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21 - 24 September 2021, Sixteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021), Prague, Czech Republic (Hybrid)
The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, applications, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms.
For ECSQARU 2021 we invite submissions of original papers on the conference topics. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work: at least one author of each paper must register for the conference.
In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2021 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In addition to that, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
17 - 20 June 2021, Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory (BEST 2021), Virtual
BEST is an international conference featuring talks on a broad range of recent advances in research in set theory and related fields. Researchers from all areas of set theory and logic are welcome. BEST particularly aims to support the careers of young researchers. The conference is organized by the Set Theory group at Boise State University.
We are currently welcoming applications to speak at BEST from researchers in set theory and related fields. We hope to receive your application by May 1, but we will continue accepting applications as long as there is space.
27 - 29 October 2021, 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2021), Virtual & Zürich (Switzerland)
The growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing in our days in all dimensions of social life. The global and collective nature of the challenges our epoch is facing (e.g. climate change, global pandemics, systemic inequalities, resurgence of totalitarianism, to name a few) requires a comprehensive perspective on computing, where social and cultural aspects occupy a central position. For these reasons, thinking about machines asks today for an interdisciplinary approach, where art is as necessary as engineering, anthropological insights as important as psychological models, and the critical perspectives of history and philosophy as decisive as the axioms and theorems of theoretical computer science.
For more than a decade, the 'History and Philosophy of Computing' Conference (HaPoC) has contributed to building such an interdisciplinary community and environment. We aim to bring together historians, philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, designers, manufacturers, practitioners, artists, logicians, mathematicians, each with their own experience and expertise, to take part in the collective construction of a comprehensive image of computing.
For HaPoC 2021, we welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary horizons who intend to participate in the debate on the impact of computers on culture, science, and society from the perspective of their area of expertise, and who are open to engage in interdisciplinary discussions across multiple fields. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Historical and philosophical perspectives on computing knowledge, objects and practices - Social, cultural and pedagogical aspects of computing - Computing and the human sciences - Epistemological dimensions of computing - Impact of computing technologies - Computing and the arts.
20 - 27 September 2021, 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021), Virtual
Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming.
Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks and special sessions:
- Applications Track
- Recently Published Research Track
- MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming
- Fall School on Logic and Constraint Programming
- Doctoral Consortium: the Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic
- Tutorials and Co-located Workshops.
Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to Foundations, Languages issues, Programming support, Implementation, Related Paradigms and Synergies, and Applications. Both regular and short papers will be accepted for the main track (for the additional tracks, please follow the specific CFP). Submissions will be done via EasyChair. All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. All submissions must be written in English.
The ICLP conference series has a long standing tradition of hosting a rich set of co-located workshops. ICLP workshops provide a unique opportunity for the presentation and discussion of work that can be preliminary in nature, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2021 are invited to submit a workshop proposal.
12 July 2021, 2nd Workshop on Verification of Session Types (VEST 2021), Online
Stateful entities offer services in a non-uniform way (one cannot pop from an empty stack). Traditional type systems cannot guarantee that operations are only invoked when the entity is in the right state. Session types are abstract representations of the sequences of operations that computational entities (such as channels or objects) must perform. Although the foundations of session types are now well established, and new works build on approaches that have become standard, there is still a lack of reusable libraries, namely machine-verified ones.
The goal of the VEST workshop is to gather the researchers working on mechanisations of behavioural types using various theorem provers, such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. The workshop will be a platform to present both the now well-established efforts and the ongoing works the community has put on verification. The workshop will also be a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, potential obstacles and to foster collaboration.
We request two types of research contributions.
Type 1: Short presentations (1 page) of work published elsewhere;
Type 2: Presentations (2-5 pages) of ongoing original work.
Submissions of Type 1 will consist of 1 page papers presenting the work, the publication venue and the significance of the results; the PC will select the submissions with a ranking system.
Submissions of Type 2 will consist of 2 - 5 page papers submitted to a light reviewing process.
There will be no proceedings of VEST'21, but rather the aim is to strengthen and further expand our community.
