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27 March - 4 April 2004, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Date: 27 March - 4 April 2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics related to Software Science. It is a confederation of five main conferences, a number of satellite workshops and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04/

1 April 2004, Logic Tea, Francien Dechesne, Universiteit Tilburg/TU Eindhoven

Date & Time: Thursday 1 April 2004, 17:15-18:30
Speaker: Francien Dechesne, Universiteit Tilburg/TU Eindhoven
Title: IF-Logic and The Art of Theorem Reconstruction
Location: Room P.017, Euclides building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, please contact Hartmut Fitz ().

27 March - 4 April 2004, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Date: 27 March - 4 April 2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics related to Software Science. It is a confederation of five main conferences, a number of satellite workshops and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04/

2 April 2004, ILLC Meeting on Intuitionism

Date & Time: Friday 2 April 2004, 13:15-17:00
Location: Room 3.27, Euclides building, Pl. Muidergracht 24

It happens that at the ILLC there are presently 6 persons who have some actual relation with intuitionism. A meeting is organized in which they present their interests in an introductory way to each other; other ILLC members are welcome as well.

For a preliminary program, see here

2 April 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Caterina Caracciolo and Sebastian Brand

Date & Time: Friday 2 April 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Caterina Caracciolo and Sebastian Brand
Title: Towards a topic driven access to full text documents
/ Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Location: Room B2.44, Gebouw B, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Apr02.

2 April 2004, DIP Colloquium, Anna Mlynarczyk

Date & Time: Friday 2 April 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Anna Mlynarczyk (Utrecht)
Title: An Aspectual Classification of Polish Verbs
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/.

27 March - 4 April 2004, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Date: 27 March - 4 April 2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics related to Software Science. It is a confederation of five main conferences, a number of satellite workshops and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04/

27 March - 4 April 2004, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Date: 27 March - 4 April 2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics related to Software Science. It is a confederation of five main conferences, a number of satellite workshops and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04/

6 April 2004, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), Gilles Dowek

Date & Time: Tuesday 6 April 2004, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Title: Cut elimination for axiomatic theories
Location: TU Eindhoven, HG 6.96

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/zic/ or contact Francien Dechesne ().

15-16 April 2004, Workshop on MODELS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Date: 15-16 April 2004
Location: 'Soeterbeeck', Ravenstein (NB)
Target audience: PhD-students and Post Docs
Costs: Euro 185

The goal of the workshop is to inform PhD-students about the standard philosophical views on the logical and methodological function of models in science and technology. Furthermore, it is our objective to confront these views with the ways in which scientists and engineers use models in their everyday scientific work.

This workshop will be held in the context of the Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology. Speakers include Wilfrid Hodges, Marcel Boumans, Peter van Oosterom, Michiel Korthals and Sjoerd Zwart.

Participants should register before April 1st,by sending an e-mail to and by paying the workshop fee of Euro 185. The fee covers accommodation, meals and course material. Registration is definitive only after the workshop fee has been received.

For more specific information turn to: Sjoerd Zwart (, tel: 015-2785906).

15 April 2004, Logic Tea, Sieuwert van Otterloo

Date & Time: Thursday 15 April 2004, 17:15-18:30
Speaker: Sieuwert van Otterloo (Liverpool)
Title: Preferences in Game Logics
Location: Room P.017, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, please contact Merlijn Sevenster () or Hartmut Fitz ().

15-16 April 2004, Workshop on MODELS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Date: 15-16 April 2004
Location: 'Soeterbeeck', Ravenstein (NB)
Target audience: PhD-students and Post Docs
Costs: Euro 185

The goal of the workshop is to inform PhD-students about the standard philosophical views on the logical and methodological function of models in science and technology. Furthermore, it is our objective to confront these views with the ways in which scientists and engineers use models in their everyday scientific work.

This workshop will be held in the context of the Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology. Speakers include Wilfrid Hodges, Marcel Boumans, Peter van Oosterom, Michiel Korthals and Sjoerd Zwart.

Participants should register before April 1st,by sending an e-mail to and by paying the workshop fee of Euro 185. The fee covers accommodation, meals and course material. Registration is definitive only after the workshop fee has been received.

For more specific information turn to: Sjoerd Zwart (, tel: 015-2785906).

