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    26 January 2026, ILLC PhD Day 2026

    Date & Time: Monday 26 January 2026, 10:00-17:00
    Location: ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    Target audience: All ILLC PhD candidates
    Deadline: Wednesday 31 December 2025

    The annual ILLC PhD Day is coming up! We look forward to another inspiring day of research and exchange within the ILLC community. The programme will feature presentations and posters by our PhD candidates, as well as opportunities to meet fellow researchers and discuss ongoing work across the four ILLC research units.

    For more information, contact ILLC PhD office at .

  • (New) 26 January 2026, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Henry Towsner

    Date & Time: Monday 26 January 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Henry Towsner
    Title: What proofs can be
    Location: Zoom

    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.

    See the announcement for the next talk below. If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

    For more information, see https://scandinavianlogic.org/2026-01-16-NOL-Seminar-Henry-Towsner.html or contact Val Goranko at .

  • (Updated) 27 January 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Federico Adolfi, Ernst-Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience

    Date & Time: Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00
    Speaker: Federico Adolfi, Ernst-Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (Max-Planck Society)
    Title: A computational perspective on the challenge of inner interpretability
    Location: Room L3.36, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam / Online
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
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    (Updated) 28 January 2026, Deep Tech Day 2026 (UvA)

    Date & Time: Wednesday 28 January 2026, 09:30
    Location: LAB42, Science Park 900, 1098 XH Amsterdam

    Discover leading research in areas such as quantum technologies, AI, photonics, nanotechnology, sustainability and synthetic biology in this interactive, high-energy event.

    The focus of the day will be on show-and-tell, where you will get to see and discuss deep technological research in context - with plenty of room to connect. The day will also feature influential external and internal keynote speakers, an innovation market, thematic Deep Tech tours through our faculty, pitching by young talents, and more.

    For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/en/campaign/deeptechday or contact Rosalie Knot at .

  • 29 January 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Huub Vromen

    Date & Time: Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Huub Vromen
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2026/01/lira-session-huub-vromen/.

  • (Updated) 30 January 2026, FOAM Seminar, Gaurav Rattan

    Date & Time: Friday 30 January 2026, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Gaurav Rattan
    Title: Graph-Theoretic Principles for Graph Learning Models
    Location: Room L2.06, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk29/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 4 February 2026, LLAMA seminar, Norihiro Yamada

    Date & Time: Wednesday 4 February 2026, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Norihiro Yamada (Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra)
    Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam [NL] and online
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/#talk-yamada-2026 or contact Marianna Girlando at .
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    5 February 2026, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Daniel Barreto

    Date & Time: Thursday 5 February 2026, 15:00
    Speaker: Daniel Barreto
    Title: Redistribution through Market Segmentation
    Location: Room L2.06, Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

    Abstract

    We study how to optimally segment monopolistic markets with a redistributive objective. We characterize optimal redistributive segmentations and show that they (i) induce the seller to price progressively, i.e., charge richer consumers higher prices than poorer ones, and (ii) may not maximize consumer surplus, instead granting extra profits to the monopolist. We further show that optimal redistributive segmentations are implementable via price-based regulation.

    For more information, see https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .

  • (New) 10 February 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Filip Ilievski

    Date & Time: Tuesday 10 February 2026, 15:30
    Speaker: Filip Ilievski (VU Amsterdam)
    Location: Room L3.36 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park, plus live streaming on Zoom.
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 12 February 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Ignacio Ojea

    Date & Time: Thursday 12 February 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Ignacio Ojea
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam and online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/12/lira-session-ignacio-ojea/.

  • 13 February 2026, DIP Colloquium, Tim Button

    Date & Time: Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Tim Button (UCL)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35270/Tim-Button-UCL.

  • 19 February 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Søren Knudstorp

    Date & Time: Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Søren Knudstorp
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2026/01/lira-session-soren-knudstorp-2/.

  • (Updated) 20 February 2026, FOAM Seminar, Patrick Lederer

    Date & Time: Friday 20 February 2026, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Patrick Lederer (ILLC)
    Title: Approximate Axiomatics in Social Choice Theory
    Location: Room L2.06, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk30/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • (New) 25 February 2026, LLAMA seminar, Takahiro Yamada

    Date & Time: Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Takahiro Yamada (Utrecht University)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107 and online (see website)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/#talk-takahiro-yamada-2026 or contact Marianna Girlando at .

  • 26 February 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Alexandru Baltag

    Date & Time: Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Alexandru Baltag
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam and online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/12/lira-session-alexandru-baltag-6/.