3 - 4 May 2021, International Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems & Strategic Reasoning (LAMAS & SR 2021), Virtual
Logics and strategic reasoning play a central role in multi-agent systems. Logics can be used, for instance, to express the agents' abilities, knowledge, and objectives. Strategic reasoning refers to algorithmic methods that allow for developing good behavior for the agents of the system. At the intersection, we find logics that can express existence of strategies or equilibria, and can be used to reason about them.
The LAMAS&SR workshop merges two international workshops: LAMAS, which focuses on all kinds of logical aspects of multi-agent systems from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory, and SR, devoted to all aspects of strategic reasoning in formal methods and artificial intelligence. Over the years the communities and research themes of both workshops got closer and closer. LAMAS&SR unifies LAMAS and SR under the same flag, formally joining the two communities in order to expose each of them to a wider range of work relevant to their research.
LAMAS&SR 2021 will be held with AAMAS 2021 Online.
3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual
AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field
3 - 4 May 2021, International Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems & Strategic Reasoning (LAMAS & SR 2021), Virtual
Logics and strategic reasoning play a central role in multi-agent systems. Logics can be used, for instance, to express the agents' abilities, knowledge, and objectives. Strategic reasoning refers to algorithmic methods that allow for developing good behavior for the agents of the system. At the intersection, we find logics that can express existence of strategies or equilibria, and can be used to reason about them.
The LAMAS&SR workshop merges two international workshops: LAMAS, which focuses on all kinds of logical aspects of multi-agent systems from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory, and SR, devoted to all aspects of strategic reasoning in formal methods and artificial intelligence. Over the years the communities and research themes of both workshops got closer and closer. LAMAS&SR unifies LAMAS and SR under the same flag, formally joining the two communities in order to expose each of them to a wider range of work relevant to their research.
LAMAS&SR 2021 will be held with AAMAS 2021 Online.
3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual
AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field
5 - 11 September 2021, 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving (AITP 2021), Virtual & Aussois (France)
Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. The AITP conference is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that.
There will be several focused sessions on AI for ATP, ITP, mathematics, physics, relations to general AI, Formal Abstracts, linguistic processing of mathematics/science, modern AI and big-data methods, and several sessions with contributed talks. The focused sessions will be based on invited talks and discussion oriented.
We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages formatted with easychair.cls. Submission is via EasyChair. We will consider an open call for post-proceedings in an established series of conference proceedings (LIPIcs, EPiC, JMLR) or a journal (AICom, JAR, JAIR).
3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual
AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field
3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual
AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field
23 - 27 August 2021, 26th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2021), Virtual
The aim of the FMICS conference series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. FMICS brings together scientists and engineers who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. The FMICS conference series also strives to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.
FMICS 2021 is part of the QONFEST umbrella conference. This year, a special session will be included on Formal Methods for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts along with a panel on this topic. Keynote Speaker: Joe Kiniry (Galois Inc. and Free & Fair, US).
We welcome contributions of different categories:
- Regular papers that describe original research work and results. Length: 15 pages + 2 pages of references.
- Short papers that describe work-in-progress, or positions on the future of formal methods. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references.
- Tool papers that describe software artefacts. The paper must contain a link to a publicly available video of at most 10 minutes length. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references.
- Journal-first papers that summarize a paper recently published in a journal and not yet presented in a conference. The main aim of this category is to allow authors present archived work in a public forum. The original journal paper should have been published between January 1st, 2020 and the date of submission. Length: 2 pages + 1 page of references.
Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS style (Springer). A Springer-sponsored award will be presented to the authors of the submission selected by the Program Committee as the FMICS 2021 Best Paper.
3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual
AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field
12 July 2021, Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools (FOMEO'21), Virtual
Online instruction of formal methods has been a challenge in the last year, including teaching of basics of logics and automata theory, formal verification, theorem proving etc. This satellite workshop of ICALP brings together instructors of formal methods as well as developers of teaching support systems for formal methods to (1) present tools supporting teaching of formal methods education, and (2) discuss tips, tricks & experiences in online instruction gained in the last year.
You can submit your contribution at EasyChair. Submissions should contain a title, a short abstract (to be published as part of the program) as well as a short description of how you plan to present (e.g. talk/live demo and/or poster/demo exhibition booth). The time slots for presentations can vary, as we expect short presentations of tips&tricks but also some longer demos of tools. In the gather-town-like sessions, every presenter/project will have a presentation area where demos, poster presentation, etc. (presenters have complete freedom) are possible.
