms, while most solvers need (variable-free) grounded representations. Though techniques for grounding prune unnecessary parts of the model, grounding might – nevertheless – be prohibitively expensive in terms of runtime. To overcome this issue, there has been renewed interest in solving planning problems based on the lifted representation in the last years.

While these approaches are based on (heuristic) search, we present an encoding of lifted classical planning in propositional logic and use SAT solvers to solve it. Evaluating this approach shows that it is competitive with the heuristic search-based approaches in satisficing planning and even outperforms them if we are looking for (length-)optimal solutions.

Abstract: Bilateral State-based Modal Logic (BSML) is a modal logic employing team/state-based semantics which can be used to model free choice inference and other natural language phenomena. We introduce a natural deduction system for BSML as well as for two extensions: BSML with the inquisitive disjunction and BSML with a novel emptiness operator. We also study the expressive power of these logics—we show that the two extensions are expressively complete.

On Tuesday the deans of the Faculties of Science and Humanities will visit the ILLC and a programme was sent around earlier this week. Because of this event we decided to not also organise a Current Affairs Meeting that week.

This is a hybrid talk, please contact the organizer if you are interested in joining the online meeting.

On the 14th of February the boards of the faculties of FNWI and FGw will visit the ILLC.

There are two prominent accounts of counterfactuals in the literature---variably strict conditional accounts first developed by Stalnaker and Lewis, and strict conditional accounts defended by von Fintel, Hájek, and others. Unfortunately, both accounts face serious challenges. In the first half of this paper, I argue that existing strict conditional accounts fail to accommodate our probabilistic judgments about counterfactuals. The same goes for several other semantic theories of counterfactuals.

Having presented these challenges, I introduce and defend my own positive account of counterfactuals. The account incorporates a key insight of variably strict accounts--namely, that the antecedent of a counterfactual often influences what worlds are relevant to its truth conditions at a context. But unlike variably strict accounts, my view preserves a strict conditional semantics according to which Antecedent Strengthening is valid, thereby capturing the data that have motivated other strict conditional theorists. By adopting the right account of the pragmatics of counterfactuals, we can endorse a strict conditional semantics and still straightforwardly capture the full range of our intuitive judgments, including probabilistic judgments about counterfactuals.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

This is a hybrid seminar, please contact the organizer if you would like to lister to the seminar online.

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, and many predict that it and similar ‘large language models’ will have a major impact on education, learning, science and publishing. The ILLC – home to Amsterdam’s largest research group studying language models – invites lecturers, students and collaborators to an afternoon on ChatGPT & the university.

How does it work? What can it do, and what can it not do? What are some of the ehtical and legal dilemma’s when using this technology? We’ll have some short talks and demonstrations, and plenty of time to answer your questions.With: Prof Raquel Fernández (dialogue systems), Prof Robert van Rooij (semantics), Dr Jelle Zuidema (explainable AI), Dr Jelke Bloem (digital humanities), Dr. Sandro Pezelle (responsible AI), Ece Takmaz (vision-language models), Mario Guilianelli (language generation), and others.

Reasoning about causal relationships is an important theme throughout science. The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded last year to Guido Imbens and Joshua Angrist, for their role in the development of methods to investigate how researchers understand and analyze causal relationships. This webinar, which the Academy organizes together with the Association for Logic (VvL), brings together various experts in the field of reasoning about causality from different disciplines.

Speakers: Guido Imbens, Sara Magliacane, Thomas Icard and Katrin Schulz. The evening will be chaired by Rineke Verbrugge, professor of logic and cognition at the University of Groningen, and Balder ten Cate, associate professor of logic and theoretical computer science at the University of Amsterdam. The language will be English.

This session of the DSCC is organised jointly with the ENCODE project. Speakers will include Richard Pettigrew (Bristol), Marcus Pivato (Cergy) and Peter Wakker (Rotterdam).

At this year’s Dies Natalis of the University of Amsterdam, Professor dr. Vikram Patel (Harvard University) and Prof. dr. Chris Manning (Stanford University) will be awarded Honorary Doctorates. During this symposium, a panel of expert speakers will join our honorees to discuss pertinent topics within the fields of mental health and the use of artificial intelligence on a global scale.

A small-scall satelite event of this year's Dies Natalis "Societal Challenges, Global Mental Health and Humane AI".

The International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI) conference series aims at bringing together researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related topics that concern the understanding of rationality and interaction. The series aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavour, and supports the creation of an East-Asian community of interdisciplinary researchers.

PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. This edition of the congress will take place from 4 to 6 October at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Granada (IMAG).

The Fourteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation will be held 18-22 September 2023 in Telavi, located in the Kakheti region, Georgia, north-east of Tbilisi. The Symposium is organised by the TSU Razmadze Mathematical Institute, the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam.

The programme will include the following tutorials and a series of invited lecturers:
Tutorial speakers:
  - Language: Peter Sutton (UPF, Barcelona)
  - Logic & Computation: Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool)
Invited speakers:
  - Language: Heather Burnett (CNRS-LLF, Paris), Stephanie Solt (ZAS, Berlin)
  - Logic & Computation: Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam), one more speaker to be confirmed
There will be two workshops embedded in the conference programme:
 - "The Semantics of Hidden Meanings"
 - "Learning and Logic"

The 7th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2023) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning.

The RuleML+RR 2023 conference is part of the event “Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations” and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2023 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. It features the RuleChallenge and a Doctoral Consortium as associated events.

Building on the ideas of Floyd-Hoare logic, dynamic logic was introduced in the 70's as a formal tool for reasoning about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Over time, its aim has evolved and expanded; DL can be seen now as a general set of ideas and tools devised for representing, describing and reasoning about diverse kind of actions. The aim of the DaLí 2023 workshop is to bring together, in a single place, researchers with a shared interest in the formal study of actions (from Academia to Industry and more, from Mathematics to Computer Science and beyond) to present their work, foster discussions and encourage collaborations.

In 2023, DaLí will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, immediately after the Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees conference 2023 (https://sites.google.com/view/latd-2023/), and immediately before the 14th TbiLLC 2023 symposium (https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2023/).

The assumption that “truth comes in degrees” has proved to be very useful in many theoretical and applied areas of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.
The Logic Algebra and Truth Degrees (LATD) conference series started as an official meeting of the working group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic (the subdiscipline of mathematical logic dealing with graded truth) and evolved into a wider meeting in algebraic logic and related areas. Its main goal is to foster collaboration between researchers in these areas, and to promote communication and cooperation with members of neighbouring fields.

