A colloquium on the occasion of Daniel Dennett's honorary doctorate at the UvA, with talks and discussions on Logic, Philosophy & Cognition and Modelling, Evolution & Intelligence. Speakers include Daniel Dennett, Michiel van Lambalgen, Julian Kiverstein and Jelle Zuidema

For more information, see http://smartcognitivescience.wordpress.com/.

On the 9th January 2012, the programme "Semantics & Syntax" will be officially opened. In addition to being the official opening of the programme, this event will provide the general mathematical public (with strong emphasis on postgraduate students) a glimpse of the current state of the art and explain what is going to happen during the six months at Cambridge.

The day is one of the Spitalfields Days of the London Mathematical Society, named in honour of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society, a precursor of the London Mathematical Society which flourished from 1717 to 1845. Spitalfields Days provide survey lectures aimed at a general mathematical audience.

If you are a postgraduate student and wish to apply for a travel grant (£100), please contact the organizer at bloewe at science.uva.nl by 15 December 2011.

For more information, see http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw05.html

As part of our "Logic and Interactive Rationality" series of workshops and seminars, on 12 January we will have a workshop on connections between Logic, Learning Theory and Epistemology, with the occasion of Kevin Kelly's visit to ILLC.

Speakers include Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon), Johan van Benthem (ILLC and Stanford), Jan van Eijck (ILLC, CWI and Utrecht), Peter Grunwald (CWI and Leiden), Sonja Smets (ILLC), Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC), Alexandru Baltag (ILLC).

More information, including full program and abstracts, will be posted at the LIRA homepage at https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/.

For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~fsangati/WSJ12/.

For more information, see http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc-news/events.cfm/C358946E-BBBB-45E5-81F6ECFDCE5A8490

The ILLC will celebrate the New Year at the ILLC New Year's Colloquium 2012.

Program:
16.00-16.30: Jelle Zuidema: Is Recursion Monkey Business?
16.30-17.00: Jan van Eijck: Logic of Communication
17.00-17.30: Katrin Schulz: The Semantic Anatomy of Conditional Sentences
17.30-19.00: New Year's toast and drinks

For more information see here or contact illc at uva.nl.

(Dutch only)
Tijd is onlosmakelijk verbonden met muziek en is eveneens een centrale notie in de muziekcognitie, de studie naar de manier waarop muziek door de hersenen wordt verwerkt. Cognitiewetenschappers doen onderzoek naar mentale processen zoals kennisverwerving en -verwerking door het menselijk brein. Juist omdat muziek met onze cognitieve functies speelt, zijn deze wetenschappers muziek als onderzoeksobject in de loop der jaren steeds interessanter gaan vinden - zeker naarmate de computer en nieuwe technieken het makkelijker maakten theorieën over muziek toetsbaar te maken. In deze aflevering van 'Stand van de Wetenschap' bieden John Michon en Henkjan Honing een inkijkje in de ontwikkelingen binnen de muziek- en cognitiewetenschap, aan de hand van verschillende onderzoeken naar de notie tijd in de muziek.

For more information, see http://www.spui25.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/43709F9E-C3AE-44D4-B42ACD3CA472AC4E

For more information, see http://smartcognitivescience.wordpress.com/

For the abstract of the talk, visit https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1209

For more information on the workshop and the full program, please visit: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan/workshop2012.html or e-mail k.simaan at uva.nl or m.mylonakis at uva.nl.

Professor Kelly, who is currently a visitor at ILLC, will give a two-part tutorial on Topological Epistemology for a general audience.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1241.

Professor Kelly, who is currently a visitor at ILLC, will give a two-part tutorial on Topological Epistemology for a general audience.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1241.

Professor Kelly, who is currently a visitor at ILLC, will give a two-part tutorial on Topological Epistemology for a general audience.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1241.

Professor Kelly, who is currently a visitor at ILLC, will give a two-part tutorial on Topological Epistemology for a general audience.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1241.

COIN, or Coalgebra in the Netherlands, is a seminar taking place alternating at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the CWI in Amsterdam. The aim of COIN is to bring together coalgebra researchers from various locations in the Netherlands, and share current results and questions in the world of coalgebra. We welcome presentations on any subject related to coalgebra.

