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  • 20 December 2017, E.W. Beth Lecture, Stewart Shapiro

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 December 2017, 20:30-21:30
    Speaker: Stewart Shapiro
    Title: Open texture, and its ramifications for logic and semantics
    Location: D0.09, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Changed!)

    This year's E. W. Beth Lecture will be given by Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University, Columbus), well known
    for his work on the Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, and Philosophy of Language.

    The purpose of this talk is to articulate and evaluate Waismann's notion of open-texture. We contrast this notion with the more well-known accounts of analyticity articulated by the logical positivists, Rudolf Carnap in particular, the rejection of analyticity by W. V. O. Quine, and its subsequent defense by Grice and Strawson. One underlying theme is how far open-texture reaches. Do we follow Waismann and restrict it to empirical predicates, or is the phenomenon more general, applying even in science and mathematics? Our goal is to explore the extent to which the Waismannian insights bear on the enterprise of natural language semantics and of the model-theoretic notion of logical consequence. Does the fact that contemporary model theory, and
    many of the models for lexical semantics, allow no room for open-texture tell against those enterprises, as they are currently practiced?

    The E.W. Beth lecture is part of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2017. Drinks will be served after the lecture in Kapitein Zeppos.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2017/ or contact Frank Veltman at .
  • 20 - 22 December 2017, 21st Amsterdam Colloquium (AC'2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Date: 20 - 22 December 2017
    Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 1 September 2017

    The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The 21st Amsterdam Colloquium will feature two workshops on Causality and Semantics and on Formal and Distributional Perspectives on Meaning; and one evening lecture, jointly organized with the E.W. Beth Foundation.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2017/.
  • 19 December 2017, Logic of Conceivability seminar, Hannes Leitgeb

    Date & Time: Tuesday 19 December 2017, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Hannes Leitgeb
    Title: HYPE: A System of Hyperintensional Logic (With an Application to Semantic Paradoxes)
    Location: Doelenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Hannes Leitgeb will give a special Logic of Conceivability seminar in which he will talk of his own system of hyperintensional logic: HYPE.

  • 18 December 2017, ABC Colloquium, Michelle Greene | Stanford University

    Date & Time: Monday 18 December 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Michelle Greene | Stanford University (USA)
    Title: From pixels to categories: the representational dynamics of real-world scene understanding
  • 15 December 2017, Cool Logic, Leïla Bussière

    Date & Time: Friday 15 December 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Leïla Bussière
    Title: Come to the dark ages, we have logics!
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Insights into the history of logic in the Western Middle Ages

    From the beginning of the 11th century to the last sparks of scholasticism in the 16th, logic had a central role in the Western educational scene. Seen as a necessary foundation for any theoretical research, logical studies were also undertaken for themselves, as the meeting point of philosophical exploration into meaning and reasoning, and formal inquiry into the underlying structures of language. As such, medieval logics cover a variety of topics, going from elaborating a theory of Aristotelian syllogism to reflecting on the structure of modalities and tenses, accounting for fallacies and paradoxes, and even exploring the ontological structure underlying reference.

    How did medieval logics evolve, moving between formal accounts and philosophical insights? What can they teach us? Come on Friday, December 15th to find out!

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/82 or contact Dean McHugh at .
  • 14 December 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Wesley Fussner

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 December 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Wesley Fussner (Denver)
    Title: Relational semantics for R-mingle
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 13 December 2017, A|C seminar, Wesley Fussner

    Date & Time: Wednesday 13 December 2017, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Wesley Fussner
    Title: Stone-Priestley duality for MTL triples
    Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Julia Ilin at .
  • 8 December 2017, Real-time Applications of Fuzzy Logic Control, Tufan Kumbasar

    Date & Time: Friday 8 December 2017, 13:00-14:00
    Speaker: Tufan Kumbasar
    Location: Room C1.112, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    This talk will introduce the basic concepts of type-1 and type-2 fuzzy logic control and showcase various successful applications of fuzzy logic control with real time settings such as in Computer Games, UAVs, Mobile Robotics, Pursuit-Evasion Games and Process Control.

    For more information, see here or contact Aysenur Bilgin at .
  • 7 December 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Cancelled

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 December 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Jana Wagemaker

    Unfortunately, today's LIRa seminar scheduled speaker, Jana Wagemaker, is ill. Fortunately, next week's speaker, Malvin Gattinger, has accepted to give his talk today. Thus today's seminar will run as usual, only with a different speaker.

  • 7 December 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Malvin Gattinger

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 December 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Malvin Gattinger (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Call Me When You’re Sober: Strengthening Dynamic Gossip Protocols
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 7 December 2017, Workshop Grammars Everywhere: language, music, art, perception & the legacy of Remko Scha

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 December 2017, 09:00-16:00
    Location: Muziekzaal, Crea, Nieuwe Achtergracht 170, Amsterdam
    Costs: Free
    Deadline: Friday 1 December 2017

    Remko Scha (1945-2015) was professor of computational linguistics at the UvA’s Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. During his career, he made significant scientific and artistic contributions to areas as diverse as question answering, discourse analysis, the semantics of plurals, Data-Oriented Parsing, aleatoric music, algorithmic art, and theories and models of visual perception and creativity. In this workshop we celebrate these contributions with talks on current developments in many of the areas he was interested in.

  • 6 December 2017, Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar, Elbert Booij

    Date & Time: Wednesday 6 December 2017, 14:00-16:00
    Speaker: Elbert Booij
    Title: The Necessity of Objects
    Location: Faculteitskamer (1.17), Oude Turfmarkt 145-147, Amsterdam
  • 6 December 2017, Workshop:Grammars, Computation and Cognition. A workshop honouring the scientific legacy of Remko Scha

    Date & Time: Wednesday 6 December 2017, 09:00-16:00
    Location: Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
    Costs: Free
    Deadline: Friday 1 December 2017

    The field of computational linguistics has made much progress in developing models of syntactic and semantic parsing. With current models we can compute with great accuracy and speed the constituency and dependency structure of sentences, predict semantic roles and sentiment, or derive representations that allow us to retrieve and infer facts, summarize text and translate into other languages. However, do these technological advances also yield a better understanding of how language is learned and processed by humans? In this workshop we discuss recent developments in using parsing models for analyzing empirical data from psycholinguistics and brain imaging, developments in rich parsing models that do justice to intricate structural properties of natural languages and unsolved challenges from these domains.

  • 6 - 8 December 2017, 2nd Amsterdam SMART Cognitive Science Conference: 'SMART Animals', Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Date: 6 - 8 December 2017
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    We are happy to announce the second Amsterdam SMART Cognitive Science Conference on the theme of ‘SMART Animals’. The conference will take place in Amsterdam, from December 6th-8th. The conference will consist of three plenary evening lectures and debates, and three successive workshops devoted to the topics of animal cognition in the broad sense (i.e., including humans).

    The conference is free of charge. Due to space limitations, however, you will need to formally register to be allowed in the workshop or lecture rooms. We therefore encourage you to register as soon as possible. The deadline for registration is November 15th. You can find the link to the registration form here.

    For more information, see here or at http://smartcs.uva.nl/conference-2017/ or contact SMART Cognitive Science at .
  • 1 December 2017, Cool Logic, Yvette Oortwijn

    Date & Time: Friday 1 December 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Yvette Oortwijn
    Title: Quarrels on Quantification: Revising Set Theory Again?
    Location: F1.15, ILLC Seminar Room

    Michael Dummett has a variety of arguments for why we should favour intuitionistic over classical logic. Most of his arguments attack the complete realism one needs to believe in bivalence, but there is one argument concerning mathematics specifically, based on a phenomenon he calls indefinite extensibility. We see what this phenomenon is and why it matters for the foundation of mathematics.

    Now, most of us think that getting rid of naive comprehension got us out of the biggest problems of naive set theory. With this we abandon the possibility of forming a set of all sets and dodge all kinds of paradoxes. According to Dummett, though, this is not enough. We got rid of a symptom, but there still exists an underlying problem. He argues that the only sensible thing to do is to adopt intuitionistic logic. But is this actually the case? And is it really sensible to claim that unrestricted quantification should be possible?

    We will look into a different solution: the potential hierarchy of sets, as formulated by Linnebo. This view of sets gives an explanation of why unrestricted quantification is not possible, instead of merely restricting it. This account of the hierarchy of sets also sheds new light on the abandonment of naive set theory.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/81 or contact Dean McHugh at .
  • 1 December 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group, Ned McGowan

    Date & Time: Friday 1 December 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Ned McGowan (with live demonstration on piano by Laurens de Boer)
    Title: Speed in Music, Brain and Body
    Location: 1.01A Universiteitstheater. Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16

    In this presentation, the physical and cognitive experience of speed in music is explored. Organic to all cultures, music is not only an emergent property of the timing mechanisms of the brain (Craig, 2009) but also a manifestation of who we are, how we think and how we feel. The engagement of brain and body with sound reflects the temporal functions of physical, cultural and personal identities. Thus, much can be learned about another by simply listening to their music.

    Organic to music is time; without time, there is no music. Nonetheless, the phenomenon of time with its broad implications in the sciences tells little about our experiences. The concept of speed, though, is full of enlightening character. Take some common terms to describe tempo in music: largo (broadly), adagio (slow and stately), allegro (fast, quickly and bright), vivacissimo (very fast and lively). Speed is relational and reveals aspects of how we think and feel. It is innately human.

  • 30 November 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Anthia Solaki

    Date & Time: Thursday 30 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Anthia Solaki (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Not so lost in the Wild: logical systems for resource-bounded reasoning
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 23 November 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Peter Hawke

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Peter Hawke (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Epistemic Logic as Knowability Relative to Information
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 22 November 2017, Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar, Jesse Mulder

    Date & Time: Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00-16:00
    Speaker: Jesse Mulder
    Title: A Powerful Idea
    Location: Faculteitskamer (1.17), Oude Turfmarkt 145-147, Amsterdam
  • 22 November 2017, LoC Seminar, Anthia Solaki

    Date & Time: Wednesday 22 November 2017, 10:00-12:00
    Speaker: Anthia Solaki
    Title: The Logic of Fast and Slow Thinking
    Location: OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143, Amsterdam
  • 17 November 2017, Cool Logic, Grzegorz Lisowski and Max Rapp

    Date & Time: Friday 17 November 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Grzegorz Lisowski and Max Rapp
    Title: Is the Triviality of AGM a Serious Possibility?
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Have you ever wondered whether it is really rational to learn new things? Well, if you plan on taking the Ramsey-test, you're in for a surprise. It is the only exam that one can only pass if one has learned nothing at all.

    This is true at least if you believe the AGM-postulates for belief revision. In reality of course, we all know there is a serious possibility to fail an exam if one did not study. But no worries: according to AGM, serious possibilities are paradoxical. So just stop studying, you'll be fine. Unfortunately, in this talk we plan to burst this bubble by presenting an AGM-semantics which allows one to pass the Ramsey-Test by studying. Thus failing now is a serious possibility. Why would we do such a stupid thing? Well, we just know how much you all love studying logic.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/80 or contact Dean McHugh at .
  • 17 November 2017, DIP Colloquium, Carlo Nicolai

    Date & Time: Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Carlo Nicolai (Utrecht University)
    Title: Intensional Paradoxes and the Maxim of Maximal Recapture
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 16 November 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Jean Wagemans

    Date & Time: Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Jean Wagemans (FGW, University of Amsterdam)
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 16 November 2017, CoSaQ, Galit Agmon

    Date & Time: Thursday 16 November 2017, 11:30-13:00
    Speaker: Galit Agmon (Jerusalem)
    Title: CoSaQ lecture on downward monotonicity
    Location: Room 6.05, PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam

    Abstract: “A small number of circles are blue” and “few circles are blue” seem to convey the same meaning – that the quantity of blue circles is below some contextual criterion. Moreover, both contain a negative degree element ("few" as the negative of "many"; "small" as the negative of "large"). However, "few" is downward monotone while "a small number" is not. Downward Monotonicity is a formal logical property of certain linguistic expressions, but is it also cognitively relevant for language processing? In this talk I will present evidence for cognitive correlates of downward monotonicity, by presenting results of RT and fMRI experiments that compare e.g. "few" to "a small number", and argue that the cognitive complexity of downward monotonicity is part of the mental representation of the sentence.

    For more information, see http://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Jakub Szymanik at .
  • 13 November 2017, AUC Logic Lectures Series, Johan van Benthem

    Date: Monday 13 November 2017
    Speaker: Johan van Benthem
    Title: Logic and Information flow
    Location: AUC Common Room, Science Park 113, Amsterdam

    Logic is about valid reasoning, which can be seen as a form of elucidating information from data already at our disposal. Logic can also deal with other forms of information flow, by observation or by communication. We will discuss how this can be done, and whether in the end there is just one or several notions of information involved in logic.

  • 9 November 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Chenwei Shi

    Date & Time: Thursday 9 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Chenwei Shi
    Title: DeGroot Meets Kripke - Group belief as a tendency towards consensus
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 3 November 2017, Cool Logic, Grzegorz Lisowski and Max Rapp

    Date & Time: Friday 3 November 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Grzegorz Lisowski and Max Rapp
    Title: Is the Triviality of AGM a Serious Possibility?
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Have you ever wondered whether it is really rational to learn new things? Well, if you plan on taking the Ramsey-test, you're in for a surprise. It is the only exam that one can only pass if one has learned nothing at all.

    This is true at least if you believe the AGM-postulates for belief revision. In reality of course, we all know there is a serious possibility to fail an exam if one did not study. But no worries: according to AGM, serious possibilities are paradoxical. So just stop studying, you'll be fine. Unfortunately, in this talk we plan to burst this bubble by presenting an AGM-semantics which allows one to pass the Ramsey-Test by studying. Thus failing now is a serious possibility. Why would we do such a stupid thing? Well, we just know how much you all love studying logic.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/80 or contact Dean McHugh at .
  • 3 November 2017, DIP Colloquium, Cancelled

    Date: Friday 3 November 2017

    Please note that the joint DIP/Cognition@ILLC session with Rafal Urbaniak (Ghent University) scheduled for Friday 3 November has been cancelled.

  • 3 November 2017, NWO Talent Scheme Information Meeting (Veni, Vidi, Vici)

    Date & Time: Friday 3 November 2017, 09:00-17:00
    Location: NWO Java building, Laan van NIeuw Oost-Indië 300 in The Hague

    NWO organises information meetings for researchers who want to apply for a Veni, Vidi of Vici grant. Practical information is given and selection committee members, NWO secretaries and researchers who have already acquired a Veni, Vidi or Vici share their experiences during a question and answer session. The meetings are in English.

  • 2 November 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Yuri David Santos

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 November 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Yuri David Santos (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen)
    Title: A Dynamic Informational-Epistemic Logic
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 27 October 2017, Joint session DiP Colloquium & Cognition@ILLC, Prof. Richard Menary

    Date & Time: Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Prof. Richard Menary (Macquarie University)
    Title: Mathematical Cognition, a Case of  Enculturation: Redux
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, 1098 XG Amsterdam

    Abstract:

    In 2015 I argued that full mathematical cognition was the result of a process of enculturation. Given that symbolic mathematics is a very recent acquisition—mathematical symbol systems are only thousands of years old and some mathematical practices are only hundreds of years old—it could not be the result of a genetically inherited and specialised module. How then do we acquire the capacity for symbolic mathematics in ontogeny? I return to the argument I presented there, that we should pay close attention to the social and cultural pressures that gave rise to the need for arithmetic and mathematics and to the cultural practices that were developed for thinking abstractly about quantity. Mathematical practices recruit a number of existing capacities including the capacity for numerosity (which appears to be an ancient endowment), the capacity for sensorimotor manipulation of tools and the ability to perform sequences of operations according to norms (or rules).

  • 27 October 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group, Peter Harrison

    Date & Time: Friday 27 October 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Peter Harrison
    Title: Representing Harmony in Statistical Theories of Western Tonal Music
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    The notion of representation is crucial for understanding Western tonal harmony. We investigate the explanatory power of different harmony representations in a series of computational studies, analyzing large datasets of classical, popular, and jazz music. The results demonstrate the structural importance of many representations from music psychology and music theory, with structural importance varying as a function of musical genre. Combining these representations into one statistical model allows considerably more accurate characterizations of harmonic structure. The results have implications for music theory, music information retrieval, and music psychology.

    For more information, see https://musicreadinggroup.wordpress.com/ or contact Bastiaan van der Weij at .
  • 25 October 2017, Proof-checking Euclid, Michael Beeson

    Date & Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:00-14:00
    Speaker: Michael Beeson
    Location: Ravensteynzaal, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, 3512 HM Utrecht

    This is joint work with Julien Narboux and Freek Wiedijk. We used computer proof-checking methods to verify the correctness of our proofs of the propositions in Euclid Book I. We used axioms as close as possible to those of Euclid, in a language closely related to that used in Tarski's formal geometry. We used proofs as close as possible to those given by Euclid, but filling Euclid's gaps and correcting errors. Then we checked those proofs in the well-known and trusted proof checkers HOL Light and Coq. The talk will contain many geometrical diagrams and discuss both the geometry and the proof-checking.

  • 20 October 2017, Cool Logic, Hana Möller Kalpak

    Date & Time: Friday 20 October 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Hana Möller Kalpak
    Title: Unconcealing concealed questions
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Cool Logic is a logic seminar by and for Master and PhD Students of the ILLC.



    Hana's talk this week proposes an account of concealed questions (e.g. 'I know your age') that extends Aloni & Roelofesn (2011). The talk features one of the most trivial card games ever invented, and the best division of semantic and pragmatic labour in the history of the United States (period). Come see for yourselves!

    For more information, see here or at http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact Dean McHugh at .
  • 20 October 2017, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting

    Date & Time: Friday 20 October 2017, 16:15-17:45
    Location: ILLC Common Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    As in the previous editions, the purpose of this meeting is to inform you about various issues that are currently of importance in the ILLC and / or the Master of Logic programme. All ILLC staff, PhD students and guests are invited to attend.

    For more information, contact .
  • 20 October 2017, Workshop "The Classics of the Humanities II"

    Date & Time: Friday 20 October 2017, 09:30-17:00
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 20 October 2017

    What are the classics of humanistic scholarship? Most historians of science or historians of philosophy would be able to produce a list of classical texts within their field in a short time. Such texts are well known, often reproduced, and recommended in syllabi and readers around the world. Nothing similar exists for the history of the humanities. Even if much debate in recent decades has criticized the idea of canons, there may be good reasons why we need one. An established list of classics would not only make the history of humanities a more teachable topic, but also to promote new research in the field. On the one hand, such a list could inspire scholars to reinvestigate the classics. On the other hand, it could provoke others to question what should and should not be considered classics, as it has happened in recent decades in other historical fields.

  • 19 October 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Adam Bjorndahl

    Date & Time: Thursday 19 October 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Adam Bjorndahl
    Title: The Epistemology of Nondeterminism
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 17 October 2017, ABC Colloquium, Ram Frost

    Date & Time: Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Ram Frost (Hebrew University, Israel)
    Title: Visual statistical learning and writing systems: Learning to read a new orthography
    Location: Room 1.11, Roeterseilandcampus building G, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129-B, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://abc.uva.nl/events/events.html.
  • 16 October 2017, AUC Logic Lectures Series, Alexandru Baltag

    Date & Time: Monday 16 October 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Alexandru Baltag (ILLC/UvA)
    Title: Logic Goes Viral - the fate of truth in the age of information
    Location: AUC Common Room, Science Park 113, Amsterdam

    Abstract:

    This is an invitation to reflect on the successes and failures of collective rationality, particularly as embodied in modern mechanisms for mass information-aggregation-and-exchange (media, markets, voting, social networks, crowdsourcing). What are the nature, sources and dynamics of “collective knowledge”? Do the benefits provided by ''the wisdom of the crowds" outweigh the dangers posed by the stupidity or even ''madness" of the crowds? Do the above-mentioned aggregation mechanisms fulfill their epistemic promises (helping us acquire relevant information and take better collective decisions), or do they end up creating their own pseudo-reality (as exemplified by echo-chambers, ''fake news" and ''alternative facts"), leading in the end only to catastrophic mass delusions and self-defeating protest votes?

    Can Logic and Philosophy help us understand this dilemma? Can Computer science help us verify and ''debug" our social software, diagnose its weaknesses and provide tools for social-informational ''mechanism design", that could be used to prevent the worst forms of ''groupthink"? Can ''epistemic democracy" actually work and endure? Will the ''facts" (the actual facts) eventually emerge from the noisy networks of irrelevant data, self-confirming rumors and self-congratulatory 'likes'? Or, to put it more bluntly: will 'truth' (the real truth) survive the ''information age"?

  • 12 October 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

    Date & Time: Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Expressivism for Epistemic Modals: Dynamics and Uniform Definability
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 11 October 2017, Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar, Martin Lipman

    Date & Time: Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:00-16:00
    Speaker: Martin Lipman
    Title: Perspectival Realism
    Location: Faculteitskamer (1.17), Oude Turfmarkt 145-147, Amsterdam
  • 10 October 2017, Logic Tea, Mauricio Martel

    Date & Time: Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:15-18:15
    Speaker: Mauricio Martel (University of Bremen)
    Title: Conservative Extensions in Guarded and Two-Variable Fragments
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at http://events.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ or contact Sirin Botan at , or Julian Schloder at .
  • 10 October 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Luciano Serafini

    Date & Time: Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Luciano Serafini (FBK - Trento)
    Title: Learning and Reasoning with Logic Tensor Networks: the framework and an application
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 6 October 2017, Cool Logic, Levin Hornischer

    Date & Time: Friday 6 October 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Levin Hornischer (ILLC)
    Title: Ideas in Algorithmic Randomness
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Target audience: MoL and PhD students
    For more information, see here or at http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact Zoi Terzopoulou at .
  • 6 October 2017, DIP Colloquium, Alex Davies

    Date & Time: Friday 6 October 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Alex Davies (University of Tartu)
    Title: Speech act pluralism: homeomerous or radical?
  • 6 October 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group, Benjamin G. Schultz

    Date & Time: Friday 6 October 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Benjamin G. Schultz
    Title: Get into the groove: Stimulating the motor system with salient acoustic features
    Location: Room B02.08 ILLC, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    When listening to music, humans spontaneously synchronize their movements with different aspects of the sound. We propose that such movements are a direct result of specific acoustic features that activate motor responses in the peripheral nervous system. To test this hypothesis, participants (N = 42) remained still and listened to 12 musical excerpts while electromyography (EMG) was recorded on the hand and arm...

  • 5 October 2017, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Alex Simpson

    Date & Time: Thursday 5 October 2017, 15:00-16:00
    Speaker: Alex Simpson (Ljubljana)
    Title: A family of atomic toposes
    Location: Room 610, Hans Freudenthal Building, Budapestlaan 6, Uithof, Utrecht

    The atomic coverage (Grothendieck topology) is defined on any category that satisfies the property that every cospan completes to a commuting square. This property is sometimes called the right Ore condition. It is trivially satisfied by any category with pullbacks. More generally, even in the absence of pullbacks, there is often a "universal" way of completing cospans to commuting squares. In the talk I shall present examples of this situation, and I shall discuss special properties of atomic toposes that arise from sites of this nature.

    For more information, see https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~ooste110/seminar.html or contact Benno van den Berg at .
  • 3 October 2017, Kick-off for the final stage of H2020

    Date & Time: Tuesday 3 October 2017, 13:30-17:00
    Location: VOC zaal, Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
    “How to write a successful collaborative H2020 proposal, with specific focus on Impact” by Sean McCarthy of Hyperion, the top training agency for EU programmes.

    Registration is free of charge and includes participation as well as course material. However, there is a limited amount of spots available for each faculty. Register if you have (concrete) plans for proposals and/or are looking for partners from other faculties, e.g. with Social Science and Humanities backgrounds.
  • 3 October 2017, Kick-off for the final stage of H2020: Free workshop for researchers of UvA, AMC, and HvA with Sean McCarthy.

    Date & Time: Tuesday 3 October 2017, 13:30-17:30
    Location: VOC zaal, Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam

    “How to write a successful collaborative H2020 proposal, with specific focus on Impact” by Sean McCarthy of Hyperion, the top training agency for EU programmes.

    Registration is free of charge and includes participation as well as course material. However, there is a limited amount of spots available for each faculty. Register if you have (concrete) plans for proposals and/or are looking for partners from other faculties, e.g. with Social Science and Humanities backgrounds.

  • 3 October 2017, Workshop on Topological Approaches in Epistemic Logic

    Date & Time: Tuesday 3 October 2017, 09:45-17:00
    Location: Nina van Leerzaal, Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam

    On the occasion of the PhD defense by Aybüke Özgün there will also be a Workshop on Topological Approaches in Epistemic Logic on October 3rd 2017.

    At this meeting, we will on the one hand look into the recent developments in formal qualitative modelling of evidence, belief and knowledge from a topological perspective. On the other hand, we explore new technical tools to refine and extend earlier philosophical analyses, leading to novel epistemic systems.

    Everyone is welcome to attend the workshop and it is free of charge, however, please register to help us with the organization.

  • 28 - 29 September 2017, CoSaQ kick-off workshop

    Date: 28 - 29 September 2017
    Location: the Doelenzaal of the University Library, Singel 425, Amsterdam
    Costs: none

    The kick-off workshop for the project Cognitive Semantics and Quantities will take place September 28 and 29 in Amsterdam. Everyone is cordially welcomed to attend.

    For more information, see http://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/events/kick-off-workshop/ or contact Jakub Szymanik at .
  • 27 September 2017, Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar, Manuel Gustavo Isaac

    Date & Time: Wednesday 27 September 2017, 14:00-16:00
    Speaker: Manuel Gustavo Isaac
    Title: A Semiotic Theory of Intentionality (WiP)
    Location: Faculteitskamer (1.17), Oude Turfmarkt 145-147, Amsterdam
  • 26 September 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, David Schlangen

    Date & Time: Tuesday 26 September 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)
    Title: Learning and Maintaining a Lexicon for Situated Interaction
    Location: Room F1.15 SP 107
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 22 September 2017, Cool Logic, Weiwei Chen

    Date & Time: Friday 22 September 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Weiwei Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)
    Title: What can we expect from consensus decision-making?
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Target audience: ILLC master and PhD students
    For more information, see here or at http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact Zoi Terzopoulou at .
  • 22 September 2017, ABC Colloquium, Bahador Bahrami: What makes Social Interactive Decision Making interesting? 

    Date & Time: Friday 22 September 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Bahador Bahrami: What makes Social Interactive Decision Making interesting? 
    Title: Most of us believe that two heads are better than one.

    Most of us believe that two heads are better than one. We also agree that too many cooks spoil the broth. What is it about people making decisions together that is captured by these contradictory yet intuitive ideas? The talk will explore this question from a number of different directions at dyadic (n=2), group (3<n<8) and crowd (1000<n) level decision making hoping to understand the cognitive basis of interactive decision making.

    For more information, see http://abc.uva.nl/events/events.html.
  • 20 September 2017, LoC Seminar, Peter Hawke

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 September 2017, 14:00-16:00
    Speaker: Peter Hawke
    Location: Room OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143, Amsterdam

    We will discuss Gibbard's 'Objects of Belief' and Chalmers' 'Propositions and Attitude Reports'.

  • 18 - 22 September 2017, Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kakheti, Georgia

    Date: 18 - 22 September 2017
    Location: Kakheti, Georgia
    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    The Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held on 18-22 September 2017 in Kakheti, Georgia.

    The Symposium series is organized by the University of Duesseldorf in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. There have been eight instalments of this series of biannual Symposia. The preceding meetings took place in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri (1995), at the capital of Georgia Tbilisi (1997), in the Black see coastal resort Chakvi (1999), in the spa resort Likani situated in the Borjomi Canyon (2001), Tbilisi (2003), Batumi (2005), Tbilisi (2007), Bakuriani (2009), Kutaisi (2011), Gudauri (2013) and Tbilisi (2015).