LATD 2023 will take place in Tbilisi (Georgia) from 11 to 15 of September. It will be co-located with the Seventeenth International Tbilisi Summer School in Logic and Language (TBILISI 2023), 6-9 September. Moreover, after LATD, 18-22 September, there will be the Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation in nearby Telavi (Khacheti).

The special focus of PROGIC2023 is Knowledge representation and reasoning. Classically, logic and probability offer competing representations of partial or incomplete information, with the former assuming a qualitative perspective on uncertainty and the latter focusing on a quantitative account. Both provide their own policies for updating on new information, combining evidence from different sources, and acting under partial information.

Invited Speakers: Didier Dubois (IRIT, France), Joe Halpern (Cornell University), Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam) and Jon Williamson (University of Kent).

The European Society for Analytic Philosophy organizes a major congress every three years. The goal of this congress is to bring together analytic philosophers from Europe and all over the world to discuss their work and to exchange ideas. The 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP11) will take place from 21-25 Aug 2023 in Vienna and is being organized jointly by the Central European University and the University of Vienna.  The current president of the ESAP is Prof. Katalin Farkas (CEU).

The workshop will comprise five 90-min sessions, one per day, with invited and contributed talks. It is intended to bring together active researchers in the areas of first-order modal and temporal logics and graduate students interested in these areas, to discuss the state of the art and the most important directions and perspectives for future developments in the areas.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following for first-order modal and temporal logics:- languages, models, and semantics;- proof theory, deductive systems, and completeness/incompleteness results;- decidability, undecidability, complexity;- problems and applications in philosophy, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence.

Substructural logics have brought to the fore new forms of reasoning and provided applications for a variety of disciplines. Modalities, in the substructural setting, provide the tools to control and finetune the logical resource management.The focus of this workshop is on applications in the areas of interest to the ESSLLI community, in particular logical approaches to natural language syntax and semantics and the dynamics of reasoning.

The workshop is held with the support of the Horizon 2020 MSCA-Rise project MOSAIC.

By calling into question the implicit structural rules that are taken for granted in classical logic, substructural logics have brought to the fore new forms of reasoning with applications in many interdisciplinary areas of interest. Modalities, in the substructural setting, provide the tools to control and finetune the logical resource management.

The focus of the workshop is on applications in the areas of interest to the ESSLLI community, in particular logical approaches to natural language syntax and semantics and the dynamics of reasoning. The workshop welcomes contributions on topics including, but not limited to,

Modalities in extended typelogical grammarsRefinements of the linear exponential: prooftheoretic and semantic aspectsModalities and the dynamics of NL interpretation: ellipsis, gapping, pronoun resolutionSubstructural Dynamic Epistemic Logic, Intuitionistic Public Announcement logicEpistemic substructural logics, e.g. Epistemic Separation LogicIntuitionistic Modal LogicsQuantum Dynamic Logic

Procedural and computational modeling frameworks have been applied successfully to various aspects of semantic and pragmatic processes, yielding not only a good fit to empirical data but also insights of theoretical relevance. On the one hand, computational (e.g., Bayesian or information theoretic) models rationalize speaker behavior and explain how a listener can use given information efficiently to infer the intended meaning from an utterance. However, these models often leave the stepwise processing of linguistic information unspecified. On the other hand, procedural (e.g., automata or ACT-R) models explain step-by-step cognitive processes behind meaning-related computations, e.g., the process of building sentence representations. However, they often lack the means to combine different information types in an interactive fashion. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers applying these two modeling methodologies to discuss their strengths and weaknesses and work towards an integrated approach.

Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, where the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both introductory and advanced levels, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world.

The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis in human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures.

Registration is now open. Early bird registration deadline: June 14th (extended).

Sander Beckers (ILLC, Amsterdam) and Naftali Weinberger (MCMP/LMU Munich) are organising an interdisciplinary workshop on all topics that relate causal models, and causality more broadly, to ethical and/or societal issues. This workshop will bring together participants from a range of academic fields in order to present and discuss the most recent developments on employing formal causal reasoning in ethics and in social contexts.

Women in Logic 2023 is a satellite event of the 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023) to be held in Rome, Italy, from July 1 to July 6, 2023.

The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community.

The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. Previous conferences have been held bi-annually around the world. The information of all previous TARK conferences can be accessed at http://www.tark.org

Topics of interest:
These include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, awareness and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic reasoning, epistemic logic, epistemic game theory, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, belief revision, computational social choice, algorithmic game theory, and foundations of multi-agent systems.

[LICS Affiliated Workshop] Nearly a century has now passed since D. Hilbert and W. Ackermann asked if there an algorithm which, when given a formula of first-order logic, determines whether that formula is satisfiable. The negative answer provided by A. Church and A. Turing only a decade later transformed this question into a classification programme: for which fragments of first-order logic, we ask, is the problem of determining the satisfiability of a given formula decidable? Can we chart, in the words of W.V.O. Quine, the limits of decision in first-order logic? Indeed, logicians now typically set themselves a more ambitious goal: given a fragment of first order logic, if its satisfiability (and/or its finite satisfiability problem) is decidable, what is its computational complexity?

From early work on quantifier-prefix fragments, the study of the satisfiability problem (and finite satisfiability problem) for fragments of first-order logic, and indeed of its non-first-order extensions,has now become a central topic in Computational Logic. The aim of the workshop, affiliated with LICS 2023, is to highlight recent developments in this area, with particular emphasis on those fragments which have been the focus of recent interest. These include, for example: Modal and description logics; Logics for ontology-based data access; The negation-guarded fragment; The fluted fragment; Separation logics; Logics of dependence and independence; Combinations of existing fragments.

The Dutch Logic PhD Day 2023 is a VvL event that brings together PhD students in Logic and related areas (Philosophy, Computer Science and AI) with the aim of fostering exchanges of ideas and collaborations between young researchers from all over the Netherlands.

The event is planned as a full-day event, during which PhDs students will have the possibility to present their research in the form of contributed talks.

In higher education, curricula and courses are often not cast in stone. They need adaptations regularly, for instance because another course in the curriculum changes. In secondary education, changes are less common. However, in the Netherlands, a curriculum reform is planned to be implemented in the next years, also concerning foreign languages. A question that arises in this context is how reforms are best effectuated, and how courses in existing curricula can be changed?

