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  • Assistant professor in Philosophy of Science

    Deadline: Sunday 11 October 2020

    Questions concerning the explanatory power of scientific theories, the role of emergence and observations are central in philosophy, and are now being asked with great urgency in fundamental physics and in the information sciences.

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Institute for Physics (IOP) of the University of Amsterdam are seeking an Assistant professor in Philosophy of Science, to discover new answers and insights on these and related topics.

  • Jana Sotáková wins best paper award at CRYPTO 2020

    Jana Sotáková, PhD student at UvA and Qusoft , won the best-paper award at the IACR flagship conference CRYPTO 2020 for her article "Breaking the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem for Class Group Actions Using Genus Theory".

    Jana Sotáková is a PhD student of Christian Schaffner (ILLC, UVA), Serge Fehr (CWI) and Peter Bruin (MI Leiden). Her article is co-authored with Dr. Wouter Castryck and Dr. Frederik Vercauteren of the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) research group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven.

ILLC Events this week

  • 28 September 2020, Master of Logic defense, Leo Lobski

    Title: Quantum quirks, classical contexts: Towards a Bohrification of effect algebras
    Date & Time: Monday 28 September 2020, 15:00
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili and Chris Heunen

  • 30 September 2020, Master of Logic defense, Frank Westers

    Title: Dynamic Logics for Model Transformations
    Date & Time: Wednesday 30 September 2020, 13:00
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Alexandru Baltag & Nick Bezhanishvili

  • 1 October 2020, Symposium retirement Jos Baeten

    Date & Time: Thursday 1 October 2020, 13:00-18:00
    Location: Online

    The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) of the NWO Institute Organisation and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam organize a symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Jos Baeten as general director of CWI and professor of theory of computing of ILLC on Thursday 1 October 2020.

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    1 October 2020, PhD Defense, Bastiaan van der Weij

    Title: Experienced listeners: Modeling the influence of long-term musical exposure on rhythm perception
    Date & Time: Thursday 1 October 2020, 13:00
    Location: Agnietenkapel
    Promotor: Henkjan Honing
    Copromotor: Marcus Pearce

    The defense can be followed via a livestream that will be announced shortly before the defense. The link to the livestream can also be found in the UvA promotieagenda.

    For more information, contact Bastiaan van der Weij at .