On Saturday, 1 October 2016, from 12:00 to 17:00, the organisations based at Amsterdam Science Park will hold their annual Open Day featuring a mix of activities suitable for all ages.

For more information, see http://www.amsterdamsciencepark.nl/about-amsterdam-science-park/open-dag/

On October 5, the PhD Council will hold another PhD day. At this event, the PhD candidates are informed about the current activities of the council and potential issues raised among the PhDs are discussed. At the same time, we will welcome the newcomers. All PhD candidates are invited. It will be followed by a lunch at Maslow.

As in the previous editions, the purpose of this meeting is to inform you about various issues that are currently of importance in the ILLC and / or the Master of Logic programme. All ILLC staff, PhD students and guests are invited to attend.

Abstract: This lecture will be an introduction to the theory of judgment aggregation (JA). JA deals with the problem of combining the views of several individual agents regarding the truth of a number of propositions, expressed in the language of logic, into a single such view that appropriately reflects the stance of the group as a whole. Applications of JA range from aggregating the opinions of several judges in a court of law into a single legal opinion, all the way to aggregating information received from several autonomous software agents in the context of distributed computing systems.

For more information, see http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/distinguished-lectures/copy_of_vorlander

During the international open access week, held from Monday 24 until Thursday 27 October, we will pay attention to the transition of traditional journals and publications to open access.

We have invited two members of the Dutch open access negotiation team, who negotiated (on behalf of the VSNU) about open access with Elsevier, ACS, Springer, Wiley, etc. They will share their views, elucidate their intentions and the decisions that have been made so far, such as the type of agreement (free, discount, or vouchers) and in some cases the selection of journal titles. The audience is invited to share their opinion and views on these topics.

On October 27, 2016 we will have a symposium on congenital amusia. Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder that is neither caused by insufficient exposure to music, nor by a hearing deficiency, brain damage or intellectual impairment. People with congenital amusia (amusics) face lifelong impairments in the musical domain (music often causes discomfort to them). They cannot detect a pitch difference between two adjacent tones if this difference is one semitone or less.

The importance of and interest in open access is growing. It enables fast, efficient and accessible dissemination of academic knowledge. This lecture focuses on the vision and efforts of NWO in accelerating the transition to open access (including subsidies for flipping journals) will be discussed. The new NWO open access policy: what is it? How can researchers comply with this new policy and, last but not least, what’s in it for them?

Students and staff are welcome to join this informal meeting with the Executive Board.

We will discuss a paper by Mauch et al. who used music information retrieval as well as text-mining techniques to investigate the evolution of American pop music.

The candidate will bring to the position a relevant and innovative research agenda in the area of Digital Humanities and will be able to teach within the programs of Media Studies. The candidate will be especially interested in the critical study, development and application of digital research methods, techniques and tools. In the study of information and media (broadly understood as books, artworks, audio-visual media and digital media), digital research materials are evolving in spectacular fashion, leading to new research affordances that require a critical approach to media as information, as well as to how digital media structure the reuse and interpretation of born-digital and historical data.