16 - 18 October 2021, The Eighth International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-VIII), Xi'an (China) and Online
The International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI) conference series aims at bringing together researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related fields that concern the understanding of rationality and interaction. The series aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavor, and supports the creation of an East-Asian community of interdisciplinary researchers.
We invite submission of contributed papers on any of the broad themes of the LORI series. Submitted papers should be at most 12 pages long, with one additional page for references, in PDF format following the Springer LNCS style. Submission is via the EasyChair for LORI-VIII. Accepted papers will be collected as a volume in the FoLLi series on Logic, Language and Information, and extended versions of some will later be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (to be announced). A best student paper award will be given at the conference.
2 - 5 November 2021, 19th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS 2021), Marseille, France
The RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodologica tools in computer science and beyond.
Submissions in the general fields of algebras relevant to computer science and applications of such algebras are invited. Topics include but are not limited to:
*** Theory ***
- algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales
- their connections with program logics and other logics
- their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages
- the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories
- their formalisation with theorem provers
*** Applications ***
- tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification
- quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes
- algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control
- industrial applications
5 - 9 July 2021, 17th Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE 2021): Connecting with computability, Virtual
CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The 'Computability in Europe' conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics.
Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University.
The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style and should have a maximum of 10 pages. Deadline: 17 jan 2021.
Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for informal presentations is May 15th, 2021.
5 - 8 October 2021, 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2021), Virtual
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021.
WoLLIC 2021 is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film 'Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani' about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death.
Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings.
23 - 25 June 2021, 2021 Australasian Association for Logic conference (AAL 2021), Virtually (Zoom)
The Australasian Association for Logic will hold its annual conference online via Zoom from Wednesday, June 23 to Friday, June 25, 2021. It will be hosted by the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne.
There will be three keynote speakers. The keynote speakers confirmed are Xavier Caicedo (Los Andes), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) and Katalin Bimbó (Edmonton).
We invite submission of abstracts in any area of logic, broadly construed. To submit, send an anonymized short abstract (?2 pages) and title to australasianassoclogic2021 at gmail.com with the subject 'AAL 2021'. The soft deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 15. Submissions will be accepted for consideration until the hard deadline of Saturday, May 22. Decisions will be sent out in early June. We would like to encourage submissions from members of groups that are underrepresented in logic.
20 - 21 September 2021, International Joint Workshop on “Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage” (SWODCH 2021), Virtual and Bolzano, Italy
SWODCH 2021 is the association of the 2nd edition of WODHSA and the 4th edition of SW4CH. It is also in continuation of the 1st edition of ODOCH and the special issue of the Semantic Web journal on "Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage".
The purpose of WODHSA is to gather original research work about both application and foundational issues emerging from the design of conceptual models, ontologies, and Semantic Web technologies for the Digital Humanities (DH). The aim of SW4CH is to bring together stakeholders from various scientific fields, Computer Scientists, Data Scientists and Digital Humanists, involved in the development or deployment of Semantic Web solutions for Cultural Heritage. The overall goal of SWODCH 2021 is to provide a scientific forum where scholars and stakeholders will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and analyses, while presenting realizations and outcomes of relevant projects and discussing the related challenges.
Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the workshop will have a hybrid format, allowing both physical and virtual participation.
We seek original and high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the conference topic areas. We will accept two different types of contributions: Research Articles for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue, and Extended Abstracts for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. All the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the LNCS format and must comply with the LNCS formatting guidelines.
16 - 17 September 2021, Third international workshop "Concepts in Action, Representation, Learning, & Application" (CARLA 2021), Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual
"Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" (CARLA) is an international workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. The workshop is open for research on any aspect of concepts, but there are three overarching topics that are of special interest with the following (not exhaustive) list of exemplary subtopics:
- Representation: How can we formally describe and model concepts?
- Learning: Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?
- Application: How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?
This workshop provides an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on concepts, both from theoretical/formal and applied/experimental viewpoints. CARLA 2021 is currently planned to be conducted as a *hybrid* event allowing for both physical and virtual attendance. Invited Speakers: Monique Flecken and Antonio Lieto.
