ILLC News 2024-38

1) EVENTS THIS WEEK

• 17 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Paul Seip
• 19 September 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Rebecca Reiffenhäuser
• 20 September 2024, FOAM Seminar, Ronald de Haan
• 23 September 2024, Scientific Integrity Symposium
• 23 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Ștefan Zotescu

2) ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 25 September 2024, KdVI General Mathematics Colloquium, Maris Ozols
• 4 October 2024, DIP Colloquium, Emar Maier
• 11 October 2024, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Giorgio Sbardolini
• 22 November 2024, DIP Colloquium, Bart Geurts
• 17 January 2025, DIP Colloquium, Mora Maldonado

3) DEFENSES

• 27 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Yilun Wang

4) FUNDING, GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS

• ERC Proof of Concept Grants

5) OPEN POSITIONS, GENERAL

• Postdoc position on set theory, Turin (Italy)
• Post-Doctoral Position in Non-Deterministic Semantics and Algebraization of Logics, Campinas (Brazil)
• Lecturer in Logic at the Université de Fribourg

6) VALORISATION ACTIVITIES

• Kort niet op universiteiten want schade is te groot

1) EVENTS THIS WEEK

• 17 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Paul Seip

  Title: A Constructive Small Object Argument
  Date & Time: Tuesday 17 September 2024, 10:00
  Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
   

• 19 September 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

  Speaker: Rebecca Reiffenhäuser (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
  Title: How to sell your items online – with almost no prior info.
  Date & Time: Thursday 19 September 2024, 16:30-18:00
  Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/08/lira-session-rebecca-reiffenhauser/.
   

• 20 September 2024, FOAM Seminar, Ronald de Haan

  Speaker: Ronald de Haan
  Title: Algorithms for Pareto efficient and envy-free allocation
  Date & Time: Friday 20 September 2024, 15:00-16:15
  Location: Room L3.36, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

  Abstract:

  In the setting of fair allocation of indivisible goods, there are various desiderata that one might want from an allocation. Two important ones are envy-freeness and Pareto efficiency. In general, one cannot guarantee to find an allocation that satisfies both, and its computationally hard to find an allocation satisfying both, even if it exists. Moreover, this problem cannot even be directly en...

  For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk16/ or contact Gregor Behnke at g.behnke at uva.nl, or Ronald de Haan at r.dehaan at uva.nl.
   

• 23 September 2024, Scientific Integrity Symposium

  Date & Time: Monday 23 September 2024, 09:45-18:00
  Location: De Brug, Roeterseilandcampus, Building B/C/D, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, Amsterdam
  Target audience: Academic (support) staff, students, and anyone interested in improving scienctific integrity
  Costs: Free of charge

  At a time when AI introduces new challenges to the traditional scientific publishing system and the integrity of many established researchers is under scrutiny, the importance of maintaining scientific integrity is more crucial than ever. On September 23, the Open Science Community Amsterdam together with the Student Initiative for Open Science hosts the Scientific Integrity Symposium to highlight interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic, discuss prerequisites for fostering a culture of research integrity, and address the growing challenges of scientific fraud.

  This event is free to attend, and includes lunch, coffee-breaks, and drinks afterwards, but registration is required. You can choose to attend either the morning session, the afternoon session, or both, depending on your availability and interests. Register for the event here.

  For more information, see https://osc-international.com/osc-amsterdam/scientific-integrity-symposium/ or contact OSCA at mailto:openscience.amsterdam at gmail.com.
   

• 23 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Ștefan Zotescu

  Title: Multi-agent Topological Models for Evidence Diffusion
  Date & Time: Monday 23 September 2024, 13:00
  Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Sonja Smets & Aybüke Özgün
   

2) ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 25 September 2024, KdVI General Mathematics Colloquium, Maris Ozols

  Speaker: Maris Ozols
  Title: From dynamic programming to quantum groups
  Date & Time: Wednesday 25 September 2024, 16:00-17:00
  Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

  There will be no results in this talk. Instead, I will take you on a stroll through three areas of mathematics - combinatorics, representation theory, and quantum computing - and tell you a story about connections between them. The main characters in this story are: dynamic programming, RSK correspondence, Schur transform, q-deformation, and matrix quantum groups.