On June 23^rd, 2023, LLRC will organize a one-day conference on precisely this topic. We are very happy to announce that Dr. Marjon Tammenga-Helmantel (SLO) has agreed to give the keynote lecture. She is a specialist in foreign language teaching and currently involved in facilitating the process of curriculum reform in secondary education. Her keynote will start the day with a brief overview about curriculum development at national, school and classroom levels. Concrete tools to facilitate curriculum changes or adaptations in foreign language education will be discussed.

The Institute of Philosophy of the The Czech Academy of Sciences announces 'LOGICA 2023', the 36th in the series of annual international symposia devoted to logic, to be held in Tepla Monastery, Czech Republic, on Sunday 18 June -- Thursday 22 June 2023. Invited speakers: David Corfield (University of Kent), Wesley Holliday (UC Berkeley), Gillian Russell (Australian Catholic University), Sara Uckelman (Durham University)

Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach.

The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages.

The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation - deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media.

The 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Complexity is planned to take place from 13 June to 16 June 2023 in Batumi, Georgia. It will follow the recent, very successful editions of CIAC 2021 in Larnaca, Cyprus, CIAC 2019 in Rome, Italy, CIAC 2017 in Athens, Greece, CIAC 2015 in Paris, France and CIAC 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

Invited speakers (confirmed): Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (University of Paderborn, Germany), Giuseppe Persiano (University of Salerno, Italy), and Paul Spirakis (University of Liverpool, UK and CTI, Greece).

The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is an annual forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. The focus of this symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.

ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:

• ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
• FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
• FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
• TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

accompanied by satellite workshops.

ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:

•  The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
• TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
• ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
• Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
• A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
• There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.

ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.

The Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) in collaboration with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences (IRFS) in Iran is organizing an international conference on the history of logic in the Islamic world. The event will be held in a hybrid format where, depending on their choice, some speakers will talk virtually and others will attend in person at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) in Tehran.

Conference Scope:
 A. Pre-Avicennan Logic
 B. Avicenna’s Logic
 C. Post-Avicennan Logic
 D. Comparative logic

We invite submissions for a Special Issue on Logics for the new AI Spring, to be published with the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.

The development of logics capable of representing human-like reasoning has always been one of the central objectives of logic-based Artificial Intelligence. In addition to providing very successful tools for knowledge representation and reasoning, logic-based AI is now facing the new and pressing challenge related to the integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI. In pursuing it, logic can once again shape significantly the future developments of AI. The primary goal of this special issue is to gather cutting-edge contributions which will jointly provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art in the subject.

To achieve this, the scope of the special issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics: (1) Logical methods in symbolic AI; (2) Logical methods in machine learning; (3) Machine learning in a logical setting; (4) Reasoning and (interactive) decision making under uncertainty.

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'23 will be held on February 13 - 16, 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, with satellite workshops on February 17. It is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presence for those participants who are unable to come for pandemic reasons. Keynote speakers: Claudia Faggian (Université de Paris, France), Nina Gierasimczuk (Danish Technical University, Denmark), Dale Miller (Inria Saclay, France), Michał Pilipczuk Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy).

The British Postgraduate Model Theory Conference (BPGMTC) 2023 is a Model Theory conference organised entirely by PhD students running from 18 to 20 January 2023. The conference is open to PhD students and early career researchers, one of its main goals being to bring together young researchers interested in model theory from the UK and abroad. The BPGMTC has been a longstanding tradition in the UK, this year the University of Leeds is proud to be holding the thirteenth edition of BPGMTC!

We will also have approximately 12 contributed talks by PhD students and early career researchers. In addition, we have three invited talks and an invited mini-course given by established model theorists. Registration closes on the 1st of December, but we encourage people to register as soon as possible.

Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their work. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education.

CPP 2023 will be co-located with POPL 2023. The CPP 2023 organizers will strive to enable both in-person and remote participation, in cooperation with the POPL 2023 organizers.

After having been postponed due to the COVID pandemics,the “Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Contemporary Logic, Rationality and Information – SPLogiC”,promoted by the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE) of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, will be held at Unicamp from February 6th to 17th, 2023.

The School, funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), celebrates the 90th anniversary of Newton da Costa and the 45 years of CLE, and aims at (1) Providing an overview of the state-of-art methodology and research on contemporary logic (featuring non-classical logics), rationality. and information, and (2) attracting qualified candidates to work at research institutions in the State of São Paulo. The program comprises 8 courses and 9 plenary talks delivered in English by experts in each topic, as well as oral presentations (LED Talks) and poster sessions by the students.

The event will select 100 fully-funded participants (50 grantees from all states of Brazil and 50 international grantees). Funding includes airfare, medical insurance, accommodation and meals throughout the two weeks. Undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (up to 5 years after completion of the Ph.D) from all countries are encouraged to apply. Deadline for applications: 30 october 2022.

Featuring renowned international keynote speakers, the conference will highlight the importance of the theme of responsible AI by approaching it from different perspectives (AI, data science, governance). Registration is open now and will remain open until 18 January.

UNESCO proclaimed 14 January to be World Logic Day, a global day of supporting the development of logic through teaching and research, as well as to public dissemination of the discipline.

The coordination of World Logic Day 2023 is -- for the third time -- in the hands of the Conseil International de Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH) and its member organization, the DLMPST/IUHPST. We would like to encourage logicians all around the world to organize (possibly small) events in close proximity to 14 January 2023 to celebrate this day. Events will be listed on the CIPSH website.

The Covid pandemic still has an effect on international travel and the question whether in person meetings are appropriate; in addition, we have learned over the last years that online meetings are easier to finance, better for the environment, and considerably more inclusive. As a consequence, we should like to ask all organisers to weigh pros and cons of planning in person events, purely online events, or hybrid events before making an announcement. Note that online and hybrid events have the advantage of allowing easy access of people from around the world.

This thesis aims to answer two questions about causal claims (such as sentences containing cause or because). Firstly, the modelling question: what kind of information do we use when we judge that a causal claim holds? Secondly, the meaning question: under what conditions do we judge that a causal claim is true?

Samira's dissertation studies LSTMs, Transformers and other deep language models, inductive biases that facilitate learning, and connections with the cognitive (neuro)science of language.

Sanne Vergouwen has been awarded the prestigious Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize for her MSc thesis on Emergent Solitons and the Philosophy of Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory.

The Innovation Award is the Amsterdam competition for research based innovative ideas that contribute to a better world. It is open to ideas to all research disciplines and domains, no matter at what stage your idea is in. The innovation award will give you a kick-start in turning your idea into reality. Submit your idea and compete to win € 10,000!

The NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has three different funding programmes in the Open Competition. There are small-scale grants, large-scale grants, and grants for ideas that hold great promise. The SSH-XS grants are available for projects with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, fundamental research in the research fields covered by the NWO SSH. This Call for proposals has four rounds. This information concerns the fourth round.

The Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences (VvL) is happy to announce the VvL Master's Thesis Award 2023.

Any Master's thesis from the calendar year 2022 with a topic in logic or in philosophy of the exact sciences written as part of a Master's program at a Dutch university is eligible to be nominated for the Award. A thesis is eligible if the corresponding Master's graduation date lies between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. A thesis must be nominated by the supervisor(s). Submissions will be selected for the prize by the VvL Master’s thesis award committee based on their academic qualities. More than one prize may be awarded per edition.

We are looking forward to receiving many high-quality submissions on a broad range of topics within logic and philosophy of the exact sciences!

International research experience is often essential for building up one’s scientific career. Rubicon offers talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a research institution outside the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as international research experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant’s academic career.

The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMV) announces that, with effect from 2023, the Dr Elizabeth Schram-Mulley (ESM) Foundation will annually award a prize of €10,000 to reward research of a particularly interdisciplinary nature that bridges the boundaries between the classical alpha/science/grammar science fields

The Accelerate programme stimulates the hiring of data scientists and data engineers within faculties through the provision of matching funding. This funding helps support the costs of hiring a new or existing staff member in these roles.

The NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has three different funding programmes in the Open Competition. There are small-scale grants, large-scale grants, and grants for ideas that hold great promise. The SSH-XS grants are available for projects with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, fundamental research in the research fields covered by the NWO SSH. This Call for proposals has four rounds. This information concerns the third round.

Take-off, the funding instrument available to all scientific fields, encourages activity and entrepreneurship within the Dutch knowledge institutions. With this instrument, academic entrepreneurs – but also starters from universities of applied sciences (HBO) and starters who are making use of knowledge from institutions for Applied Research Organisations (TO2) – can bring their innovative research results to the market. Take-off is one of the instruments for knowledge utilisation which NWO implements together with ZonMw (The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development).

Founders of a start-up company that have taken over or owned by Dutch
universities, recognized by NWO research institutes, recognized TO2 institutions and
Dutch universities of applied sciences, can take out a loan applications for a maximum of 250,000 euros. This can be done via Take-off phase 2, a program aimed at
stimulating and supporting activity and entrepreneurship from (applied) science.

Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it.

The S. Barry Cooper Prize is awarded to a researcher who has contributed to a broad understanding and foundational study of computability by outstanding results, by seminal and lasting theory building, by exceptional service to the research communities involved, or by a combination of these. This award is presented every two to three years, with the presentation taking place at the International Conference Computability in Europe (CiE). The Prize is named in honor of S. Barry Cooper, the founding President of the Association Computability, in recognition of his vision of the fundamental concept of computability that brought together several different research communities.

Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community and any such member can be nominated. Nomination letters can have multiple signatories and should provide a motivation for awarding the prize to the nominee, precisely stating their outstanding results, their seminal and lasting theory building, and/or their exceptional service to the research communities involved.

The FGw Consortium Fund supports research events aimed at network/consortium building and activities benefitting the submission of a grant application for research consortia.

The Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations is an international research prize launched on the occasion of Professor Dov Gabbay's 77th birthday. This initiative is meant to honour the extraordinary and multi-faceted scientific and editorial work of Dov Gabbay, known in particular for his creation of dozens of specialized Logic Handbooks.

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the degree of reproducibility (where this applies). The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet.

Eligible for the award is any PhD student whose doctoral dissertation is in the scope of the ETAPS conferences and who completed their doctoral degree at a European academic institution in the period from January 1st, 2022 to December 31st, 2022. Award candidates should be nominated by their supervisor.

The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend. The Helmut Veith Stipend is awarded annually to exceptionally talented and motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master's programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English and have (or have the interest to develop) a solid mathematical and technical background in at least one of the areas in which Austrian scientist Helmut Veith worked.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) currently has a vacant Postdoc researcher position as part of the Nothing is Logical (Nihil) project, led by dr. M.D. Aloni. The ILLC is a research institute at the UvA in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate.

Are you looking for a challenging position in an interdisciplinary environment? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) currently has a vacant 4-year PhD position in Philosophical Logic / Philosophy of Logic as part of the ERC funded project “Generalisation into sentence and predicate positions”, led by Dr. Thomas Schindler. The ILLC is a research institute at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate.

We have a PhD position in ILLC on combining formal reasoning and machine learning for Explainable AI in Fraud detection, supervised by Erman Acar (Official title:  "Knowledge-Driven Learning for XAI in Fraud Detection”). More specifically, the goal is to develop a novel neuro-symbolic framework that mainly combines the strengths of both the data-driven approaches (which comes with adaptability, autonomy, and good qualitative performance) and the knowledge-driven approaches (which comes with interpretability, maintainability, and well-understood computational characteristics) to provide explanations for experts in terms of relevant features and the structures in-between.

There is ILLC PhD position on natural language processing and information retrieval applied to legal and financial textual documents. In the Artificial Intelligence for Due-diligence Analysis (AIDA) project, we aim to develop IR and NLP technology for e-discovery and due diligence analysis, and to support legal professionals searching for very specific information in huge sets of disclosed documents. Any strong NLP and/or IR candidate is encouraged to apply for this PhD position!

This opening is part of the new AI for FinTech lab hiring 7 new PhD's. You may also want to look at the ILLC project on Knowledge-Driven Learning for XAI in Fraud Detection.

Do you get excited by the prospect of scientific exploration? Are you seeking a PhD position at the crossroads of Language Technology and Machine Learning? If you imagine yourself conducting cutting-edge research in AI, in an interdisciplinary and international environment, then you should apply for this position.

Are you an enthusiastic and skilled software developer with an interest in motion capture and XR technology and are you looking for an opportunity to interact with scientists to enable exciting new applications? Then you might be a great addition to our team

Het Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) zoekt een nieuwe management-/office assistent om het team van het bedrijfsbureau te versterken. Kan jij goed in teamverband werken? Hou jij van een dynamische omgeving in een uniek interfacultair, internationaal georiënteerd instituut? Binnen een interdisciplinair onderzoeksinstituut van de Faculteiten FGw en FNWI? Dan is deze positie misschien geschikt voor jou!

