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26 March - 4 April 2005,
1st World Congress and School on Universal Logic (UNILOG-2005)
, Montreux - Switzerland

Date: 26 March - 4 April 2005
Location: Montreux - Switzerland
Deadline: 30 October 2004

Many conferences have been organized on specific techniques (combination of logics, labelled deductive systems, tableaux, etc.) or on some specific classes of logics (nonmonotonic logics, many-valued logics, paraconsistent logics, etc.). The idea of this event is to put together these various activities in order to promote interaction and to provide access of these different fields to the non-specialist. The school is intended for advanced students and young researchers.

Invited speakers of the congress will include A.Avron, D.Batens, J.Corcoran, M.Dunn, D.Gabbay, R.Jansana, A.Koslow, V.de Paiva, K.Segerberg.

Contributed papers for the congress can be submitted before October 30, 2004. For more information, see here or the website at http://www.uni-log.org.

1 April 2005, DIP Colloquium, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow

Date & Time: Friday 1 April 2005, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow (Leipzig)
Title: Achievements: Experimental studies and semantic analysis
Location: Room 001, Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

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

26 March - 4 April 2005,
1st World Congress and School on Universal Logic (UNILOG-2005)
, Montreux - Switzerland

Date: 26 March - 4 April 2005
Location: Montreux - Switzerland
Deadline: 30 October 2004

Many conferences have been organized on specific techniques (combination of logics, labelled deductive systems, tableaux, etc.) or on some specific classes of logics (nonmonotonic logics, many-valued logics, paraconsistent logics, etc.). The idea of this event is to put together these various activities in order to promote interaction and to provide access of these different fields to the non-specialist. The school is intended for advanced students and young researchers.

Invited speakers of the congress will include A.Avron, D.Batens, J.Corcoran, M.Dunn, D.Gabbay, R.Jansana, A.Koslow, V.de Paiva, K.Segerberg.

Contributed papers for the congress can be submitted before October 30, 2004. For more information, see here or the website at http://www.uni-log.org.

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

26 March - 4 April 2005,
1st World Congress and School on Universal Logic (UNILOG-2005)
, Montreux - Switzerland

Date: 26 March - 4 April 2005
Location: Montreux - Switzerland
Deadline: 30 October 2004

Many conferences have been organized on specific techniques (combination of logics, labelled deductive systems, tableaux, etc.) or on some specific classes of logics (nonmonotonic logics, many-valued logics, paraconsistent logics, etc.). The idea of this event is to put together these various activities in order to promote interaction and to provide access of these different fields to the non-specialist. The school is intended for advanced students and young researchers.

Invited speakers of the congress will include A.Avron, D.Batens, J.Corcoran, M.Dunn, D.Gabbay, R.Jansana, A.Koslow, V.de Paiva, K.Segerberg.

Contributed papers for the congress can be submitted before October 30, 2004. For more information, see here or the website at http://www.uni-log.org.

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

4 April 2005, Logic Tea, D.C. McCarty, The Logic Program, Indiana University

Date & Time: Monday 4 April 2005, 17:15-18:15
Speaker: D.C. McCarty, The Logic Program, Indiana University
Title: An Incompleteness Argument from the 19th Century
Location: Room P.017, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

Paul du Bois-Reymond was a noted mathematician and philosopher of the second half of the 19th Century, publishing on differential equations, analysis and the foundations of mathematics. His magnum opus, "General Function Theory", appeared in 1882 and contained what its author claimed to be a demonstration that mathematics is absolutely incomplete, that is, that there are mathematically meaningful and significant propositions A such that neither A nor not-A will ever be demonstrated by mathematicians. His arguments for this claim are not based on the idea of a formal system but on a detailed analysis of mathematical cognition. We will describe that analysis and assess for their cogency du Bois-Reymond's incompleteness arguments.

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 ().

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

5 April 2005, Statistical Inference, the Problem of Induction, and the Realism Debate, Jan-Willem Romeyn

Date & Time: Tuesday 5 April 2005, 16:00
Speaker: Jan-Willem Romeyn
Location: Department of Psychology, Roeterstraat 15, A 102

Science infers general statements and predictions from limited bodies of empirical evidence, and it therefore faces the problem of induction. Statistics plays an important role in how science solves this problem. In my talk I first make precise what role it plays, and then investigate the extent to which, in this role, it can support the realist ambitions of science.

The first task involves a critical analysis of the logical empiricist views of Carnap, and a reformulation of inductive inferences as Bayesian logical arguments. The second involves a reversed application of De Finetti's representation theorem, and a rather delicate mix of his strict subjectivism with the frequentist theory. However, these reform measures do not yet go far enough. In the last part of the talk will argue that scientists have good reasons for employing underdetermined statistical models.

For more information, please contact

5 April 2005, Logic Tea, Rosja Mastop

Date & Time: Tuesday 5 April 2005, 17:15-18:15
Speaker: Rosja Mastop
Title: Ross' problem vindicated in a constructive update semantics

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 ().

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

8 April 2005, ACLC Seminar, Lisa Lim

Date & Time: Friday 8 April 2005, 15:15-16:30
Speaker: Lisa Lim
Title: Singapore English: Variation, contact and change
Location: Room 401, Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc/object.cfm/

8 April 2005, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, D.C. McCarty, The Logic Program, Indiana University

Date & Time: Friday 8 April 2005, 16:00
Speaker: D.C. McCarty, The Logic Program, Indiana University
Title: An Incompleteness Argument from the 19th Century
Location: Room 048, Bestuursgebouw, Heidelberglaan 6, Utrecht
(Bus 12 from Utrecht Central Station).

