ILLC News 2026-34

1) EVENTS THIS WEEK

• 26 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Jay Warnock
• 26 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Merlin Krzemien
• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Giacomo Bruno Ruggero de Antonellis
• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Vighnesh Iyer
• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Josje van der Laan
• 28 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Gidon Kaminer
• 28 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Shihui Li
• 28 August 2026, FOAM Seminar, Kanstantsin Pashkovich
• 28 August 2026, MoL introduction pizza party
• 31 August 2026, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Ian Pratt-Hartmann

2) ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 4 September 2026, A Special QuSoft Seminar on impact of LLMs on research
• 30 October 2026, Save the date: ILLC Open Day 2026

3) DEFENSES

• 14 September 2026, Master of Logic defense, Max Wehmeier

4) PROJECTS AND AWARDS

• Jaap Jumelet wins the EurAI Dissertation Award

5) FUNDING, GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS

• ERC Advanced Grant 2026

6) OPEN POSITIONS, GENERAL

• Lecturer in Computational Social Science at King's College London [UK]
• Professor of Computational Literary Studies with a focus on the intersection of research and research infrastructure at the University of Tübingen [DE]

7) PUBLICATIONS

• ILLC Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series MoL-2026-15, Twan Kroll
• Conference contribution by Bakker, J., Kamps, J. (2025)
• Chapter by Dona, Loïs, Schouwstra, M. (2026)
• Conference contribution by Ermakova, L., Azarbonyad, Hosein, Bakker, J., Shahi, Gautam Kishore, Vendeville, B., Kamps, J. (2026)
• 16 external ILLC publications registered

1) EVENTS THIS WEEK

• 26 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Jay Warnock

  Title: The GL Expressive Containment Problem for Simple Modal Fragments
  Date & Time: Wednesday 26 August 2026, 11:00
  Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Balder ten Cate and Xi Yang
   

• 26 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Merlin Krzemien

  Title: Spanner Queries: A Query Language for Information Extraction
  Date & Time: Wednesday 26 August 2026, 13:00
  Location: online
  Supervisor: Balder ten Cate
  For more information, contact merlin.krzemien at student.uva.nl.
   

• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Giacomo Bruno Ruggero de Antonellis

  Title: Initial Algebras for Endofunctors preserving Filtered Colimits
  Date & Time: Thursday 27 August 2026, 09:00
  Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
  Mentor: Aybüke Ozgün
   

• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Vighnesh Iyer

  Title: What Makes a Productive Completeness Theory?
  Date & Time: Thursday 27 August 2026, 11:00
  Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Ronald de Haan
   

• 27 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Josje van der Laan

  Title: An Intuitionistic Temporal Logic for Brouwer’s Creating Subject Arguments
  Date & Time: Thursday 27 August 2026, 13:00
  Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
   

• 28 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Gidon Kaminer

  Title: Learning to Theorize in Mental Terms
  Date & Time: Friday 28 August 2026, 13:00
  Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Fausto Carcassi
   

• 28 August 2026, Master of Logic defense, Shihui Li

  Title: Context-sensitive modeling of metaphoric potential with Large Language Models
  Date & Time: Friday 28 August 2026, 15:00
  Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Jelke Bloem, Xiaojuan Tan
   

• 28 August 2026, FOAM Seminar, Kanstantsin Pashkovich

  Speaker: Kanstantsin Pashkovich
  Title: Efficient Algorithms for Online Subadditive Combinatorial Allocations
  Date & Time: Friday 28 August 2026, 15:00-16:15
  Location: Room L2.07, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
  For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk34/ or contact Gregor Behnke at g.behnke at uva.nl, or Ronald de Haan at r.dehaan at uva.nl.
   

• 28 August 2026, MoL introduction pizza party

  Date & Time: Friday 28 August 2026, 17:30
  Location: Restaurant Polder, Science Park, Amsterdam

  Join us for the opening event of the new academic year and welcome the new cohort of Master of Logic students with us! We will enjoy drinks, pizzas (vegan and gluten-free available) and stimulating company at out usual venue, the restaurant Polder. 

   

• 31 August 2026, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Ian Pratt-Hartmann

  Speaker: Ian Pratt-Hartmann
  Title: Variable-ordering fragments of first-order logic
  Date & Time: Monday 31 August 2026, 16:00-17:30
  Location: Zoom

  The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

  See the announcement for the next talk in the link below. If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

  For more information, see https://scandinavianlogic.org/2026-08-20-NOL-Seminar-Ian-Pratt-Hartmann.html or contact Val Goranko at valentin.goranko at philosophy.su.se.
   

2) ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 4 September 2026, A Special QuSoft Seminar on impact of LLMs on research

  Date & Time: Friday 4 September 2026, 10:00-15:00
  Location: room L016, CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam [NL]

  QuSoft invites to an ad-hoc mini-conference on the impact of LLMs on (the core of) our jobs. Instead of our regular QuSoft Seminar, we have invited more speakers and more guests from theoretical sciences.