  • 14 - 15 September 2017, HComp-NL Symposium "Data Science with Humans in the Loop” on the occasion of the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Lora Aroyo

    Date: 14 - 15 September 2017
    Speaker: Lora Aroyo
    Location: VU, Amsterdam

    On 14-15 September 2017, the Human Computation Community in the Netherlands (HComp-NL), supported by 4TU-NIRICT, is organising a series of events at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in conjunction with the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Lora Aroyo entitled "Data Science with Humans in the Loop”.

    The occasion will feature the inaugural lecture itself, a tutorial session in the field of Human Computation, and a symposium with invited talks by  researchers working in different fields of human computation and user-generated content.

  • 12 September 2017, NWO Veni Support Track

    Date & Time: Tuesday 12 September 2017, 13:00-15:00
    Location: Room F2.11C, the Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam

    The Grant team organises a support track for all candidates, consisting of a number of meetings with grant advisors, a laureate and a former committee member. Grant advisor Els den Os will chair the meeting and Jan Simons will share his experiences as a former committee member. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to or use the on-line form on our website.

  • 8 September 2017, Cool Logic, Jonathan Pesetsky

    Date & Time: Friday 8 September 2017, 17:30-18:30
    Speaker: Jonathan Pesetsky
    Title: The present tense is fake
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 8 September 2017, DIP Colloquium, Peter Hawke

    Date & Time: Friday 8 September 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Peter Hawke (University of Amsterdam)
    Title: The Significance of Missed Clue Cases
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 7 September 2017, ERC Celebration Event

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 September 2017, 14:00-18:00
    Location: Industrieele Groote Club, Dam 27, Amsterdam

    Since the establishment of the European Research Council, UvA and AMC researchers have received 94 ERC grants. UvA is the top host organisation in the Netherlands. This event will be a celebration of the accomplishment and is meant to inspire for new opportunities to come.

  • 4 September 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Aybüke Özgün and Ana Lucia Vargas Sandoval

    Date & Time: Monday 4 September 2017, 13:00-14:30
    Speaker: Aybüke Özgün and Ana Lucia Vargas Sandoval
    Title: Topo-Logic as a dynamic-epistemic logic (toward a logic for Learning Theory)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 1 September 2017, Presentations MoL courses 2017-18

    Date & Time: Friday 1 September 2017, 16:00-18:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room, Science Park 107
    Target audience: MoL students and lecturers

    A selection of the Master of Logic courses offered in Semester 1 will be presented by the lecturers.

  • 30 August - 2 September 2017, ABC Colloquium

    Date: 30 August - 2 September 2017
    Title: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam ’17
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    The conference starts on Wednesday 30 August with a social gathering (evening, optional). Thursday 31 August & Friday 1 September will be filled with academic presentations from metaphor researchers from all over the world. Plenary lectures will be delivered by Kathleen Ahrens (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and by Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Moscow State Linguistic University). Saturday 2 September we present several interesting workshops and metaphor related activities: an academic day with a fun twist!

  • 14 - 25 August 2017, Summer School in Dynamic Epistemic Logic, Sapporo, Japan

    Date: 14 - 25 August 2017
    Location: Sapporo, Japan

    The Department of Philosophy at Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) will hold a two-week summer school in dynamic epistemic logic and its applications, jointly with three guest lecturers from ILLC (University of Amsterdam) as part of Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI) 2017.

    The following two intensive courses are scheduled to be offered during the summer school:
    Course 1 (August 14 to August 18): Introduction to Logic,  main lecturer: Katsuhiko Sano (Department of Philosophy, Hokkaido University).
    Course 2 (August 21 to August 25): Dynamic Epistemic Logic, main lecturers: Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets (ILLC, University of Amsterdam).
    There will be a special live on-line lecture by Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, Stanford University, and Tsinghua University) during Course 2.

    Application period for students from universities other than Hokkaido University is from February 1 to February 28 2017.

  • 7 - 11 August 2017, 19th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2017), Gdansk, Poland

    Date: 7 - 11 August 2017
    Location: Gdansk, Poland
    Deadline: Friday 10 March 2017

    The summer school will offer a rich programme of introductory and advanced courses on a broad range of topics in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The courses are aimed at PhD students, advanced Master's students, and other early-stage researchers and will be taught by leading researchers in the field. Topics to be covered in this year's edition include decision making, game theory, mechanism design, judgment aggregation, epistemic logic, argumentation theory, reinforcement learning, model checking, verification, and machine ethics.

    EASSS is organised under the auspices of EURAMAS, the European Association for Multiagent Systems. The school attracts both beginner and experienced researchers, encouraging cooperation between representatives of many branches of Multi-Agent Systems research community. A limited number of student grants are available in the form of fee waivers: deadline for application is 5 June 2017.

    For more information, see http://easss2017.ipipan.waw.pl/ or contact .
  • 7 July 2017, LOGIC in computer science and engineering, Yuri Gurevich

    Date & Time: Friday 7 July 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Research)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    LOGIC in computer science and engineering -- Y. Gurevich

    In software industry, engineers do formal logic day in and day out, even though they may not realize that. As a rule, they have not studied logic. Instead, they spent a lot of time studying calculus which they use rarely, if ever. I'll try to illustrate why logic is so relevant and why it is hard for software engineers to pick it up.

    For more information, contact Maria Aloni at .
  • 3 - 7 July 2017, The 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Date: 3 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 21 April 2017

    The conference brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas,with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools,ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages,semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied tothe study of physical behaviour in general. Work that appliesstructures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome.

    For more information, see http://qpl.cs.ru.nl.
  • 30 June 2017, ILLC Midsummernight Colloquium 2017

    Date & Time: Friday 30 June 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    The ILLC Colloquium is a half-yearly festive event (either the New Year's Colloquium, the Midsummernight Colloquium or the Midwinter Colloquium) that brings together the three research groups at the ILLC. Each colloquium consists of three main talks by representatives from the Logic and Language group, the Language and Computation group and the Logic and Computation group, which are occasionally followed by Wild Idea Talks. The colloquium is concluded by a get together of the entire ILLC community.

  • 27 June 2017, Mini-symposium on deontic logic

    Date & Time: Tuesday 27 June 2017, 14:00-16:45
    Location: Room 1.01, Drift 25, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    On behalf of Jan Broersen you are all warmly invited for the REINS/TF-mini-symposium on deontic logic.

    For more information, see here .
  • 26 - 30 June 2017, Workshop Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary (InqBnB)

    Date & Time: 26 - 30 June 2017, 09:00-17:00
    Location: Broek in Waterland, Netherlands

    This workshop marks and celebrates the end of the first phase (almost two years) of the project Inquisitivenes Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary (InqBnB), carried out at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) in Amsterdam with funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

  • 23 June 2017, DIP Colloquium, Manuel Gustavo Isaac

    Date & Time: Friday 23 June 2017, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Manuel Gustavo Isaac (University of Amsterdam)
    Title: A Semiotic Epistemology for Conceptual Engineering
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 23 June 2017, DIP Colloquium, Edouard Machery

    Date & Time: Friday 23 June 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
    Title: Unreliability and Parochialism
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 23 June 2017, Kick-off Workshop "Time in Translation", Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Date & Time: Friday 23 June 2017, 10:00-17:00
    Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands

    The Utrecht based Time in Translation project (Henriëtte de Swart, Bert Le Bruyn, Martijn van der Klis) is happy to announce its kick-off workshop on Friday June 23rd in Utrecht. We're bringing together linguists from different backgrounds and with different aims and ask them to reflect on corpus methodology in their work: Stephan Th. Gries, Eva Vanmassenhove, Martijn van der Klis, Antonio Toral, Tommaso Caselli, Jet Hoek & Nicholas Asher.

    Participation. Participation is for free but it would be great if you could send a short email to Bert Le Bruyn if you're intending to join for lunch.

    For more information, see http://timealign.pythonanywhere.com/ or contact Bert Le Bruyn at .
  • 23 June 2017, ABC Brain Day 2017

    Date: Friday 23 June 2017
    Location: De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    On June 23rd the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center organizes the ABC Brain Day (& Night), the yearly conference where ABC members present their research.

  • 20 June 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Weiwei Chen

    Date & Time: Tuesday 20 June 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Weiwei Chen (Sun Yat-sen University & ILLC)
    Title: Aggregation of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 19 - 30 June 2017, ABC Summer School: The Sleeping Brain

    Date: 19 - 30 June 2017
    Speaker: ABC Summer School: The Sleeping Brain
    Location: Roeterseilandcampus gebouw M, Plantage Muidergracht 12, Amsterdam
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    The ABC Summer School is an annual event targeted at master students and PhD candidates. This year's ABC Summer School, organized by Lucia Talamini, Umberto Olcese and Christa van der Heijden on behalf of the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sleep. It will explore the topic from the level of neural networks to that of cognition.

    The two-week international Summer School consists of a series of Master Classes, each one given by a renowned expert in the field. In addition, students will work in groups with a designated tutor, on a research project within the broad topic, which they will present towards the end of the Summer School. As the summit of the Summer School, an international symposium “Crossing the watershed between sleep and wakefulness: Information processing during sleep, wakefulness and alternative states of consciousness” will be presented at the final day of the ABC Summer School.

  • 16 June 2017, Workshop: "Interweaving Modal Logic and Category Theory"

    Date & Time: Friday 16 June 2017, 14:00-18:00
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    The aim of the workshop is to bring together logicians, computer scientists, mathematicians and philosophers interested in the growing interplay between the fields of modal logic and category theory. The workshop will be hosted on the occasion of the defence of Giovanni Cinà's PhD defense.

    Location and website will be announced soon.

    For more information, contact Giovanni Cinà at .
  • 16 June 2017, Bessensap

    Date: Friday 16 June 2017
    Location: Rode Hoed, Amsterdam

    The 2017 edition of Bessensap is taking place on Friday 16 June! About 400 journalists, press officers and researchers will meet at the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam to network and exchange knowledge about recent developments in science and science communication.

  • 9 June 2017, SMART Cognitive Science Lecture, Courtenay Norbury

    Date & Time: Friday 9 June 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Courtenay Norbury (UCL)
    Title: Non-verbal cognitive ability does not influence rate of language in the first years of formal schooling
    Location: Room F0.01, Oudemanhuispoort, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://smartcs.uva.nl/.
  • 9 June 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 9 June 2017, 15:00-16:30
    Title: Neural correlates of song and speech
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    We're going to discuss a study by Julia Merrill, Daniela Sammler, Marc Bangert, Dirk Goldhahn, Gabriele Lohmann, Robert Turner and Angela D. Friederici on the neural correlates of song and speech [1]. Our own expert on the intersection of music, language and brain, Joey Weidema, will kick-off the discussion with a short introduction.

    For more information, see https://musicreadinggroup.wordpress.com/ or contact Bastiaan van der Weij at .
  • 9 June 2017, Dutch Social Choice Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 9 June 2017, 14:00-17:30
    Location: Room C2-1, Theil Building, Campus Woudenstein, Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Speakers: Vladimir Karamychev, Rudolf Müller, John Weymark

  • 9 June 2017, CWI Lecture, Marta Kwiatkowska

    Date & Time: Friday 9 June 2017, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Marta Kwiatkowska
    Title: Safety Verification of Deep Neural Networks
    Location: Room L120, CWI, Science Park 123, Amsterdam
  • 8 June 2017, Spinoza Lectures, Béatrice Longuenesse

    Date & Time: Thursday 8 June 2017, 20:15-22:00
    Speaker: Béatrice Longuenesse
    Title: Two unlikely bedfellows: Kant and Freud on Morality
    Location: Aula, Oude Lutherse kerk, Singel 411, Amsterdam

    Abstract:
    It is hard to think of two conceptions of morality further apart than those of Kant and Freud. Kant took our moral attitudes to be the highest expression of our capacity to guide our actions by reason. Freud took our moral attitudes to originate in our deepest, earliest emotional bond, the bond we have as helpless infants to the adult figures we experience as nurturing, protecting, or threatening. Nevertheless, both took morality to be deeply connected to our capacity to think and act, as we would say, “in the first person.” In exploring those two seemingly opposed conceptions of morality, the lecture will explore how emotions and reason converge, or as the case may be, diverge in determining our moral attitudes and our capacity to take responsibility for our thoughts and actions.

  • 3 - 5 June 2017, 6th CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Intelligent Interaction and Solomon Feferman Symposium, Stanford CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 3 - 5 June 2017
    Location: Stanford CA, U.S.A.

    This event continues a long-standing tradition at Stanford of annual workshops in logic, broadly conceived, aimed at fostering discussion across disciplines and universities, with the added goal of involving both junior and senior participants. The content of the workshop is drawn from the disciplines of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics and economics, with an emphasis on exploring interdisciplinary contacts.

    This year, the workshop will be held in conjunction with the Solomon Feferman Symposium, dedicated to the life and work of Solomon Feferman.

  • 2 June 2017, Logic, Rationality and Common Sense. Workshop on the occasion of Jan van Eijck's retirement as researcher at CWI and as professor at ILLC

    Date & Time: Friday 2 June 2017, 13:00-18:00
    Location: Turing Room, Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre, Sciencepark 105 (nextdoor to CWI), Amsterdam

    Reflections on the possibilities and the limitations of applications of logic to the analysis of human behaviour. The workshop is intended to create a space to talk about issues that are not often addressed in public in scientific circles.

    For more information, see http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/workshop/

    People who wish to attend the workshop are requested to fill out the following RSVP form: https://goo.gl/forms/s2KZryvHXSr5Bzw32

  • 29 May 2017, First national meeting for researchers on Open Science

    Date & Time: Monday 29 May 2017, 09:30-17:00
    Location: Aula of TU Delft, Mekelweg 5, Delft

    You are kindly invited to join the first national meeting for researchers on Open Science. The meeting will take place on the 29th of May 2017 and will be hosted at the Aula of TU Delft.


    The day will be a great opportunity for all researchers working in the Netherlands to give their opinion on the aims and goals of the Dutch ‘National Open Science Plan’. It’s a chance to let politicians, funders and administrators know what researchers really need to make Open Science work for them.

  • 22 - 24 May 2017, Zalta's Lectures: Axiomatic Theory of Abstract Objects

    Date: 22 - 24 May 2017
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    In this lecture series, we present a body of theorems formally derivable from the axioms of “object theory”. The axioms are motivated and presented in the first lecture, and once they are in place, we define a variety of abstract objects and systematize them by deriving the their governing principles as theorems. We identify and derive principles governing: truth-values, logical classes, situations, possible worlds, impossible worlds, concepts (including complete individual concepts), Forms, fictions, Fregean senses, Fregean (natural) numbers, and theoretical mathematical individuals and relations generally.

    The objectives of the course are to familiarize participants with the theory of objects, developed and defended by Prof. Ed Zalta, and to more generally discuss the topics with which it deals, such as: logical classes, situations, possible and impossible worlds, concepts, Forms, fictions, Fregean senses, Fregean numbers, and mathematical individuals and relations.

  • 20 May 2017, Life after ILLC

    Date & Time: Saturday 20 May 2017, 13:00-18:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room
    Target audience: MoL students, PhD candidates, and all other members of the ILLC

    For "Life after ILLC" we invited six ILLC alumni from different areas of academia and industry to talk about their experiences after graduating. They will tell us about the path they have followed since leaving our institute. We hope that their stories will give you inspiration for your own career -- no matter whether you want to stay in academia or make the move to industry. After the presentations there will be food and drinks and time to mingle with the speakers.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/lifeafterillc or contact Yfke Dulek at .
  • 19 May 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Umberto Grandi

    Date & Time: Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Umberto Grandi (Toulouse)
    Title: Opinion Diffusion as Aggregation
    Location: Room D1.115, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/.
  • 19 May 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Gábor Hofer-Szabó

    Date & Time: Friday 19 May 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Gábor Hofer-Szabó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
    Title: Three levels of Bell’s inequalities
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 17 May 2017, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Nick Bezhanishvili

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Nick Bezhanishvili (ILLC)
    Title: Choice-free Stone duality
    Location: Room D1.113, Science Park 109, Amsterdam

    In this talk I will discuss a Stone-like topological duality for Boolean algebras avoiding the Prime Filter Theorem.

    This is joint work with Wes Holliday.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg or contact Frederik Lauridsen at .
  • 17 - 19 May 2017, Masterclass in the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice

    Date: 17 - 19 May 2017
    Speaker: José Ferreirós
    Location: Brussels, Belgium

    The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLWF) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will host a Masterclass in the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice with Prof. Dr. José Ferreirós (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) on May, 17-19. The Masterclass will be composed of three lectures based on Prof. Ferreirós’ recent book entitled Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices.

    The tentative titles for the three lectures are as follows:
    Lecture 1 (Wednesday, 17/5): On Truth and History in Mathematics
    Lecture 2 (Thursday, 18/5): An Alternative Look at Representations in Set Theory
    Lecture 3 (Friday, 19/5): Rethinking Structuralism: a Conceptualist Approach

    We intend the Masterclass to be a fully interactive event, with the twofold objective to understand in depth the materials presented in the lectures, but also to discuss current work by early career researchers (PhD students and Postdocs). The lectures by Prof. Ferreirós will take place in the mornings, and will be followed by afternoon sessions in which early career researchers in the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice are invited to present their work. The goal is to offer early career researchers an opportunity to discuss their ongoing work in a helpful and constructive environment.

    For more information, see http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/activities/ or contact Yacin Hamami at .
  • 16 May 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Antske Fokkens

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Antske Fokkens (VU Amsterdam)
    Title: Deep Analysis: Reflections on experimental design in NLP
    Location: Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Shared tasks and (shared) corpora have proven themselves highly valuable for NLP. They have allowed us to evaluate our methods and compare them to others helping us, our readers and reviewers to assess the quality of our methods. In this talk, I will present two studies taking intrinsic evaluation one step further 1) investigating error propagation in parsing and 2) diving in the evaluation of distributional semantic methods. Finally, I will outline the importance of deeper evaluation when NLP is used within digital humanities and digital social science.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 16 May 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Yuliya Veselova

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 May 2017, 15:00
    Speaker: Yuliya Veselova (Moscow)
    Title: Individual Manipulation under Incomplete Information
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 12 May 2017, SMART Cognitive Science Lecture, Marco Caracciolo

    Date & Time: Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University)
    Title: Narrative Beyond Anthropocentrism: Embodying the Nonhuman
    Location: Room F0.01, Oudemanhuispoort, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://smartcs.uva.nl/.
  • 12 May 2017, DIP Colloquium, Hanoch Ben-Yami

    Date & Time: Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University)
    Title: The Quantified Argument Calculus
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 12 May 2017, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Martin Hyland

    Date & Time: Friday 12 May 2017, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Martin Hyland (Cambridge)
    Title: What is an interpretation of the Lambda Calculus?
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107
    For more information, see here or contact Benno van den Berg at .
  • 12 May 2017, ADS Coffee & Data: Artificial Intelligence

    Date & Time: Friday 12 May 2017, 09:00-11:00
    Location: Room C0.110, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    ADS Coffee & Data offers the opportunity for researchers and business to share their knowledge and give insight on a central theme, specifically on Friday 12 May this will be on Artificial Intelligence. There is also a chance to network with a cup of coffee.

  • 11 May 2017, Spinoza Lectures, Béatrice Longuenesse

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 May 2017, 20:15-22:00
    Speaker: Béatrice Longuenesse
    Title: Perplexing 'I'
    Location: Aula, Oude Lutherse kerk, Singel 411, Amsterdam

    Abstract:

    Some philosophers have argued that using ‘I’ is the source of illusions, for instance the illusion that I am the author of my actions and thoughts rather than thoughts and actions happening to me, or in me. Lichtenberg maintained that “we should say ‘it thinks’ or ‘there is thinking going on’ rather than ‘I think’.” In the same vein, Nietzsche urged that “a thought comes when it wills, not when I will.” And nevertheless, using ‘I’ seems to be an indispensible tool for each individual person to refer to herself. What do our uses of ‘I’ reveal about our relations to ourselves, to others, and to the world?

  • 11 May 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Sergio Rajsbaum

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Sergio Rajsbaum (Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Mexico City)
    Title: A simplicial complex model of dynamic epistemic logic for fault-tolerant distributed computing.
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 4 May 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Daniel Hoek

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 May 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Daniel Hoek (New York University)
    Title: Logical Omniscience and the Epistemology of Phone Numbers.
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 2 May 2017, Logic Tea, Frederik Lauridsen

    Date & Time: Tuesday 2 May 2017, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Frederik Lauridsen
    Title: Linnaean Logic: a friendly introduction to systematic proof theory.
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    For more information, please visit the website http://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ or contact Sirin Botan (), Bonan Zhao (), or Julian Schloder ().

    For more information, see here .
  • 26 April 2017, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, George Metcalfe

    Date & Time: Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: George Metcalfe (Universität Bern)
    Title: Ordering Free Groups
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Ordering conditions for groups provide useful tools for the study of various relationships between group theory, universal algebra, topology, and logic. In this talk, I will describe a new “algorithmic” ordering condition for extending partial orders on groups to total orders. I will then show how this condition can be used to show that extending a finite subset of a free group to a total order corresponds to checking validity of a certain inequation in the class of totally ordered groups. As a direct consequence, we obtain a new proof that free groups are orderable.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg or contact Frederik Lauridsen at .
  • 25 April 2017, CoSaQ seminar, Fabian Schlotterbeck

    Date & Time: Tuesday 25 April 2017, 15:00-17:00
    Speaker: Fabian Schlotterbeck
    Title: Towards a general model of the processing difficulty of quantified sentences
    Location: Room 6.26, PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at http://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Jakub Szymanik at .
  • 25 April 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, cancelled

    Date: Tuesday 25 April 2017
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 24 April 2017, CoSaQ seminar, Fabian Schlotterbeck

    Date & Time: Monday 24 April 2017, 11:00-13:00
    Speaker: Fabian Schlotterbeck
    Title: Empirical evaluation of various approaches to the processing difficulty of quantified sentences and an integrated processing model of comparative modified numerals.
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at http://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Jakub Szymanik at .
  • 22-23 April 2017, ICT maintenance weekend

    Date: 22-23 April 2017

    Dear colleagues.

    The following weekend has now officially been appointed for major ICT maintenance:

    • 22 & 23 april 2017

    Further information will follow later on, but be aware all central systems and the network may be unavailable during this weekend.

    Best wishes,
    ILLC Office

    For more information, contact

  • 21 - 23 April 2017, Network maintenance UvA & HvA

    Date & Time: 21 - 23 April 2017, 18:00
    Location: UvA wide

    From Friday evening until Sunday afternoon ICTS is planning major maintenance on many ICT systems. Details will be made available later.

  • 21 April 2017, DIP Colloquium, Vít Punčochář

    Date & Time: Friday 21 April 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Vít Punčochář (Czech Academy of Sciences)
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 21 April 2017, Dutch Social Choice Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 21 April 2017, 13:30-17:40
    Location: Room F0.01, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam

    This will be a special session in honour of Kenneth J. Arrow (1921-2017). Speakers are Salvador Barberà (Barcelona), Herrade Igersheim (Strasbourg), and Hans Peters (Maastricht). Participation is free and open to everyone, but advance registration is requested.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/DSCC/meetings.php#2017-04-21 or contact Ulle Endris at .
  • 18 April 2017, 'Voor de Leeuwen' meeting on research valorisation

    Date & Time: Tuesday 18 April 2017, 16:00
    Location: PC Hoofthuis, room 1.04
    We are happy to announce the next 'Voor de Leeuwen' meeting, which will take place on Tuesday 18 April at 16.00 in the PC Hoofthuis, room 1.04. 'Voor de Leeuwen' aims to provide an informal platform to discuss research-related issues. The theme of this meeting is valorisation&knowledge utilisation. The programme includes the presentation of Inventory Report of the valorisation activities within the FGw, and several talks by researchers about societal impact of their work from various perspectives.
    All are welcome to attend this meeting (please register via ). Following there will be drinks and snacks in the ‘Leeuwenkuil’ from around 17.00 onwards! Please follow the link below for a full programme.
  • 13 April 2017, AUC Logic Lectures, Yurii Khomskii

    Date & Time: Thursday 13 April 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Yurii Khomskii (Hamburg)
    Title: The Logic of Infinity
    Location: AUC Common Room, Science Park 113, Amsterdam
  • 13 April 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Ilaria Canavotto

    Date & Time: Thursday 13 April 2017, 17:00-18:30
    Speaker: Ilaria Canavotto (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Deontic Conflicts in Explicit Dynamic Deontic Logic
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
  • 13 April 2017, *MoL thesis presentation* Event II

    Date & Time: Thursday 13 April 2017, 15:00-17:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room

    During these events, second year MoL students will present their ongoing thesis projects to the ILLC community. For the students it is an opportunity to receive feedback on their research from experts outside of their supervisory team. For the ILLC community it is an opportunity to get an overview of the variety of research questions our students are currently working on.

  • 12 April 2017, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting

    Date & Time: Wednesday 12 April 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Location: ILLC Common room (F1.21), Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    As in the previous editions, the purpose of this meeting is to inform you about various issues that are currently of importance in the ILLC and / or the Master of Logic programme. All ILLC staff, PhD students and guests are invited to attend.

    For more information, contact .
  • 12 April 2017, Logic of Conceivability Seminar, Peter Hawke

    Date & Time: Wednesday 12 April 2017, 15:00-17:00
    Speaker: Peter Hawke
    Title: Peter on Modal Epistemology and Skepticism
    Location: Room OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143, Amsterdam

    Peter will discuss both Van Inwagen's article on Modal Epistemology and his own reply (Hawke) on Van Inwagen's Modal Skepticism.

  • 6 April 2017, *MoL thesis presentation* Event I

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 April 2017, 15:00-17:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room

    During these events, second year MoL students will present their ongoing thesis projects to the ILLC community. For the students it is an opportunity to receive feedback on their research from experts outside of their supervisory team. For the ILLC community it is an opportunity to get an overview of the variety of research questions our students are currently working on.

    For more information, contact Maria Aloni at .
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    6 April 2017, Workshop on the foundations of mathematics and physics, in occasion of Riccardo Pinosio's PhD defense

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 April 2017, 14:00-18:00
    Location: C1.13 (Belle van Zuylenzaal), University Library, Singel 425, Amsterdam
    Target audience: Everyone interested in the foundations of mathematics, the foundations of physics, and how the two can interact

    This workshop is a chance to discuss the problem of the continuum (broadly construed) in the foundations of mathematics and physics, and how logical tools from the foundations of mathematics can be applied to illuminate issues in contemporary physics. This workshop is associated to Riccardo Pinosio's PhD defense.