The next COIN meeting is scheduled for Monday, 23 January 2012, at the Huygens building of the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, in room HG00.086. The schedule is as follows:
14:30 - 15:15 Jörg Endrullis (VU)
    Part 1: Causality via productivity
    Part 2: Degree of undecidability of stream equality
15:15 - 16:00 Bart Jacobs (RU)
    Bases as coalgebras
16:15 - 17:00 Joost Winter (CWI)
    Generalized context-freeness

For more information, see the seminar website at http://homepages.cwi.nl/~winter/coin.html

We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in our new monthly LogiCIC seminar series which is being organized within our ERC project on "The Logical Structure of Correlated Information Change". Every month, this seminar will host one or two invited speakers who present their latest research results on topics in Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. For the opening of this seminar next Tuesday, we have the honor to present you with two lectures. The speakers are Kevin T. Kelly and Hanti Lin from Carnegie Mellon University.

For more information and an abstract, see https://sites.google.com/site/logicicproject/logicic-seminar or here.

(Dutch only)
Taal is essentieel voor de mens. Mensen zijn de enige diersoort met taal en essentikle dingen die ons mens maken, zoals samenwerking, cultuur en wetenschap zouden niet mogelijk zijn zonder taal. Wetenschappers zijn daarom zeer geonteresseerd in hoe taal gekvolueerd is. Het enige aspect van taal waar fossiel bewijs voor is, is spraak. Deze presentatie behandelt een onderdeel van dat fossiele bewijs: het verdwijnen van de keelzak.

Keelzakken zijn grote zakken die verbonden zijn met het spreekkanaal. Alle apen hebben keelzakken, behalve de mens. Waarom zijn die keelzakken bij de mens verdwenen en heeft dat iets met spraak te maken? Deze vragen worden beantwoord en er kan zelfs gezegd worden hoe lang geleden dit allemaal gebeurd is.

De lezing van Bart de Boer wordt ingeleid door prof. dr. Paul Boersma.

For more information, see http://www.spui25.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/8E8CA761-2F20-43B5-AD2B7B3F6349055E

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1203

This is the closing workshop for the NWO project On Vagueness - And How to Be Precise Enough (2008-2012). The workshop brings together philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working on the topic.

Organisers: Harald Bastiaanse, Robert van Rooij, Galit W. Sassoon, and Frank Veltman.

For more information, see: http://sites.google.com/site/vaguenesscircle/workshop. Participation in the workshop is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to let us know if you have plans to come (galitadar at gmail.com), so that we have an estimation of number of participants (for technical arrangements).

In my book Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts, one of my aims was to show that pitch-class set theory was not just tailored to the analysis of revolutionary compositions, and that it neither heralded a new era of computational musicology - although it has been identified with each of these two claims from early on. What struck me was the continuity it exhibited with music theories of the past. And it seemed to enable the same kind of engagement with twentieth-century, "modernist" music as earlier generations had felt for the great masterworks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In this talk, I will take my cue from the relation between "similarity" and "distance", and discuss the "roadmaps" that music theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries conceived to establish the distances between tonal keys.

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

Or see here.

This is the closing workshop for the NWO project On Vagueness - And How to Be Precise Enough (2008-2012). The workshop brings together philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working on the topic.

Organisers: Harald Bastiaanse, Robert van Rooij, Galit W. Sassoon, and Frank Veltman.

For more information, see: http://sites.google.com/site/vaguenesscircle/workshop. Participation in the workshop is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to let us know if you have plans to come (galitadar at gmail.com), so that we have an estimation of number of participants (for technical arrangements).

The aim of the Interrogative Model of Inquiry Workshop is to bring together researchers interested in Hintikka's Interrogative Model of Inquiry (IMI), and to promote cooperation and exchange on research projects related to the development of the IMI. The workshop will be the occasion to assess the different past scientific contributions to the IMI, and to open and discuss possibilities for new research directions.

The IMI Workshop is made possible by the IMI Project funded by the ANR and hosted by the IHPST.

For more information, see http://imi2012.sciencesconf.org/ or contact Henri Galinon at henri.galinon at gmail.com.

The aim of the Interrogative Model of Inquiry Workshop is to bring together researchers interested in Hintikka's Interrogative Model of Inquiry (IMI), and to promote cooperation and exchange on research projects related to the development of the IMI. The workshop will be the occasion to assess the different past scientific contributions to the IMI, and to open and discuss possibilities for new research directions.

The IMI Workshop is made possible by the IMI Project funded by the ANR and hosted by the IHPST.

For more information, see http://imi2012.sciencesconf.org/ or contact Henri Galinon at henri.galinon at gmail.com.

For more information, see http://acg.project.cwi.nl/htbin/acg/ACG.php4?tid=290