For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4

For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar07-1.html#Feb2.

The ILLC will host the next meeting of the Diamant/Eidma cryptography working group. The meeting will take place in Room D028, Roeterseiland, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, Amsterdam.

Details of the program can be found at the Eidma website at http://www.win.tue.nl/wsk/eidma/cwg.html. For more information, please contact peter at science.uva.nl.

For abstracts and more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bloewe/CML.html

Recently, the dynamic and interactive aspects of logical reasoning, communication, and information processing have become central in logic, linguistics and computer science. It is the interplay of many actors with goals and preferences, whether human or computational, which underlies their core tasks. To account for these interactive aspects, the notion of a 'game' as a mathematical model of strategic interaction between players with their own preferences on the possible outcomes has proved to be important in all those disciplines.

The purpose of this colloquium is to encourage these incipient interactions between the various disciplines thinking about games and interaction, and clarify their common concerns and potential for fruitful collaboration. The colloquium will be organized as an Academie Colloquium of the Royal Acedemy of the Netherlands (KNAW) and will consist of fifteen invited talks by international speakers that cover various aspects of games in logic, computer science, economics, and linguistics. Each talk will be followed by a commentary and discussion.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/KNAW-AC/

Recently, the dynamic and interactive aspects of logical reasoning, communication, and information processing have become central in logic, linguistics and computer science. It is the interplay of many actors with goals and preferences, whether human or computational, which underlies their core tasks. To account for these interactive aspects, the notion of a 'game' as a mathematical model of strategic interaction between players with their own preferences on the possible outcomes has proved to be important in all those disciplines.

The purpose of this colloquium is to encourage these incipient interactions between the various disciplines thinking about games and interaction, and clarify their common concerns and potential for fruitful collaboration. The colloquium will be organized as an Academie Colloquium of the Royal Acedemy of the Netherlands (KNAW) and will consist of fifteen invited talks by international speakers that cover various aspects of games in logic, computer science, economics, and linguistics. Each talk will be followed by a commentary and discussion.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/KNAW-AC/

Recently, the dynamic and interactive aspects of logical reasoning, communication, and information processing have become central in logic, linguistics and computer science. It is the interplay of many actors with goals and preferences, whether human or computational, which underlies their core tasks. To account for these interactive aspects, the notion of a 'game' as a mathematical model of strategic interaction between players with their own preferences on the possible outcomes has proved to be important in all those disciplines.

The purpose of this colloquium is to encourage these incipient interactions between the various disciplines thinking about games and interaction, and clarify their common concerns and potential for fruitful collaboration. The colloquium will be organized as an Academie Colloquium of the Royal Acedemy of the Netherlands (KNAW) and will consist of fifteen invited talks by international speakers that cover various aspects of games in logic, computer science, economics, and linguistics. Each talk will be followed by a commentary and discussion.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/KNAW-AC/

A workshop on "Musical Structure: Expectation generation, disruption and resolution", will take place on Wednesday the 7th of February following Neta Spiro's PhD defence at 12:00. The talks will begin at 2:30. Everybody is welcome to attend.

Speakers include:
Rens Bod, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, NL.
Ian Cross, Centre for Music & Science, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK
Rokus de Groot, Faculty of Music, University of Amsterdam, NL
Pieter Adriaans, University of Amsterdam¸ N
Henkjan Honing, ILLC, University of Amsterdam¸ N

Since the workshop will be at a private address, please contact Neta at ns319 at cam.ac.uk for further information.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in collaboration with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is organizing a Master Class on "New perspectives on Games and Interaction". This Master Class will feature three tutorials by Alexandru Baltag (Oxford), Giacomo Bonanno (UC Davis), and Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen).

If you are interested, please register before January 15, 2007. The registration fee is € 5,-. For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/KNAW-AC/MasterClass/.

This is the first meeting of the seminar "Logic, Language and Reasoning" (this is a provisional title). This seminar aims at bringing together the Netherlands-based researchers interested in human reasoning. After the talk there will be time for discussion between the participants in order to organise the next sessions of the seminar.

For more information, see here or contact Fabian Battaglini at Fabian.Battaglini at let.uu.nl

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For the abstract of this talk, see here

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4

For more information, see here or https://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss (ulle at illc.uva.nl).

Note that the fprmerly-announced talk by Leif Azzopardi has been moved to March 23. For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar07-1.html#Feb16.

For abstracts and more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bloewe/CML.html

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Als we collectief de klimaatverandering binnen de perken willen houden, dan zullen we moeten inzien dat effectieve collectieve actie nooit de optelsom kan zijn van individueel handelen. Collectieve weet van de actiebereidheid van de hele groep is nodig voor succesvol collectief handelen, betoogt prof. dr. Jan van Eijck in deze editie van Maagdenhuis op Maandag.

Voor meer informatie, zie here of http://www.uva.nl/maagdenhuisopmaandag/.

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19 February 1907 promoveerde L.E.J. Brouwer in de aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Exact 100 jaar later zal Professor van Dalen een lezing houden over deze revolutionair, die tot de grootste zieners en geleerden van de twintigste eeuw behoorde.

Voor meer informatie, zie http://www.forumeuropesecultuur.nl/. Reserveren is gewenst: receptie at felix.meritis.nl of telefoon: (020)6231311.

For more information, see http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/acg/ACG.php4?mode=future

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4

We cordially invite you to attend the plenary session of the annual site visit of the dean of the Faculty of Science. The site visit takes place Thursday February 22 from 13.00-17.30. We explicitly ask our Humanities colleagues to be present, as the directors visit the ILLC as an interfaculty institute, not only the Science part.

The full text of this announcement can be found at here.

For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar07-1.html#Feb23.

In this lecture I will present some recent work I did with Paul Vitanyi and Ceriel Jacobs on the application of the MDL (Minimum Description Length) principle to grammar induction. We have studied MDL in terms of two-part code optimization and randomness deficiency. These notions will be explained in the lecture. In this framework we showed that: 1) Shorter code not necessarily leads to better theories, e.g. the randomness deficiency does not decrease monotonically with the MDL code, 2) contrary to what is suggested by the results of Gold:1967 there is no fundamental difference between positive and negative data from an MDL perspective, 3) MDL is extremely sensitive to the correct calculation of code length. Using these ideas we have implemented a MDL variant of the EDSM algorithm. The results show that although MDL works well as a global optimization criterion, it falls short of the performance of algorithms that evaluate local features of the problem space. MDL can be described as a global strategy for featureless learning.

For more information, see http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/perils.pdf and http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pietera/ALS/background/lncs_icgi-mdl.pdf.
For more information on HAI-Tea lectures, see http://www.science.uva.nl/onderwijs/studieprogramma/haitea/.

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, see here or contact Jonathan Zvesper (jonathan at illc.uva.nl), Hartmut Fitz (h.fitz at uva.nl) or Joel Uckelmann (juckelma at science.uva.nl).