    For more information, see https://foundationsofthecontinuum.wordpress.com or contact Riccardo Pinosio at .
  • 6 April 2017, DIP Colloquium, Lisa Bylinina

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 April 2017, 13:30-15:00
    Speaker: Lisa Bylinina (Leiden University)
    Title: On 'Zero' (joint work with Rick Nouwen)
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 31 March 2017, DIP Colloquium, Martin Lipman

    Date & Time: Friday 31 March 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Martin Lipman (University of Amsterdam)
    Title: Fragmentalism: its Motivation and its Logic
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 31 March 2017, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Lev Beklemishev

    Date & Time: Friday 31 March 2017, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Lev Beklemishev (Moscow)
    Title: On the algebraic model for reflection calculus with conservativity modalities
    Location: Room 006, Janskerkhof 13, Utrecht
  • 27 March 2017, DIP Colloquium, Lance Rips

    Date & Time: Monday 27 March 2017, 16:15-17:30
    Speaker: Lance Rips (Northwestern University)
    Title: Experimenting with (conditional) perfection
    Location: Room BG2.008, Turfdraagsterpad 15-17k Amsterdam
  • 27 March 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Julia Kreutzer

    Date & Time: Monday 27 March 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Julia Kreutzer (Universität Heidelberg)
    Title: Bandit Structured Prediction for Machine Translation Domain Adaptation with Weak Feedback
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 27 - 28 March 2017, Asymmetry in Causal Inference and Conditional Reasoning

    Date & Time: 27 - 28 March 2017, 09:00-12:00
    Location: Room BG2.008/BG2.012, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, Amsterdam
    Target audience: philosophers, psychologists, logicians

    This workshop explores the relation between causal inference and conditional/counterfactual inference. We will focus in particular on the asymmetric nature of both types of inference. We bring together expertise from philosophy, psychology and artificial intelligence to address the following questions:

    1. How to account for the relative ease of causal inference (reasoning from cause to effect) compared to diagnostic inference (reasoning from effect to cause)?
    2. Do we have to distinguish different reasoning strategies to interpret conditional sentences and how does this relate to the distinction between causal inference and diagnostic inference?
    3. Are Causal Models appropriate to account for 1. and for the analysis of conditionals?
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/ACICR2017/ or contact Katrin Schulz at .
  • 24 March 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Pierre Cardascia

    Date & Time: Friday 24 March 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Pierre Cardascia
    Title: The dialogic of matrices –Technical aspects of the actualism in game semantic
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 23 March 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Raffaella Bernardi

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 March 2017, 17:00
    Speaker: Raffaella Bernardi (Trento)
    Title: Learning quantities from vision and language
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Linguistics quantifiers have been the realm of Formal Semantics. A lot is known about their formal properties and how those properties affect logical entailment, the licensing of polarity item, or scope ambiguities. Less is known about how quantifiers are acquired by children and even less about how computational models can learn to quantify objects in images. In this talk, we will report on our findings in this direction. First of all, we will explain why the task is interesting and challenging for a Language and Vision model. Secondly, we will report our evaluation of state-of-the-art neural network models against this task. Thirdly, we will compare the acquisition of quantifiers with the acquisition of cardinals. We will show that a model capitalizing on a `fuzzy' measure of similarity is effective for learning quantifiers, whereas the learning of exact cardinals is better accomplished when information about number is provided.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
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    23 March 2017, Workshop on intonation and pragmatics, on the occasion of the defense of Matthijs Westera

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 March 2017, 15:00-17:30
    Location: ILLC Seminar room F1.15
    Target audience: Everyone with an interest in intonation and pragmatics.

    I'm very happy that my three external committee members will give talks at the ILLC! They are:
    - Craige Roberts (NYU/Rutgers)
    - Michael Wagner (McGill)
    - Jörg Peters (Oldenburg)

    Topics will include focus/prominence in natural language, the tone inventories of languages like Dutch, German and English, experimental work on intonation, and of course pragmatics.
    Precise program TBA.

  • 21 March 2017, Busting Out: Two Takes on the Predictive Brain, Andy Clark

    Date & Time: Tuesday 21 March 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Andy Clark
    Location: Room M1.01, Roeterseilandcampus gebouw M, Plantage Muidergracht 12, Amsterdam

    Recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience depicts the brain as an ever-active prediction machine. In this talk, I contrast two ways of understanding the implied vision of mind. One way (Conservative Predictive Processing) depicts the predictive brain as an insulated inner arena populated by representations so rich and reconstructive as to enable the organism to ‘throw away the world’. The other (Radical Predictive Processing) stresses processes of circular causal influence linking brain, body, and world. Such processes can deliver fast and frugal, action-involving solutions of the kind often highlighted by work in robotics and embodied cognition, nesting them within a structured, uncertainty-modulated, knowledge-base that remains firmly rooted in sensory experience. This delivers a broader, profoundly embodied, and more ‘cybernetic’ vision of predictive processing. But it raises deep and important questions concerning how best to understand the core notions of prediction and prediction error minimization themselves.

    For more information, see http://abc.uva.nl/events/item/abc-lecture---andy-clark.html or contact Bastiaan van der Weij at .
  • 21 March 2017, Talks on Predictive processing and computational models of cognition

    Date & Time: Tuesday 21 March 2017, 10:00-13:00
    Location: REC M 1.03

    To warm up for Andy Clark's afternoon lecture, five young researchers from various disciplines will talk about topics related to predictive processing and computational models of cognition.

    The morning is divided into two parts: the first half consists of two talks in a row followed by 20 minutes for questions and discussion. After a coffee-break, we continue with another three talks followed by 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Everyone is of course warmly invited to participate in the discussion.

    The full programme can be found here. To participate, please send an email to Bastiaan van der Weij.

    For more information, contact Bastiaan van der Weij at .
  • 20 March 2017, AUC Logic Lectures, Katrin Schulz

    Date & Time: Monday 20 March 2017, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Katrin Schulz
    Title: Paradoxes
    Location: AUC Common Room, Science Park 113, Amsterdam

    When we encounter paradoxes, we apply a specific method to overcome them: Logical Analysis. I will argue in my talk that this method is a very useful tool to have in your toolbox, no matter what your particular academic discipline is. We will practice this method studying logical paradoxes and see the power of this method in broadening our understanding of paradoxes and logic in general. But can we overcome the logical paradoxes? Well, lets try.

  • 17 March 2017, DIP Colloquium, Yimei Xiang

    Date & Time: Friday 17 March 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Yimei Xiang (Harvard)
    Title: Composing complex questions: Multi-wh questions and questions with quantifiers
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 15 March 2017, Logic of Conceivability Seminar, Tom Schoonen

    Date & Time: Wednesday 15 March 2017, 15:00-17:00
    Speaker: Tom Schoonen
    Title: Discussing the paper 'Two-Dimensional Semantics' by David Chalmers
    Location: Room OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143, Amsterdam
  • 15 March 2017, The Next Big Thing, Henkjan Honing

    Date: Wednesday 15 March 2017
    Speaker: Henkjan Honing
    Location: Roeterseilandcomplex, Amsterdam

    The NCR lecture series "The Next Big Thing" will discuss the big questions and challenges of a particular research area. Henkjan Honing will deliver the lecture of 15 March 2017.

    For more information, see https://nrcwebwinkel.nl/next-big-thing or contact Henkjan Honing at .
  • 14 March 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Malvina Nissim

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Malvina Nissim (Groningen)
    Title: (To what extent) Can we de-supervise affective computing?
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 7 March 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Alex Fraser

    Date & Time: Tuesday 7 March 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Alex Fraser (LMU Munich)
    Title: Challenges in Machine Translation related to Morphologically Rich Languages
    Location: Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 7 March 2017, DIP Colloquium, Mark Jago

    Date & Time: Tuesday 7 March 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Mark Jago (University of Nottingham)
    Title: Meaning: between truth and proof
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 7 March 2017, DIP Colloquium, Greg Restall

    Date & Time: Tuesday 7 March 2017, 14:15-15:45
    Speaker: Greg Restall (University of Melbourne)
    Title: Proof identity, invariants and hyperintensionality
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 6 March 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Greg Restall

    Date & Time: Monday 6 March 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Greg Restall (Melbourne)
    Title: Proof Terms for Classical Derivations
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 3 March 2017, SMART Cognitive Science Lecture, Vincent F. Hendricks

    Date & Time: Friday 3 March 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Vincent F. Hendricks (University of Copenhagen)
    Title: Bubbles Go Bust
    Location: Room F0.01, Oudemanhuispoort, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://smartcs.uva.nl/.
  • 2 March 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Michail Mamakos

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 March 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Michail Mamakos (Chania)
    Title: Overlapping Coalition Formation via Probabilistic Topic Modeling
    Location: Room A1.14, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 24 February 2017, Dutch Social Choice Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 24 February 2017, 13:00-17:00
    Location: Seminar Room H0.06, Tongersestraat 53, Maastricht

    Speakers will be Matthias Mnich (Maastricht), Hessel Oosterbeek (Amsterdam), Dominik Karos (Maastricht) and Emre Ergin (Maastricht).

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/DSCC/meetings.php.
  • 21 February 2017, PhD Day

    Date & Time: Tuesday 21 February 2017, 11:00-13:00
    Location: F1.15
    Target audience: ILLC PhD candidates

    On February 21, the ILLC PhD Council is organizing the next PhD Day. This is an event for all PhD candidates at ILLC. The council present a number of issues that we have been working on and at the same time we will discuss any issues that the PhD candidates will raise. The meeting will be followed by a lunch at Maslow.

    For more information, see http://phdcouncil.illc.uva.nl/events/ or contact ILLC PhD Council at .
  • 17 February - 16 March 2017, ILLC MasterClass Logic

    Date: 17 February - 16 March 2017
    Location: Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    The ILLC will organise a MasterClass Logic intended for up to 20 secondary school students. The MasterClass will consist of 4 days with lectures, a work session and final presentation of results. The dates of the four days are the following:

    ILLC MasterClass Day 1: Friday 17 February 2017
    ILLC MasterClass Day 2: Thursday 2 March 2017
    ILLC MasterClass Day 3: Thursday 9 March 2017
    ILLC MasterClass Day 4: Thursday 16 March 2017

    Note: the original dates for the MasterClass Logica were changed due to a clash with the Nationale Wiskunde Olympiade.

  • 10 February 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Mathijs de Weerdt

    Date & Time: Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Mathijs de Weerdt
    Title: Minimising the Rank Aggregation Error
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 10 February 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Laurenz Hudetz

    Date & Time: Friday 10 February 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Laurenz Hudetz
    Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 9 February 2017, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Andrew Swan

    Date & Time: Thursday 9 February 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Andrew Swan (ILLC)
    Title: Lifschitz Realizability as a Topological Construction
    Location: F1.15, Science Park 107
    For more information, see here or contact Benno van den Berg at .
  • 9 February 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group

    Date & Time: Thursday 9 February 2017, 14:00-15:30
    Title: Cross-cultural iterated learning study on rhythm priors (discussion)
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    In the first music reading group of 2017, we will have a discussion on a recent cross-cultural study employing iterated learning to tease out priors on rhythmic categories. Bas Cornelissen will open the discussion with a short introduction to the paper.The paper to be discussed is the following: Jacoby, N., & McDermott, J. H. (2017). Integer Ratio Priors on Musical Rhythm Revealed Cross-culturally by Iterated Reproduction. Current Biology, 27, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.031

    For more information, see https://musicreadinggroup.wordpress.com/.
  • 8 February 2017, Computational Linguistics Retreat

    Date & Time: Wednesday 8 February 2017, 10:00-20:00
    Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
    Target audience: Computational Linguists at ILLC

    Dear all,

    On February 8, we will have a retreat with all CL/ NLP/ MT researchers in the ILLC. If you identify yourself as such, you are very welcome to join. Please contact Sara for more information about this event if you did not receive an invitation yet.

    For more information, contact Sara Veldhoen at .
  • 8 February 2017, The Next Big Thing, Rens Bod

    Date: Wednesday 8 February 2017
    Speaker: Rens Bod
    Location: Roeterseilandcomplex, Amsterdam

    The NCR lecture series "The Next Big Thing" will discuss the big questions and challenges of a particular research area. Rens Bod will deliver the lecture of 8 February 2017.

    For more information, see https://nrcwebwinkel.nl/next-big-thing or contact Rens Bod at .
  • 3 February 2017, Joint LIRa-DIP Session, Alessandro Giordani

    Date & Time: Friday 3 February 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University of Milan)
    Title: An Evidence-based logic of Acceptance and Rejection
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 2 February 2017, Career networking day (PhD and Research)

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 February 2017, 19:00-21:00
    Location: Crea Amsterdam
    Costs: Free

    Each year, the UvA hosts a series of Student-Alumni Career Talks, each focusing on a different career sector. The Career Talks feature a panel of international UvA-alumni who will share their experiences in finding a job in the Netherlands after graduation. During these highly interactive sessions you can learn from alumni career stories and advice. The panel discussion is followed by informal networking drinks with fellow students and alumni.

    In total there are four evenings, each with its own topic:
    2 February – PhD and Research
    16 February – Culture and Creative Sector
    2 March – Non-Profit and NGO
    9 March – Startup and SME’s

  • 1 February 2017, SMART Cognitive Science Lecture, Janet Pierrehumbert

    Date & Time: Wednesday 1 February 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
    Title: The Cognitive and Social Lives of Words
    Location: Room A0.08, Oudemanhuispoort, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam
  • 30 January 2017, Visit of Language and Interaction Consortium

    Date & Time: Monday 30 January 2017, 15:00-16:00
    Location: ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    30-60 researchers from the Language and Interaction consortium will visit ILLC.

    Language in Interaction is a so-called 'Gravity Program' from NWO, and brings together a great number of researchers from the Radboud University, The Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, ILLC and various other Dutch universities, who all work on the foundations of natural language, from various angles. As part of the program, we are organizing a small ‘tour of the ILLC’. Since a lot of the research in our institute is connected to language in one way or another, this is a great opportunity to show what is going on here.

    For more information, see here or contact Sara at .
  • 27 January 2017, ILLC New Year's Colloquium 2017

    Date & Time: Friday 27 January 2017, 16:00-17:00
    Location: Common Room, Room F1.21, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    The ILLC Colloquium is a half-yearly festive event (either the New Year's Colloquium, the Midsummernight Colloquium or the Midwinter Colloquium) that brings together the three research groups at the ILLC. Each colloquium consists of three main talks by representatives from the Logic and Language group, the Language and Computation group and the Logic and Computation group, which are occasionally followed by Wild Idea Talks. The colloquium is concluded by a get together of the entire ILLC community.
  • 26 January 2017, DIP Colloquium, Clemens Mayr

    Date & Time: Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Clemens Mayr (ZAS Berlin)
    Title: The logic of interrogative clause embedding
    Location: Room F3.20, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.
  • 26 January 2017, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Sebastian Schneckenburger

    Date & Time: Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Sebastian Schneckenburger (Tübingen)
    Title: The Atkinson Inequality Index in Multiagent Resource Allocation
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 24 January 2017, LIRa Workshop on Rationality, Logic and Decisions (WoRLD)

    Date & Time: Tuesday 24 January 2017, 13:00-18:00
    Location: room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107

    The Workshop on Rationality, Logic, and Decisions will take place in Amsterdam on January 24th, 2017. The central theme will be the notion of rationality, with special attention to the issue of rationality in decisions. The workshop is associated with the PhD Defence of Paolo Galeazzi, that will take place on January 25th, 2017.

    For more information, see https://playwithoutregret.wordpress.com or contact Paolo Galeazzi at .
  • 20 January 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Yanjing Wang

    Date & Time: Friday 20 January 2017, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Yanjing Wang (Peking University)
    Title: A logic of knowing why
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.
  • 19 January 2017, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Gemma Boleda

    Date & Time: Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00
    Speaker: Gemma Boleda (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Title: The interplay between sense and reference
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Abstract:
    Over a century ago, Frege famously introduced the distinction between sense and reference that is one of the theoretical foundations of formal semantics. However, in practice formal semanticists took reference and ran away with it, either eschewing sense-related issues altogether or giving a referential treatment to them (with notable exceptions). In this talk, I argue that we need to go back to Fregean sense, and propose that data-induced, continuous representations provided by distributional semantics and deep learning methods provide a good methodological handle for sense-related aspects of meaning. I support these claims with results from both computational modeling and theoretical studies. I then revisit reference and present ongoing work on the challenging enterprise of tackling it with continuous methods, too.

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 13 January 2017, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Guillaume Aucher

    Date & Time: Friday 13 January 2017, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Guillaume Aucher
    Title: Dynamic Epistemic Logic in Update Logic
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar.

Calls for Paper

  • CfP special issue of Synthese on "Enabling Mathematical Cultures"

    Deadline: Friday 1 June 2018

    Traditionally, philosophy of mathematics focused on the formal component of mathematics and ignores the human and social components of the mathematical discipline. In the last decades, some philosophers of mathematics have challenged this traditional view and claimed that many of the features of the discipline of mathematics depend at least partially on interpersonal context and cultural embedding. The special issue entitled "Enabling Mathematical Cultures" aims to cover this broadly interdisciplinary scope, studying the social and cultural features of mathematical research practice and its philosophical ramifications.

    Guest editors: Benedikt Loewe, Ursula Martin, Alison Pease.

    We encourage authors to submit papers that discuss cultural aspects of mathematical practices, using methods from philosophy, psychology, education, sociology, history, or other disciplines. Papers that deal with social, technological and conceptual tools for sharing and construction of group knowledge in mathematics are particularly welcome, but this is not a necessary requirement for acceptance of a paper. Engagement with the relevant philosophical literature as well as discussion of the philosophical implications are strongly encouraged. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed according to the high standards of the journal Synthese.

    For more information, see here .
  • CfP special issue of Logic Journal IGPL on Non-classical Modal and Predicate Logics

    Deadline: Monday 30 April 2018

    This special issue is solely dedicated to modal and predicate non-classical logics. Its aim is to bring together papers on both pure and applied aspects of various branches of non-classical logics, to present recent advances in particular fields, and to foster the exchange of ideas between researchers focusing on (1) separate branches of non- classical logic and (2) foundational and applied issues. Guest editors: Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences) Shier Ju (Sun Yat-sen University) Zach Weber (University of Otago).

    We invite submissions on topics from all branches of mathematical logic (e.g., proof-theory, model theory, game theory, computational complexity, etc.), and applications in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and beyond.

    For more information, see http://www.ncmpl.org/#Call or contact .
  • 15 December 2017, Workshop "Games, Values, & AI", Cambridge, England

    Date: Friday 15 December 2017
    Location: Cambridge, England
    Deadline: Tuesday 31 October 2017

    This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds to explore the philosophical and social issues raised by games as inspiration, model, testbed or context for Artificial Intelligence.

    We welcome contributions from any field of research that illuminates the philosophical and social dimensions of AI in relation to games. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the Ethics of AI and Games, Narratives of AI, Games in AI Research, Intelligence and Game-Playing and the Aesthetics and Art Theory of Games.

    For more information, see https://philevents.org/event/show/36266 or contact .
  • 15 December 2017, 6th International Workshop on Computational Creativity Concept Invention, and General Intelligence (C3GI 2017), Madrid, Spain

    Date: Friday 15 December 2017
    Location: Madrid, Spain
    Deadline: Monday 6 November 2017

    The targeted audience for the workshop are researchers associated with fields working in the development of computational models for creativity, concept formation, concept discovery, idea generation, and their overall relation to general intelligence. Furthermore, researchers coming from application areas, like computer-aided innovation (CAI) are welcome to submit papers for this workshop.

    Due to the open nature of the targeted topics, we hope for contributions from a broad variety of subdisciplines within AI and related areas.

    We invite papers that make a scientific contribution to the fields of computational creativity, idea generation and/or artificial general intelligence, with possible topics ranging from theoretical studies of human creativity, inventive capacities and intelligence (that in some way propose a computational model for the respective capability), through more practical contributions reporting on creative, inventive or generally intelligent computer systems (we particularly welcome implementations offering general or at least multiple sorts of results) and studies of systems and software supporting and/or guiding humans in the creative or inventive act, to application-based reports from fields like design, architecture or arts. Submissions connecting to several of the aforementioned topics are highly encouraged and welcome.

    For more information, see https://c3gi.inf.unibz.it/.
  • 15 December 2017, Workshop on Hyperintensional Logics & Truthmaker Semantics, Gent, Belgium

    Date: Friday 15 December 2017
    Location: Gent, Belgium
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 November 2017

    Over the past few years, Kit Fine, Mark Jago and many others have developed various hyperintensional logics: logics that do not satisfy replacement of classical equivalents. Instead, a stronger notion of “analytic equivalence” lies at the core of these systems. Semantics that are more fine-grained than possible-world semantics, such as exact truthmaker semantics, have been proposed to interpret hyperintensional logics. They have recently been applied to the theory of counterfactuals and to debates in metaphysics, among other topics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together and promote research in this area, and to draw connections with ongoing work in philosophical logic, including but not limited to: paraconsistency and paracompleteness, probability theory, first- and higher-order logics, deontic reasoning, relevance logic, and modal logic. Keynote speaker: Kit Fine.

    There are 3 slots for contributed talks left. Please send a title and abstract (max. 500 words) to the organizers by November 15th, 2017.

  • 14 - 15 December 2017, 15th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2017), Evry, France

    Date: 14 - 15 December 2017
    Location: Evry, France
    Deadline: Sunday 17 September 2017

    In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-based computing. This field is now set to become one of the key intelligent systems technologies in the 21st century. The aim of the EUMAS series is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in Europe at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed, and to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.

    EUMAS is co-located with the 5thedition of the International Agreement Technologies (AT) Conference, and is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS).

    To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2017 offers three submission types (full original papers, short original papers, and published papers).  Each submission will be peer-reviewed. We request the submission of title and abstract prior to paper submission to support the tight schedule of reviewing.

    For more information, see https://eumas2017.ibisc.univ-evry.fr or contact EUMAS Organising Committee at .
  • 11 - 15 December 2017, 37th Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2017), Kanpur, India

    Date: 11 - 15 December 2017
    Location: Kanpur, India
    Deadline: Monday 24 July 2017

    The FSTTCS conference is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology.

    Invited Speakers: Sham Kakade (University of Washington, USA), Anca Muscholl (LaBRI & Université Bordeaux, France), Devavrat Shah (MIT, USA), Vinod Vaikuntanathan (MIT CSAIL, USA), and Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

     

    Submissions presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology are invited.

    For more information, see http://fsttcs.org/.
  • 6 - 8 December 2017, Workshop on Second-order Quantifier Elimination & Related Topics (SOQE 2017), Dresden, Germany

    Date: 6 - 8 December 2017
    Location: Dresden, Germany
    Deadline: Sunday 29 October 2017

    Second-order quantifier elimination (SOQE) means to compute from a given logic formula with quantifiers upon second-order objects such as predicates, an equivalent formula in which these quantified second-order objects do no longer occur. It can be combined with various underlying logics, including classical propositional and first-order logic as well as modal and description logics. In slight variations it is also known as forgetting, projection, predicate elimination and uniform interpolation. It is particularly attractive as a logic-based approach to various computational tasks.

    The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on SOQE and related topics. The hope is that issues shared by problems emerging from different special contexts will become apparent, interesting open research problems will be identified, and potential new applications as well as demands on implementations will become visible.

    We invite submissions of works with original research, adaptions of relevant research published elsewhere, and discussions of research in progress, as well as suggestions for tutorials on topics of interest.

    For more information, see http://2017.soqe.org/ or contact .
  • 5 - 7 December 2017, Workshop "Enabling Mathematical Cultures", Oxford, England

    Date: 5 - 7 December 2017
    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    This workshop celebrates the completion of the EPSRC-funded project 'Social Machines of Mathematics', led by Professor Ursula Martin at the University of Oxford. We will present research arising from the project, and bring together interested researchers who want to build upon and complement our work. We invite interested researchers from a broad range of fields, including: Computer Science, Philosophy, Sociology, History of Mathematics and Science, Argumentation theory, and Mathematics Education. Through such a diverse mix of disciplines we aim to foster new insights, perspectives and conversations around the theme of Enabling Mathematical Cultures.

    We hereby invite the submission of abstracts of up to 500 words for papers to be presented in approximately 30 minutes (plus 10 minutes Q+A). The Enabling Mathematical Cultures workshop will have space on Days 2 and 3 of the meeting for a number of accepted talks addressing the themes of social machines of mathematics, mathematical collaboration, mathematical practices, ethnographic or sociological studies of mathematics, computer-assisted proving, and argumentation theory as applied in the mathematical realm.

  • 4 - 8 December 2017, Non-classical Modal and Predicate Logics:The 9th International Workshop on Logic and Cognition (WOLC2017), Guangzhou, China

    Date: 4 - 8 December 2017
    Location: Guangzhou, China
    Deadline: Friday 1 September 2017

    Modalities and predicates have since ancient times been central notions of logic. In the 20th century, various systems of non-classical logics emerged, with applications mainly in Computer Science, but also in many other disciplines such as Linguistics, Mathematics, and Philosophy. Both the theoretical studies and the needs of applications gave rise to the questions of non-classical treatment of quantification and modalities and their accommodation in these non-classical logics. In response, various modal and predicate variants of non-classical logics have been introduced and studied in the past decades.

    Although there are many good conferences on (mainly propositional) non-classical logics, this conference is one solely dedicated to modal and predicate non-classical logics. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers in both pure and applied aspects of various branches of non-classical logics, not only to present recent advances in their particular fields, but mainly foster the exchange of ideas between researchers focusing on (1) separate branches of non-classical logic and (2) foundational and applied issues.

    We invite submissions on both (a) theoretical topics from all branches of mathematical logic (e.g., proof-theory, model theory, game theory, computational complexity, etc.), as well as (b) their applications in various areas (including computer science, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, etc.). Strong papers on propositional logics can also be accepted, provided they relate to the themes in the main scope of the conference (e.g., the study of completions in algebraic semantics, propositional quantification, etc.).

    For more information, see http://logic.sysu.edu.cn/wolc2017/ or contact .
  • 24 - 25 November 2017, Law and Mind 2017, Kraków, Polska

    Date: 24 - 25 November 2017
    Location: Kraków, Polska
    Target audience: legal scholars, philosophers
    Costs: 60-150 euro
    Deadline: Saturday 30 September 2017

    The aim of the conference is to combine the perspectives of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science.
    Recent advances in psychology, neurobiology and cognitive science have created many ideas whose relevance for jurisprudence can be significant. It is our hope that a stimulating exchange of ideas between scholars from these empirical disciplines and legal scholars will generate new insights and develop further the ongoing debate in this field.
    Keynote speakers: Giovanni Sartor, Francis X. Shen, Deborah W. Denno, Fritz Strack

    Authors are invited to submit abstracts (1000 words) plus the -references, prepared for blind review. The conference will cover the following topics (though papers on other related topics are also welcome):
    - Cognitive neuroscience and emergence of moral norms
    - Legal frameworks for neuroscientific evidence
    - Philosophy of law in context of neuroscience
    - Psychology of decision making
    - Heuristics and biases in courtroom
    - Empirical research connected with legal decision making
    - Frameworks for moral, ethical, and legal reasoning
    - Case studies showing ambiguities in legal decision making
    - Other relevant, documented case studies and theoretical papers


    For more information, see http://lawandmind.info/ or contact Bartosz Janik at .
  • 22 - 24 November 2017, Workshop "Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior", Copenhagen, Denmark

    Date: 22 - 24 November 2017
    Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
    Target audience: Logicians and philosophers
    Deadline: Sunday 1 October 2017

    This workshop is part of a three year project 'The Primacy of Tense:  A.N. Prior Now and Then".

    Keynote speakers are:
    - Thomas Müller (University of Konstanz)
    - Valentin Goranko (University of Stockholm)
    - L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan Flint)
    We invite submissions on the logic and philosophy of time, linked to themes drawn from the work of Arthur Prior. Both philosophical and formal papers are welcome, as are papers on the history of tense and temporal logic.
    We also invite extended abstracts (not more than 2 pages) that will form the basis for talks at this conference.
  • CfP special issue of JGPS on "Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry"

    Deadline: Friday 1 December 2017

    We invite submissions for the special issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science on the topic of Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry. The issue will include papers presented at the conference on the same topic, which was held in Bochum on July 18-19, 2017. Papers not presented at the conference are also welcome.

    Throughout the last two decades philosophical discussions on scientific inquiry have increasingly utilized formal models. One of the main advantages of formal approaches is that they help us to gain a precise understanding of the underlying issues and to form normative generalizations that are difficult to obtain in view of traditional methods (such as, for example, historical case studies). Nevertheless, models frequently come with a high degree of idealization and simplification, which may impede their relevance for actual scientific practice. This poses the question, to which extent formal models can be used to provide an understanding of scientific inquiry, and to which extent they can be improved with respect to their relevance for science policy. We invite papers on the above and related issues.

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Submission deadline is 1 December, 2017.

  • 17 - 19 November 2017, 8th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'17), Poznan, Poland

    Date: 17 - 19 November 2017
    Location: Poznan, Poland
    Deadline: Thursday 26 October 2017

    The 8th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2017) is a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet, and META-NET. Since the very beginning (1995) the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields.

    This year the conference will feature invited talks by Chris Cieri (Penn State University, USA), Verónica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science, Burnaby B.C., Canada) , Joseph van Genabith (DFKI, Germany), and Jan Wielemaker (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).