Are you passionate about machine learning, natural language processing, or computer vision? We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the research group led by Ivan Titov (http://ivan-titov.org/), part of the natural language processing group of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC).

Are you passionate about machine learning, natural language processing, or computer vision? We are seeking a Ph.D. candidate to join the research group led by Ivan Titov (http://ivan-titov.org/), part of the natural language processing group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC).

Are you looking for a PhD position where you can contribute to making conversational agents safer? If you are excited about doing this kind of research within a diverse team, then you may want to join us. We are looking for a PhD candidate with knowledge of Natural Language Processing to join the Dialogue Modelling Group led by Raquel Fernández at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. If you are passionate about doing research that leads to AI systems that are useful for society, we would be happy to have you on board.

Are you interested in computational argumentation and reasoning? Do you have experience with working with formal approaches to the study of argumentation and information quality?

The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) currently has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research position as part of the broader field Human(e) AI. Within this field the focus is on data and platforms for social, cultural and economic innovation. ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research setting on intellectually challenging questions? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is looking for an ambitious PhD candidate for the research unit Theoretical Computer Science (https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Organisation/Research-Units/TCS).

In the context of the sector plan for the Humanities titled ‘Tradition in transition’, the faculty currently has a vacant Assistant Professor position as part of the research theme Humane AI. Within this research theme the focus is on data and platforms for social, cultural and economic innovation.

You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, one of the five research schools of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

You will join the New Media & Digital Culture team in the Department of Media Studies. New Media & Digital Culture specialises in research strategies for developing critical media theory as well as digital research methods. Its emphasis is on internet studies.

Heb jij ervaring met het ondersteunen van het onderwijs op de universiteit? Ben jij een organisatorisch talent, een echte multitasker die tegelijkertijd het overzicht bewaart? Heb je een ondersteunende instelling en vind je het leuk om binnen de dynamiek van een interdisciplinair onderzoeksinstituut te werken? En trekt werken binnen een complexe organisatie je aan?

Het Institute for Logic, Language and Computation is op zoek naar een coördinator van haar Master en PhD Programma.

In deze veelzijdige functie coördineer je een van de meest gewaardeerde masteropleidingen van Nederland, en een van de weinige logicaopleidingen ter wereld. Voor beide programma’s heb je te maken met studenten, promovendi, docenten, begeleiders en ondersteunende staf en fungeer jij als vraagbaak voor deze medewerkers.

We are looking for a strong candidate in philosophy of logic and language with a proven track-record of expertise in formal semantics and a broad background in philosophy. A successful candidate is expected to be able to offer teaching in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and theoretical philosophy.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently become very successful and has made a huge impact in our lives. However, this success has an important downside as well: the novel machine-learning methods on which this success depends behave (for us) like a black box. The reason behind the predictions and decisions made by AI-products are rarely well-understood, not even by experts. Worse, such predictions and decisions are well-known to be biased as well. All of this leads to unwelcome consequences, typically to the disadvantage of members of underrepresented social groups. For this reason and more, we are looking for a colleague who can reflect upon these recent developments in AI and teach on its philosophical foundations.

Research on human communication has mostly focused on text and speech. In face-to-face communication, however, gestures, facial expressions, eye gaze, and body postures also play an essential role. This is especially true in sign languages, which are entirely non-vocal in nature. But in spoken languages, too, gestures and facial expressions play an important role.

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Explainable AI (XAI) with applications on financial services? Do you want to make a substantial scientific contribution to field of algorithmic fairness while being part of the University of Amsterdam’s new AI4Fintech hub?

At the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group of the Informatics Institute (IvI), and the Cognition, Language and Computation (CLC) lab of the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC),  we are interested in both advancing fundamental AI research and developing novel solutions for concrete problems from the Fintech Industry; targeting, in particular, explainability and fairness. As a part of this research, we are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate, with a strong computational background and curiosity and passion for scientific research, to be part of these groups, and to help us push the boundary of explainability and fairness in algorithmic decision making, together with the Fintech industry.

We offer a temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is March 2023. Your work should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master students.

Are you an enthusiastic and creative software developer who cares about user experience, and are you looking for an opportunity to interact directly with scientists trying to make their research accessible to the general public? Then you might be a great addition to our team!

Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research setting on intellectually challenging and societally relevant questions? The Informatics Institute is looking for an ambitious PhD candidate. Your research is part of the NWO-funded research project ‘Quantum Impact on Societal Security’.

As the potential risks and consequences of cybersecurity breaches of existing cryptography by future quantum computers would be devastating, there is an urgent need to prepare for a transition to quantum-safe cryptography (QSC). Addressing the many complexities of this transition requires a multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, financial and governmental institutions, and civil society groups. The ‘Quantum Impact on Societal Security’ (QISS) consortium will analyse the technical, ethical, legal and societal impact of this upcoming society-wide transition. QISS’s objective is to contribute to the creation of a Dutch ecosystem where quantum-safe cryptography can thrive, and mobilize this ecosystem to align technological applications with ethical, legal, and social values.

Are you working at the forefront of mathematical and computational logic and are you passionate about research and teaching in this field? Are you looking forward to take the next step in your career and are you excited about joining a renowned interdisciplinary research institute with a strong international orientation?

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is seeking to hire two new faculty members in this area. These appointments are envisaged at the assistant professor level, but, in the case of an exceptionally strong candidate, one of the appointments could be made at the associate professor level.

Are you a passionate and committed teacher and researcher in computational social science who also is well-versed in cutting-edge methods in AI? Would you like to be involved in innovative computational social science teaching and research, working with leading researchers in an interdisciplinary academic environment?

Are you looking for a challenging position in an interdisciplinary environment? The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation currently has a vacant Postdoc researcher position as part of the HORIZON – SOLARIS project, led by main researcher Dr Federica Russo. ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

Generative AI in the past decade has changed the field of artistic creativity, making us ask new questions that are relevant not only for scientific research but also for musicians and artists of all kinds. With this position, we are seeking to broaden our profile with respect to AI-assisted music generation and how AI-generated art can be positioned within the humanities and cognitive science more generally.

Wist je dat de meeste dove kinderen horende ouders hebben die nog nooit in aanraking zijn geweest met gebarentaal op het moment dat hun kind geboren wordt? Wil jij bijdragen aan het ontwerpen, ontwikkelen en testen van nieuwe technologieën om deze ouders te ondersteunen bij het leren van gebarentaal, zodat zij beter met hun kinderen kunnen communiceren?

