News and Events: Upcoming Events

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2 - 4 September 2025, International PhD School on Machine Learning and Optimization

Date & Time: 2 - 4 September 2025, 09:20-17:00
Location: Turing Hall, CWI, Science Park 125, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Target audience: PhD Students
Costs: 60 Euro
Deadline: Sunday 24 August 2025

The PhD School delves into the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of integrating novel techniques into algorithm design and is tailored for PhD students interested in the growing intersection of Machine Learning and Optimization. The school combines lectures with collaborative group works. Registration is now open.

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2 - 4 September 2025, International PhD School on Machine Learning and Optimization

Date & Time: 2 - 4 September 2025, 09:20-17:00
Location: Turing Hall, CWI, Science Park 125, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Target audience: PhD Students
Costs: 60 Euro
Deadline: Sunday 24 August 2025

The PhD School delves into the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of integrating novel techniques into algorithm design and is tailored for PhD students interested in the growing intersection of Machine Learning and Optimization. The school combines lectures with collaborative group works. Registration is now open.

3 September 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Alejandro Poveda

Date & Time: Wednesday 3 September 2025, 16:15-17:45
Speaker: Alejandro Poveda (Barcelona)
Title: A tutorial on Radin forcing, Part I
Location: Online via Zoom
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2 - 4 September 2025, International PhD School on Machine Learning and Optimization

Date & Time: 2 - 4 September 2025, 09:20-17:00
Location: Turing Hall, CWI, Science Park 125, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Target audience: PhD Students
Costs: 60 Euro
Deadline: Sunday 24 August 2025

The PhD School delves into the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of integrating novel techniques into algorithm design and is tailored for PhD students interested in the growing intersection of Machine Learning and Optimization. The school combines lectures with collaborative group works. Registration is now open.

4 September 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Eric Pacuit

Date & Time: Thursday 4 September 2025, 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)
Title: Agreement Under Common p-Belief: Beyond Partitions and Probabilities.
Location: online

5 September 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Alejandro Poveda

Date & Time: Friday 5 September 2025, 16:15-17:45
Speaker: Alejandro Poveda (Barcelona)
Title: A tutorial on Radin forcing, Part II
Location: Online via Zoom

11 September 2025, FOAM Seminar, Théo Delemazure

Date & Time: Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:00-16:15
Speaker: Théo Delemazure
Title: Reallocating Wasted Votes in Proportional Parliamentary Elections with Thresholds
Location: Room L3.33, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk25/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

12 September 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Stelios Sycallides

Date & Time: Friday 12 September 2025, 16:15-17:45
Speaker: Stelios Sycallides (Cambridge)
Title: On the foundationality and naturalness of extensions to the Zermelo-Fraenkel system of axioms
Location: Online via Zoom
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17 September 2025, Post-quantum Cryptography Transition in the Financial Sector

Date & Time: Wednesday 17 September 2025, 14:00-15:30
Location: Online
Costs: Free

At this event we will discuss the state of play, challenges and the way forward of the post-quantum cryptography transition in such a critical sector as the financial system as part of the ILLC research project Quantum Impact on Societal Security.

18 - 20 September 2025, Do we carry music in our genes?

Date: 18 - 20 September 2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain

On 18-20 September 2025, the annual the Musicality Genomics consortium (https://www.mcg.uva.nl/musicgens), featuring our own Henkjan Honing, discussed musicality and genomics in Barcelona, Spain. We organized a public event with speakers in the beautiful Palau de la Música Catalana. This event also marked the beginning of a new documentary.

For more information, see https://www.palaumusica.cat/en/the-musical-genome-roundtable_1492462 or contact Henkjan Honing at .

18 September 2025, IPN Colloquium, Professor Edward A. Lee

Date & Time: Thursday 18 September 2025, 16:00-17:00
Speaker: Professor Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA)
Title: IPN Colloquium: Certainty or Intelligence: Pick One!
Location: Online

To celebrate the achievements of IPN in the past 25 years, IPN is organising a special, online series of colloquia in which world-renowned computer scientists give their view on the progress in, and future of the field of computer science. These colloquia will feature thought-provoking presentations that are of interest to a broad (academic) computer science audience. Although these colloquia are initially aimed at the Dutch computer science community, they are open to interested people around the world!

For more information, see here or at https://ict-research.nl/ipn-colloquia/ or contact b.d.tencate@uva.nl at .

18 September 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Jan Broersen

Date & Time: Thursday 18 September 2025, 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Jan Broersen (Utrecht University)
Title: The Knowledge-Behaviour Disconnect in LLM-based Chatbots
Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / Online (Zoom)

18 - 20 September 2025, Do we carry music in our genes?

Date: 18 - 20 September 2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain

On 18-20 September 2025, the annual the Musicality Genomics consortium (https://www.mcg.uva.nl/musicgens), featuring our own Henkjan Honing, discussed musicality and genomics in Barcelona, Spain. We organized a public event with speakers in the beautiful Palau de la Música Catalana. This event also marked the beginning of a new documentary.

For more information, see https://www.palaumusica.cat/en/the-musical-genome-roundtable_1492462 or contact Henkjan Honing at .

18 - 20 September 2025, Do we carry music in our genes?

Date: 18 - 20 September 2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain

On 18-20 September 2025, the annual the Musicality Genomics consortium (https://www.mcg.uva.nl/musicgens), featuring our own Henkjan Honing, discussed musicality and genomics in Barcelona, Spain. We organized a public event with speakers in the beautiful Palau de la Música Catalana. This event also marked the beginning of a new documentary.

For more information, see https://www.palaumusica.cat/en/the-musical-genome-roundtable_1492462 or contact Henkjan Honing at .

26 September 2025, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting & ILLC Colloquium

Date & Time: Friday 26 September 2025, 15:30-18:30
Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

The ILLC Colloquium happens three times per year (as the Autumn Colloquium, the Midwinter Colloquium, or the Midsummer Colloquium), usually directly after the Current Affairs meeting. The Colloquium brings together the six research units at the ILLC and each event consists of at least two talks by representatives from different units. The colloquium is concluded by a get together of the entire ILLC community.

All staff members, PhD candidates, MoL students and any guests of the ILLC are welcome to attend the colloquium.

For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/Autumn-2025/ or contact Aybüke Özgün at .

29 September 2025, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine

Date & Time: Monday 29 September 2025, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
Title: Getting rich but staying weak: Usable foundational systems for finitistic mathematics
Location: Zoom

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.