We invite concept researchers from all fields related to cognitive science to submit abstracts to the workshop. We invite contributions from all fields related to cognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, and computer science. The abstracts should use two to three pages (including references) and should be uploaded as pdf based on a template downloadable from the conference website.
25 - 26 June 2021, Kurt Goedel Day 2021 with Czech Gathering of Logicians, Brno (Czech Republic)
This community event aims at bringing together researchers in logic and related areas. The event is open to all researchers interested in logic, while contributions related to Gödel's work are especially welcome. Promoting the heritage of Kurt Gödel , the Kurt Gödel Prize will be awarded during the meeting by the Kurt Gödel Society in Brno and the recipient will deliver a lecture.
Invited speakers: Matthias Baaz (Technische Universität Wien, Vienna), Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Vítězslav Švejdar (Charles University, Prague) and Pavol Zlatoš (Komensky University, Bratislava).
Note: The event will be postponed to September in case the pandemic situation prevents meeting on site.
We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the conference to submit a short plain text abstract of approximately 200 words, and an extended abstract of at most 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair. Accepted submissions will be presented in 30 minute talks including discussion (please note that the time allotted to each talk may change slightly depending on the number of submissions). Abstracts can be in Czech/English; uploaded extended abstract need to be in pdf format.
13 - 15 September 2021, 22th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2021), Virtual (Bologna, Italy)
The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS) is the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The purpose of ICTCS is to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. In particular, ICTCS provides an ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers.
Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly invited from researchers of all nationalities. Two types of contributions, written in English and formatted accordingto Springer LNCS style, are solicited: Regular papers (up to 12 pages PLUS bibliography, presenting original results not appeared or submitted elsewhere) and Communications (up to 5 pages PLUS bibliography, suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared/submitted or to be submitted elsewhere, as well as papers reporting ongoing research on which the authors wish to get feedback and overviews of PhD theses or research projects). Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EasyChair.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
8 - 10 September 2021, The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science (SCSS 2021), Virtual
Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc.). Powerful algorithms have been developed during the past decades for the major subareas of symbolic computation: computer algebra and computational logic. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence methods and machine learning algorithms are widely used nowadays in various domains and, in particular, combined with symbolic computation. Several approaches mix artificial intelligence and symbolic methods and tools deployed over large corpora to create what is known as cognitive systems. Cognitive computing focuses on building systems which interact with humans naturally by reasoning, aiming at learning at scale.
The purpose of SCSS 2021 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial intelligence techniques.
SCSS 2021 solicits submissions on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science, in combination with artificial intelligence and cognitive computing techniques. Original submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual
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 a 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.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the 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.
Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.
24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual
Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.
Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.
21 - 23 June 2021, Formal Philosophy 2021, Moscow (Russia) / Online
The "Formal Philosophy" is an annual conference organized by the HSE International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy. The confernce will be dedicated to various topics in the fields of philosophical logic, formal epistemology, formal ontology, philosophy of logic, epistemology of logic, and other branches of formal and mathematical philosophy.
This year we are also planning two special sessions:
- session on formal ethics
- special session dedicated to the centennial of the publication of the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus".
Authors are asked to submit an abstract up to 1000 words. We accept abstracts in PDF format only (12pt, single spacing, 2cm margin). Abstracts should be prepared for blind review (all identifying information should be removed from the abstract). Abstracts are to be submitted exclusively via the EasyChair system. The submitted materials will undergo a double-blind review. The Programme Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts that do not fit into the scope of the conference.
Notification of acceptance will be on June 3, 2021.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual
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 a 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.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the 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.
Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.
24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual
Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.
Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual
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 a 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.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the 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.
Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.
24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual
Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.
Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.
26 May 2021, First ENCODE Workshop "Let's Talk Models!", Virtual
"Let's Talk Models!" is the kick-off workshop for the NWO VIDI project ENCODE: Explicating Norms of Collective Deliberation. As part of this project, we will organize workshops on a regular basis at the EIPE/ESPhil (Erasmus University of Rotterdam).
The theme of this edition is Formal Models of Deliberative Norms. In particular, a range of different models (logical, agent-based, game-theoretic and/or argument-based) of group deliberation and its norms will be presented and discussed. The ultimate aim is to understand how these models shed light on trade-offs and tensions among such norms, and on different recipes for checking and monitoring their satisfaction.