Candidates interested in a PhD in formal and algebraic methods for concurrent, reversible computation in Augusta University (Georgia, USA), starting in January 2024 are invited to apply by June 1st, 2023. A post-doctoral position will open shortly after, but interested candidates should feel encouraged to reach out informally.

In addition to accepting applications, I will be very happy to respond to informal inquiries about any aspect of the position, from technical ones to ones about life in the US "Garden City".

The Department of Computer Science at Lund University invites applications for a PhD position in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

The PhD student will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordström, which is active at both the University of Copenhagen and Lund University on either side of the Øresund Bridge. The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

This is a four-year full-time employed position, but PhD positions usually (though not necessarily) include 20% teaching, in which case they are prolonged for one more year. The starting date is negotiable, but should ideally be during the autumn of 2023. All positions in the research group are fully funded, employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally competitive salary.

The department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) invites applications for a postdoc position (2-3 years) in Computational Linguistics focused on Logic. The postdoc will be working within The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), which is funded by a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2015-2025). CLASP is devoted to research and advanced training in the application of probabilistic modeling and machine learning methods to core issues in linguistic theory and cognition.

The focus for this position is on combining symbolic and machine learning approaches for Natural Language Inference. Specifically, we aim to investigate what kind of logic existing leading deep learning model are capable of learning, through probing for structural properties of the learned entailment relation, such as reflexivity and monotonicity; and design new kinds of deep learning models that are specifically attuned to certain logical/algebraic structures, through using compositional unitary representations.

PhD position (0.8-1.0 fte, 4-5 years) in History of 20th-Century Philosophy (of Science), ERC Project “Exiled Empiricists”, Tilburg University (the Netherlands)

Summary: In the 1930s, hundreds of European academics fled to the United States, escaping the quickly deteriorating political situation on the continent. Among them were a few dozen philosophers from a variety of schools: logical empiricists, critical theorists, and phenomenologists. Especially the first group would have a tremendous impact on American philosophy. Whereas the local intellectual climate had been dictated by American traditions like pragmatism, U.S. philosophers soon began to advance views that were heavily indebted to the empiricists. In fact, much of academic philosophy today is still shaped by the discussions and practices first instigated in this disruptive period.

Although historians have reconstructed the fate of the exiled empiricists, little attention has been paid to the American context in which their movement came to full bloom. This is surprising, since any account of the empiricists’ success requires an explanation of why the Americans were so receptive to their views. To what extent did developments in American philosophy pave the way for logical empiricism? And why was the American community more receptive to empiricism than to critical theory or phenomenology? This project shifts the perspective from the refugees to the local philosophical climate by 1) quantitatively analyzing thousands of American journal publications and 2) qualitatively examining the archives of dozens of key American philosophers and institutions.

Postdoc position (2-3 years, 0.8-1.0 fte) in Digital Humanities, ERC StG/NWO Vidi Project “Exiled Empiricists”, Tilburg University (the Netherlands)

Summary: In the 1930s, hundreds of European academics fled to the United States, escaping the quickly deteriorating political situation on the continent. Among them were a few dozen philosophers from a variety of schools: logical empiricists, critical theorists, and phenomenologists. Especially the first group would have a tremendous impact on American philosophy. Whereas the local intellectual climate had been dictated by American traditions like pragmatism, U.S. philosophers soon began to advance views that were heavily indebted to the empiricists. In fact, much of academic philosophy today is still shaped by the discussions and practices first instigated in this disruptive period.

Although historians have reconstructed the fate of the exiled empiricists, little attention has been paid to the American context in which their movement came to full bloom. This is surprising, since any account of the empiricists’ success requires an explanation of why the Americans were so receptive to their views. To what extent did developments in American philosophy pave the way for logical empiricism? And why was the American community more receptive to empiricism than to critical theory or phenomenology? This project shifts the perspective from the refugees to the local philosophical climate by 1) quantitatively analyzing thousands of American journal publications and 2) qualitatively examining the archives of dozens of key American philosophers and institutions.

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg invites applications for one PhD position in Logic. The position is open to all topics in mathematical, philosophical and computational logic within the expertise of the Logic Group.

* Duration: 4 years fully-funded

* Starting date: September 2023 or by agreement

* Deadline: 2 May 2023

The DFG-funded group "Collective Decision-Making" at the University of Hamburg has announced a call for applications for 12 PhD positions in the fields of Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

The candidates are expected to work on topics concerning collective decision-making. Possible fields of research are: game theory, social choice, decision theory, algorithms for decision-making, philosophy of AI, formal epistemology.

Applications are invited for a PhD position at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. The selected candidate will be advised by Markus Brill on topics related to Computational Social Choice (e.g., multiwinner voting, proportional representation, participatory budgeting, liquid democracy, e-democracy).

Automata learning is a technique for improving software quality by smarter testing. It tests systems thoroughly, while at the same time constructing understandable models of the system. Such models can be analysed mathematically to ensure correctness. This has already found numerous software bugs in software we use for our daily communication.

Nevertheless, the learning techniques are still in their infancy, as they are laborious to apply and do not scale to bigger systems. The research project will improve automata learning by leveraging modularity. This makes the approach align with current software engineering practices and makes it more applicable to real-world situations.

The Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Decision-Making (LAMSADE) at the University of Paris-Dauphine is looking for candidates interested in pursuing a PhD in algorithmic game theory.

The Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in cognitive science. The postdoc position is affiliated with the EU ERC Consolidator project ‘The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behavior – eSYMb’ awarded to Professor Kristian Tylén. The postdoc position is a full-time, three-year, fixed-term position. The position begins on 1 September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Would you want to start a new group as an Associate Professor in Hybrid Intelligence (AI systems that collaborate with people instead of replacing them)? Examples of relevant areas of expertise include conversational AI, formal argumentation, computational social choice theory, multi-agent systems, plan recognition, safe and explainable reinforcement learning, explainable AI, computational game theory, causality, and common-sense reasoning and AI in game playing. The welcome package includes the possibility to hire an additional assistant professor to work with you + 2 PhD positions for you + 2 more for the new assistant professor.

We are looking for 25 new colleagues to complement our department, and we welcome applications in all areas of computer science, mathematics, data science, and artificial intelligence. Appointments can be at Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level, depending on the seniority of your profile.

Applications are invited for a PhD position in Economics and Computation at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh. The selected candidate will be advised by Aris Filos-Ratsikas on topics related to game theory/mechanism design, fair division, social choice theory and computational complexity.

The deadline for applications is April 9th, 2023. Applications will still be considered after the deadline until the position is filled.