    In memory of Alain Colmerauer who left us on May 13, 2017, and to whom LTC 2017 is dedicated, we organize a special session, for which contributions that rely or extend his work, as well concerning himself are solicited. These contributions can be research as well as state of the art papers, mini-tutorials or demos. Besides papers on new results we will highly appreciate contributions reporting on author's former results (already published or not), often remaining unknown to the large public, in particular those that directly refer to the work of Alain Colmeauer and/or his students. Also critical and comparative studies concerning logic programing versus other programming paradigms are welcome.

    For more information, see http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/ or contact .
  • 16 - 17 November 2017, Category Theory in Physics, Mathematics, & Philosophy, Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 16 - 17 November 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland
    Deadline: Sunday 15 October 2017

    What is the role of category theory (in brief CT) in physics, mathematics and philosophy? Is CT just a useful language of some parts of mathematics and theoretical physics or are categories new structures that are important for these fields? How can categories be used in modern physics? What is the role of CT in the philosophy of mathematics? Is CT a new foundation of mathematics or is it a kind of organization of mathematics? Is the arrow-ontology of CT a new kind of ontology?

    The conference will address the questions mentioned above and issues that concern possible ways of applying CT in physics, mathematics and philosophy.

    Abstracts submission deadline: 15 October 2017 . Abstracts should be sent to Bartłomiej Skowron: .

  • 15 - 17 November 2017, 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2017), Vienna, Austria

    Date: 15 - 17 November 2017
    Location: Vienna, Austria
    Deadline: Sunday 17 September 2017

    MACIS is a series of biennial conferences focusing on research in mathematical and computational aspects of computing and information science. MACIS 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective four-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research.

    Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research, both REGULAR papers (up to 15 pages) and SHORT papers (up to 5 pages). Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. Authors are required to choose one of the following tracks:
    Track 1: Foundation of Algorithms in Mathematics, Engineering & Scientific Computation
    Track 2: Combinatorics and Codes in Computer Science
    Track 3: Data Modeling and Analysis
    Track 4: Mathematical Aspects of Information Security and Cryptography.

    For more information, see https://macis2017.sba-research.org/ or contact Dimitris Simos at .
  • 13 - 15 November 2017, 14th International Workshop on Logic & Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 14), Tokyo, Japan

    Date: 13 - 15 November 2017
    Location: Tokyo, Japan
    Deadline: Thursday 31 August 2017

    LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI. Invited Speakers: Craige Roberts (The Ohio State University),Ivano Ciardelli (University of Amsterdam), Shoichi Takahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University).

    We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and related fields. Abstracts (anonymous, up to 4 pages, including figures and references, A4 size, with 12 point font) must be submitted electronically in PDF format.

    For more information, see http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/.
  • 12 - 15 November 2017, Trends in Logic XVII, Lublin, Poland

    Date: 12 - 15 November 2017
    Location: Lublin, Poland
    Deadline: Saturday 10 June 2017

    Trends in Logic is the conference series of the journal 'Studia Logica'. The 17th Trends in Logic international conference will be held at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, from November 12-November 15, 2017 under the title 'Traditional and new perspectives on deontic logic and agency modeling'.

    Invited speakers: Jan Broersen, Fenrong Liu, Paul McNamara, Olivier Roy, Marek Sergot and Jan Woleński

    We call for relevant contributions applying the different approaches to: deontic logic, normative aspects of action theory, formal ethics, legal theory, and handling norms in computer systems. A special session on obligations derived from permissions, related to a special issue of Studia Logica, will be a part of the conference.

    For more information, see http://trends.philosophy.kul.pl/.
  • 9 - 10 November 2017, Workshop "Logic in the Wild", Gent, Belgium

    Date: 9 - 10 November 2017
    Location: Gent, Belgium
    Deadline: Sunday 10 September 2017

    Nowadays we are witnessing a ‘practical’, or cognitive turn in logic. The approach draws on enormous achievements of a legion of formal and mathematical logicians, but focuses on `the Wild: actual human processes of reasoning and argumentation. Moreover, high standards of inquiry that we owe to formal logicians offer a new quality in research on reasoning and argumentation. In terms of John Corcoran’s distinction between logic as formal ontology and logic as formal epistemology, the aim of the practical turn is to make formal epistemology even more epistemically oriented. This is not to say that this ‘practically turned’ (or cognitively oriented) logic becomes just a part of psychology. This is to say that this logic aquires a new task of “systematically keeping track of changing representations of information”, as Johan van Benthem puts it, and that it contests the claim that the distinction between descriptive and normative accounts of reasoning is disjoint and exhaustive. From a different than purely psychological perspective logic becomes — again — interested in answering Dewey’s question about the Wild: how do we think? This is the new alluring face of psychologism, or cognitivism, in logic, as opposed to the old one, which Frege and Husserl fought against. This is the area of research to which this workshop is devoted.

    We welcome submissions on any topic that fits into the scope as described above.

    For more information, see http://www.lrr.ugent.be/logic-in-the-wild/ or contact .
  • 2 - 4 November 2017, Novembertagung 2017: "Tools for research in mathematics, history, & philosophy", Brussels, Belgium

    Date: 2 - 4 November 2017
    Location: Brussels, Belgium
    Deadline: Tuesday 15 August 2017

    The Novembertagung on the History of Mathematics is an annual international conference aimed at PhD and postdoctoral students in the history of mathematics and related fields. It provides an opportunity for them to present and discuss their research in an informal and safe environment, share experiences and advice and to establish new contacts.

    The theme of the Novembertagung this year is "Tools for research in mathematics, history and philosophy". Invited speakers: Liesbeth de Mol (Lille) & Ralf Krömer (Wuppertal).

    The call for papers is now open. We encourage young researchers to submit abstracts of 500 words or less. We encourage submissions of two kinds:
    1) historical and philosophical considerations about tool use in mathematics, and
    2) methodological considerations about history and philosophy of mathematics.

    The theme serves as a guide, not as an criterion for exclusion; it is not necessary for a submission to engage with the theme to be accepted.

  • 26 - 27 October 2017, International Conference "I Think, Therefore I Teach: Evolutions in Early Modern Education", Leuven, Belgium

    Date: 26 - 27 October 2017
    Location: Leuven, Belgium
    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    The aim of the present conference is to enhance our understanding of the way in which evolutions on the European scene were adopted, refuted, or merely ignored in university teaching of the time. Important focal points are the paradigm shifts in the didactical methods and the curricula, e.g. from late scholasticism to humanism, from Spanish scholasticism to Cartesianism, the influence of Jansenism and Port-Royal. Geographically, the conference will focus on European teaching, and chronologically, on the period from 1500-1800, being a wildly interesting but vastly understudied time segment.

    Attention will be paid mainly to the teaching of logic and natural philosophy, since both disciplines - more so than e.g. the teaching of civil and canon law, evolved in tandem with the philosophical and scientific developments on the larger scale of European society.

    Abstracts of c. 250 words and a brief CV (one page max.) may be sent to for review *until June 15, 2017*. Further questions may be submitted to the same email address. Early career researchers are especially encouraged to submit a proposal for a paper presentation.

  • 25 - 27 October 2017, Workshop on Linguistic Intuitions, Evidence, and Expertise, Aarhus, Denmark

    Date: 25 - 27 October 2017
    Location: Aarhus, Denmark
    Deadline: Thursday 20 April 2017

    At this conference we want to bring together linguists and philosophers interested in the methodological foundations of linguistics. In particular, we want to better understand whether linguistic intuitions can legitimately be used as evidence for theories of grammar. How big is the risk of bias and distortion when linguists use their own intuitions? Can the evidential value of linguistic intuitions be improved by systematically studying the intuitions of non-linguists? Or are there good reasons to prefer the judgements of expert linguists?

    Although we solicit work concerning syntactic intuitions in particular, we also welcome work concerning other kinds of linguistic intuitions.

  • 23 - 27 October 2017, Fourth International Meeting of the Association for Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP IV), Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

    Date: 23 - 27 October 2017
    Location: Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
    Deadline: Saturday 25 February 2017

    Over the last few years approaches to the philosophy of mathematics that focus on mathematical practice have been thriving. Such approaches include the study of a wide variety of issues concerned with the way mathematics is done, evaluated, and applied, and in addition, or in connection therewith, with historical episodes or traditions, applications, educational problems, cognitive questions, etc. In 2009, a group of researchers in this field gathered to promote the creation of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, APMP. This association aims to become a common forum that will stimulate research in philosophy of mathematics related to mathematical activity, past and present, and foster joint actions. The Fourth International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice will be held on October 23-27, 2017, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

    We welcome paper proposals within the area of the philosophy of mathematical practice. A title and abstract (250-500 words) should be sent before January 31, 2017. Post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students are highly invited to send proposals.

    For more information, see http://www.philmathpractice.org or contact .
  • 18 - 20 October 2017, 14th International Conference on Applied Computing 2017 (AC 2017), Vilamoura, Portugal

    Date: 18 - 20 October 2017
    Location: Vilamoura, Portugal
    Deadline: Friday 14 July 2017

    The Applied Computing 2017 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference covers essentially technical aspects. The applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas.

    This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by July 14, 2017. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

    For more information, see http://www.computing-conf.org/ or contact Conference Secretariat at .
  • 18 - 20 October 2017, 16th International Conference on WWW/INTERNET 2017 (ICWI'2017), Vilamoura, Portugal

    Date: 18 - 20 October 2017
    Location: Vilamoura, Portugal
    Deadline: Friday 14 July 2017

    The WWW/Internet 2017 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have arisen. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments.

    Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by July 14, 2017. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. The conference accepts submissions in the following five main areas: Web 2.0; Semantic Web and XML; Applications and Uses; Services, Architectures and Web Development; Research Issues.

    For more information, see http://www.internet-conf.org/ or contact Conference Secretariat at .
  • 16 - 18 October 2017, 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017), Mons, Belgium

    Date: 16 - 18 October 2017
    Location: Mons, Belgium
    Deadline: Monday 8 May 2017

    TIME 2017 aims to bring together researchers interested in reasoning about temporal aspects of information in any area of Computer Science. The symposium, currently in its 24th edition, has a wide remit and intends to cater to both theoretical aspects and well-founded applications. One of the key aspects of the symposium is its interdisciplinarity, with attendees from distinct areas such as artificial intelligence, database management, logic and verification, and beyond. The symposium will encompass three tracks on temporal representation and reasoning in (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Databases and (3) Logic and Verification.

    Submissions of high-quality papers describing research results are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance.

    For more information, see http://informatique.umons.ac.be/time2017/.
  • 15 - 17 October 2017, The 3rd Israeli Workshop on Non-Classical Logics and Their Applications (IsraLog 2017), Tel Aviv, Israel

    Date: 15 - 17 October 2017
    Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    The aim of this workshop is to promote communication between experts in the theory of non-classical logics, as well as those that are the 'end-users' of non-classical formalisms for various applications. The workshop will feature several invited and contributed talks with surveys, tutorials and new technical results. It will also provide opportunities for all participants to engage in round table discussions of open problems and future research directions.

    This edition is a research workshop of The Israel Science Foundation, with special emphasis on paraconsistent logics and their applications.

    We invite submissions of extended abstracts (2-4 pages in the LNCS format) presenting original research results or position statements. Submissions of ongoing work are also strongly encouraged.

    For more information, see http://is.haifa.ac.il/~annazam/isralog17.
  • 9 - 11 October 2017, 4th Symposium on the Foundations of Mathematics (SotFoM-4): Reverse Mathematics, Munich, Germany

    Date: 9 - 11 October 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany
    Deadline: Sunday 6 August 2017

    Reverse mathematics is concerned with examining exactly which axioms are necessary for various central mathematical theorems and results. The program is a relatively new one in the foundations of mathematics. It turns out that most theorems are equivalent to one of five subsystems of second order arithmetic. The main objective of the conference is to explore the philosophical significance of reverse mathematics as a research program in the foundations of mathematics.

    Speakers: Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich), Walter Dean (University of Warwick) (TBC), Benedict Eastaugh (University of Bristol), Marcia Groszek (Dartmouth College), Takako Nemoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Stephen G. Simpson (Pennsylvania State University and Vanderbilt University).

     

    We invite the submission of abstracts, suitable for a 40 minute talk, on topics related to any aspects of reverse mathematics. We encourage submissions from early career researchers and PhD students. Please send an abstract of around 1000-1500 words by email to in PDF format. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review. The author?s name, paper title, institutional affiliation, and contact details should be included in the body of the email.

    For more information, see http://sotfom.wordpress.com or contact .
  • 7 - 9 October 2017, 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI'17), Porto, Portugal

    Date: 7 - 9 October 2017
    Location: Porto, Portugal

    The 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 is an annual forum that will bring together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distributed computing and artificial intelligence, and their application in different areas.

    Research on Intelligent Distributed Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications are now deployed. Applying artificial intelligence in distributed environments is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential. These technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The exchange of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of systems that meet the demands of today's society. The technology transfer in this field is still a challenge and for that reason this type of contributions will be specially considered in this symposium.

    DCAI welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. In addition to the main track, there will also be Special Sessions on AI–driven methods for Multimodal Networks and Processes Modeling, on Decision Economics, on Intelligent and Secure Management towards Smart Buildings and Smart Grids, and on Logic, Information, Language, Memory, Reasoning, as well as a  Doctoral Consortium where students can present their on going research work.

    For more information, see https://www.dcai-conference.net/ or contact .
  • CfP special issue of Studia Logic on "Permissions, Obligations, & Beyond"

    Deadline: Wednesday 15 November 2017

    The relation between obligations and permissions is usually understood either as the first implying the second, or as the second constraining the promulgation of further obligations. The dynamic generation of obligations by rights and permissions, by contrasts, has received comparatively little attention. This special issue aims at exploring such questions as 'when do permissions and rights generate obligations for others', and more generally welcomes any original perspective on the logical relations between obligations and permissions and other related topics within deontic logic.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.editorialmanager.com/stud or contact .
  • 5 - 9 October 2017, 10th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT10), Snowbird UT, U.S.A.

    Date: 5 - 9 October 2017
    Location: Snowbird UT, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Wednesday 5 July 2017

    The Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT) workshop represents the tenth iteration of a series of gatherings dedicated to advancing research in artificial intelligence for the computational understanding and expression of narrative. Our goal is to contribute to this forward momentum by congregating a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to share their latest work at the intersection of narrative and technology. INT10 will be celebrated as a workshop of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).

    INT brings together computer scientists, psychologists, narrative theorists, media theorists, artists, writers, and members of the interactive entertainment industry. From this broad expertise, the workshop focuses on computational systems to represent, reason about, create, adapt, and perform interactive and non-interactive narrative experiences. This also includes fundamental research in relevant fields such as natural language processing, believable virtual characters, commonsense reasoning, computer vision, computational media, and human storytelling.

    We invite submissions of Full papers describing completed or ongoing relevant research (6 pages plus 1 page of references); Short papers (3 pages plus 1 page of references), Demo proposals (1 page) and panel proposals (1 page) may be submitted (speakers in the panel proposal should be already confirmed upon submission). Position papers are also welcome.

    For more information, see http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana/INT10/ or contact .
  • 4 - 7 October 2017, 4th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, Brno, Czech Republic

    Date: 4 - 7 October 2017
    Location: Brno, Czech Republic
    Deadline: Monday 15 May 2017

    HaPoC conferences aim to bring together researchers exploring the various aspects of the computer from historical or philosophical standpoint. The series aims at an interdisciplinary focus on computing, rooted in historical and philosophical viewpoints. The conference brings together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape.

    For HaPoC 2017 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. We also invite contributions on the use of computers in art. As HaPoC conferences aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, contributions stimulating such discussions are preferable.

    For more information, see https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/.
  • 3 October 2017, Workshop on "The Reception of Hilbert's Axiomatic Method in Central and Eastern Europe", Brno, Czech Republic

    Date: Tuesday 3 October 2017
    Location: Brno, Czech Republic

    The Workshop will be held in Brno on October 3, 2017, preceding the 4th HaPoC conference. The aim of the Workshop is to throw light on the history of logic in Central and Eastern Europe through the reception of Hilbert's axiomatic method. It is planned to be a full day of talks and discussions.

    Confirmed Speakers: Jan Wolenski (Poland), Srecko Kovac (Croatia), Ivica Martinovic (Croatia), Mate Szabo (Hungary, USA) and Adam Tuboly (Hungary).

    There are some further spots open for the workshop. Please submit abstracts of 2-500 words by September 1st.

    For more information, see https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7 or contact Mate Szabo at .
  • 2 - 6 October 2017, Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD 2017), Vienna, Austria

    Date: 2 - 6 October 2017
    Location: Vienna, Austria
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    FMCAD 2017 is the seventeenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing.

    FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes.

    For more information, see http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD17.
  • 29 - 30 September 2017, International Workshop on Big Data, Reasoning and Decision Making (BRaD 2017, Hangzhou, China

    Date: 29 - 30 September 2017
    Location: Hangzhou, China
    Deadline: Tuesday 1 August 2017

    The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in multi-disciplinary fields (including logic, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, etc), to discuss research related to knowledge acquisition, representation, reasoning and decision making in the context of Big Data.

    Invited speakers: Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen), Jan Broersen (Universiteit Utrecht), Kim Plunkett (Oxford University) and Chris Reed (University of Dundee).

    We invite submissions of abstracts (500-1000 words) to by 1 August 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.xixilogic.org/events/brad2017.
  • 28 - 30 September 2017, The Making of the Humanities VI, Oxford, England

    Date: 28 - 30 September 2017
    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.

    Keynote Speakers: Elisabeth Décultot, Shamil Jeppie, and Peter Mandler.

    We welcome papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that compares scholarly practices across humanities disciplines and civilizations. We also invite panel proposals, for panels consisting of 3-4 papers (and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme) and lasting 1.5 to 2 hours (including discussion).

  • 28 - 30 September 2017, Warsaw Workshop on Formal Truth Theories, Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 28 - 30 September 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland
    Deadline: Monday 15 May 2017

    The notion of truth has been a long-standing centre of attention for logicians, philosophers and mathematicians. In particular, the logical properties of formal theories of truth have been revealed to be relevant to various philosophical questions, such as to discussions on deflationism, sources of semantic paradoxes, philosophical foundations of arithmetic, and many others.

    The present Warsaw Workshop on Formal Truth Theories will contribute to the efforts having as their purpose a deeper understanding of the concept of truth. The aim of the meeting is to bring together researchers in logic, philosophy and mathematics addressing a wide range of truth-related topics in order to maintain common ground for new research, to discuss latest results and work in progress and to simply foster cooperation of researchers studying the notion of truth from different perspectives.

    The workshop will include a session of contributed talks. Authors of contributed papers are requested to submit abstracts in pdf format of around 1000-1500 words by May 15th 2017. Authors of the accepted papers will have 30 minutes to present their work, including discussion.

  • 26 - 29 September 2017, 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017), Brasilia, Brazil

    Date: 26 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    The ITP conference series is concerned with all topics related to interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. ITP is the evolution of the TPHOLs conference series to the broad field of interactive theorem proving.

    ITP welcomes submissions describing original research on all aspects of interactive theorem proving and its applications. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, when appropriate, submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used.

    In addition to regular papers, described above, there will be a rough diamond section. Rough diamond submissions are limited to 6 pages and may consist of an extended abstract. They will be refereed and be expected to present innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence.

    For more information, see http://itp2017.cic.unb.br/ or contact .
  • 26 - 29 September 2017, 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017), Naples, Italy

    Date: 26 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Naples, Italy
    Deadline: Thursday 25 May 2017

    CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming). Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases.

    The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects.

    In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome.

    For more information, see http://cilc2017.unina.it/ or contact .
  • 26 - 29 September 2017, 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2017), Naples, Italy

    Date: 26 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Naples, Italy
    Deadline: Thursday 25 May 2017

    The purpose of the meeting is to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. In particular, it provides an ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers.

    ICTCS 2017 is co-located with the 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic CILC 2017 with which it will share part of the program.

    Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly solicited from researchers of all nationalities.

    Two types of contributions are solicited: regular papers (full original papers, presenting novel results, not appeared or submitted elsewhere) and communications (suitable for extended abstracts of papers already submitted elsewhere, papers reporting ongoing research, etc.)

    For more information, see http://ictcs2017.unina.it/ or contact .
  • 25 - 29 September 2017, Call for Workshops & Tutorials: TABLEAUX, FroCoS, ITP, Brasilia (Brazil)

    Date: 25 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia (Brazil)
    Deadline: Friday 9 December 2016

    Three of the main conferences on automated reasoning -- TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP - will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, between 25 and 29 September 2017. Following the long tradition of those events, we invite researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for co-located workshops and in-depth tutorials on topics relating to automated theorem proving and its applications. Workshops/tutorials can target the automated reasoning community in general, focus on a particular theorem proving system, or highlight more specific issues or recent developments.

    Proposals are invited to be submitted by email no later than 9 December 2016.

    For more information, see http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/#cfw or contact .
  • 25 - 29 September 2017, 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017), Brasilia, Brazil

    Date: 25 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Friday 28 April 2017

    TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects, theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications, of the mechanization of tableau-based reasoning and related methods is presented.

    Tableau methods offer a convenient and flexible set of tools for automated reasoning in classical logic, extensions of classical logic, and a large number of non-classical logics. For large groups of logics, tableau methods can be generated automatically. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis.

    TABLEAUX 2017 will be co-located with both the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2017).

    Submissions are invited in two categories: Research papers (which describe original theoretical research, original algorithms, or applications, with length up to 15 pages) and System descriptions (with length up to 9 pages). We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the tableau community and should focus on the role of reasoning, and logical aspects of the solution. Deadline for Abstract Submission: 18 Apr 2017.

    For more information, see http://tableaux2017.cic.unb.br/.
  • 25 - 29 September 2017, 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2017), Brasilia, Brazil

    Date: 25 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    In various areas of computer science, such as logic, computation, program development and verification, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning, there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference systems for selected tasks. To be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other and integrated into general purpose systems. This has led - in many research areas - to the development of techniques and methods for the combination and integration of dedicated formal systems, as well as for their modularization and analysis.

    The International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS) traditionally focusses on these types of research questions and activities. Like its predecessors, FroCoS 2017 seeks to offer a common forum for research in the general area of combination, modularization, and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use.

    FroCoS 2017 will be co-located with the 26th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2017) and the 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem-­Proving (ITP 2017).

    The program committee seeks high-quality submissions describing original work, written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or conference with archival proceedings. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. Abstract submission deadline: 24th April 2017.

    For more information, see http://frocos2017.cic.unb.br.
  • 25 - 29 September 2017, 6th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2017) and 5th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2017), Dortmund, Germany

    Date: 25 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Dortmund, Germany
    Deadline: Saturday 1 July 2017

    Knowledge representation offers a rich palette of methods for uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI approaches. Its many facets like qualitative vs. quantitative reasoning, defeasible and analogical reasoning, argumentation and negotiation in multi-agent systems, causal reasoning for action and planning, as well as nonmonotonicity and belief revision, among many others, have become very active fields of research. Beyond computational aspects, these methods aim to reflect the rich variety of human reasoning in uncertain and dynamic environments.

    The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in their broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work linking different paradigms of reasoning.

    We welcome papers on any of the workshop topics. We put a special focus on papers from both fields that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge representation and cognitive models of reasoning, addressing formal as well as experimental or heuristic issues.

  • 25 - 26 September 2017, Deduktionstreffen 2017, Dortmund, Germany

    Date: 25 - 26 September 2017
    Location: Dortmund, Germany
    Deadline: Tuesday 15 August 2017

    The annual meeting Deduktionstreffen is the prime activity of the Interest Group for Deduction Systems (FGDedSys) of the German Informatics Society. It is a meeting with a familiar, friendly atmosphere, where everyone (not only the German community) interested in deduction can report on their work in an informal setting.

    A particular focus of the Deduktionstreffen is on young researchers and students, who are particularly encouraged to present their ongoing research projects to a wider audience. Another goal of the meeting is to stimulate networking effects and to foster collaborative research projects. Deduktionstreffen 2017 is associated with KI 2017.

    We welcome contributions on all theoretical, experimental and application aspects of deduction. Accepted abstracts are first presented in a five minute teaser talk and then discussed next to a poster (maximal size: A0 portrait).

    For more information, see http://fg-dedsys.gi.de/dt2017.
  • 24 September 2017, Workshop DaLí – Dynamic Logic: new trends and applications

    Date: Sunday 24 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Sunday 18 June 2017

    Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make Dynamic Logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heteroge- neous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. forum for disseminating and sharing new trends and applications of Dynamic Logic.

    Invited Speakers: Alexandru Baltag (UvA), Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, BR).

    We invite submissions on the general field of Dynamic Logic, its variants and applications. Authors are invited to submit original papers (un-published and not submitted for publication elsewhere) up to 15 pages in lncs style. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer’s Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume. Submissions with work in progress (abstracts with 2-5 pag) are also welcomed for short presentations. They are subject of a light reviewing and will be available at conference in a informal booklet.

    For more information, see http://workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt/ or contact Alexandre Madeira at .
  • 24 - 25 September 2017, EPS: Encyclopedia of Proof Systems, Brasilia, Brazil

    Date: 24 - 25 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Tuesday 1 August 2017

    The Encyclopedia of Proof Systems was created in 2014 with the goal of being a quick reference for the various proof systems used by logicians. Since then, it has collected 64 entries on the most various logics and calculi. This was only possible due to the collaboration of many members of the logic community.

    This event aims to promote the encyclopedia and attract more contributions and collaborators. It consists of:
    - a poster session in the afternoon of September 24th, 2017, during which submitted entries will be displayed as posters;
    - an interactive hands-on meeting in the morning of September 25th, 2017, for those who would like to contribute to the continuous improvement of the encyclopedia.

    For this event, entries should be submitted before the 1st of August 2017.

  • 23 - 24 September 2017, 12th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications (LSFA 2017), Brasilia, Brazil

    Date: 23 - 24 September 2017
    Location: Brasilia, Brazil
    Deadline: Friday 23 June 2017

    Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning.

    LSFA 2017 will be a satellite event of TABLEAUX, FroCoS, and ITP, that aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. The proceedings are produced after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

    Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 16 pages including references or short papers with a maximum of 6 pages including references. Additional technical material can be provided in a clearly marked appendix which will be read by reviewers at their discretion. Contributions must also be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

    For more information, see http://lsfa2017.cic.unb.br/ or contact .
  • 21 - 23 September 2017, PLM4: Philosophy of Language and Mind, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 21 - 23 September 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    PLM is a European network of centers devoted to the Philosophy of Language and Mind and organizes a biennial international conference series with leading experts on the field.

    The conference will be preceded by an independent satellite conference on 'Pain and Emotion' in Bochum on 20 September 2017.

    The conference welcomes the submission of abstracts in the areas of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Abstracts accepted as talks will be allocated 40 minutes, including 10 minutes of discussion. In addition, we will allow for poster presentations.

    For more information, see http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/PLM4/ or contact Prof. Dr. Markus Werning at .
  • 21 - 23 September 2017, First Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS 2017), Bolzano, Italy

    Date: 21 - 23 September 2017
    Location: Bolzano, Italy
    Deadline: Monday 17 July 2017

    This first Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS) collocated with the third Joint Ontology Workshop is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of resources renders this process more complex. As a highly interdisciplinary workshop, discussions will center on requirements and suggestions to endow computational models with knowledge sharing capabilities in interactive scenarios.

    SUBMISSIONS Submissions need to present original research and contain an abstract of no more than 300 words. Both full papers (mature research work describing original research and its validation) and short papers (research papers describing interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field) are sollicited.

    Topics:
     - Ontological grounding of knowledge sharing and interactions
     - Interaction-Based Reasoning
     - Interaction-Based Knowledge Resources Engineering
     - Knowledge Sharing in Interaction-based Applications

    For more information, see http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/.
  • 21 - 23 September 2017, 1st Workshop on Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language (CREOL 2017), Bolzano, Italy

    Date: 21 - 23 September 2017
    Location: Bolzano, Italy
    Deadline: Monday 17 July 2017

    CREOL aims at gathering together researchers from different communities (Applied Ontology, NLP, AI, Semantic Web) to investigate the relationship between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic resources, and their interpretation in their context of occurrence.