The conference takes place online via Zoom. Confirmed speakers are Hun Chung (Waseda University), Erica Yu (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), Olivier Roy (University of Bayreuth) and Soroush Rafiee Rad (University of Bayreuth & University of Amsterdam), and Nina Gierasimczuk (Danish Technical University). The full programme, incl. titles and abstracts of the talks can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ua61j4fg477izrc/Kickoff%20ENCODE%20programme%20and%20abstracts.docx?dl=0.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual
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 a 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.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the 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.
Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.
24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual
Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.
Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.
6 - 8 October 2021, Special Session on Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021 (CompLingInfoReasAI'21) at DCAI'21, Salamanca, Spain and Online
Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning.
The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
We invite contributions relevant to the session topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI'21.
DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series of Springer Verlag.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual
Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the tenth in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.
24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual
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 a 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.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the 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.
Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.
24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual
Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.
Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
16 July 2021, The Third International ARCADE (Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements) Workshop, Virtual
The main goal of this workshop is to bring together key people from various subcommunities of automated reasoning -such as SAT/SMT, resolution, tableaux, theory-specific calculi (e.g. for description logic, arithmetic, set theory), interactive theorem proving - to discuss the present, past, and future of the field. The intention is to provide an opportunity to discuss broad issues facing the community. What are the current challenges, applications, directions, or exemplary achievements of Automated Reasoning?
The structure of the workshop will be informal. At the event, contributions will be grouped into similar themes and authors will be invited to make their case within discussion panels. After the workshop, they will be welcome to extend their abstracts for inclusion in post-proceedings (EPiC or similar), taking into account the discussion.
We invite extended abstracts (2-4 pages, using the EasyChair class style) in the form of non-technical position statements aimed at prompting lively discussion. The title of the workshop is indicative of the kind of discussions we would like to encourage.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).
24 - 30 June 2021, Summer School and Conference "Toposes online", Online
The event "Toposes online" represents the third edition of the main international conference on topos theory, following the previous ones "Topos à l’IHES" and "Toposes in Como". The format of the event is the same as that of the other two editions: it will consist of a three-day school, offering introductory courses for the benefit of students and mathematicians who are not already familiar with topos theory, followed by a three-day congress featuring both invited and contributed presentations on new theoretical advances in the subject as well as applications of toposes in different fields such as algebra, topology, number theory, algebraic geometry, logic, homotopy theory, functional analysis, and computer science.
The main aim of this conference series is to celebrate the unifying power and interdisciplinary applications of toposes and encourage further developments in this spirit, by promoting exchanges amongst researchers in different branches of mathematics who use toposes in their work and by introducing a new generation of scholars to the subject.
There is room for a limited number of contributed, 30-minute talks at the conference. If you want to present a paper, please send an extended abstract (between two and four pages long) before the 31st of May; you will be notified about the outcome of your submission by the 10th of June.
5 - 9 July 2021, International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond (QBF 2021), Virtual
Quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) are an extension of propositional logic which allows for explicit quantification over propositional variables. Many problems from application domains such as model checking, formal verification or synthesis are PSPACE-complete, and hence could be encoded in QBF in a natural way. However, in contrast to SAT, QBF is not yet widely applied to practical problems in academic or industrial settings. The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF Workshop) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical and practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it addresses (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the state-of-the-art and to consolidate on immediate and long-term research challenges.
QBF 2021 is affiliated to and co-located with: Int. Conf. on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2021) July 5-9, 2021. The workshop also welcomes work on reasoning with quantifiers in related problems, such as dependency QBF (DQBF), quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSP), and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) with quantifiers.
The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on all formalisms enriched by quantifiers, and in particular QBF. Submissions of extended abstracts are invited and will be managed via Easychair. In particular, we invite the submission of extended abstracts on work that has been published already, novel unpublished work, or work in progress, as well as proposals for short tutorial presentations. Submissions which describe novel applications of QBF or related formalisms in various domains are particularly welcome.
Each submission should have an overall length of 1-4 pages in LNCS format. Authors may decide to include an appendix with additional material.
17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online
The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).