  For more information, see https://kdvi.uva.nl/news-and-events/colloquia/general-mathematics-colloquium.html or contact Jeroen Zuiddam at j.zuiddam at uva.nl.
   

• 4 October 2024, DIP Colloquium, Emar Maier

  Speaker: Emar Maier (Groningen)
  Date & Time: Friday 4 October 2024, 16:00-17:30
  Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35244/Emar-Maier-Groningen.
   

• 11 October 2024, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Giorgio Sbardolini

  Speaker: Giorgio Sbardolini
  Date & Time: Friday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:30
  Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/MLC-Seminar/event/35247/Giorgio-Sbardolini.
   

• 22 November 2024, DIP Colloquium, Bart Geurts

  Speaker: Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
  Date & Time: Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:30
  Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35245/Bart-Geurts-Nijmegen.
   

• 17 January 2025, DIP Colloquium, Mora Maldonado

  Speaker: Mora Maldonado (Nantes)
  Date & Time: Friday 17 January 2025, 16:00-17:30
  Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35246/Mora-Maldonado-Nantes.
   

3) DEFENSES

• 27 September 2024, Master of Logic defense, Yilun Wang

  Title: Oblivious transfer from One-Way Functions
  Date & Time: Friday 27 September 2024, 13:00
  Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Ronald de Wolf & Léo Colisson
   

4) FUNDING, GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS

• ERC Proof of Concept Grants

  Deadline: Tuesday 17 September 2024

  ERC Proof of Concept Grants are add-on grants offered by the ERC to Principal Investigators of ERC main research grants. The PoC Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research. The financial contribution will be awarded as a lump sum of €150.000 for a period of 18 months. Principal Investigators in an ongoing main grant or in a main grant that has ended less than 12 months before 1 January 2024 are eligible to apply.

  For more information, see https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/erc-2024-poc.
   

5) OPEN POSITIONS, GENERAL

• Postdoc position on set theory, Turin (Italy)

  Deadline: Monday 23 September 2024

  A call for applications for a one-year post-doc position in logic at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Torino has been published. The intended research area of the position is in model and/or set theory and/or related areas of mathematics. Salary is standard for Italian post-doc positions (€ 19.367 per year before taxes, N.B. the amount of taxes to be paid with this income is minimal). The position carries no teaching load. The position is for 12 months. The grant is relative to the PRIN 2022 project 'Models, Sets and Classifications’.

  For more information, see https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2024-ii-sdn/ or contact gianluca.paolini at unito.it.
   

• Post-Doctoral Position in Non-Deterministic Semantics and Algebraization of Logics, Campinas (Brazil)

  Deadline: Wednesday 2 October 2024

  Within the framework of the FAPESP Thematic Project "Rationality, logic, and probability: RatioLog" at the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE) at University of Campinas (UNICAMP) we offer a 2 years Post-Doctoral Position. The aim of the project, to be supervised by Prof. Marcelo E. Coniglio, is to generalize the well-known techniques introduced by Blok and Pigozzi for the algebraization of logics to the context of non-deterministic semantics. The framework is expected to be applicable to various paraconsistent and paracomplete logics, including Logics of Formal Inconsistency (LFIs), Logics of Evidence and Truth (LETs), and Ivlev-like non-normal modal logics, among others.

  For more information, see https://groupfortheoreticalandappliedlogic.my.canva.site/ratiolog2 or contact Marcelo E. Coniglio at coniglio at unicamp.br.
   

• Lecturer in Logic at the Université de Fribourg

  Deadline: Thursday 31 October 2024

  Applications are invited for the position of a lecturer (charge de cours) in logic (2 hours per week
  each semester) at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, starting 1st September 2025.

  For more information, see https://www.unifr.ch/philosophie/de/departement/offene-stellen.html.
   

6) VALORISATION ACTIVITIES

• Kort niet op universiteiten want schade is te groot

  

  Rens Bod - NRC, 13 september 2024

  For more information, see https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/09/13/kort-niet-op-universiteiten-want-schade-is-te-groot-a4865499 or contact Rens Bod at l.w.m.bod at uva.nl.