    Presentations of sollicited contributions will be followed by a multi-centric panel session where authors will meet and discuss with other researchers and stakeholders from industry. Follow-up discussions will be organized to promote project networking, cross-contamination on methodological prospective approaches and techniques, and discussions over practical, individuated applications.

    We solicit the following sorts of contributions:
     - Regular papers on research issues and/or achievements describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop (for oral presentation, up to 10 pages including references)
     - Short papers reporting on system descriptions and demos (either oral presentation or poster, up to 6 pages including references)
     - Extended abstracts reporting on International and national activities, projects and collaborations (presented in a 3 minute pitch, up to 4 pages including references).

    For more information, see http://creol2017.di.unito.it.
  • 21 - 23 September 2017, 1st International Workshop on Epistemology in Ontologies (EPINON 2017)

    Date: 21 - 23 September 2017
    Location: Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
    Target audience: Philosophers, Logicians, Computer Scientists, Ontologists
    Deadline: Monday 17 July 2017

    Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that hold for this domain. The structure of the characterisation is usually intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of how things about a particular domain are. The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance in formal ontology and knowledge representation and focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology designer. In particular, we are interested in fostering the discussion about two intertwined research directions, the Epistemological Foundations of Ontologies and the Ontologies of Epistemology.

    This workshop is part of The Joint Ontology Workshops, Episode III, JOWO 2017.

    We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the discussion on the Epistemological Foundation of Ontologies and/or the Ontological Foundation of Epistemology. We welcome two types of submissions: Research articles for presenting original unpublished work, and Extended abstracts for presenting brief descriptions of ongoing research and projects, preliminary approaches, or descriptions of related previously published research.

    For more information, see http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2017/home.html or contact Daniele Porello at .
  • 21 September 2017, 3L workshop: Language, Learning, Logic, London, England

    Date: Thursday 21 September 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Sunday 10 September 2017

    There is widespread agreement that AI has grown over the years into a fragmented landscape of sub-disciplines with a narrow focus. Specialisation has certainly facilitated great advances within the sub-disciplines and AI overall, but fragmentation has created a silos mentality which hinders cross-fertilisation and further advancements within AI.

    This workshop will bring together researchers from three broad AI areas, namely natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML) and logic-based symbolic AI, to discuss and explore opportunities for cross-fertilisation centered around NLP. The workshop also aims at discussing and identifying possible directions for future research at the intersection of NLP, ML and symbolic AI.

    To attend and give a presentation, please submit a 2-page abstract of your intended presentation via Easy Chair. To attend without presenting, please submit a half-page summary of your research interests and previous (relevant) research, also via Easy Chair.

  • 20 - 22 September 2017, Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification (GandALF 2017), Rome, Italy

    Date: 20 - 22 September 2017
    Location: Rome, Italy
    Deadline: Friday 19 May 2017

    The aim of GandALF 2017 symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization.

    Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome.

    For more information, see http://gandalf2017.istc.cnr.it.
  • 19 - 22 September 2017, 12th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2017), Montpellier, France

    Date: 19 - 22 September 2017
    Location: Montpellier, France
    Deadline: Monday 29 May 2017

    The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between.

    The areas of interest for the conference include all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas.

    Two types of submission are solicited: Long papers (describing original research) and Short papers (typically system description with demonstration or project descriptions, or ongoing research).

    For more information, see http://www.lirmm.fr/iwcs2017/.
  • 19 September 2017, Workshop on Language, Ontology, Terminology and Knowledge Structures (LOTKS - 2017) , Montpellier, France

    Date: Tuesday 19 September 2017
    Location: Montpellier, France
    Deadline: Monday 10 July 2017

    This workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), will bring together two closely related strands of research. On the one hand it will look at the overlap between ontologies and computational linguistics; and on the other the relationship between knowledge modelling and terminologies -- as well as the many points of intersection between these two topics. This workshop aims to create a forum for open discussion that will help to highlight the common areas of interest in the different fields concerned, as well as fostering dialogue between the various different approaches taken by each discipline.

     

    This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers in fields such as linguistics, terminologies, and knowledge engineering, whose work fits in with our topics of interest as well as interested industry professionals. We invite proposals in the form of abstracts of up to 6 pages (up to 4 pages of text +2 pages for references) for short papers, or up to 8 pages (up to 6 pages of text+ 2 pages for references) for long papers. We particularly welcome approaches with a cross-language, cross-domain and/or cross-interdisciplinary scope.

  • 18 - 20 September 2017, Workshop "Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions", Sevilla, Spain

    Date: 18 - 20 September 2017
    Location: Sevilla, Spain
    Deadline: Monday 29 May 2017

    The topic of this workshop is one of the objectives of our research project P12-HUM-1216 “La génesis del conocimiento matemático: cognición, historia y prácticas”. We aim to investigate the changing configuration of relations between pure and “applied” maths in different periods, with particular attention to the “classical” era (17th and 18th centuries) contrasted with the “modern” 19th and early 20th centuries.

    The invited speakers are Helmut Pulte (Ruhr Universität Bochum-RUB), Ivahn Smadja (Université de Paris Diderot – Paris 7 & Lab. Sphère) and Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario).

    Contributed papers will be welcome on topics relevant to the workshop. In order to promote discussion and bring the workshop’s topic into sharper focus, we propose to consider, on the ‘physical side,’ mainly the science of mechanics. Obviously the mathematical treatment of other branches of physics is of enormous interest, but in this particular meeting we suggest to consider them only insofar as they have affected the most primary aspects of the mathematisation of physics. Proposals should be of a max. length of 500 words.

    For more information, see https://gecomat1216.wordpress.com/ or contact .
  • 12 - 15 September 2017, Highlights of Logic, Games, & Automata (HIGHLIGHTS 2017), London, England

    Date: 12 - 15 September 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Monday 5 June 2017

    HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata that aims at integrating the community working in these fields. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. The program will feature contributed and invited talks,  two invited sessions, and two two tutorials.

    We encourage you to attend and present your best work, be it already published or not, at the Highlights conference. Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: logic and finite model theory, automata theory, games for logic and verification.

    The contributed talks are around ten minutes. Ideally, they let participants learn something new, and enable them to understand the objective/problem/question and the result, and to get an idea of the technique.

    For more information, see http://highlights-conference.org.
  • CfP special issue of Synthese on "Mathematical Cognition & Enculturation"

    Deadline: Thursday 1 February 2018

    A CfP is out for the upcoming Synthese Special Issue "Mathematical Cognition and Enculturation", edited by Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Markus Pantsar.

    With this special issue, we hope to advance our understanding of mathematical cognition by exploring the perspective of enculturation. Conversely, we also hope to investigate the merits, reach and limits of the enculturation perspective by means of detailed analyses of a specific but important case study: mathematical cognition. Submissions are invited from a wide variety of approaches in philosophy of mathematics, including views critical of the concept of enculturation with respect to mathematics.

    For more information, see https://philevents.org/event/show/35470.
  • 11 - 14 September 2017, The Sixth International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-VI), Sapporo, Japan

    Date: 11 - 14 September 2017
    Location: Sapporo, Japan
    Deadline: Friday 14 April 2017

    ]The International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI) conference series aims at bringing together researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related topics that concern the understanding of rationality and interaction. The series aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavour, and supports the creation of an East-Asian community of interdisciplinary researchers.

    Submitted papers should be at most 12 pages long, with one additional page for references, in PDF format following the Springer LNCS style. Please submit your paper by (extended deadline) Friday April 14, 2017, via EasyChair (easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lori6). Accepted papers will be collected as a volume in the FoLLI Series on Logic, Language and Information, and authors may be later invited to submit extended versions of their papers in a special issue of a suitable journal.

    For more information, see http://golori.org/lori2017/ or contact .
  • 11 - 13 September 2017, 21st International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT 2017), Bordeaux, France

    Date: 11 - 13 September 2017
    Location: Bordeaux, France
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    The Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT) was established in 1977 for researchers interested in all aspects of theoretical computer science, and in particular algorithms, complexity, formal and logical methods. FCT is a biennial conference. The last preceding Symposia were held in Gdansk, Liverpool, Oslo, Wroclaw, Budapest, Lübeck. FCT 2017 will take place in Bordeaux, France.

    There will be four invited talks at FCT 2017. The invited speakers are: Thomas Colcombet, Martin Dietzfelbinger, Juraj Hromkovic and Anca Muscholl. There will also be one invited talk in memoriam of Zoltan Esik given by Jean-Eric Pin.

    Authors are invited to submit original research papers in all areas related to the Foundations of Computer Science (algorithms, formal methods, emerging fields of study).

    For more information, see http://fct2017.labri.fr/ or contact Arnaud Casteigts, Ralf Klasing, Marc Zeitoun (Organization and PC co-Chairs) at .
  • 11 - 15 September 2017, 19th OeMG Congress and Annual DMV Meeting, Section Algebra, Logic & Set Theory, Salzburg, Austria

    Date: 11 - 15 September 2017
    Location: Salzburg, Austria
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    Every four years the Austrian Mathematical Society organizes a congress with international outreach. It became a nice tradition that the German Mathematical Society co-organizes this event and has its Annual Meeting at the congress. Altogether, there are 17 different sections scheduled for this meeting. The section on Algebra, Logic and Set Theory is chaired by Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna, Austria) and Vasco Brattka (Munich, Germany).

    The invited speakers of this section are Ekaterina Fokina (Vienna, Austria), George Metcalfe (Berne, Switzerland) and Arno Pauly (Brussels, Belgium). At the meeting there will also be a minisymposium on Applied Proof Theory and the Computational Content of Mathematics organized by Thomas Powell (Darmstadt) and Sam Sanders (Munich).

    Participants can submit proposals for contributed talks to each section. The section organizers will decide on these proposals and suggest a program to the organizers of the conference.

    For more information, see http://oemg-dmv-2017.sbg.ac.at/.
  • 8 - 9 September 2017, 4th International Workshop on Structures and Deduction(SD 2017), Oxford, England

    Date: 8 - 9 September 2017
    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Friday 16 June 2017

    SD17 is the fourth in a series of meetings that brings together researchers in different areas of proof theory. The main interest is in new algebraic and geometric results in proof theory which expand our abilities to manipulate proofs, help to reduce bureaucracy in deductive systems, and ultimately lead to new methods for proof search and new kinds of proof certificates.

    We welcome submission of work that has already been published or currently submitted to a journal or conference. As well as theoretical work in the form of regular papers, we encourage submission of implementations, tools and system descriptions.

    For more information, see http://www.anupamdas.com/sd17/ or contact .
  • 8 - 9 September 2017, 1st Annual Workshop on String Diagrams in Computation, Logic, and Physics (STRING 2017), Oxford, England

    Date: 8 - 9 September 2017
    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about processes and composition. Originally developed as a convenient notation for the arrows of monoidal and higher categories, they are increasingly used in the formal study of digital circuits, control theory, concurrency, quantum and classical computation, natural language processes, logic and more. String diagrams combine the advantages of formal syntax with intuitive aspects: the graphical nature of terms means that they often reflect the topology of systems under consideration. Moreover, diagrammatic reasoning transforms formal arguments into dynamic, moving images, thus building domain specific intuitions, valuable both for practitioners and pedagogy.

    This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and specialities to collaborate and share their insights, tools, and techniques. It will furthermore provide an informal atmosphere in a unique venue: the upstairs of the Jericho Tavern, a music venue, where famously Radiohead played their first concert. All the usual conference facilities will be provided, and the distinctive location will provide plenty of opportunities to discuss and share ideas. STRING 2017 is a satellite event of FSCD 2017  and will be co-located with the 3rd Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications.

    We warmly welcome all types of contributions, ranging from work-in-progress to original work and/or overviews of mature work published elsewhere, on topics ranging from theory of string diagrams, to applications and tool demos.

    We will try to build a programme that is as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible within the fairly limited time available. Hence, speakers will be invited either to give a full-length talk or give a short talk in a "lightning session" style format.

    For more information, see http://string2017.cs.ru.nl/index.html.
  • 8 - 9 September 2017, BLC 2017: British Logic Colloquium, Brighton, England

    Date: 8 - 9 September 2017
    Location: Brighton, England
    Deadline: Thursday 20 July 2017

    This is the annual meeting of the British Logic Colloquium. The scope of the event includes mathematical and philosophical logic as well as logic in computer science and applications of logic.

    Invited Speakers: Hazel Brickhill (Bristol), Oliver Kullmann (Swansea), James Ladyman (Bristol), Sam Staton (Oxford), Tamara von Glehn (Cambridge), Katrin Tent (Münster).

    There will be a few slots available for contributed talks. If you would like to present your recent work, either already published or work in progress, please submit a single page abstract (A4 pdf) via EasyChair.

    For more information, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/blc17/ or contact Bernhard Reus at .
  • 8 - 12 September 2017, Workshop on Computability Theory & Foundations of Mathematics, Singapore, Singapore

    Date: 8 - 12 September 2017
    Location: Singapore, Singapore
    Deadline: Friday 1 September 2017

    This workshop is the seventh in the Computability Theory and Foundations of Mathematics (CTFM) series. CTFM aims to provide a forum for computability theory and logical foundations of mathematics. The topics include, but are not limited to, Computability / Recursion Theory, Reverse Mathematics, Nonstandard Analysis, Proof Theory, Set Theory, Philosophy of Mathematics, Constructive Mathematics, Algorithmic Randomness and Computational Complexity.

    The first day and the last day of the 2017 workshop will focus on classical recursion theory, and computable structures as well as reverse mathematics. The activities are held jointly with the program Aspect of Computation. The other two days will focus on topics in set theory and the foundations of mathematics.

    Abstracts of talks should be submitted via email to with subject line: CTFM2017 submission. The length of abstract is limited to 2 pages including references. The authors are recommended to prepare their abstracts in the following IMS format:
    Tex file: http://ims.nus.edu.sg/files/IMSAbstractTemplate.tex
    PDF example: http://ims.nus.edu.sg/files/IMSAbstractTemplate.pdf

    For more information, see http://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2017/wcom/ or contact .
  • 7 September 2017, 3rd Workshop on Connexive Logics, Kyoto, Japan

    Date: Thursday 7 September 2017
    Location: Kyoto, Japan
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    After two workshops on connexive logics in Istanbul (June 2015) and Raesfeld Castle (June 2016), a third workshop on connexive logics will take place in Kyoto (Japan) as part of 'Kyoto Nonclassical Logic Workshop III', 7th of September 2017.

    This workshop is meant to present current work on connexive logic and to stimulate future research. Keynote speakers: Norihiro Kamide (Teikyo University, Japan) Andreas Kapsner (LMU Munich, Germany).

    Any papers related to connexive logics are welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
     - Historical considerations of the notion of connexivity
      - Arguments for or against connexive logics
      - Examinations of systems of connexive logics
     - non-explosiveness of logical consequence

  • 5 - 8 September 2017, 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2017), Porto, Portugal

    Date: 5 - 8 September 2017
    Location: Porto, Portugal
    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    EPIA is a well-established international conference on Artificial Intelligence, supported by Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines.

    As in past editions, EPIA 2017 will feature a number of leading researchers in AI as invited speakers.The technical program of EPIA 2017 will feature a set of thematic tracks, covering a wide spectrum of AI topics.The conference will also include a doctoral symposium, a poster session, AI competitions and tutorials on specific topics.

    Submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous revision process (the acceptance rate in previous editions has been around 30%). As in previous EPIA’s, accepted papers will be published in a Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence volume, published by Springer — “Progress in Artificial Intelligence”. Additionally, a special Journal Track will be included in EPIA 2017, for which accepted papers will be published in a journal special issue and presented at the conference.

    For more information, see https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/.
  • 4 - 7 September 2017, 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2017), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Date: 4 - 7 September 2017
    Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    The International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG) is the conference of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

    Notice that the first day will be devoted to Workshops. The Main Conference will run on 5-6 september. And the last day will be for Tutorials and Hackathon.

    The INLG organisers and SIGGEN invite further proposals for one-day or half-day workshops at INLG 2017. Workshops can focus on any topic that is viewed as relevant to the Natural Language Generation community. We especially invite proposals for workshops in relatively new areas which have recently begun to attract interest in the research community, or topics where greater interaction between the NLG community and another established research community can be beneficial to both fields. Proposals for workshops which form part of an existing series are also welcome.

  • 4 - 6 September 2017, The Ninth Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium (SPE9), Padua, Italy

    Date: 4 - 6 September 2017
    Location: Padua, Italy
    Deadline: Saturday 10 June 2017

    This year's Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium consists of two special sessions:
    1) Applied Ontology and Natural Language (Invited speakers: Bjorn Jespersen (Barcelona), Nicola Guarino (Trento), Laure Vieu (Toulouse))
    2) Ontology and Generative Syntax (Invited speakers: Boban Arsenijevic (University of Niš),  John Collins (East Anglia), Andrea Moro (Pavia), Gillian Ramchand (Tromsoe))

    There will also be a preconference tutorial "Ontology and Natural Language" by Friederike Moltmann (CNRS) and Nicola Guarino (Trento).

    We invite abstract submissions for 30-minute presentations on the topic of either session. Abstracts should contain original research that, at the time of submission, has neither been published nor accepted for publication. One person can submit at most one abstract as sole author and one abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts).  Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or letter), in a font size no less than 12pt. Please submit abstracts no later than May 31, 2017, indicating whether it is for Session 1 or 2.

    For more information, see http://www.spe9.lagado.org/ or contact .
  • 4 September 2017, Workshop on Recent Advances in Concurrency & Logic (RADICAL 2017), Berlin, Germany

    Date: Monday 4 September 2017
    Location: Berlin, Germany
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    RADICAL is a new workshop aligned within the intersection between concurrency and logic, broadly construed.

    Recently, the interplay of concurrency and logic with areas/applications has received much attention, as witnessed by recent CONCUR editions. These areas/applications have become increasingly consolidated, and start to have profound impact in neighbouring communities. As an unfortunate side effect, however, the important unifying role that concurrency plays in all of them seems hard to find in a single scientific event.  RADICAL intends to fill a gap between CONCUR researchers that now also typically publish and interact in other different venues; it also aims at attracting researchers from neighbouring communities whose work naturally intersects with CONCUR.

    Since we would like to recover the informal character of scientific workshops, rather than regular paper submissions, we invite submissions describing talk proposals on the intersection of logic and concurrency. Submissions based on already published works should include explicit references/links as appropriate. It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and give the talk.

  • 3 - 9 September 2017, Second International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'17), Oxford, England

    Date: 3 - 9 September 2017
    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Friday 7 April 2017

    FSCD covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, proof theory and new emerging models of computation such as quantum computing or homotopy type theory.

    Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages and must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 10 pages and must describe a working system which has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Full versions of several accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.

  • 3 - 6 September 2017, 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2017 (AIRIM'17), Prague, Czech Republic

    Date: 3 - 6 September 2017
    Location: Prague, Czech Republic
    Deadline: Wednesday 10 May 2017

    There is general realization that computational models of languages and reasoning can be improved by integration of heterogeneous resources of information, e.g., multidimensional diagrams, images, language, syntax, semantics, quantitative data, memory. While the event targets promotion of integrated computational approaches, we invite contributions from any individual areas related to information, language, memory, reasoning.

    We welcome submissions of papers on any of the conference topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, and applications.

  • 27 - 31 August 2017, 20th anniversary International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2017), Prague, Czech Republic

    Date: 27 - 31 August 2017
    Location: Prague, Czech Republic
    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.

    Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov and other eminent personages with various expertise covering speech modeling, acoustic-phonetic decoding, dialogue systems, and semantics have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech.

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition, Corpora and Language Resources, Speech and Spoken Language Generation, Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech, Semantic Processing of Text and Speech, Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing, Automatic Dialogue Systems, and Multimodal Techniques and Modelling.

    For more information, see http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017 or contact Mrs Romana Strapkova (TSD2017 Conference Secretary) at .
  • 25 August 2017, Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems (LAMAS 2017) , Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: Friday 25 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Deadline: Sunday 4 June 2017

    The LAMAS workshop provides a meeting forum for the research community working on various logical aspects of multi-agent systems (MAS) from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory. It addresses the whole range of issues that arise in the context of using logic in MAS, from theoretical foundations to algorithmic methods and implemented tools.

    Invited speakers: Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA) and Nancy Wojtek Jamroga (Polish Academy of Sciences).

    Submissions for workshop presentations are invited. Please submit extended abstracts of 2-5 pages reporting either original, ongoing, or recently published work in the area of the workshop. Submissions are not anonymous and will be subjected to light reviewing.

    For more information, see http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psznza/lamas17/.
  • 23 - 27 August 2017, 3nd international conference on Logic, Relativity, and Beyond (LRB17), Budapest, Hungary

    Date: 23 - 27 August 2017
    Location: Budapest, Hungary
    Deadline: Sunday 26 February 2017

    There are several new and rapidly evolving research areas blossoming out from the interaction of logic and relativity theory. The aim of this conference series, which take place once every 2 or 3 years, is to attract and bring together mathematicians, physicists, philosophers of science, and logicians from all over the word interested in these and related areas to exchange new ideas, problems and results.

    The spirit of this conference series goes back to the Vienna Circle and Tarski's initiative Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. We aim to provide a friendly atmosphere that enables fruitful cooperation leading to joint research and publications. This 3rd conference is also dedicated to honoring Hajnal Andréka's birthday.

    We invite you to submit your abstract or paper (or extended abstract) at the conference's Easychair page. Papers and extended abstracts should be no more than 12 pages (excluding bibliography), and should be submitted in pdf formatted for A4 paper. Extended abstracts and papers will be published in electronic form as a conference proceedings.

    For more information, see http://www.renyi.hu/conferences/lrb17/ or contact Gergely Szekely at .
  • 21-28 August 2017, The Ninth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 9), Munich, Germany

    Date: 21-28 August 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany
    Deadline: 8 January 2017

    The European Society for Analytic Philosophy organizes a major congress every three years. The next congress (ECAP 9) will take place at LMU Munich, Germany, from 21-28 August 2017. The goal of this congress is to bring together analytic philosophers from Europe and all over the world to discuss their work and to exchange ideas. There will also be four plenary speakers and ten panel speakers as well as several invited symposia representing the diverse field of analytic philosophy.

    For more information, see http://analyticphilosophy.eu/ecap9/

    A call for contributed papers and symposia proposals will be announced in July 2016. The submission deadline will be 8 January 2017.

  • 21 - 25 August 2017, 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017), Aalborg, Denmark

    Date: 21 - 25 August 2017
    Location: Aalborg, Denmark
    Deadline: Thursday 20 April 2017

    MFCS conference series is organized since 1972. Traditionally, the conference moved between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, while since a few years ago, the conference travels around Europe (in 2013 it was held in Austria, then in 2014 in Hungary, in 2015, in Italy). In 2016 the conference returned to Poland and in 2017 it will be held in Denmark. MFCS is a high-quality venue for original research in all branches of theoretical computer science. The broad scope of the conference encourages interactions between researchers who might not meet at more specialized venues.

    MFCS 2017 consists of invited lectures and contributed talks, selected by an international program committee of researchers focusing on diverse areas of theoretical computer science. The conference will be accompanied by workshops.

    We encourage submission of original research papers in all areas of theoretical computer science. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be collected into the conference proceedings.

    For more information, see http://mfcs2017.cs.aau.dk/.
  • 20 - 24 August 2017, 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017), Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: 20 - 24 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Target audience: logicians; computer scientists
    Deadline: Sunday 4 June 2017

    Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science and is intended for computer scientists whose research involves logic, as well as for logicians working on issues essential for computer science.

    CSL2017 is the 26th EACSL annual conference. It will be co-organised by Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and hosted by Stockholm University. CSL2017 will be co-located with, and immediately preceded by, the Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017). There will be a joint session of CSL2017 and LC2017 in the morning of August 20, as well as CSL-affiliated workshops during August 25-26.

    Authors are invited to submit abstracts for short oral presentations. Abstracts should be in English, up to 4 pages (including references) in LIPIcs style, describing work fitting the scope of the conference. They will NOT be included in the proceedings. Note that the deadline for contributed full papers passed on March 24rd.

    For more information, see https://www.csl17.conf.kth.se or contact Valentin Goranko at .
  • 19 - 25 August 2017, Twenty-sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), Melbourne, Australia

    Date: 19 - 25 August 2017
    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Deadline: Thursday 16 February 2017

    For nearly a half-century, IJCAI has remained the premier conference bringing together the international AI community in communicating the advances and celebrating the achievements of artificial intelligence research and practice. With the current explosive interest in AI and its applications, this 26th edition of the conference is guaranteed to provide an exciting forum to present and hear about cutting-edge research in AI.

    A special theme of IJCAI-17 is Autonomy. Recent developments in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies across many different areas of endeavour have brought new challenges or have made real those that until now had been largely abstract and theoretical. In recognition of this trend, and in support of addressing some of these challenges, this Special Track seeks to foster discussion and debate around the issues brought forward by this new generation of technologies and applications.

    The scientific program of IJCAI 2017 will also contain Workshops, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Robotic Exhibitions, a Doctoral consortium, and will host different software, video, and robotics competitions.

    The Program Committee invites the submission of technical papers for the main technical track of the conference. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence. For the Special Track on Autonomy, we seek papers that address or consider the challenges across multiple different dimensions: Technical, Philosophical, Legal, and Social. All papers will receive mindful and rigorous reviews.

    For more information, see http://ijcai-17.org.
  • 19 - 25 August 2017, The 9th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2017), Melbourne, Australia

    Date: 19 - 25 August 2017
    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Deadline: Tuesday 16 May 2017

    MRC is an interdisciplinary workshop with a focus on applications within computer science. Because of this focus the workshop primarily attracts participants from within the computer science community and specifically within artificial intelligence. However, MRC has always had a strong interdisciplinary appeal and does draw from fields such as linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, social sciences and psychology as well as various sub-fields within computer science.

    By considering modelling and reasoning approaches for contextualised systems from a broad range of areas, the workshop will facilitate the sharing of problems, techniques, and solutions. The workshop covers different understandings of what context is, different approaches to modelling context, mechanisms and techniques for (structured) storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve it, and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge.

    The workshop will last one full day and will have three main types of interaction: short presentations of accepted papers, panel discussion sessions, and an open, but guided discussion summarising the most important lessons learned.

    MRC invites papers on different aspects of context, on theory as well as on applications. We particularly invite contributions on topics of autonomy and context. We also explicitly invite contributions from other fields of study in order to further trans- and interdisciplinary approaches.

    Industry representatives are invited to display context related demonstrations during the workshop.

    For more information, see http://mrc.kriwi.de/ or contact .
  • 16 - 19 August 2017, Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017), Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: 16 - 19 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Deadline: Friday 14 April 2017

    Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science and logic - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of computer science logic in present day computational linguistics.

    The workshop focuses on logical approaches to the computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. . It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. LACompLing 2017 is affiliated with the 26th Annual EACSL Conference on Computer Science Logic CSL'2017, and co-located with: Logic in Stockholm 2017.

    We invite original papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere.

  • 15 - 18 August 2017, 10th Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-17), Melbourne, Australia

    Date: 15 - 18 August 2017
    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Deadline: Tuesday 25 April 2017

    The AGI conference series is the premier international event aimed at advancing the state of knowledge regarding the original goal of the AI field — the creation of thinking machines with general intelligence at the human level and possibly beyond.

    This is an unprecedentedly exciting time to be working in the AGI field. Today, in 2017, the quest to create AI systems with general intelligence at the human level and beyond is taken more seriously by a broader community than ever before. There has been no better time in history to gather together with other AGI researchers and learn and discuss and share together, regarding how best to take the next steps toward advanced artificial general intelligence.

    As in prior AGI conferences, we welcome contributed papers on all aspects of AGI R&D, with the key proviso that each paper should somehow contribute specifically to the development of Artificial General Intelligence. We are also seeking proposal for workshops, tutorials and demos.

