Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

Speakers: Zoé Christoff (University of Groningen) and Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam).

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

Do you want to work with our systems, but do you lack the required knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on system trainings at our SURF office in Amsterdam.

Trainings will take place online until further notice due to the COVID-19 regulations.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

Abstract:
Proof-theoretic semantics aims to explain the meaning of the logical constants in terms of the inference rules that govern their behaviour in proofs. One of its central concepts is that of harmony: roughly, the match between the rules stipulating the conditions for introducing a logical constant in a proof and those for eliminating it from a proof. There are many accounts of harmony, most of them are developed against a background that assumes the rules of Identity and Cut, taken to codify the reflexivity and transitivity of logical consequence. We have argued elsewhere that the proof-theoretic project should be approached relative to a logic, i.e., relative to a consequence relation, and that the consequence relation relevant for proof-theoretic semantics is the one given by the sequent-to-sequent derivability relation in Gentzen systems. This relation is always reflexive, monotonic, and transitive, but it being so does not depend on the availability of sequent rules codifying these properties. In this talk we investigate the prospects for an account of harmony adequate for logics that lack the structural rules of Identity and Cut.​

The talk will take place on MS Teams. Please contact the organizers for information about how to join the online meeting.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

The workshop will take place on Monday, December 14th 2020 from 09:50 to 12:50 and from 15:00 to 18:00. The workshop is associated to the PhD defense of Ilaria Canavotto.

The talk by Philip Kremer that was scheduled for Wednesday 16 December has been cancelled due to personal circumstances. The talk will be rescheduled at a later date.

QuSoft’s lustrum covers the first three weeks of December, with Opening day on December 3, Science Week from December 7 to 11, and Business and Society Day on December 17. Opening Day will be presented by Jim Jansen, editor in chief of the popular science magazine New Scientist. And among the keynote speakers are renowned scientists such as Ignacio Cirac, Dorit Aharonov and Gilles Brassard. Also Freeke Heijman from Quantum Delta NL will speak and Christian Schaffner is invited to talk about the new quantum innovation hub Quantum.Amsterdam.

Abstract:
In this talk, I argue that the model of semantic universals and variation in terms of complexity/informativeness trade-off (Kemp & Regier, 2012; Regier et al., 2015; Kemp et al., 2018) is applicable to the domain of Boolean connectives. In particular, I propose that the model explains the cross-linguistic absence of the connective NAND, once we incorporate the theoretical insights from Horn (1972) (cf. also Katzir and Singh, 2013). The lack of NAND follows if languages optimise the trade-off between (a) simplicity of the lexicon mea- sured by the number of propositional logic symbols necessary to express the meaning of the connectives and (b) informativeness of the lexicon measured by how much it facilitates accurate transfer of information, given scalar implicature. This model is essentially a reformulation of the explanations proposed by Horn (1972) and Katzir and Singh (2013), but has advantages over them in two respects: it rules out several unattested inventories that are not ruled out by Horn/K&S and it can be generalised to possible languages consisting of connectives among all 16 boolean connectives, not just the four ‘corners’ of the square of opposition, i.e., AND, OR, NOR, and NAND.

This talk takes place on MS Teams, please contact the organiser for more information about how to join the meeting.