News and Events: Projects and Awards

Projects and Awards

• (New) Lorenzo Galeotti elected to the Council of the Association CiE

  At the virtual AGM of the Association Computability in Europe on 2 July 2020, Lorenzo Galeotti was elected to serve on the Association Council for four years (2020 to 2024).

• (New) Election results FoLLI Board

  The members of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) have elected their new Management Board with some ILLC members: Sonja Smets was elected as new Vice President and Benedikt Löwe was elected as new member of the Board.

  For more information, see http://www.folli.info/.

• Federica Russo receives RPA Human(e) AI Grant

  To accelerate the work on AI, the UvA has launched a new Research
  Priority Area, Human(e) AI, which aims to synthesise ongoing work and stimulate new research on the societal consequences of AI. We are pleased to announce that Federica Russo (ILLC), Eric Schliesser (Faculty of of Social and Behavioural Sciences) and Jean Wagemans (ACLC) receive an RPA grant for their project entitled Towards an Epistemological and Ethical 'Explainable AI'.

  For more information, see https://humane-ai.nl/seed-funded-projects-2020-2021/towards-an-epistemological-and-ethical-explainable-ai/ or contact Federica Russo at F.Russo at uva.nl.

• Davide Grossi receives RPA Human(e) AI Grant

  To accelerate the work on AI, the UvA has launched a new Research
  Priority Area, Human(e) AI, which aims to synthesise ongoing work and stimulate new research on the societal consequences of AI. We are pleased to announce that Davide Grossi (ILLC), Prof. Alessio Pacces (Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam Business School), Prof. Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (Amsterdam Law School) have received an RPA grant for their project entitled Collective Decisions in Law and Economics: A Computational Perspective.

  For more information, see https://humane-ai.nl/research/seed-funding-projects-2020-2021/ or contact Davide Grossi at d.grossi at rug.nl.

• Raquel Fernández and Sandro Pezzelle receive RPA Human(e) AI Grant

  To accelerate the work on AI, the UvA has launched a new Research Priority Area, Human(e) AI, which aims to synthesise ongoing work and stimulate new research on the societal consequences of AI. We are pleased to announce that Raquel Fernández (ILLC), Margot van der Goot (ASCoR) and Sandro Pezzelle (ILLC) have received an RPA grant for their project entitled Exploring Adaptation of Conversational Systems to Different Age Groups.

  For more information, see https://humane-ai.nl/seed-funded-projects-2020-2021/exploring-adaptation-of-conversational-systems-to-different-age-groups/ or contact Sandro Pezzelle at s.pezzelle at uva.nl.

• Rens Bod has been appointed International Francqui Professor at Ghent University

  We are pleased to announce that Rens Bod (ILLC) has been appointed International Francqui Professor at Ghent University. This appointment includes a visit to the faculty of Arts and Philosophy from Februari until June 2021.

  For more information, see https://www.ugent.be/lw/nl/actueel/nieuws/rensbod.htm or contact Rens Bod at L.W.M.Bod at uva.nl.

• Henkjan Honing receives ABC Research Grant

  Henkjan Honing (ILLC ) and Pilou Bazin (FMG) received an ABC Project Grant for their proposal on studying how temporal expectations shape musical experience in the human brain. This interdisciplinary project takes advantage of a wide variety of expertise available within the University of Amsterdam. It was reviewed as “novel and exciting”, with a “solid experimental paradigm and well-defined predictions at the computational and neural level”, using “state-of-the-art modelling and imaging approaches”.

  For more information, see https://abc.uva.nl/ or contact Henkjan Honing at h.j.honing at uva.nl.

• Robert Paßmann receives Cultuurfondsbeurs

  Robert Paßmann received a Cultuurfondsbeurs of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds to visit the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2020/21. He will become a member of St John's College, Cambridge.

  For more information, contact Benedikt Löwe at bloewe at science.uva.nl.
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  Floris Roelofsen has been awarded a grant in ZonMw's COVID-19 programme

  We are pleased to announce that Floris Roelofsen (ILLC) has been awarded a grant in ZonMw's COVID-19 programme. With this grant Floris Roelofsen (ILLC) and A.S. Smeijers (AUMC) will improve the communication between health care providers and deaf patients.

  For more information, see https://www.zonmw.nl/nl/subsidies/openstaande-subsidieoproepen/detail/item/covid-19-wetenschap-voor-de-praktijk/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at floris.roelofsen at gmail.com.
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  Harry Buhrman joins Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

  Quantum researcher Harry Buhrman joins the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The KNAW is the most relevant Dutch society of top scientists. Together with seventeen other researchers, Buhrman will be installed as a new Academy member. Buhrman is affiliated with the CWI and the University of Amsterdam. He is also director and founder of research institute QuSoft, which focuses on the development of quantum software and applications of quantum computers and quantum networks.

  For more information, see https://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/nieuws/knaw-kiest-achttien-nieuwe-leden or contact Harry Buhrman at buhrman at cwi.nl.

• Paul Vitányi and Ming Li receive 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award

  Paul Vitányi (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and his colleague Ming Li (University of Waterloo in Canada) have received one of seven 2020 McGuffey Longevity Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association for An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications.

  For more information, see https://www.cwi.nl/news/2020/ming-li-and-paul-vitanyis-textbook-on-kolmogorov-complexity-receives-a-2020-mcguffey-longevity-award or contact Paul Vitányi at Paul.Vitanyi at cwi.nl.
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  Giovanni Colavizza has been awarded an NWO Corona: fast-track data grant

  We are pleased to announce that Giovanni Colavizza (ILLC) has been awarded an NWO Corona: fast-track data grant, to work on Collecting systematic survey data on scientists’ information-seeking and information-spreading behaviour in a time of crisis. The grant funds a postdoc for 6 months.

  For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/sgw/corona-fast-track-data/corona-fast-track-data.html or contact dr Giovanni Colavizza at g.colavizza at uva.nl.