  The event is free, but please register via this form.

  For more information, see https://qusoft.org/2026/08/11/special-qusoft-seminar-impact-of-llms-on-theory-research/.
   

• 30 October 2026, Save the date: ILLC Open Day 2026

  Date: Friday 30 October 2026
  Location: Science Park, Amsterdam

  Save the date for the ILLC Open Day planned for Friday, 30 October 2026. More info coming soon!

   

3) DEFENSES

• 14 September 2026, Master of Logic defense, Max Wehmeier

  Title: Towards a Joyal-Tierney Theorem for Arrow Algebras
  Date & Time: Monday 14 September 2026, 13:00
  Location: room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
   

4) PROJECTS AND AWARDS

• Jaap Jumelet wins the EurAI Dissertation Award

  We are pleased to announce that Jaap Jumelet received the EurAI Dissertation Award for Best European AI Dissertation for his thesis "Finding Structure in Language Models". Congratulations!

  For more information, see https://www.eurai.org/award/Jaap-Jumelet or contact illc at uva.nl.
   

5) FUNDING, GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS

• ERC Advanced Grant 2026

  Deadline: Thursday 27 August 2026

  Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants  (Principal Investigators or PI) are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements. The PI should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. No specific eligibility criteria with respect to the academic requirements are foreseen.

  For more information, see https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/advanced-grant?utm_campaign=grant_update_ixa&utm_source=deployteq&utm_medium=e-mail.
   

6) OPEN POSITIONS, GENERAL

• Lecturer in Computational Social Science at King's College London [UK]

  The Methods Centre in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Computational Social Science who combine methodological expertise in cutting-edge computational techniques, including Artificial Intelligence, with an understanding of pluralistic and interdisciplinary social science research. 

  The successful candidate will be responsible for undertaking high-quality research in this area individually and collaboratively through grant applications and dissemination. They are expected to build research collaborations within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and beyond. They will also be responsible for developing relevant teaching and training provision in the area of computational social science together with colleagues. They will work with the Methods Centre Director and the Faculty Research Team to locate new research and funding opportunities.

  For more information, see https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/154985-lecturer-in-computational-social-science or contact Claudia Aradau at claudia.aradau at kcl.ac.uk.
   

• Professor of Computational Literary Studies with a focus on the intersection of research and research infrastructure at the University of Tübingen [DE]

  Deadline: Wednesday 16 September 2026

  Applicants should demonstrate excellent research achievements either in a subject in the humanities with a focus on information science and computational literary studies or in information science and digital humanities with a strong emphasis on the humanities perspective. An integral component of the position’s profile are competences in the field of developing methods and infrastructure solutions for machine-based exploration and analysis of analogue.

  The position also entails tasks relating to research-based teaching (2 hours per week) within the competences of the professorship and the MA specialization Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities.

  For more information, see https://www.dla-marbach.de/ueber-uns/stellenangebote/aktuelle-stellenangebote/w2-professur-fuer-computational-literary-studies/ or contact Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker at berufungen at philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de, or Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter at sandra.richter at dla-marbach.de.
   

7) PUBLICATIONS

• ILLC Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series MoL-2026-15, Twan Kroll

  Title: On the Efficiency of Hybrid Objective Multi-Unit Auctions
  For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Reports/reportlist/?Series=MoL#MoL-2026-15.
   

• Conference contribution by Bakker, J., Kamps, J. (2025)

  Title: Section-level Simplification of Biomedical Abstracts.
  In Christodoulopoulos, Christos Chakraborty, Tanmoy Rose, Carolyn Peng, Violet (Eds.), The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing : Proceedings of the Conference: EMNLP 2025 : November 4-9, 2025 (pp 13819-13833). Association for Computational Linguistics.

  For more information, see https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.697.

   

• Chapter by Dona, Loïs, Schouwstra, M. (2026)

  Title: Iconicity in the evolution of language: Computational models and laboratory experiments .
  In Fischer, Olga Akita, Kimi Perniss, Pamela (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language (pp 773-787). Oxford University Press.

  For more information, see https://osf.io/download/tzbvk/.

   

• Conference contribution by Ermakova, L., Azarbonyad, Hosein, Bakker, J., Shahi, Gautam Kishore, Vendeville, B., Kamps, J. (2026)

  Title: CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More).
  In Campos, Ricardo Jatowt, Adam Lan, Yanyan Aliannejadi, Mohammad Bauer, Christine MacAvaney, Sean Anand, Avishek Bai, Nan Mansoury, Masoud Ren, Zhaochun Verberne, Suzan (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval: 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29–April 2, 2026 : proceedings (pp 215-224) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16486). Springer.

  For more information, see https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_31.

   

• 16 external ILLC publications registered

  Between 2026-08-17 and 2026-08-24 a total of 16 external ILLC publications have been registered in PURE (including the ones listed before)
  For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Searchable-List/?filterAddedAfter=2026-08-17+15%3A00&filterAddedBefore=2026-08-24+15%3A00.