The intended starting date is October 1st, 2023, but that is negotiable.

The ANR project AGGREEY (An argumentation-based platform for e-democracy) studies e-democracy and aims at proposing tools based on AI and argumentation theory in order to improve the quality of public debate. There are two full-funded PhD positions available on the project.

No formal application deadline, but the advice is to make contact in April.

Fully funded PhD position on the topic of "Explaining Fairness in Preference-Based Assignments", at the interface of Computational Social Choice and Explainable AI.

No official deadline, but the advice is to make contact in April.

The Formal Methods and Tools (FMT) group at the University of Twente is looking for a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join the team working on diagnostic methods for malfunctions of cyber-physical systems. Designing systems such as MRI printers and scanners, for instance, is by no means easy and failures are often expensive and dangerous. To lower these costs, and increase system availability and reliability, more knowledge about these failures is needed: how do they arise and how to prevent and repair them?

You will be working on the ZORRO project: Engineering for Zero Downtime in Cyber-Physical Systems via Intelligent Diagnostics, led by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Stoelinga. The project is a collaboration between the University of Twente, VU Amsterdam, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, TNO-ESI and five industrial partners. Two of the PhD positions in this project will be working at the FMT group, the other one on the topic of system engineering. You will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Stoelinga and Dr. Georgiana Caltais.

The Formal Methods and Tools group at the University of Twente is looking for a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join the team working on software modelling, model-driven system engineering and model transformations. The successful candidate will work on a cutting-edge research project on intelligent diagnostics. In particular, the work will be about finding ways to specify diagnosable monitoring systems, to identify models with the best diagnostic potential, to describe available knowledge to facilitate diagnostics, to define diagnostic algorithms, and to combine domain knowledge and system knowledge to provide diagnosability guarantees.

You will be working on the ZORRO project: Engineering for Zero Downtime in Cyber-Physical Systems via Intelligent Diagnostics, led by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Stoelinga. The project is a collaboration between the University of Twente, VU Amsterdam, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, TNO-ESI and five industrial partners. Two of the PhD positions in this project will be working at the Formal Methods & Tools group, the other one on the topic of knowledge engineering. This PhD position will be supervised by Dr. Vadim Zaytsev and Dr. Marcus Gerhold.

The Danish Data Science Academy announces an open call for PhD positions for visionary and ambitious young data scientists who want to pursue their own research ideas in collaboration with a Danish research environment. The positions will be awarded to the most promising candidates according to their scientific qualifications, motivation and engagement, as well as the quality, originality, relevance and potential impact of the proposed project. It is a requirement that the applicant has a well-defined research project proposal as well as an agreement with a principal supervisor at a Danish university.

Informal inquiries about opportunities in the Algorithms and Complexity Section at the University of Copenhagen are welcome.

Full-time Assistant Professor with tenure track; the position is directed to Artificial Intelligence Ethics and is affiliated to the Institute of Logic and Computation, Research Unit Theory and Logic. The estimated starting date is October 2023.

The successful candidate will have an outstanding research record in the field of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a strong grounding in symbolic AI methods. The candidate should have experience in working with industry, relevant postdoctoral experience, and a compelling research vision. We are particularly interested in candidates working in areas that will complement our existing expertise and lead to fruitful collaborations with other members of the Faculty of Informatics and TU Wien in general.

We have an opening for a PhD position in computational social choice at IRIT, Toulouse (France) starting in September 2023. The topic is preference learning for e-democracy.

We have an opening for a PhD position in Model Checking and Automated Mechanism Design at IRIT, University of Toulouse (France) starting in September 2023. The duration is 3 years, with a salary of 2300 EUR gross which can be complemented by teaching hours.

Two-step selection procedure: first by the AI departement (April), then by the doctoral school (May). Deadline for applications (CV, cover letter, name and contact of two references): 15 March 2023.

The Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers an open position as assistant professor in Theoretical Computer Science, in the area of logic or semantics, broadly construed.

We seek 4 PhD students to strengthen the group on Formal Techniques for Knowledge and Data Management at Umeå University (Sweden), funded by the WASP program (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program). The students will join a growing group that currently consists of WASP faculty members Diego Calvanese, Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Šimkus, as well as PostDoc researchers and other doctoral students. The main theme of our research is the applications and further development of logic-based methods and techniques for smart data management. The students will also join the WASP Graduate School, gaining access to a vast professional network involving other top institutions in Sweden. We seek students with strong interest in the following research areas:

* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
* Description Logics
* Foundations of Databases
* Logic for Computer Science
* Computational Complexity of Reasoning
* Non-monotonic Reasoning
* Logic Programming
* Automated Reasoning
* Formal Methods

The positions are fully funded for 4 years.

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg invites applications for several postdocs in Logic. The positions are available on the research project "Taming Jörmungandr: The Logical Foundations of Circularity" lead by Graham E. Leigh and funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

* Duration: 2-3 years each

* Starting date: September 2023 or by agreement

* Deadline: 28 February 2023

The department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University has 8 open permanent positions in philosophy. The application deadline for all positions is February 26.

The positions are:
1. Associate Professor of Ethics or Political Philosophy of Technology (1.0 FTE)
2. Assistant Professor of Ethics or Political Philosophy of Technology (1.0 FTE)
3. Assistant Professor of Moral, Political, or Social Philosophy (1.0 FTE)
4. Assistant Professor of Philosophy of AI (1.0 FTE)
5. Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science (1.0 FTE)
6. Assistant Professor of Theories of Practical Reasoning (1.0 FTE)
7. Assistant Professor of History of Islamic and European Philosophy (1.0 FTE)
8. Assistant Professor of Modern European Philosophy (1.0 FTE)

The Department of Computer Science at LTH Lund University invites applications for up to two PhD positions in theoretical computer science with focus on computational complexity and algorithms. These are four-year full-time employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally very competitive salary. The PhD students will be working in the research group of Susanna de Rezende.

There is a growing research group in algorithms and complexity theory at Lund University. We expect to have six PhD students by the autumn, in addition to two faculty and some MSc students working in computational complexity. The PhD students can also look forward to interacting with the five additional faculty in complexity theory in Copenhagen, together with their students and postdocs, as well as with the algorithms group at the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre.

The Linguistics department of University College London (UCL) is recruiting a lecturer (permanent academic post) in Computational Linguistics, with a deadline of 17th of February 2023! This is a very special opportunity in the heart of London, in one of the best UK universities. There will be potential for collaborations with the department of Computer Science and its AI Centre.