Paul du Bois-Reymond was a noted mathematician and philosopher of the second half of the 19th Century, publishing on differential equations, analysis and the foundations of mathematics. His magnum opus, "General Function Theory", appeared in 1882 and contained what its author claimed to be a demonstration that mathematics is absolutely incomplete, that is, that there are mathematically meaningful and significant propositions A such that neither A nor not-A will ever be demonstrated by mathematicians. His arguments for this claim are not based on the idea of a formal system but on a detailed analysis of mathematical cognition. We will describe that analysis and assess for their cogency du Bois-Reymond's incompleteness arguments.

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

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

2-10 April 2005, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Date: 2-10 April 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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:

  • FOSSACS 2005: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
  • FASE 2005: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
  • ESOP 2005: European Symposium on Programming
  • CC 2005: International Conference on Compiler Construction
  • TACAS 2005: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

a number of satellite workshops, and other events.

For more information, see the ETAPS website at http://www.etaps05.inf.ed.ac.uk/

12 April 2005 (), Logic Tea, Balder ten Cate

Date & Time: Tuesday 12 April 2005 (<em>changed</em>), 17:15-18:15
Speaker: Balder ten Cate
Title: Playing with ultrafilter extensions
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 Olivier Roy () or Hartmut Fitz ().

14 April 2005, Colloquium Muziekwetenschap, prof. dr Marc Leman (Universiteit Gent)

Date & Time: 14 April 2005, 15:30
Speaker: prof. dr Marc Leman (Universiteit Gent)
Title: Alternatives to subjectivism in musicology
Location: Universiteitstheater, zaal 301

This talk is about the first chapter of a book which the author is currently finishing. The chapter introduces the problem of music signification and aims at analyzing the main themes of a new theory of music mediation. First, he introduces the distinction between direct involvement with music and description of this involvement. In both cases, it seems that subjective engagement with music is important. In a second section, the question is asked to what extent a subjectivist approach can contribute to a theory of music mediation. The position of subjectivism, however, is difficult to maintain because of its weak philosophical foundations in skepticism. Therefore, an alternative account, based on human action, is proposed. Finally, this alternative is considered in view of three foundations, namely linguistic descriptions, corporeal descriptions and the call for technology-mediated access to music.

Marc Leman is hoogleraar aan de afdeling Musicologie van de Vakgroep Kunst-, Muziek-, en Theaterwetenschappen van de Universiteit Gent (UGent). Hij is vakgroepvoorzitter en directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut IPEM. Hij heeft het statuut van onderzoeks-professor in de Systematische Musicologie, en zijn onderzoeksactiviteiten omvatten de methodologische en epistemologische grondslagen van de systematische muziekwetenshap.

For more information, see http://www.musicology.nl/

15 April 2005, DIP Colloquium, Jelle Gerbrandy

Date & Time: Friday 15 April 2005, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Jelle Gerbrandy
Title: Logics for Games
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

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

22 April 2005, ILPS Seminar, Ronny Lempel

Date & Time: Friday 22 April 2005, 13:30
Speaker: Ronny Lempel
(Israel)
Title: Search Engines are Closing in on Databases
Location: Room F.009, Informatics Institute, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar05-1.html#Apr22.

22 April 2005, ACLC Seminar, Silke Hamann

Date & Time: Friday 22 April 2005, 15:15-16:30
Speaker: Silke Hamann (Berlin)
Title: The Dutch labio-velar fricative system and what Germans make of it
Location: Room 401, Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc/object.cfm/

22 April 2005, DIP Colloquium, Simon Kirby

Date & Time: Friday 22 April 2005, 17:00-18:30
Speaker: Simon Kirby
Title: Iterated Learning and the Origins of Linguistic Structure
Location: Room 001, Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

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

26 April 2005, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), J-J. Ch. Meyer

Date & Time: Tuesday 26 April 2005, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: J-J. Ch. Meyer
()
Title: On the Semantics of (Multi) Agent Programming
Location: TU Eindhoven, HG 8.61

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

26 April 2005 (), Logic Tea, Chantal Bax

Date & Time: Tuesday 26 April 2005 (<em>Changed!</em>), 17:15-18:15
Speaker: Chantal Bax
Title: Subjectivity after Wittgenstein
Location: 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 Olivier Roy () or Hartmut Fitz ().

28-30 April 2005, LACL 2005: Fifth International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Bordeaux, France

Date: 28-30 April 2005
Location: Bordeaux, France

LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models.

For more information, an online registration form and a preliminary program, see http://lacl.labri.fr/

28 April 2005, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, C. Tapp

Date & Time: Thursday 28 April 2005, 15:30-16:30
Speaker: C. Tapp (München)
Title: Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory, in contact with catholic
+ theologians of his time
Location: Room K11 (Algemeen Colloquium), Wiskundegebrouw, Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht
(Bus 11 from Utrecht Central Station)

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

28-30 April 2005, LACL 2005: Fifth International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Bordeaux, France

Date: 28-30 April 2005
Location: Bordeaux, France

LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models.

For more information, an online registration form and a preliminary program, see http://lacl.labri.fr/

29 April 2005, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Emil Jerabek

Date & Time: Friday 29 April 2005, 16:00-17:00
Speaker: Emil Jerabek (München)
Title: Admissible rules of modal logics
Location: Room P.014, 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

28-30 April 2005, LACL 2005: Fifth International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Bordeaux, France

Date: 28-30 April 2005
Location: Bordeaux, France

LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models.

For more information, an online registration form and a preliminary program, see http://lacl.labri.fr/