    For more information, see http://agi-conf.org/2017.
  • 15 - 17 August 2017, The 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 - SaarDial), Saarbruecken, Germany

    Date: 15 - 17 August 2017
    Location: Saarbruecken, Germany
    Deadline: Monday 8 May 2017

    SaarDial will be the 21st edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2017 the workshop will be hosted by the Spoken Language Systems Group, Saarland University, and will be collocated with the 18th Annual SigDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.

    We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Authors should submit an *anonymous* paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Submission deadline: 8 May 2017.

    There will be a later call for 2-page abstracts describing system demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop, with submission deadline 23 June 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/.
  • 14 - 20 August 2017, 2017 ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium '17), Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: 14 - 20 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Deadline: Friday 5 May 2017

    The Logic Colloquium 2017 (LC2017) is the 2017 Annual European summer meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) and will be held during August 14-20, 2017 at the main campus of Stockholm University. The Logic Colloquium 2017 is organised and hosted jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and is also supported by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

    Abstracts of contributed talks submitted by ASL members will be published in *The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic* if they satisfy the Rules for Abstracts (see above). Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc2017. The abstracts must be prepared according to the ASL instructions here. The deadline for submissions is May 5, 2017.

    For more information, see https://www.lc17.conf.kth.se/.
  • 14 - 18 August 2017, BLAST 2017: Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic, Quantum Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, Set-theoretic Topology, & Point-free Topology, Nashville TN, U.S.A.

    Date: 14 - 18 August 2017
    Location: Nashville TN, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2017

    The BLAST Conference Series circulates among different universities and focuses on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic, Quantum Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, Set-theoretic Topology and Point-free Topology. This year's installment of the BLAST conference series will take place on the campus of Vanderbilt University from August 14 to August 18, 2017. It honors the life and memory of Bjarni Jónsson. The scientific program will include nine invited lectures, three tutorials and contributed talks. It is worth mentioning that there will be a spectacular solar eclipse in Nashville on August 21st, so perhaps some participants may elect to stay on for a few days after the conference.

    This is a preliminary announcement. Additional information will be provided in the beginning of April.

    Authors are kindly asked to submit an abstract (not exceeding two pages) for their proposed contributed talks. The deadline for the abstract is May 31, 2107. After this date, contributed talks may still be accepted, depending on available space.

  • CfP: special issue of Topoi on "Foundations of Clinical Reasoning"

    Deadline: Thursday 31 August 2017

    Among the most discussed epistemological issues in clinical reasoning is the problem of the external validity. Once verified that the results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) are valid, we still have to explain how to apply these results to patients who did not take part in the experiment. How can we justify the belief that a certain treatment has the same effect when applied to a different setting? Without a reasonable answer to this latter question, RCTs would prove less helpful, as they would only show the results related to a particular situation, without any guarantee that the same results could apply to other contexts. The possible advantages of a Bayesian perspective on RCTs will be explored, as is the difference between types of uncertainty conveyed by diagnostic and prognostic judgements.

    Contributions must be original and not submitted elsewhere. Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8,000 words (references and footnotes included). Each submission should also include a separate title page containing contact details, a brief abstract and a list of keywords for indexing purposes.

  • 7 - 11 August 2017, Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS 2017), Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: 7 - 11 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Deadline: Tuesday 2 May 2017

    The third Nordic Logic Summer School is arranged under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society. The two previous schools were organized in Nordfjordeid, Norway (2013) and Helsinki (2015). The intended audience is advanced master students, PhD-students, postdocs and experienced researchers wishing to learn the state of the art in a particular subject. The school is co-located with Logic Colloquium 2017 (14-20 August) and Computer Science Logic 2017 (21-24 August).

    The school will consist of 10 five-hour courses, running in two parallel streams. In addition, there will be short student presentations and poster sessions.

    Submission of abstracts for presentations and posters will open March 6, 2017 and close May 2, 2017.

    For more information, see https://www.sls17.conf.kth.se/ or contact .
  • 6 - 11 August 2017, The 26th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-26), Gothenburg, Sweden

    Date: 6 - 11 August 2017
    Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
    Deadline: Saturday 11 February 2017

    CADE is the major international forum at which research on all aspects of automated deduction is presented. The conference programme includes invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions.

    High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations, theoretical results, practical experiences and user studies are solicited. Submissions can be made in two categories: regular papers and system descriptions. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Abstract deadline: 11 February 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.cade-26.info.
  • 6 - 11 August 2017, Workshop on Theorem proving components for Educational software (ThEdu 2017), Gothenburg, Sweden

    Date: 6 - 11 August 2017
    Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
    Deadline: Sunday 18 June 2017

    Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This CADE'26 workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems.

    Interested researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts and system descriptions. Both kinds of submissions should be approximately 5 pages in length and present original unpublished work not submitted elsewhere.

  • 1 - 2 August 2017, Workshop & Summer School on Formal Semantics of Concepts, Riga, Latvia

    Date: 1 - 2 August 2017
    Location: Riga, Latvia
    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    The workshop provides an overview of formal semantics and its applications. In addition, it explores applications of formal semantic and topological tools to spatial concepts. After an advanced introduction, formal semantic modelling in spatial concepts will be discussed. The workshop will conclude with an overview of some formal representations of spatial relations in Baltic languages.

    We also invite contributed talks covering some of the topics mentioned above.

  • 26 - 27 July 2017, 5th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning (SR 2017), Liverpool, England

    Date: 26 - 27 July 2017
    Location: Liverpool, England
    Deadline: Monday 8 May 2017

    Strategic reasoning is one of the most active research areas in the multi-agent system domain. The literature in this field is extensive and provides a plethora of logics for modelling strategic ability. Theoretical results are now being used in many exciting domains, including software tools for information system security, robot teams with sophisticated adaptive strategies, and automatic players capable of beating expert human adversaries, just to cite a few. All these examples share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent-based reasoning that take into account the likely behaviour of adversaries. The international workshop on strategic reasoning aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.

    SR 2017 will be co-located with TARK 2017, which will be held in Liverpool on July 24-26, 2017.

    Two types of submission are invited: contributions reporting on novel research; expository contributions reporting on published work.Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience and all contributions should be written so that they are accessible to such an audience.

    For more information, see http://sr2017.csc.liv.ac.uk/.
  • 26 - 27 July 2017, Sixteenth International Workshop on Proof, Computation & Complexity (PCC 2017), Goettingen, Germany

    Date: 26 - 27 July 2017
    Location: Goettingen, Germany
    Deadline: Monday 3 July 2017

    The aim of PCC is to stimulate research in proof theory, computation, and complexity, focusing on issues which combine logical and computational aspects. Topics may include applications of formal inference systems in computer science, as well as new developments in proof theory motivated by computer science demands. PCC 2017 will include an unveiling ceremony of a commemorative plaque for Paul Bernays.

     

    We solicit contributions in the fields of PCC. Specific areas of interest are (non-exhaustively listed) foundations for specification and programming languages, logical methods in specification and program development including program extraction from proofs, type theory, new developments in structural proof theory, and implicit computational complexity.

    PCC is intended to be a lively forum for presenting and discussing recent work. Progress on a not yet satisfactorily solved problem may well be worth presenting - in particular if the discussions during the workshop might lead towards a solution.

    For more information, see https://www.irit.fr/PCC2017/.
  • 24 - 26 July 2017, 16th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2017), Liverpool, U.K.

    Date: 24 - 26 July 2017
    Location: Liverpool, U.K.
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. TARK 2017 is the 16th conference of the TARK conference series. Previous conferences have been held bi-annually around the world.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, awareness and uncertainty; bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning; commonsense epistemic reasoning; epistemic logic; epistemic game theory; knowledge and action; applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states; belief revision; computational social choice; algorithmic game theory; and foundations of multi-agent systems.

    Submissions are now invited to TARK 2017. The deadline for submissions is April 3, 2017. Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be accessible to such an audience. Papers will be held to the usual high standards of research publications.

    For more information, see here or at http://tark17.csc.liv.ac.uk/ or contact Prof. Kevin T. Kelly at .
  • 24 - 27 July 2017, Fourteenth International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2017), Daejeon, South Korea

    Date: 24 - 27 July 2017
    Location: Daejeon, South Korea
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    The conference is concerned with the theory of computability and complexity over real-valued data. Scientists working in the area of computation on real-valued data come from different fields, such as theoretical computer science, domain theory, logic, constructive mathematics, computer arithmetic, numerical mathematics and all branches of analysis. The conference provides a unique opportunity for people from such diverse areas to meet, present work in progress and exchange ideas and knowledge.

    The topics of interest include foundational work on various models and approaches for describing computability and complexity over the real numbers. They also include complexity-theoretic investigations, both foundational and with respect to concrete problems, and new implementations of exact real arithmetic, as well as further developments of already existing software packages. We hope to gain new insights into computability-theoretic aspects of various computational questions from physics and from other fields involving computations over the real numbers.

    Authors are invited to submit 1-2 pages abstracts in PDF format, including references. Submission deadline: April 3, 2017.

    For more information, see http://cca-net.de/cca2017/.
  • 23 - 29 July 2017, Symposium "The interface between the study of cultural diversity in science and decision-making in science policy", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Date: 23 - 29 July 2017
    Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Deadline: Thursday 10 November 2016

    The International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity (IASCUD) is hosting a symposium titled "The interface between the study of cultural diversity in science and decision-making in science policy" at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology to be held in Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017. The organisers of the symposium are Nina Atanasova (Toledo OH, U.S.A.) and Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Hamburg, Germany).

    In this symposium, we wish to explore the actual and potential connections between researchers who study the cultural variety of science from historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives and the deciders and stakeholders in both local and global science policy: Are policy makers informed about the effects of scientific cultural diversity? If so, how does this affect their decisions? If not, what can researchers of cultural diversity in science do in order to connect to the decision makers?

    We have 3 to 5 open slots for 30 minute presentations plus 15 min Q&A. Interested historians, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and other scholars of science and technology are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 2500 characters, including spaces, and short biographical notes to the organizers of the symposium at by November 10, 2016. Please use "Abstract for ICHST symposium" as the subject of your email.

    For more information, see here or at http://www.iascud.org/ or contact .
  • 23-29 July 2017, Symposium on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC symposium @ICHST), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Date: 23-29 July 2017
    Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Deadline: 15 April 2016

    We are happy to announce that the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing will submit a proposal for the organization of the DHST/DLMPS HaPoC symposium titled 'The Ubiquity of Computing: historical and philosophical issues'.

    The history of information and communication technologies (ICTs), despite its approximately 70 years, has already shown a rich accumulated experience coming from the most diversified initiatives, efforts and pioneering projects. Fully incorporated into reality, to the point of being considered ubiquitous, ICTs can be considered mature enough to bring about a balance that seeks to account for its past and its origins. A more extensive study of their history surely contributes to establish a valuable research field and to consolidate an international community of historians and philosophers of ICTs, discussing and framing propositions that can help to inspire and produce future developments.

    For more information, see http://hapoc.org/node/176.

    We cordially invite all colleagues to submit a proposal to this symposium. The present Call for Contributions is an opportunity to evaluate papers related to the theme 'The Ubiquity of Computing: historical and philosophical issues; to include them into the Proposal to be submitted to the ICHST. Contributions from the most diverse areas of knowledge and professional practices are welcome. For this symposium, contributions should present different dimensions of the history and philosophy of computing, with arguments and propositions based on testimonials, documented sources, references, and discussion of related bibliography. Deadline for submission: 15 April 2016.

  • 22 - 23 July 2017, 22nd Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2017), Toulouse, France

    Date: 22 - 23 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: Tuesday 14 March 2017

    FG-2017 is the 22nd conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which in 2017 will take place in Toulouse, France.

    FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language.

    We invite electronic submissions of original, 16-page papers (including references and possible technical appendices). Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of the venues.

    For more information, see http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2017/.
  • 18 - 21 July 2017, 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2017), London, England

    Date: 18 - 21 July 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Tuesday 14 March 2017

    WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The workshop will conclude with a screening of the movie "Navajo Math Circles" (2016).

    Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 14, 2017.

  • 18 - 19 July 2017, Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 18 - 19 July 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    Throughout the last two decades philosophical discussions on scientific inquiry have increasingly utilized formal models. To this end a variety of formal models have been developed, starting from analytical ones to agent-based models that provide computer simulations of scientific inquiry. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on different approaches to the formal modeling of scientific inquiry to discuss both different types of formal models and the prospects and limits of their usefulness for philosophy of science, social epistemology and science policy.

    Keynote speakers: Gregor Betz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Leah Henderson (University of Groningen) and Jason McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics).

    We invite contributions on these and related issues. Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (500-1000 words) related to the above questions. An application for a special issue with the conference post-proceedings will be submitted to an internationally recognized journal.

  • 18 - 21 July 2017, 30th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2017), Montpellier, France

    Date: 18 - 21 July 2017
    Location: Montpellier, France
    Deadline: Friday 28 April 2017

    The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences.

    Invited Speakers:Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden), Andreas Pieris (Edinburgh), and Uli Sattler (Manchester).

    We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Papers accepted at some conference can be submitted as accepted elsewhere together with a 1-page abstract that also specifies where the paper has been accepted. Other submissions should consist of 11 pages LNCS plus references. Paper registration deadline: April 28, 2017.

    For more information, see http://dl.kr.org/dl2017/.
  • 17-28 July 2017, 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2017), Toulouse, France

    Date: 17-28 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: 15 July 2016

    The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is an annual event under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) and brings together logicians, linguists, computer scientists, and philosophers to study language, logic, and information, and their interconnections. ESSLLIs attract around 500 participants from all over the world.

    For more information, see https://www.irit.fr/esslli2017 or https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2017, or contact .

    Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2017 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses. Proposal submission deadline (extended): 15 July 2016.

  • 17 - 28 July 2017, ESSLLI 2017 Student Session, Toulouse, France

    Date: 17 - 28 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: Tuesday 7 February 2017

    The Student Session of the 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Toulouse, France, July 17th to 28th, 2017. The Student Session is a forum for PhD and Master students to present their research at the interfaces of logic, language, and computation. It features three tracks: Logic & Computation (LoCo), Logic & Language (LoLa), and Language & Computation (LaCo).

    We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and selected papers will appear in the Student Session proceedings by Springer.

    Authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly authored. Each author may submit at most one single and one jointly authored contribution. Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for oral presentations (8 pages) and one for posters (4 pages). We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress.

    As in previous years, Springer has kindly agreed to sponsor the ESSLLI student session. The best poster and best talk will be awarded Springer book vouchers of 500? each.

  • 17 - 21 July 2017, Formal approaches to the dynamics of linguistic interaction, Toulouse, France

    Date: 17 - 21 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: Friday 24 February 2017

    It is uncontentious that natural language use involves interaction; between participants in a dialogue, between modalities such as vision, gesture and speech, and between new and existing information in language acquisition, for example. For this ESSLLI 2017 workshop we maintain a broad notion of interaction, roughly the production and exchange of information between agents of some sort, be they natural or artificial (e.g. avatars or modelling devices as in certain types of logics). We favour contributions which focus on the dynamics of the information exchange and discuss formal models to reconstruct it.

    We are accepting submissions for both posters and oral presentations. Papers should be anonymous and up to 4 pages of content (with one additional page for references). Submissions deadline: 24 February 2017.

    In addition to topics tied up with n-party communication using different communication media and human-computer interaction we also welcome contributions dealing with exchanges between semiotic systems or contact between languages. In addition, on a more fine-grained level we would like to have contributions on interaction between different modalities such as speech and, respectively, nonverbal context, intonation, eye-tracking processes, gesture, facial expression and perhaps still others.

    For more information, see http://www.christinehowes.com/fadli.
  • 17 - 28 July 2017, 7th Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications (IMLA 2017), Toulouse, France

    Date: 17 - 28 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    Constructive modal logics and type theories are of increasing foundational and practical relevance in computer science. Applications of constructive modal logics in type disciplines for programming languages, meta-logics for reasoning about a variety of computational phenomena and explanatory frameworks in philosophical logic are everywhere.

    The workshop aims at developing and explaining theoretical and methodological issues around the question of how the proof-theoretic strengths of constructive logics can best be combined with the model-theoretic strengths of modal logics. Practical issues center around the question of which modal connectives with associated laws or proof rules capture computational phenomena accurately and at the right level of abstraction.

    In its seventh edition, the Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logic and Applications will take place in Toulouse France, in conjunction with the 29th ESSLLI.

    Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: Modal Logics * Logical frameworks * Proof theory * Type theory * Automated deduction * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Applications.

    Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 12 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Paper submission deadline: March 1st, 2017.

  • 17 - 21 July 2017, ESSLLI-2017 workshop on Quantifiers and Determiners (QUAD), Toulouse, France

    Date: 17 - 21 July 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: Friday 17 March 2017

    This workshop aims at gathering mathematicians, logicians, linguists, computer scientists to present their latest advances in the study of quantification.

    There is a long history of quantification in the Ancient and Medieval times at the border between logic and philosophy of language, before the proper formalisation of quantification by Frege. But many mathematical and linguistic questions remain open, both on the mathematical side (such as the proof theory of generalised quantifiers or the computational aspects of alternate formulations such as Russel's ioata), and the linguistic side (such as the relation between the syntactic structure and its semantic interpretation, or the relationship between quantification and phenomena like generics, plurals, and mass nouns), as well as the intersection of the two sides (for instance, psycholinguistic experiments that connect formal models and their computational properties to the actual way human do process sentences with quantifiers).

    All those aspects are connected in the didactics of mathematics and computer science: there are specific difficulties to teach (and to learn) how to understand, manipulate, produce and prove quantified statements, and to determine the proper level of formalisation between bare logical formulas and written or spoken natural language.

    The program committee is looking for contributions introducing new viewpoints on quantification and determiners, the novelty being either in the mathematical logic framework or in the linguistic description or in the cognitive modelling. Submitting purely original work is not mandatory, but authors should clearly mention that the work is not original, and why they want to present it at this workshop (e.g. new viewpoint on already published results).

    For more information, see http://www.lirmm.fr/quad.
  • 17 - 18 July 2017, 12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2017), London, England

    Date: 17 - 18 July 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Sunday 18 June 2017

    Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges.

    The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration.

    Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English, must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of research and experience papers, and 6 pages (excluding references/bibliography) in the case of position papers or technical notes. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop. Deadline for paper submission: May 7, 2017.

    Additionally, presentations based on extended abstracts will be considered. These shall allow to report on latest results which had not been available at the time of paper submission. Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy17/.
  • 13 - 14 July 2017, 24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2017), Santa Barbara CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 13 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Santa Barbara CA, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Friday 10 February 2017

    The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software.

    The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, symbolic execution, etc. SPIN 2017 will be arranged as a ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017).

    Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation. With the exception of survey and history papers, submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. We are soliciting two categories of papers: Full Research Papers (describing fully developed work and complete results) and Short Papers (presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education).

    For more information, see http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017.
  • 13 - 14 July 2017, 15th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (MOL 2017), London, England

    Date: 13 - 14 July 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Friday 3 March 2017

    MOL, the biennial conference of the Association for Mathematics of Language, is devoted to the study of mathematical structures and methods that are of importance to the description of language. MOL will feature invited talks by the following distinguished researchers: Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK), Shay Cohen (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Frank Drewes (Umeå University, Sweden). The meeting will precede the 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation.

    MOL invites the submission of papers on original, substantial, completed, and unpublished research. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.  Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed, provided that the authors indicate which other conferences the paper is submitted to. A paper is accepted on the condition that it will not be presented at any other venue. Submissions must be uploaded no later than (end of day, Anywhere on Earth) Friday, March 3, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.molweb.org/mol2017/ or contact .
  • 13 - 14 July 2017, First Graduate Conference of the Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics (FilMath 2017), Trento, Italy

    Date: 13 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Trento, Italy
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    The FilMat network promotes workshops and conferences open to Italian and international researchers in the philosophy of mathematics. To emphasise its attention to those at early stages of their careers, the network is glad to inaugurate, in addition to its biennial main conferences, its first graduate conference. We expect to host up to 6/8 contributed talks by graduate and early career speakers of any nationality, selected by double-blind review.

    Submissions of original contributions are invited in any area of philosophy of mathematics, especially if connected with philosophical issues in the history of mathematics, the structure and development of mathematical theories, and the relationship between philosophical issues and mathematical practice.

    For more information, see http://www.filmatnetwork.com or contact .
  • 12 - 15 July 2017, International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2017), London, England

    Date: 12 - 15 July 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    RuleML+RR 2017 is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning, and focuses on theoretical advances, novel technologies, as well as innovative applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules. Stemming from the synergy between the well-known premier RuleML and RR  events, one of the main goals of this conference is to build bridges between academia and industry.

    RuleML+RR 2017 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare and other application areas. It will provide a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, development and applications of rule-based systems.

    In addition, RuleML+RR 2017 will host an Industry Track, a Doctoral Consortium, the DecisionCAMP, the 11th International Rule Challenge, and the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School. RuleML+RR 2017 will be collocated with the 32nd British International Conference on Databases (BICOD 2017).

    We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies as well as exceptional Master's students who are interested in pursuing a PhD to submit papers to the Doctoral Consortium describing their research on any of the topics of interest of RuleML+RR 2017.

    For more information, see http://2017.ruleml-rr.org.
  • 10 - 14 July 2017, 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017), Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 10 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland
    Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017

    ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, ICALP will be preceded by a series of workshops, which will take place on July 10.

    Invited Speakers: Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland), Monika Henzinger (University of Vienna, Austria) and Mikkel Thorup (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

    Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. ICALP 2017 has 3 tracks:
    Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
    Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming
    Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management
    Submission deadline: Friday, February 17, 2017, 23:59 PST.

    For more information, see http://icalp17.mimuw.edu.pl.
  • 10 - 14 July 2017, Fifteenth Asian Logic Conference (ALC 2017), Daejeon, South Korea

    Date: 10 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Daejeon, South Korea
    Deadline: Friday 12 May 2017

    The Asian Logic Conference (ALC) is a major international event in mathematical logic. It features the latest scientific developments in the fields in mathematical logic and its applications, logic in computer science, and philosophical logic. The ALC series also aims to promote mathematical logic in the Asia-Pacific region and to bring logicians together both from within Asia and elsewhere to exchange information and ideas.

    ALC'2017 will be the first Asian Logic Conference since its status changed from an ASL(the Association for Symbolic Logic)-sponsored meeting to an official ASL meeting by ASL Council action in May 2016.

    If you would like to give a contributed talk, please send us the title and short abstract of your proposed talk, and a short resume. Each contributed talk should last 20 minutes including questions and answers. Please note that, while contributed talks are welcome, organizers may decide to limit their number in order to provide enough room for discussions.

    For more information, see https://alc15korea.wixsite.com/alckorea.
  • 6 - 7 July 2017, Computational Aspects of Arguments and LogiC 2017 (CAALC-2017), Belgrade, Serbia

    Date: 6 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Belgrade, Serbia
    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    We are pleased to announce a workshop in Argumentation and Logic we are organizing this summer. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, logic and argumentation theory. Keynote speakers: Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) and Leila Amgoud (IRIT - CNRS, France).

    If you are interested in presenting your work at CAALC 2017 workshop, please submit an abstract not exceeding two pages. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Reasoning under inconsistency and / or uncertainty, Belief revision and merging, Logic, Argumentation, Decision making and Preferences.

    For more information, contact .
  • 6 - 8 July 2017, 2017 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Logic (AAL 2017), Adelaide, Australia

    Date: 6 - 8 July 2017
    Location: Adelaide, Australia
    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, and overlap by one day, Thu 6 July.

    Submissions of papers are now called. Papers can be on any topic in logic. Authors should aim for a time of 45 minutes including discussion. The plan is that the more philosophical papers will be on the day of overlap with the AAP, to enable interested parties from the AAP to attend. The more technical papers will be on one of the later days.

  • 4 - 7 July 2017, Workshop on Quantum Structures 2017 (IQSA-2017)

    Date & Time: 4 - 7 July 2017, 09:00-18:00
    Location: the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands
    Deadline: Monday 15 May 2017

    The International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA) is hosting an intermediate workshop on Quantum Structures as a satellite event of the 14th International conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL). The IQSA workshop will take place from Tuesday July 4th to Friday the 7th of July. IQSA brings together researchers who design and use quantum structures, ranging from quantum logics to various formal methods that can be applied to reason about quantum phenomena including traditional topics in the foundations of quantum mechanics as well as applications in quantum computation, quantum information and quantum communication.

    By hosting IQSA and QPL together, we want to create a platform to encourage the discussion and collaboration between both the IQSA and QPL communities.

    We welcome abstracts (not exceeding two pages) for a proposed contributed talk on any topic within the scope of the workshop, such as quantum foundational approaches, formal applications of quantum structures to physics, mathematics and philosophy as well as interdisciplinary applications of quantum structures. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 15th. Abstracts have to be uploaded on the EasyChair Conference Website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iqsa2017.

    For more information, see here or at http://qpl.science.ru.nl/ or contact Sonja Smets at .
  • 4 - 7 July 2017, Poznan Reasoning Week (PRW 2017), Poznan, Poland

    Date: 4 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Poznan, Poland
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    Consisting of two workshops, Poznań Reasoning Week 2017 (PRW2017) brings together experts from various disciplines whose research offers both systematic and historical contributions to the study of individual- as well as group-reasoning processes. This particularly includes, but is not restricted to, modelling these processes formally.

    In 2017 we would like to address (1) Question processing (QuestPro 2017) and (2) Fallacies: Strategy, Error, Shortcut (SES 2017).

    We invite proposals for contributed talks (45 minutes including discussion) and posters (A1 size in portrait orientation). Please submit an extended abstract of max. 1000 words including references.

    For more information, see https://poznanreasoningweek.wordpress.com/.
  • 3 - 6 July 2017, 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017), Espoo, Finland

    Date: 3 - 6 July 2017
    Location: Espoo, Finland
    Deadline: Friday 27 January 2017

    LPNMR 2017 is the fourteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications.

    This edition of LPNMR will feature several workshops and a special session dedicated to the 7th ASP Competition. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program.

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on conference topics. Deadline for paper registration: January 27th, 2017.

    Additionally, those interested in organizing a workshop at LPNMR 2017 are invited to submit a workshop proposal. Deadline for proposals: December 20, 2016.

    For more information, see http://lpnmr2017.aalto.fi or contact .
  • 3 - 7 July 2017, International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, 2017 (IJCRS-2017), Olsztyn, Poland

    Date: 3 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Olsztyn, Poland
    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    It is intended that IJCRS 2017 follows the track already rutted by RSCTC and JRS conferences which aimed at unification of many facets of Rough Set Theory from theoretical aspects of the rough set idea bordering on theory of concepts and going through algebraic structures, topological structures, logics for uncertain  reasoning, decision algorithms, relations to other theories of vagueness and ambiguity, then to extensions of the rough set idea like granular structures, rough mereology, and to applications of the idea in diverse fields of applied science including hybrid methods like Rough-Fuzzy, Neuro-Rough, Neuro-Rough-Fuzzy computing.

    Our Authors are invited cordially to submit a research paper at most 10-20 pages long or 6+ page long short paper devoted to one or more of the conference topics, formatted in style of LNCS/LNAI of Springer. We also invite researchers in search of new tools suitable for their problems, researchers whose work touches problems involving uncertainty, and those who would like to discuss their problems with members of rough set community. We welcome them, please feel free to submit results of Your research or simply do come to the conference

    For more information, see http://ijcrs2017.uwm.edu.pl/ or contact .
  • 3 - 5 July 2017, 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS 2017), Milan, Italy

    Date: 3 - 5 July 2017
    Location: Milan, Italy
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    DCFS 2017 will be held in Milano, Italy, on July 3-5, 2017. The conference is organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Milano, and by the IFIP Working Group 1.02 "Descriptional Complexity".

    Invited Speakers: Jürgen Dassow, Dora Giammarresi, Stavros Konstantinidis and Orna Kupferman.

    Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems and structures (and its applications) are invited for DCFS 2017. Original papers are sought in all aspects of descriptional complexity. Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017.

    For more information, see http://dcfs2017.di.unimi.it/ or contact .
  • 3 July 2017, 1st International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP 2017), Espoo, Finland

    Date: Monday 3 July 2017
    Location: Espoo, Finland
    Costs: Workshop Chairs
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm with close relationships to neighboring fields such as ATP, CP, FO(.), SAT, SMT, and others. Since its inception in 2007, the ASP Competition series strives to evaluate and advance the state of the art in ASP solving technology. The International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP) addresses current developments of systems, tools, and applications in ASP and neighboring fields. To this end, it aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of declarative programming with dedicated focus on, but not limited to, recent methods and trends emerging from the ASP Competition.

    The 1st International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Answer Set Programming (PAoASP 2017) is organized in conjunction with the 7th Answer Set Programming Competition (ASPCOMP 2017) and affiliated with the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2017).

    We solicit the submission of papers on systems, tools, and applications of declarative programming methods, developed in the area of ASP and neighboring fields. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting recent developments, including work in progress.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithm Selection and Configuration, Applications and Benchmarks, Empirical Evaluation, Grounding and Solving, Implementation Techniques, Parallel Systems, Portfolio Systems, Reasoning Tasks, Theory Solving and Translation Methods.

  • 27 - 30 June 2017, The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2017), Arras, France

    Date: 27 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Arras, France
    Deadline: Wednesday 23 November 2016

    IEA/AIE 2017 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business & finance, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, cyberspace, and human-machine interactions.

    Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. 2 Special tracks were added: Novel approaches to ontological reasoning and Applications of Argumentation. Submission deadline: 23 November 2016.

    For more information, see http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ieaaie2017/.
  • 27 - 30 June 2017, 22nd International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2017), Paris, France

    Date: 27 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Paris, France
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    The CIAA conference series, which was started in 1996, covers all aspects of implementation, application, and theory of automata and related structures. It aims to attract contributions from both classical automata theory and applications.

    The scientific program will consist of invited lectures and presentations of papers selected by the international program committee, based on a thorough peer-reviewing process. Invited speakers include Véronique Cortier (CNRS, LORIA, France), Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) and Damien Pous (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France).

    Submissions must be written in LaTeX and must not exceed 12 pages, bibliography included. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions of papers to journals or any other conference with published proceedings, or submitting previously published papers is not allowed.

    For more information, see http://ciaa17.univ-mlv.fr/ or contact .
  • 26 - 28 June 2017, IACAP 2017: Computing and Philosophy, Stanford CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 26 - 28 June 2017
    Location: Stanford CA, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Sunday 15 January 2017

    The International Association for Computing and Philosophy promotes philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the computational and informational turn. Coming to these issues from a rich variety of disciplines, IACAP;s members have a tradition of helping to shape philosophical and ethical debates about the nature, development, application, and limits of computation, information technologies, and artificial intelligence.

    IACAP's 2017 meeting will gather philosophers, ethicists, logicians, roboticists, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists. The meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics at the core of IACAP members' interests. Symposia will also be organized and run by members, or groups of members, to focus on special topics.

    We invite submissions of papers and proposals for symposia. Subsequent to peer review, a selection of the papers presented during the meeting will be included in a volume planned for Springer's 'Philosophical Library Studies' series. Submission deadline: January 15, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2017/.
  • 26 - 29 June 2017, 23rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2017), Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 26 - 29 June 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland
    Deadline: Sunday 22 January 2017

    ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest research results in building intelligent systems. The conference addresses issues involving solutions to problems that are complex to be solved through conventional approaches and that require the simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics and applications of knowledge. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a means for exchanging information for those interested purely in theory, those interested primarily in implementation, and those interested in specific research and industrial applications.

    We solicit papers on any of the conference topics, as well as papers dealing with applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. art, human genome, global change, manufacturing, social good, etc.

    For more information, see http://ismis2017.ii.pw.edu.pl/.
  • 26 - 30 June 2017, 17th Latin American Symposium on Mathematical Logic (SLALM 2017), Puebla, Mexico

    Date: 26 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Puebla, Mexico
    Deadline: Friday 24 February 2017

    The SLALM (Simposio Latinoamericano de Lógica Matemática) was conceived in the late 1960′s by Abraham Robinson, who at the time was President of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL). The SLALM brings together the community of researchers in logic along Latin America and is nourished by important participations of researchers from around the world. It has grown thanks to the support of the ASL, as well as the local institutions that host the event.

    The first two days of the meeting will be devoted to tutorials and the other three days to the plenary talks and the topic sessions. We invite you to be part of this important meeting.

    We welcome submissions on any of the six topic sessions of the symposium: Model Theory, Set Theory, Computability, Proof Theory, Logic and Computer Science, and Philosophy of Logic/ Philosophical Logic/ Non-Classical Logics. All papers must contain original work, and respect the format specified by the LaTeX template provided on the website. Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages.

    For more information, see http://www.fcfm.buap.mx/SLALM2017 or contact .
  • 26 - 27 June 2017, Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Perspectives (Detec2017), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Date: 26 - 27 June 2017
    Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    Studies on discourse processing indicate that natural language interpretation is expectation-driven. Even though it is uncontroversial that both linguistic (e.g. lexical items, morpho-syntactic constructions, prosody) and extra-linguistic factors (e.g. world knowledge, speaker/hearer knowledge) are used to anticipate how discourse is likely to continue, the nature of their interplay is a topic of ongoing research. DETEC approaches this topic in an interdisciplinary fashion by comparing theoretical, experimental, and computational perspectives.

    We welcome submissions of theoretical, experimental and computational studies on topics related to any aspect of discourse expectations, how they arise, how they may be quantified, and how they may be modelled.
    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/discexp2017/home or contact Geertje van Bergen at .
  • 26 - 28 June 2017, 25th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), Trondheim, Norway

    Date: 26 - 28 June 2017
    Location: Trondheim, Norway
    Deadline: Monday 20 March 2017

    ICCBR is the premier, annual meeting of the CBR community and the leading international conference on this topic. The theme for ICCBR 2017 is Analogy for Reuse. To encourage this, the ICCBR 2017 program will include keynote addresses, a main technical track, a workshop program, a doctoral consortium, and the Computer Cooking Contest with several connections to this theme.

    The ICCBR 2017 Organizers, Advisory Committee, and Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). The CBR community welcomes contributions from experts and students in related fields and who represent all types of affiliations (e.g., academic, industry, government). The theme for the ICCBR 2017 conference is Analogy for Reuse; submissions on this theme are particularly welcome!

    For more information, see http://research.idi.ntnu.no/cbr/iccbr2017/.
  • 26 - 30 June 2017, Continuity, Computability, Constructivity - From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2017), Nancy, France

    Date: 26 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Nancy, France
    Deadline: Wednesday 10 May 2017

    CCC is a workshop series bringing together researchers from exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and related analytical data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation.

    The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas. Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome.

  • 21-23 June 2017, 12th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2017), London, England

    Date: 21-23 June 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: 25 January 2017

    FQAS is the premier conference focusing on the key issue in the information society of providing easy, flexible, and intuitive access to information to everybody. In targeting this issue, the conference draws on several research areas, such as information retrieval, database management, data science, information filtering, knowledge representation, knowledge discovery, analytics, soft computing, management of multimedia information, and human-computer interaction. The guiding topic of the FQAS conferences are innovative query systems aimed at providing easy, flexible and human-friendly access to information. Such systems are becoming increasingly important also due to the huge and always growing number of users as well as the growing amount of available information. Thus, the works related to the concepts of data science, data streams querying etc. are very welcome.

    For more information, see http://fqas-2017.org/.

    We invite submission of original research contributions, and proposals for invited sessions, panels, and tutorials. Paper Submission deadline: January 25, 2017.

  • 21 - 23 June 2017, 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and multi-agents systems (PAAMS'17), Porto, Portugal

    Date: 21 - 23 June 2017
    Location: Porto, Portugal
    Deadline: Monday 6 February 2017

    Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

    PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers.

    In addition to the main track, PAAMS has Special Sessions on Agent-Based Social Simulation, Modelling and Big-Data Analytics (ABM), on Advances on Demand Response and Renewable Energy Sources in Agent Based Smart Grids (ADRESS), on Agents and Mobile Devices (AM), on COoperative GREEN agents for the management of resources: towards sustainable systems (Co-Green), on Multi-Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence (MASAI), on Persuasive Technologies (PT), on Computer vision in Multi-Agent Robotics (RV) and on Web and Social Media Mining (WASMM).

    Furthermore, PAAMS has a Special Track for Demonstrations, and a Doctoral Consortium where  students can present their on going research work.

    Finally, PAAMS includes Workshops on on Agents and multi-agent Systems for AAL and e-HEALTH (A-HEALTH), on Agent based Applications for Air Transport (AAAT), on Agent-Based Artificial Markets Computational Economics (ABAM), on Artificial Intelligence for Privacy in Electronic Systems (AIPES), on Agent Methodologies for Intelligent Robotics (AMIRA), on Agents-based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain (AMSC), on MAS for Complex Networks and Social Computation (CNSC), on Computational Sustainability and Big Data (CoSBD), on Decision Making in Dynamic Information Environments (DeMaDIE), on Empowering IoT with Agency and Cognition (EAC), on Intelligent Systems and Context Information Fusion (ISCIF), on Multi-agent based Applications for Energy Markets, Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES), on Multiagent System Based Learning Environments (MASLE), on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents (SCIA) and on the application of agents to passenger transport (TAAPT).

    For more information, see http://www.paams.net/workshops/demadie.
  • 20 - 23 June 2017, Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS 2017), Bologna, Italy

    Date: 20 - 23 June 2017
    Location: Bologna, Italy
    Deadline: Sunday 15 January 2017

    SILFS 2017, the triennial international conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science, will be held at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna, 20-23 June 2017.

    Confirmed invited speakers: Giovanna D’Agostino (Università di Udine), Francesco Guala (University of Milan), Eleanor Knox (King’s College London), Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter), Jan von Plato (University of Helsinki) and Dag Westerståhl (University of Stockholm).

    We invite submissions of contributed paper and of contributed symposia in all areas of logic and philosophy of science. The deadline for submission is January 15th, 2017. The official language of the conference is English. Every contributed speaker will have 30 minutes, including discussion. Contributed symposia run parallel to the SILFS 2017 programme, and belong to the conference programme. They would be allocated either a full two-hours session (3-4 speakers) or one half-day (6-7 speakers).

    For more information, see http://www.silfs.it/silfs-2017-home/ or contact Eugenio Orlandelli at .
  • 20 - 23 June 2017, European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2017), Fribourg, Switzerland

    Date: 20 - 23 June 2017
    Location: Fribourg, Switzerland

    The field of argumentation has been expanding over the last decade with a clear opening towards cognitive psychology (and cognitive science more generally) and the processes it accounts for. With the development of cognitive science as an encompassing framework within which both psychological and social aspects of human behaviour can be accounted for, we believe that the time is ripe to ground a discussion in the community of argumentation studies around the notion of inference, along its formal, social and cognitive dimensions. The overarching questions the conference theme will be concerned with are therefore the following: How does the study of argumentation connect with the notion of inference and how, as a discipline, does it connect with the disciplines involved in the study of the cognitive features of inference?

    To foster this discussion, the conference accordingly seeks to attract scholars in argumentation coming from a range of different traditions, including (but not limited to) philosophy, psychology, linguistics, informal logic, speech communication, pragma-dialectics, epistemic approaches, rhetoric, dialectics, logic, and computational approaches.

    In addition to welcoming submissions linked to argumentation studies in general, each ECA edition has a special theme. While the 1st edition of ECA was devoted to exploring the relationship between argumentation and the decisions that follow from it, the 2017 Fribourg edition will focus on the cognitive processes involved in argumentation, with a clear focus on what happens ‘upstream’ in the argumentative chain, both in production and reception. The 2nd edition of ECA will thus focus on inference as one of the key features of the argumentative process. The abstract submission deadline is 1st of October 2016.

    For more information, see http://ecargument.org/.
  • 20 - 30 June 2017, The Eighth International Conference on Topology, Algebra and Categories in Logic (TACL 2017), Olomouc / Prague (Czech Republic)

    Date: 20 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Olomouc / Prague (Czech Republic)
    Deadline: Friday 10 March 2017

    Studying logics via semantics is a well-established and very active branch of mathematical logic, with many applications, in computer science and elsewhere. The area is characterized by results, tools and techniques stemming from various fields, including universal algebra, topology, category theory, order, and model theory. The programme of the conference TACL 2017 will focus on three interconnecting mathematical themes central to the semantical study of logics and their applications: algebraic, categorical, and topological methods. This is the eighth conference in the series Topology, Algebra and Categories in Logic (TACL, formerly TANCL).

    Starting from 2013, the conference is preceded by a summer school. The summer school associated to the TACL2017 conference will be held in the Faculty of Science of the Palacky University of Olomouc.

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Contributed talks can be on with any topic involving the use of algebraic, categorical or topological methods in either logic or computer science. Extended deadline: 10/03/2017.

    For more information, see http://www.cs.cas.cz/tacl2017.
  • 19 - 23 June 2017, Workshop "Context in the explanation and evaluation of human reasoning", Paris, France

    Date: 19 - 23 June 2017
    Location: Paris, France
    Deadline: Saturday 31 December 2016

    It is well known that human beings do not always reason correctly. There are various kinds of fallacies and biases with which we meet in ordinary life, and reasoning problems to which most people give wrong answers in experimental situations. While context has by now been recognized as playing a fundamental role in the philosophy of language as well as in other philosophical fields, its role in the debate about human rationality has not yet been explored systematically. The workshop intends to examine what is the role of context in various approaches to the explanation and the evaluation of reasoning, but also, more generally and ambitiously, whether and how the use of context in the explanation and the evaluation of reasoning can be made more systematic and effective (even to the aim of solving, or dissolving, the traditional puzzles of the rationality debate).

    This workshop is part of the 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (Context-17). Workshop organizers: Marina Sbisà and Paolo Labinaz (University of Trieste).

    We welcome presentation proposals from all relevant research fields on the following topics (broadly understood): argumentation and context, context and fallacies, context and the norms of reasoning, rationality and context, reasoning and cognitive development, reasoning and its evolutionary environment, reasoning and pragmatics, and reasoning and relativism. Submission due: December 31th, 2016.

  • 19 - 23 June 2017, LOGICA 2017, Hejnice, Czech Republic

    Date: 19 - 23 June 2017
    Location: Hejnice, Czech Republic
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 February 2017

    LOGICA 2017 is the 31st in the series of annual international symposia devoted to logic, to be held at Hejnice, 19 - 23 June 2017. Invited speakers are Hartry Field, Bob Hale, Shahid Rahman, Sonja Smets.

    The official language of the symposium is English. Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of logical problems are welcome except those focused on specialized technical applications. Particularly welcome are contributions that cover issues interesting both for 'philosophically' and for 'mathematically' oriented logicians.

    For more information, see http://logika.flu.cas.cz/logica or contact .
  • 19 June 2017, Workshop "Women in Logic" (WiL 2017), Reykjavik, Iceland

    Date: Monday 19 June 2017
    Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
    Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017

    Women are chronically underrepresented in the LICS community; consequently they sometimes feel both conspicuous and isolated, and hence there is a risk that the under-representation is self-perpetuating. We are holding the first Women in Logic (WiL) workshop as a LICS associated workshop this year. The workshop will provide an opportunity for women in the field to increase awareness of one another and one another's work, to combat the feeling of isolation. It will also provide an environment where women can present to an audience comprised of mostly women, replicating the experience that most men have at most LICS meetings, and lowering the stress of the occasion; we hope that this will be particularly attractive to early-career women.

    Invited Speakers: Claudia Nalon (University of Brasilia, Brasil) and Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France).

    Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers (with a maximum of 10 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 5 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the usual Logic in Computer Science (LICS) topics.

  • 19 June 2017, Workshop Learning and Automata (LearnAut 2017), Reykjavik, Iceland

    Date: Monday 19 June 2017
    Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    Grammatical Inference (GI) studies machine learning algorithms for classical recursive models of computations like automata and grammars. The expressive power of these models and the complexity of associated computational problems are a major research topic within theoretical computer science (TCS). This workshop aims at offering a favorable place for dialogue and at generating discussions between researchers from these two communities.

    The workshop will have a particular emphasis on the recent successes due to collaborations between members with these two different backgrounds.

    We invite submissions of recent works, possibly preliminary ones, related to the theme of the workshop. Similarly to how main machine learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts will be part of a poster session held during the workshop. Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop.

    For more information, see https://learnaut.wordpress.com/.
  • 19 June 2017, Workshop on Metafinite model theory and definability and complexity of numeric graph parameters (Metafinite 2017), Reykjavik, Iceland

    Date: Monday 19 June 2017
    Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
    Deadline: Friday 7 April 2017

    The LICS 2017 workshop will bring together three strands of investigation dealing with the model theory and complexity of numeric graph parameters and their generalization to other first order structures.

    Proposal for 30 minutes talk are sollicited in the form of an abstract of up to 4 pages in pdf-format. This may include already published material relevant for the workshop, original contributions, as well as work in progress. Submissions are for talks, not for papers, and should have a single author who is the speaker. The abstract may include a list of coauthors.

    For more information, see http://cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/metafinite2017 or contact Dr. Elena Ravve at .
  • 18 - 22 June 2017, 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion, Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 18 - 22 June 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland
    Deadline: Sunday 15 January 2017

    After a successful first edition in Brazil (April 1-5, 2015) we are glad to announce the 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion University of Warsaw, June 18-22, 2017. A wide range of issues concerning the relation between logic and religion, with regional complexities and historical layers of religions, are expected to be discussed.

    Confirmed invited speakers: Dov Gabbay (London/Tel Aviv) Michael Heller (recipient of Templeton Prize, Kraków) Laurent Lafforgue (Fields medal, Bures-sur-Yvette) Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Toronto) Jan Wolenski (Kraków)

    We welcome participants in three categories:
    (1) regular presentation: speakers who present their papers within a regular session,
    (2) poster presentation within a poster session,
    (3) presence and discussion only: general audience who participates without presenting a paper / poster.

    The deadline for submission of an abstract is January 15, 2017.

     

    For more information, see http://logicandreligion.uw.edu.pl/.
  • 16 June 2017, Workshop on `MIning and REasoning with Legal texts' (MIREL 2017), London, England

    Date: Friday 16 June 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Thursday 20 April 2017

    The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. As the law gets more complex, conflicting, and ever changing, more advanced methodologies are required for analyzing, representing and reasoning on legal knowledge.Specifically, it is necessary to address both conceptual challenges, such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and the complexity of regulatory compliance.

    The aim of the MIREL-2017 workshop is to bridge the gap between the community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community working on reasoning methods and formal logic, towards these objectives described above.

    We invite submissions up to 12 pages plus 3 additional pages for bibliography and appendix, in LNCS format. A selection of the best papers of the workshop will be published at LNAI Springer Series jointly with AICOL follow-up activities.

    For more information, see http://www.mirelproject.eu/MIRELws/ or contact Livio Robaldo at .
  • 15 - 16 June 2017, 17th Annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference, London ON, Canada

    Date: 15 - 16 June 2017
    Location: London ON, Canada
    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    The 17th annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference will take place on Thursday-Friday, June 15-16th, 2017, at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. We are pleased to announce that Aristidis Arageorgis (National Technical University of Athen) will be giving the keynote address.

    Graduate students who have not yet defended their PhD thesis are invited to submit papers on any topic in philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of physics. Papers in philosophy of physics will be considered for the 14th Annual Clifton Memorial book prize. The contest will be adjudicated by philosophy of physics faculty members at Western.

    Authors of accepted papers will be limited to 30-35 minutes for presentation, followed by a 20-minute period of discussion. We will endeavour to make accommodations available to all visiting graduate students. Two travel bursaries for underrepresented groups will also be offered this year.

    For more information, see http://logicmathphysics.ca or contact the LMP Conference Committee at .
  • 14 June 2017, Workshop "Progress in Science and Society", Hannover, Germany

    Date: Wednesday 14 June 2017
    Location: Hannover, Germany
    Deadline: Sunday 12 March 2017

    In a one day workshop at Leibniz Universität Hannover, we will discuss the merits and challenges of the notion of progress. A special emphasis will be put on progress in science and ethics as well as the work of Philip Kitcher regarding these fields. However, progress in further areas (economy, law, politics) as well as contributions unrelated to Kitcher are also welcome. Philip Kitcher will be present at the workshop and give a keynote lecture.

    We invite submissions for 30 minutes talks (plus 20 minutes discussion); there are four to five free slots. Please submit a short abstract including no more than 200 words and an extended abstract with no more than 750 words.

  • 13 - 16 June 2017, 7th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2017), Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Date: 13 - 16 June 2017
    Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    CALCO aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with interests in foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science. It is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science), and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques).

    CALCO 2017 will feature a Special Session on Metrics, Privacy and Learning. CALCO 2017 will run together with the CALCO Early Ideas Workshop, a workshop intended to enable presentation of work in progress and original research proposals, with dedicated sessions at the end of each conference day. Finally, the CALCO Tools Workshop, dedicated to tools based on algebraic and/or coalgebraic principles, will take place on June 13.

    We invite submissions of technical papers that report results of theoretical work on the mathematics of algebras and coalgebras, the way these results can support methods and techniques for software development, as well as experience with the transfer of the resulting technologies into industrial practice. We encourage submissions in any of the conference topics. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Experience papers are welcome, but they must clearly present general lessons learned that would be of interest and benefit to a broad audience of both researchers and practitioners..

    For more information, see http://coalg.org/calco17/.
  • 12 - 16 June 2017, 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017), London, England

    Date: 12 - 16 June 2017
    Location: London, England
    Deadline: Friday 13 January 2017

    The ICAIL conference is the primary international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, and has been organized biennially since 1987 under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications; it fosters interdisciplinary and international collaboration.

    The conference will feature a main track for technical papers, a demonstration track, workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium and best paper prizes.

    The field serves as an excellent setting for AI researchers to demonstrate the application of their work in a rich, real-world domain. The conference also serves as a venue for researchers to showcase their work on the theoretical foundations of computational models of law. Additionally, a session will be organised for the demonstration of creative, robust, and practical working applications and tools, and a Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to publish and present papers on their PhD research and to receive feedback and encouragement from the AI and Law community. Accordingly, authors are invited to submit papers on a broad spectrum of research topics relevant to the conference.

    For more information, see http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/icail2017/ or contact .
  • 12 - 14 June 2017, Conference on Logic and Machine Learning in Natural Languages (LaML), Goeteborg, Sweden

    Date: 12 - 14 June 2017
    Location: Goeteborg, Sweden
    Deadline: Tuesday 4 April 2017

    The past two decades have seen impressive progress in a variety of areas of AI, particularly NLP, through the application of machine learning methods to a wide range of tasks. While deep learning is opening up exciting new approaches to longstanding, difficult problems in computational linguistics, it also raises important foundational questions. Specifically, we do not have a clear formal understanding of why multi-level recursive deep neural networks achieve the success in learning and classification that they are delivering. It is also not obvious whether they should displace more traditional, logically driven methods, or be combined with them. Finally, we need to explore the extent, if any, to which both logical models and machine learning methods offer insights into the cognitive foundations of natural language.

    The Conference on Logic and Machine Learning in Natural Language will address these questions and related issues. It will feature invited talks by leading researchers in both fields, and high level contributed papers selected through open competition and rigorous review. Our aim is to initiated a genuine dialogue between these two approaches, where they have traditionally remained separate and in competition.

    We anticipate accepting 17 papers for oral presentation, and up to 20 papers for poster presentation.

  • 12 - 16 June 2017, Computability in Europe: Unveiling Dynamics and Complexity (CiE 2017), Turku, Finland

    Date: 12 - 16 June 2017
    Location: Turku, Finland
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    CiE 2017 is the thirteenth conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world.

    Special sessions include Algorithmics for biology, Combinatorics and algorithmics on words, Computability in Analysis, Algebra, and Geometry, Cryptography and information theory, Formal languages and automata theory, and History and philosophy of computing.

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in all areas related to computability for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017.

     In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (one page) by the submission deadline May 1st.

    For more information, see http://math.utu.fi/cie2017 or contact .
  • 12 - 15 June 2017, 33rd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIII), Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Date: 12 - 15 June 2017
    Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

    MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged.

    Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example.

    For more information, see http://coalg.org/mfps-calco2017.
  • 8 - 10 June 2017, Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures 2017: Frank Jackson, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 8 - 10 June 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures are an annual event started by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen from the Institute of Philosophy II at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in 2007. The Lectures provide a platform for distinguished scholars to present their work in the form of several talks on their preferred topic. The focus is usually on the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Language or Science. In turn, graduate students interested in these topics get the chance to engage in extensive discussion and get in touch with state-of-the-art research. In addition, some of them have the chance to present their own work on related topics during a graduate conference, based on a peer review process.

    From June 8-10, 2017, the next RCL will be presented by Prof. Frank Jackson (ANU), who is going to present his work on meaning, perception, and the nature of mind in Bochum, as always in the context of a Graduate workshop where several PhD students and Postdocs will also have the chance to present their ideas on themes from the work of Frank Jackson.

    In addition to Prof. Jackson's lectures, several PhD-student or early postdoc presentations (constraint: PhD finished 2014 or later) are planned. In addition we have room for one or two experienced postdoc presentations: Postdocs (constraint: PhD finished 2010 or later) are invited to submit an abstract indicating it to be a postdoc-presentation. Topics should be related to the main theme of the conference in a loose sense. Papers will be selected based on a blind review process.

  • 7 - 9 June 2017, 23rd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (AUTOMATA 2017), Milano, Italy

    Date: 7 - 9 June 2017
    Location: Milano, Italy
    Deadline: Wednesday 8 February 2017

    The aim of the AUTOMATA series is:
    - To establish and maintain a permanent, international, multidisciplinary forum for the collaboration of researchers in the field of Cellular Automata (CA) and Discrete Complex Systems (DCS).
    - To provide a platform for presenting and discussing new ideas and results.
    - To support the development of theory and applications of CA and DCS (e.g. parallel computing, physics, biology, social sciences, and others) as long as fundamental aspects and their relations are concerned.
    - To identify and study within an inter- and multidisciplinary context, the important fundamental aspects, concepts, notions and problems concerning CA and DCS.

    Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 12 pages (for full papers) or 8 pages (for exploratory papers). Papers presenting original and unpublished research on all fundamental aspects of cellular automata, affine/correlated models of automata (such as automata networks, finite automata over finite/infinite words, picture languages), and related discrete complex systems are sought.

    For more information, see http://automata17.disco.unimib.it.
  • 5 - 9 June 2017, UCNC 2017: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, Fayetteville AR, U.S.A.

    Date: 5 - 9 June 2017
    Location: Fayetteville AR, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Monday 23 January 2017

    The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) is a meeting where scientists from many different backgrounds are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 16th UCNC will take place in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, a city nestled in the Ozark Mountains and home to the University of Arkansas.

    The conference includes talks by invited speakers Erik Demaine, Masayuki Endo and Jose Felix Costa, tutorials by Jerome Durand-Lose and Makato Naruse, and workshops on 'Membranes/Systems Biology', 'Cortical Computation' and 'Physics and Computation'.

    Authors are invited to submit original research papers (of, at most, 12 pages in LNCS format), or one-page poster abstracts. Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

    For more information, see http://ucnc2017.uark.edu/ or contact Matthew Patitz at .
  • 5 - 7 June 2017, Workshop on topics at the intersection between the philosophy of language and linguistics, Zuerich, Switzerland

    Date: 5 - 7 June 2017
    Location: Zuerich, Switzerland
    Deadline: Friday 17 March 2017

    The Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zurich is organizing a workshop on topics at the intersection between the philosophy of language and linguistics. Invited speakers will be Angelika Kratzer (Amherst), John MacFarlane (Berkeley) and Maribel Romero (Konstanz).