Fully funded 3-year PhD position in history of philosophy of science and mathematics at the University of Vienna as part of Georg Schiemer's ERC project "The Formal Turn – The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”.

A fully funded PhD fellowship (€32.520 per year — gross amount) in Philosophy at Padua University.

The Department of Computing Science at the School of Computing Science,
Business Administration, Economics, and Law (School II) seeks applications for a Professorship (m/f/x) in "Theory of Correct Systems" (salary scale W2) starting as soon as possible.

The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University advertises a PhD position in Theoretical Philosophy, which includes epistemology, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, as well as the history of philosophy. Applications in any area of theoretical philosophy are welcome, and all applications will be given equal consideration, but we particularly encourage applications in the areas of logic and philosophy of mind.

The way humans communicate has changed dramatically over the last decades. Our minds and societies have to keep up with the dynamics and consequences of globalization and technological innovations. Our communicative environment is thus under constant development, for instance seen in the type of communication platforms available (online and offline resources); the multimodal nature of communication (integrating textual, visual and/or oral information); and the speed at which information flows. These factors impact the way humans communicate and argue in our societies and affect existing societal power structures. With this professorship, the department of Dutch studies seeks to strengthen and innovate research lines and teaching programmes that address those developments within the domains of cognition, communication and argumentation.

This professorship will take an interdisciplinary approach grounded in communication and argumentation theory and cognitive science, with bridges to the Social Sciences and Media Studies. The domains of cognition, communication and argumentation and their interfaces will be studied using state of the art methods and techniques in which the use of corpora, the analysis of big data, and the development of (computational) models play a key role. This professorship will not only lead to innovative scientific research and research-based academic teaching, but will also contribute to societal applications in the context of discussions about argumentative language and communication, and how competing interactions with information play a significant role in everyday life.

Your research will be situated in the research school Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC). Your research aims to find innovative ways of investigating communication and argumentation from a cognitive perspective, using up-to-date methods that enable the analysis of corpora and/or modelling theoretical assumptions.

The Center for Mind and Cognition is a platform at the Ruhr-University Bochum that aims to foster interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, computational modelling, neuroscience and other areas of cognitive research in engineering, law and educational research. We are pleased to announce an international call for fellowships from April 2023 to March 2024 aimed at outstanding researchers.

1. Short-term Senior Fellowship (2 weeks: 1500 Euro) on "Episodic Memory and Spatial Representation"
2. Senior Fellowship (1 month: 3000 Euro/month) or Postdoc Fellowship (1 month: 2000 Euro/month) on "Philosophy of Perception and/or (Formal) Epistemology"
3. Senior Fellowship (1 month: 3000 Euro/month) or Junior Fellowship (2 months: 2000 Euro/month) on "Predictive Processing"
4. Junior Fellowship (1-2 months: 2000 Euro/month) on "Episodic Memory and the Self"
5. Senior Fellowship (1 month: 3000 Euro/month) on "Philosophy of AI and Animal Cognition"
6. Senior Fellowship (1 month: 3000 Euro/month) on "Social Psychology"
7. Junior/Senior Fellowship (1-2 months: 2000 Euro/month) on "Philosophy of Memory and/or Language"
8. Senior Fellowship (1 month: 3000 Euro/month) or Junior Fellowship (2 months: 2000 Euro/month) on "Advanced analyses and computational modelling of electrophysiological data"

We provide a lively and productive research environment with a great variety of scientific activities including workshops, research colloquia, and international guest researchers. All fellows are invited to deliver a fellow lecture and will have the opportunity to meet members of the Center for Mind & Cognition.

The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for postdoc positions in combinatorial optimization. We are looking for outstanding junior researchers with an innovative mind-set and intellectual curiosity to strengthen and complement the research profile of the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordström, which is active at both the University of Copenhagen and Lund University on either side of the Øresund Bridge.

The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

These postdoc positions are full-time research positions for an expected duration of two years. Within the overall framework sketched above, the postdocs will be expected and encouraged to contribute to and influence the research agenda. Taking part in teaching graduate seminar courses is encouraged but not required. Travel funding is included, and the group also receives visitors on a regular basis. The starting date is negotiable, but the default would be in August-September 2023.

The Department of Computer Science at Lund University invites applications for a PhD position in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

The PhD student will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordström, which is active at both the University of Copenhagen and Lund University on either side of the Øresund Bridge. The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

This is a four-year full-time employed position, but PhD positions usually (though not necessarily) include 20% teaching, in which case they are prolonged for one more year. The starting date is negotiable, but should ideally be during the first half of 2023, or at the latest in August/September 2023. All positions in the research group are fully funded, employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally competitive salary.

The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

The PhD students will be part of a world-leading research environment. We are home to the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre, joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and with Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory. While our focus in on foundational research, we do have a track record of surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

These positions are available for period of 3-5 years, depending on the current education level of the applicant. All our PhD positions are fully funded, employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally competitive salary. The starting date is negotiable, but the default is August-September 2023.

The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for several postdoc positions in theoretical computer science. We are looking for outstanding junior researchers with an innovative mind-set and intellectual curiosity to strengthen and complement the research profile of the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU. These postdoc positions are full-time research positions for an intended duration of two years. Teaching of advanced courses is encouraged but not required. Travel funding is included, and we are also receiving visitors from all over the world on a regular basis. The starting date is negotiable, but the default would be in August-September 2023.

We are home to the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre, joint with the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and with Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory. While our focus in on foundational research, we do have a track record of surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

The University of Groningen (NL) invites applications for one assistant professor position (tenure-track) in Theoretical Computer Science. The successful candidate will join us at the Fundamental Computing group of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and AI. The group already has research expertise on concurrency theory, modal logic, coalgebra, and proof theory (see https://www.rug.nl/fse/fc). We seek to reinforce our profile in Theoretical Computer Science, broadly construed.

This is a tenure-track position with 60% teaching, 30% research, 10% organizational tasks. Our tenure-track system offers well-defined perspectives for career and personal development.

The Open University of the Netherlands is hiring a full Professor in AI. The deadline is 7.01.2023.

The aim of the reading group is to examine recent research in the area of formal semantics and pragmatics. The focus will be on analyzing linguistic phenomena through formal theories of semantics and pragmatics. However, if relevant, the group may consider papers that address new data, experimental findings, and the cognitive aspects of language.

Whether you are a seasoned researcher or just starting to explore the field, everyone is welcome to attend.