  • 27 February 2026, DIP Colloquium, Hans Kamp

    Date & Time: Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Hans Kamp (Sttutgart/UT Austin)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35275/Hans-Kamp-Sttutgart-UT-Austin.

  • (New) 4 March 2026, LLAMA seminar, Johannes Kloibhofer

    Date & Time: Wednesday 4 March 2026, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Johannes Kloibhofer (ILLC)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107 and online (see website)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/#talk-kloibhofer-2026 or contact Marianna Girlando at .
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    5 March 2026, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Rachel Ruellé

    Date & Time: Thursday 5 March 2026, 15:00
    Speaker: Rachel Ruellé
    Title: A Ceteris Paribus Borda Solution to the Social Ranking Problem
    Location: Room L2.06, Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

    In our society, individuals are often rewarded based on their merits when they work in cooperation. In this presentation, we focus on a novel social ranking solution where individuals are ranked based on the pairwise comparison of coalitions that differ for one single element (denoted in the related literature as Ceteris Paribus (CP-)comparison). 

    For more information, see https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .

  • 12 March 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Djanira dos Santos Gomes

    Date & Time: Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Djanira dos Santos Gomes
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam and online
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/12/lira-session-djanira-dos-santos-gomes/.

  • 13 March 2026, DIP Colloquium, Michael Franke

    Date & Time: Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Michael Franke (Tübingen)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35273/Michael-Franke-Tübingen.
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    (Updated) 19 March 2026, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Patrick Lederer

    Date & Time: Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:00
    Speaker: Patrick Lederer
    Title: The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation
    Location: Room L2.07, Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

    In rank aggregation, the goal is to combine multiple input rankings into a single output ranking. In this paper, we analyze rank aggregation methods, so-called social welfare functions (SWFs), with respect to strategyproofness, which requires that no agent can misreport his ranking to obtain an output ranking that is closer to his true ranking in terms of the Kemeny distance. As our main result, we show that no anonymous SWF satisfies unanimity and strategyproofness if there are at least four alternatives. This result is proven by SAT solving, a computer-aided theorem proving technique, and verified by Isabelle, a highly trustworthy interactive proof assistant. Moreover, we show by hand that strategyproofness is incompatible with majority consistency, a variant of Condorcet-consistency for SWFs. Lastly, we demonstrate for two large classes of SWFs that all SWFs within these classes have a high incentive ratio and are thus severely manipulable. This is joint work with Manuel Eberl.

    For more information, see https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .

  • (Updated) 20 March 2026, FOAM Seminar, John van de Wetering

    Date & Time: Friday 20 March 2026, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: John van de Wetering (IvI)
    Title: Picturing Quantum Software
    Location: Room L1.07 (LAB42), Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk31/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 31 March 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Claire Stevenson

    Date & Time: Tuesday 31 March 2026, 15:30
    Speaker: Claire Stevenson (UvA)
    Location: Room L3.36 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park and online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • (New) 2 April 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Kanishka Misra

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 April 2026, 15:30
    Speaker: Kanishka Misra (UT Austin)
    Location: Room L3.36 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park, plus live streaming on Zoom.
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 9 April 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Malvin Gattinger

    Date & Time: Thursday 9 April 2026, 15:30
    Speaker: Malvin Gattinger
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2026/01/lira-session-malvin-gattinger-2/.

  • 17 April 2026, FOAM Seminar, Divya Ravi

    Date & Time: Friday 17 April 2026, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Divya Ravi
    Title: Foundations of Secure Multi-Party Computation
    Location: Room L2.06, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk32/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 22 May 2026, FOAM Seminar, Twan Kroll

    Date & Time: Friday 22 May 2026, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Twan Kroll
    Title: The Price of Anarchy of Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Budgets
    Location: Room L2.06, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk33/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 28 May 2026, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Aybüke Özgün

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:30
    Speaker: Aybüke Özgün
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2026/01/lira-session-aybuke-ozgun-2/.

  • 29 June - 3 July 2026, Advances in Modal Logic 2026 (AiML 2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Date: 29 June - 3 July 2026
    Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 20 February 2026

    Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML 2026 is organized by the ILLC.  Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net.

    For more information, see here or at https://events.illc.uva.nl/aiml2026/ or contact .

  • 3 - 14 August 2026, 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2026), Prague (Czech Republic)

    Date: 3 - 14 August 2026
    Location: Prague (Czech Republic)
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 October 2025

    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, when 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 levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. In 2026, ESSLLI returns to Prague after exactly 30 years.

    The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on 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.

    For more information, see here or at https://2026.esslli.eu/ or contact Thomas Icard at .