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2 December 2009, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Stefan Frank
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/
3 December 2009, PROSE Colloquium, Mohammad Mousavi
For more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/prose/
3 December 2009, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Daniele Porello
For more information, see here or https://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/, or contact Ulle Endriss (ulle.endriss at uva.nl).
4 December 2009, DIP Colloquium, Simon Kirby (Edinburgh)
evolutionary linguistics
For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/
4 December 2009, Spui25, Henkjan Honing, Annemie Ploeger,
Machiel Keestra & Jaap van Heerden
Machiel Keestra & Jaap van Heerden
(Dutch only)
Je zou kunnen zeggen dat muziek in evolutionair opzicht
zinloos is: het stilt onze honger niet, en we leven er geen
dag langer door. Muziek lijkt weinig nut te hebben, behalve
misschien dat we er plezier aan beleven als we het maken of
ernaar luisteren. Althans, dat was de redenering van cognitief
psycholoog Steven Pinker. Pinker zette taal af tegen muziek,
waarbij taal stond voor een evolutionair relevante, en muziek
voor een evolutionair irrelevante menselijke eigenschap.
Klopt dat? Zijn er echt geen argumenten aan te voeren dat muziek een beslissende rol heeft gespeeld in de evolutionaire ontwikkeling van de mens? Is muziek niet eerder een 'adaptatie', een aanpassing, die bijgedragen heeft aan het overleven van de mens als groep? Of is ze toch, zoals Pinker stelt, niet meer dan een prettige bijwerking van belangrijker functies zoals spraak en taal?
Een gesprek hierover met Henkjan Honing, Annemie Ploeger en Machiel Keestra, onder leiding van Jaap van Heerden, n.a.v. het verschijnen van Iedereen is muzikaal: wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek bij uitgeverij Nieuw Amsterdam.
Voor meer informatie, zie http://www.spui25.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/C8F6CB1B-1321-B0BE-6870D88F10191EA8.
11 December 2009, New Directions in Preference Representation
Preferences are ubiquitous and unavoidable when dealing with interacting agents. This workshop consists of five talks by researchers in preference representation, highlighting recent work. No registration is required.
For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~juckelma/events/ndipr.
14-16 December 2009, Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics (TIGAEC)
On December 14-16, 2009 the Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics, and the Fourth Dutch-Russian Symposium will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
There is no registration fee, but because of capacity restrictions, participation into the workshop and symposium is limited to about 35 participants. For more information, see http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/mestevez/WebPage_TIGAEC/default.php
14 December 2009, Logic Tea, Sam van Gool
The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ For more information, please contact Lorenz Demey (lorenzdemey at hotmail.com), or Yurii Khomskii (Y.D.Khomskii at uva.nl)
14 December 2009, De Stelling van..., Johan van Benthem
[In Dutch only]
Een reeks gepresenteerd door universiteitshoogleraren van de UvA. In samenwerking met bureau Communicatie.
De stelling van dr. Johan van Benthem luidt: ‘Het academisch debat bestaat niet.'
In
het zelfbeeld van veel academici is een levendig publiek debat de bron
van de wetenschappelijke vooruitgang, want 'bij de botsing der meningen
vonkt de waarheid'. Interessant academisch debat is aan de universiteit
echter opvallend afwezig, betoogt Van Benthem.
For more information, see http://www.cms.uva.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/34917699-1321-B0BE-6801F753DACBB3E7
14-16 December 2009, Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics (TIGAEC)
On December 14-16, 2009 the Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics, and the Fourth Dutch-Russian Symposium will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
There is no registration fee, but because of capacity restrictions, participation into the workshop and symposium is limited to about 35 participants. For more information, see http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/mestevez/WebPage_TIGAEC/default.php
15 December 2009, "The End of Infinity", Symposium
The one-day symposium The End of Infinity marks the end of the NWO-FOCUS/BRICKS sponsored research project Infinity, concerned with infinite objects, computation, modeling, and reasoning. In several talks participants of the Infinity project will report on the results that have been obtained in the project, new insights and challenges for ongoing research. There will be invited talks by Larry Moss and Hans Zantema.
For more information, see http://infinity.few.vu.nl/infinity/index.php/The_End_of_Infinity
14-16 December 2009, Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics (TIGAEC)
On December 14-16, 2009 the Tinbergen Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory and Economics, and the Fourth Dutch-Russian Symposium will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
There is no registration fee, but because of capacity restrictions, participation into the workshop and symposium is limited to about 35 participants. For more information, see http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/mestevez/WebPage_TIGAEC/default.php
16-18 December 2009, 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held December 16 - 18 2009 at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
Details about the symposium, and about the submission of abstracts, can be found at: https://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2009/
16-18 December 2009, 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held December 16 - 18 2009 at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
Details about the symposium, and about the submission of abstracts, can be found at: https://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2009/
16-18 December 2009, 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held December 16 - 18 2009 at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
Details about the symposium, and about the submission of abstracts, can be found at: https://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2009/
18 December 2009, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Dries Vermeulen
For more information, see here or https://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss (ulle.endriss at uva.nl).