16 April 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Jan Hidders

Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Jan Hidders
(ADReM, University of Antwerp)
Title: Satisfiability of XPath Expressions
Location: Room B2.44, Gebouw B, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Apr16.

16 April 2004, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Nick Bezhanishvili

Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2004, 16:00-17:00
Speaker: Nick Bezhanishvili
Title: The logic of the Rieger-Nishimura ladder
Location: Euclides Building (P), Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam
(Tram 9 from Central Station, to Plantage Badlaan.)

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html

16 April 2004, DIP Colloquium, Andreas Haida

Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Andreas Haida (Berlin)
Title: Focus in Interrogatives
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/.

20 April 2004, ILLC 'TEST-TALKS' MOSAIEK, Fenrong Liu, Reut Tsarfati, Loredana Afanasiev

Date & Time: Tuesday 20 April 2004, 11:30-13:00
Speaker: Fenrong Liu Reut Tsarfati Loredana Afanasiev
Location: room 3.27, building Euclides, Pl. Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

NWO organized three workshops to guide and evaluate the candidates and their proposals. On the 23rd of April the third workshop will take place and it involves talks by the candidates that will be play a role in evaluating the candidates and their proposals for this final round of selection. In this preparatory meeting, the three ILLC candidates will present their talks and invite comments.

Max duration is 1 hour 30 minutes, up to 30 minutes per candidate. The candidates and titles of talks:
1) Fenrong Liu; Logic of Social behavior
2) Reut Tsarfati; Beyond Trees: Morphological and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution for Hebrew
3) Loredana Afanasiev;Model checking based algorithms for efficient query evaluation on XML documents

20 April 2004, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), Jesper Carlström

Date & Time: Tuesday 20 April 2004, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: Jesper Carlström
(Stokholm/Nijmegen)
Title: Interpreting descriptions in intensional type theory
Location: TU Eindhoven, Auditorium 12 (<em>please note the unusual location</em>)

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/zic/ or contact Georgi Jojgov ().

22 April 2004, Logic Tea, Alessandra Palmigiano

Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2004, 17:15-18:30
Speaker: Alessandra Palmigiano (Barcelona)
Title: Selfextensional logics, duality and coalgebras
Location: Room P.017, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, please contact Merlijn Sevenster () or Hartmut Fitz ().

23 April 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Arjen P. de Vries

Date & Time: Friday 23 April 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Arjen P. de Vries
(CWI, Amsterdam)
Title: Tolerance to Irrelevance: A User-effort Oriented Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Apr23.

23 April 2004, DIP Colloquium, Henriette de Swart

Date & Time: Friday 23 April 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Henriette de Swart (Utrecht University)
Title: Marking and interpretation of negation: a bi-directional OT approach
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/.

26-29 April 2004, Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004: "Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity", Valencia, España

Date: 26-29 April 2004
Location: Valencia, España
Costs: € 120; € 60 for students
Deadline: 30 November 2003

Focus on the challenges posed by cyberculture and the new artistic practices that use digital technologies and emerging technologies for their development. These technologies and the discussions, which they generate, have a wide-reaching social repercussion.

For more information, see here or http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/congreso_en.htm

26-29 April 2004, Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004: "Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity", Valencia, España

Date: 26-29 April 2004
Location: Valencia, España
Costs: € 120; € 60 for students
Deadline: 30 November 2003

Focus on the challenges posed by cyberculture and the new artistic practices that use digital technologies and emerging technologies for their development. These technologies and the discussions, which they generate, have a wide-reaching social repercussion.

For more information, see here or http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/congreso_en.htm

26-29 April 2004, Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004: "Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity", Valencia, España

Date: 26-29 April 2004
Location: Valencia, España
Costs: € 120; € 60 for students
Deadline: 30 November 2003

Focus on the challenges posed by cyberculture and the new artistic practices that use digital technologies and emerging technologies for their development. These technologies and the discussions, which they generate, have a wide-reaching social repercussion.

For more information, see here or http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/congreso_en.htm

26-29 April 2004, Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004: "Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity", Valencia, España

Date: 26-29 April 2004
Location: Valencia, España
Costs: € 120; € 60 for students
Deadline: 30 November 2003

Focus on the challenges posed by cyberculture and the new artistic practices that use digital technologies and emerging technologies for their development. These technologies and the discussions, which they generate, have a wide-reaching social repercussion.

For more information, see here or http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net/congreso_en.htm