    Presentations should be suitable for a 90 minute slot divided equally between presentation and discussion, started off by a 10 minute commentary. Suitable topics may be anything at the intersection of the philosophy of language and linguistics. Please make your abstracts suitable for blind review. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 17, 2017.

  • 5 - 7 June 2017, 36th meeting of JAF (Journées sur les Arithmétiques Faibles), St. Petersburg, Russia

    Date: 5 - 7 June 2017
    Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    Scope: Provability and definability in arithmetics, model theory and arithmetics, (un)decidability of arithmetics, modelling computations on logical theories.

    This meeting is dedicated to Yuri Matiyasevich on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and one conference day will be dedicated to topics related to the research interests of Yuri Matiyasevich (Hilbet's Tenth Problem and its generalizations, undecidability).

    If you want to present a talk, please send us the title and a short (not longer than one page) abstract. Abstracts of contributed talks, in PDF and LaTeX format, not exceeding one A4 (11pt) page, should be submitted by May 1, 2017.

  • 31 May - 2 June 2017, Reasoning and Argumentation in Science, Munich, Germany

    Date: 31 May - 2 June 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    Progress in science is not only a matter of new models and theories, but also of new ways of reasoning and arguing for specific conclusions. In this conference, we focus on these epistemological features of science and consider the following questions: Which new reasoning and argumentation schemes do contemporary scientists use? How are these schemes justified, and how can they be assessed? Is it possible to come up with a unified normative theory of reasoning and argumentation in science? The conference focuses on reasoning and argumentation in the sciences in general, but there will also be a special focus on reasoning in specific natural and social sciences.

    Keynote Speakers: Catarina Dutilh Noaves, Christian List and Wayne Myrvold.

    We invite submissions for presentations on any topic relating to reasoning and argumentation in science, broadly construed. Submissions should include both a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (500-1000 words), and should be made through our automatic submission system by 1 March, 2017. To submit, please prepare your abstract for blind review and follow the instructions on the webpage.

  • 26 - 28 May 2017, Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) 2017

    Date: 26 - 28 May 2017
    Location: Seattle (USA)
    Deadline: Thursday 1 December 2016

    The Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) is an interdisciplinary conference that showcases current research in epistemology, decision theory, modal logic, foundations of statistics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language, among other areas.

    Keynote speakers: Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (University of Michigan), Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford).

    We invite papers in formal epistemology, broadly construed. FEW is an interdisciplinary conference, and so we welcome submissions from researchers in philosophy, statistics, economics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics.

    Submissions should be prepared for blind review. Contributors ought to upload a full paper of no more than 6000 words and an abstract of up to 300 words to the Easychair website. Please submit your full paper in .pdf format. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2016. Authors will be notified on February 8th, 2017.

    The final selection of the program will be made with an eye towards diversity. We especially encourage submissions from PhD candidates, early career researchers and members of groups that are underrepresented in philosophy.

    For more information, see https://philevents.org/event/show/26598 or contact Conor Mayo-Wilson at .
  • 23 - 25 May 2017, Proofs of Propositions in 14th Century Logic, St Andrews, Scotland

    Date: 23 - 25 May 2017
    Location: St Andrews, Scotland
    Deadline: Monday 16 January 2017

    Paul Spade famously complained in 2000 that four key components of late medieval logic were mysterious to modern scholars. Since then, much has been done to clarify two of them (obligations and supposition), but the other two (exposition and proofs of propositions) remain just as mysterious. The aim of this workshop is to reach a clearer understanding of the genre of 'proofs of propositions' (probationes propositionum) that came to characterize British logic in the second half of the 14th century. We would also welcome contributions that shed some light on the earlier theories of 'exposition' that were subsumed into this new genre.

    Our invited speakers are Jennifer Ashworth, Harald Berger, Egbert Bos, Martin Dekarli, Ota Pavlícek and Joke Spruyt.

    Please submit abstracts of around 250 words to the organizers Mark Thakkar () and Stephen Read by Monday 16 January 2017. We will notify you of the outcome by the end of January.

     

    For more information, see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/events/event?id=1027 or contact Mark Thakkar at .
  • 22 - 24 May 2017, International Symposiumon Multiple-valued logic (ISMVL 2017), Novi Sad, Serbia

    Date: 22 - 24 May 2017
    Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
    Deadline: Wednesday 30 November 2016

    The symposium will bring together researchers from computer science, engineering, mathematics, and further disciplines to discuss new developments and directions for future research in the area of multi-valued logic and related fields. The symposium committee is planning to hold a special session tribute to Ivan Stojmenovic in the symposium. Invited Speakers: Dmitriy Zhuk (Moscow State University), Branislav Kisacanin (Nvidia Corporation), Tsutomu Sasao (Meiji University).

    You are invited to submit an original paper, survey, or tutorial paper on any subject in the area of multiple-valued logic. Paper submission deadline: November 1, 2016. Special issues in the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing as well as the Elsevier Journal of Applied Logic are planned for selected ISMVL 2017 papers. The deadline for paper submission has been extended to November 30th, 2016.

    For more information, see http://www.mvl.jpn.org/ISMVL2017/.
  • 21 - 25 May 2017, The 13th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2017), Barcelona, Spain

    Date: 21 - 25 May 2017
    Location: Barcelona, Spain
    Deadline: Saturday 21 January 2017

    The ICAS 2017 (International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems) is a multi-track event covering related topics on theory and practice on systems automation, autonomous systems and autonomic computing.
    Special tracks include FUCOMA (Fuzzy Cognitive Maps), IoIT (Internet of Intelligent and Autonomic Things) and DEMAS (Deliberative Multi-Agent Systems).

    We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

  • 19 - 20 May 2017, The sixth Automated Formal Methods workshop (AFM 2017), Menlo Park CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 19 - 20 May 2017
    Location: Menlo Park CA, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Monday 27 March 2017

    AFM is a workshop centered around the use and integration of highly automated formal verification tools for specification, interactive theorem proving, satisfiability (SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), model checking, program verification, static analysis, runtime verification, code generation, and testing, as well as interfaces, documentation, and education.

    It consists of both invited talks and contributed papers on May 19, and tutorials covering recent progress in tools such as PVS, SAL/SALLY/HybridSAL, Yices, SeaHorn, Radler, and Bixie. AFM functions both as a user's meeting for SRI's tools such as PVS, SAL, and Yices, and as a workshop for those interested in state of the art automation for formal methods generally.

    We welcome position papers, research papers, and reports on work in progress on the topics listed above and all other aspects of state of the art automation, particularly those that report on experiments, tool integration and evaluation, and case studies.

    For more information, see http://fm.csl.sri.com/AFM17/.
  • 18-19 May 2017, 6th Edition of JéTou (Journées D'Etudes Toulousaines) International Linguistic Conference for Young Researchers (JeTou 2017): Interfaces in Linguistics, Toulouse, France

    Date: 18-19 May 2017
    Location: Toulouse, France
    Deadline: 6 November 2016

    JéTou (Journées d'études Toulousaines) is an international conference for young researchers bringing together Master's and PhD students, as well as young researchers having defended their thesis less than 3 years ago, working in different areas of Linguistics. The 6th edition will be devoted to the topic "Interfaces in Linguistics".

    The main focus of the conference will be on the works at the interface of 1) linguistics and computer science, 2) linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience, and 3) linguistics, language acquisition, language learning and language teaching. However, any work that is interdisciplinary in nature will be given full consideration. Proposals combining theoretical considerations with work on linguistic data are particularly encouraged.

    For more information, see http://jetou2017.free.fr/index-en.htm or contact .

    The JéTou 2017 Conference calls for full paper submissions. A paper may be accepted for an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Additionally, we will be awarding prizes for the best oral presentation and the best poster. We especially welcome all submissions that integrate two or more scientific subfields in order to address relevant linguistic issues. Submission deadline: Sunday November 6th, 2016

  • 18 - 19 May 2017, Workshop on Ampliative Reasoning in the Sciences, Gent, Belgium

    Date: 18 - 19 May 2017
    Location: Gent, Belgium
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    Charles Peirce introduced the term 'ampliative' for reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument goes beyond that what is already contained in its premises. The workshop is devoted to the philosophical analysis of different forms of ampliative reasoning as they occur in scientific practice, such as abduction, inductive generalisation, reasoning by analogy and causal reasoning. We aim at a mix of contributions from formal, methodological and historical  perspectives.

    Keynote speakers: Chiara Ambrosio, Ulrike Hahn and Bert Leuridan.

    We welcome submissions on any topic that fits into the scope as described above.

    For more information, see http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ars/ or contact .
  • 15 - 19 May 2017, 16th International Conference on Relational and Algebratic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS 2017), Lyon, France

    Date: 15 - 19 May 2017
    Location: Lyon, France

    For more than two decades, the RAMiCS conferences series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodological tools in computer science and beyond.

    Invited Speakers: Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, Sydney), Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS, IRIF, Paris) and Alexandra Silva (University College, London).

    We invite submissions in the general field of algebraic structures relevant to computer science and on applications of such algebras.

    For more information, see http://ramics-conference.org.
  • 12-14 May 2017, The Fifth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang 2017), Lodz, Poland

    Date: 12-14 May 2017
    Location: Lodz, Poland
    Deadline: 30 November 2016

    As in previous years, the principal aim of our Conference is to bring together philosophers, linguists and logicians. PhiLang2017 will be concerned with "objects of inquiry" (or on "what there is") in language, philosophy, logic, argumentation theory, and literature.

    We also invite contributions investigating the general and more specific relations between philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and philosophy of mind.

    For more information, see http://filologia.uni.lodz.pl/philang/

    Deadline for submission is 30 November 2016. Presentations should last maximum 30 minutes (including discussion and questions). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2017.

  • 8 - 12 May 2017, The 21st International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-21), Maun, Botswana

    Date: 8 - 12 May 2017
    Location: Maun, Botswana
    Deadline: Sunday 1 January 2017

    The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 21st LPAR will be held will be held in Maun, Botswana, at Cresta Riley's Hotel, 7-12th May 2017.

     

    New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Abstract Submission deadline: 1 January 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.LPAR-21.info.
  • 8 - 12 May 2017, Brazilian Logic Meeting (XVIII EBL), Pirenopolis, Brazil

    Date: 8 - 12 May 2017
    Location: Pirenopolis, Brazil
    Deadline: Sunday 5 February 2017

    The Brazilian Logic Meeting (EBL) is a traditional event of the Brazilian Logic Society (SBL). They have been occurring since 1979. It congregates logicians of different fields and the meeting is an important moment for the Brazilian and South-American community to join together and engage in a discussion about the state-of-art of their subject. The areas of Logic covered spread over Foundations and Philosophy of Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Informatics, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence.

    We cordially invite submissions of contributed papers on the general topics of Logic. We are also happy to host round tables proposals with a duration of at most two hours. Extended deadline: 5 February 2017.

    For more information, see here or at http://www.inf.ufg.br/ebl2017 or contact .
  • 5 - 6 May 2017, Logic in Bochum III, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 5 - 6 May 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 March 2017

    The annual workshop Logic in Bochum gathers logicians from different domains for a two-day workshop at Ruhr University Bochum. This year it will take place on the 5th and 6th of May. The workshop traditionally consists of two parts: the first part (day 1), devoted to a specific area of logic and the second part (day 2) devoted to a variety of topics. Invited speakers include: Joao Marcos, Gabriella Pigozzi,  Niko Strobach and Allard Tamminga.

    We invite submissions of abstracts for the first part of the workshop, which this year focuses on deontic logics. Abstracts of about 500 words are to be submitted via EasyChair by the 15th of March 2017.

  • 4 - 6 May 2017, Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy 2, Dubrovnik, Croatia

    Date: 4 - 6 May 2017
    Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The general subject of the conference are problems of philosophical ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind that are formulated or solved using formal methods (as defined in logic, mathematics, formal linguistics, theoretical computer science, information science, AI) and/or with references to the results of natural and social sciences.

    The conference will include a special session "Logic, concepts and communication", a panel discussion "Proposal of a BD/MD/PhD in philosophy on: Philosophy & Computer Science. A perspective for applied formal philosophy", and a PhD session with 20 minutes talks followed by 10 minutes discussion.

    Please, submit a 600 characters abstract for a 30 minutes talk (+ 10 minutes discussion). Please, indicate if the abstract is meant for a PhD session.

  • 2 - 4 May 2017, PhDs in Logic IX, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 2 - 4 May 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Thursday 2 February 2017

    PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of PhDs in Logic will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during 2nd - 4th May 2017.

    Confirmed tutorial speakers are: Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences), María Manzano (University of Salamanca), João Marcos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte), Gabriella Pigozzi (University Paris-Dauphine), Christian Straßer (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-University Bochum).

    PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines, that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathematics and computer science are invited to submit an extended abstract on their research. Submitted abstracts should be between 2 and 3 pages, including the relevant references. Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by the scientific committee. Accepted abstracts will be presented by their authors in a 20-minute presentation during the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is 2nd February 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phdsinlogicix.
  • 29 April 2017, Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems (MARS 2017), Uppsala, Sweden

    Date: Saturday 29 April 2017
    Location: Uppsala, Sweden
    Deadline: Friday 20 January 2017

    To show that a developed approach for automated reasoning actually scales to real systems, large case studies are essential. The development of formal models of real systems usually requires translating informal descriptions into a chosen specification formalism, and usually takes a large amount of time, often months or years, without even starting a formal analysis. When publishing the results on a formal analysis in a scientific paper, details of the model have to be skipped due to lack of space, and often the lessons learnt from modelling are not discussed since they are not the main focus of the paper. The workshop aims at discussing exactly these unmentioned lessons.

    The workshop emphasises modelling over verification. In particular, we invite papers that present full Models of Real Systems, which may lay the basis for future formal analysis. The workshop will bring together researchers from different communities that all aim at verifying real systems and are developing formal models for such systems. Areas where large models often occur are within networks, (trustworthy) systems and software verification (from byte code up to programming- and specification languages). An aim of the workshop is to present different modelling approaches and discuss pros and cons for each of them.

    Submissions must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Appendices (of arbitrary length) can be used to present all details of a formalised model; the appendices will be part of the proceedings. In case a formal model is presented that is modelled in some formalism or tool, these models have to be submitted as well. They will be published as part of the proceedings, and will be made available in our Repository of Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems. Submission deadline: Friday 13 January 2017.

  • 29 April 2017, 2nd International Workshop on Causal Reasoning for Embedded and Safety-critical Systems Technologies (CREST 2017), Uppsala, Sweden

    Date: Saturday 29 April 2017
    Location: Uppsala, Sweden
    Deadline: Friday 27 January 2017

    Today's IT systems, and the interactions between them, become increasingly complex. Power grid blackouts, airplane crashes, failures of medical devices and malfunctioning automotive systems are just a few examples of incidents that affect system safety. Determining the root cause(s) of a system-level failure and elucidating the exact scenario that led to the failure is today a complex and tedious task that requires significant expertise. Formal approaches for automated causality analysis, fault localization, explanation of events, accountability and blaming have been proposed independently by several communities - in particular, AI, concurrency, model-based diagnosis, software engineering, security engineering and formal methods. Work on these topics has significantly gained speed during the last years. The goals of this workshop are to bring together and foster exchange between researchers from the different communities, and to present and discuss recent advances and new ideas in the field.

    CREST 2017 is a satellite event of ETAPS 2017.

    All contributed papers will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members. Revised versions of selected papers will be published as formal post-workshop proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). At least one of the authors of an accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and present the paper in order for it to be included in the post-workshop proceedings.

    For more information, see http://se.uni-konstanz.de/crest2017 or contact .
  • 27 - 29 April 2017, Workshop "Negation & Negativity in Natural Language", Bochum, Germany

    Date: 27 - 29 April 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Tuesday 31 January 2017

    Negation and negativity are key features of human languages. While negation is a phenomenon of semantic opposition, negativity adresses a broader spectrum of phenomena. The investigation of the form and meaning of negation and negativity in natural language is at the heart of many debates in philosophy, linguistics, logic and psychology. The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together the various perspectives of negation and negativity and thereby force the interdisciplinary research on negation and negativity in natural language.

    We invite authors to submit an abstract of max. 500 words excluding references in PDF format for a talk of ca. 35 min (incl. discussion) or for a poster. Up to one extra page for figures is allowed. The five best student and PhD student submissions will be awarded a travel grant of 80€ each.

  • 22 - 23 April 2017, 1st joint international workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE) and FOundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (FOPARA), Uppsala, Sweden

    Date: 22 - 23 April 2017
    Location: Uppsala, Sweden
    Deadline: Sunday 19 February 2017

    The DICE workshop explores the area of Implicit Computational Complexity (ICC), which grew out from several proposals to use logic and formal methods to provide languages for complexity-bounded computation (e.g. Ptime, Logspace computation). It aims at studying the computational complexity of programs without referring to external measuring conditions or a particular machine model, but only by considering language restrictions or logical/computational principles entailing complexity properties.

    The FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (e.g. time, space, energy) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged. We also encourage papers that combine theory and practice.

    Given the complementarity and the synergy between these two communities, and following the successful experience of co-location of DICE-FOPARA 2015 in London at ETAPS 2015, we will hold the 8th Workshop on DICE and the 5th Workshop on FOPARA together at ETAPS 2017..

    We ask for submission of *regular papers* describing original work (10--15 pages) or *extended abstracts* (2--6 pages) presenting already published work or work in progress.

    The joint international DICE-FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for presenting original and established research results that are relevant to the implicit computational complexity theory and to the analysis of resource (e.g. time, space, energy) consumption by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged, as well as papers that combine theory and practice.

    For more information, see http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/events/dice-fopara.
  • 20-22 April 2017, 14th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC 2017), Bern, Switzerland

    Date: 20-22 April 2017
    Location: Bern, Switzerland
    Deadline: 31 October 2016

    TAMC 2017 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interest in computational theory and its applications. The main themes of the conference are computability, computer science logic, complexity, algorithms, models of computation and systems theory. There are two special sessions planned: 'Logic in computer science' and 'New models of computation'.

    For more information, see http://www.tamc2017.unibe.ch/

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Submission deadline is October 31, 2016.

  • 19 - 21 April 2017, Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt 2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Date: 19 - 21 April 2017
    Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Deadline: Tuesday 1 November 2016

    The 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt) will be held in Amsterdam in 19-21 April 2017, as part of the evo* event. The main goal of EvoMusArt is to bring together researchers who are using Computational Intelligence techniques for artistic tasks such as visual art, music, architecture, video, digital games, poetry, or design. The conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

     

    We welcome submissions which use Computational Intelligence techniques (e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Machine Learning, Swarm Intelligence) in the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields.  The deadline for submission is 1 November 2016, and acceptance notification on 9 January 2017.

  • 19 - 22 April 2017, Scientiae 2017: disciplines of knowing in the early modern world, Padua, Italy

    Date: 19 - 22 April 2017
    Location: Padua, Italy
    Deadline: Thursday 15 December 2016

    The major premise of the Scientiae conference series is that knowledge in the early modern world (roughly 1400-1800) was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures of theories, practices and objects, which had yet to be separated into their modern 'scientific' configurations. Although centred on attempts to understand and control the natural world, Scientiae addresses natural philosophy, natural history, and the scientiae mixtae within a wide range of related fields, including but not restricted to Biblical exegesis, medicine, artisan practice and theory, logic, humanism, alchemy, magic, witchcraft, demonology, divinatory practices, astronomy, astrology, music, antiquarianism, experimentation and commerce.

    This year attention is especially given to the history of early modern knowledge and erudition, the history of universities, particularly though not exclusively the history of the university of Padua, as well as the history of the book and the history of political thought. Our Keynote Speakers will be Paula Findlen (Stanford), Claire Preston (QM London), and Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre).

     

    Proposals are invited for the sixth annual Scientiae conference. Please email your 250-word abstract, together with a one-page CV, before the abstract submission deadline of 15 December 2016. We shall be notifying the selection outcome by 15 January.

  • 18 - 21 April 2017, CAOS 2017: Cognition & Ontologies, Bath, England

    Date: 18 - 21 April 2017
    Location: Bath, England
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 February 2017

    CAOS is a workshop devoted to the relationship between cognition and ontologies with the purpose to model, simulate and represent cognitive phenomena for artificial intelligence.

    CAOS addresses the difficult and topical question how key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology and reasoning, can be formally and ontologically understood, analysed and represented. It moreover seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems in general.

    We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as, for instance, image schemas, affordances, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as, for instance, concept invention), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. CAOS 2017 welcomes researchers from all career stages to participate. Work in progress and student projects are also welcome for submission as the primary goal of the workshop is discussion. All paper must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal.

    For more information, see http://caos.inf.unibz.it/.
  • 14 - 15 April 2017, Logic and Literary Form, Berkeley CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 14 - 15 April 2017
    Location: Berkeley CA, U.S.A.

    This conference promises to bridge the gap between literary formalism and formal logic by investigating conceptual and historical links between them in a range of subfields and periods. We will identify discrete affinities and analogical resonances among different areas of logic and literature. We will also consider what the cross-fertilization of ideas and practices has meant for logical and literary fields in the past, and might mean for these disciplines in the present.

    We will convene amid an unprecedented wave of scholarship addressing historical and theoretical commonalities in literature and logic. Our conference undertakes an interdisciplinary effort to extend and enrich this current surge in research connecting formal logic and literary formalism.

     

    The program committee cordially invites all researches to submit their papers for presentation. We invite papers on the historical and theoretical dimensions of form and formalism in relation to literature and logic, as well as any other topics related to literary formalism or formal logic.

    For more information, see https://logicandliteraryform.wordpress.com/.
  • 12 April 2017, BSC Women Lovelace Colloquium 2017, Aberystwyth, Wales

    Date: Wednesday 12 April 2017
    Location: Aberystwyth, Wales
    Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017

    The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women students of Computing and related subjects.  The event started in 2008, and moves around the country - in 2017 it will be at Aberystwyth Universityon April 12th.

    The aims of this event are:

    • To provide a forum for undergraduate women and masters students to share their ideas and network
    • To provide a stimulating series of talks from women in computing, both from academia and industry
    • To provide both formal (talks) and informal (networking) advice to undergraduate women about careers in computing from a female perspective

    All women students of computing and related subjects(1) are invited to enter one of the poster contests at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium. Your abstract can be on any computing topic you like. We've had submissions on everything from social networking to quantum computing; from medical image processing to wearables (complete with an arduino powered skirt). If it involves computers, we're interested.

  • 12 - 13 April 2017, Workshop on Group decision-making in scientific expert committees, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Date: 12 - 13 April 2017
    Location: Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 24 February 2017

    Scientists are regularly called upon to serve as experts advisors for various institutions, be it on the authorization of a new drug, the effects of climate change, or a monetary policy. Typically, expert advisers are constituted in panels, who are to utter their advice collectively. This raises a variety of questions about the decision-making process: How should the group best take advantage of the individual strengths and expertise? How to wager individual opinions and how to ideally deal with peer disagreement? One may want to devise special deliberation procedures to avoid groupthink, and to install voting rules tailored to the situation at hand.

    This workshop aims at gathering researchers who tackle these normative questions, from a variety of perspectives. We aim to bring together approaches from fields such as philosophy of science, social epistemology, political philosophy, political science, judgment aggregation, social choice theory, or agent-based modeling that provide inside on these problems. We are particularly looking for papers who are concerned with the specificity of both group decision-making and scientific expertise (compared to, say, an individual scientist giving advice, or a group of friends choosing a restaurant). Submissions may cover abstract work as well as case studies, and may involve formal tools.

    Please submit an extended abstract of maximum 1000 words suitable for blind review, together with a short abstract of maximum 100 words. Submissions may cover abstract work as well as case studies, and may involve formal tools.

    For more information, see https://expertgroups17.wordpress.com/.
  • 10 - 12 April 2017, Workshop Algebra and Coalgebra meet Proof Theory (ALCOP VIII)

    Date & Time: 10 - 12 April 2017, 09:00-17:00
    Location: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
    Deadline: Tuesday 14 February 2017

    The workshop Algebra and Coalgebra meet Proof Theory (ALCOP) brings together experts in algebraic logic, coalgebraic logic and proof theory to share new results and to strengthen the relationships between these fields.

    We invite submissions of a 1-2 page abstract for contributed talks by the extended deadline 14 February 2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcopviii2017

    For more information, see https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/clemens.kupke/ALCOP2017/ or contact Johannes Marti at .
  • 4 April 2017, 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017), Valencia, Spain

    Date: Tuesday 4 April 2017
    Location: Valencia, Spain
    Deadline: Monday 23 January 2017

    Previous shared tasks on coreference resolution have largely focused on entity coreference. But this constitutes only one of the many kinds of coreference relations that were discussed in theoretical and computational linguistics in the past few decades. In fact, by focusing on entity coreference resolution, NLP researchers have only scratched the surface of the wealth of interesting problems in coreference resolution. This workshop seeks to encourage work on under-investigated coreference resolution tasks (as well as coreference resolution in under-investigated languages) and provide a forum for coreference researchers to discuss and present such work.

     

    The workshop welcomes submissions describing both theoretical and applied computational work on coreference resolution, especially for languages other than English, less-researched forms of coreference and new applications of coreference resolution. The submissions are expected to discuss theories, evaluation, limitations, system development and techniques relevant to the workshop topics.

    Papers that describe the creation and annotation of corpora, especially those with less-investigated coreference phenomena and those involving less-researched languages, are particularly welcome. In addition, the program committee members will be asked to give special attention to submissions that echo our special theme on knowledge-rich coreference resolution.

    For more information, see http://corbon.nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/.
  • 3 April 2017, Cognitive Modelling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017), Valencia (Spain)

    Date: Monday 3 April 2017
    Location: Valencia (Spain)
    Deadline: Monday 16 January 2017

    This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics: the computational and mathematical modeling of linguistic generalization, development, and processing.  The workshop invites a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science of language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to discourse and on both learning and processing.

    We invite contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language-related abilities. We solicit three categories of papers: regular workshop papers, extended abstracts and cross-submissions. Only regular workshop papers will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. The submission deadline is 11:59PM Pacific Time on January 16, 2017.

    For more information, see http://cmcl2017.osu.edu.
  • 30 - 31 March 2017, 4th (In)Coherence of discourse workshop , Nancy, France

    Date: 30 - 31 March 2017
    Location: Nancy, France
    Deadline: Monday 9 January 2017

    The objective of the workshop is to discuss the latest advances in the modelling of discourses, in particular the kind held with pathological patients (e.g. schizophrenics). The adopted modelling paradigm is that of formal semantics, which falls within the scope of both linguistics and logic while also making ties to the philosophy of language.

    Like the previous (In)Coherence of discourse workshops, the fourth edition is organised by the SLAM (Schizophrenia and Language: Analysis and Modelling) project. The SLAM project aims to systematize the study of pathological conversations as part of an interdisciplinary approach combining Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Philosophy. It focuses particularly on conversations involving people with psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder).

     

     

    Authors are invited to submit a two-page PDF abstract (including references), anonymously prepared for review, in English or French.

    For more information, see http://discours.loria.fr/.
  • 29 - 31 March 2017, The 8th Workshop on Combining Logic and Probability (PROGIC 2017), Munich, Germany

    Date: 29 - 31 March 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany
    Deadline: Tuesday 20 December 2016

    Progic 2017 is the 8th Workshop in the series of workshops focusing on the combination of logic and probability. Progic 2017 will focus on 'severe uncertainity'.

    Scholars who combine probability and logic to elaborate new solutions to problems involving severe uncertainty are invited to submit an extended abstract  for presentation at the workshop.

  • 27 - 31 March 2017, Phylogenetic Methods in Historical Linguistics, Tuebingen, Germany

    Date: 27 - 31 March 2017
    Location: Tuebingen, Germany
    Deadline: Saturday 31 December 2016

    Given the success of the conference "Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics " in Leiden in October 2015 a follow up event will be held in Tuebingen on March 27-31, 2017. It will be hosted by the Institute of Linguistics of Tuebingen University. The first two days of the conference will be directed especially towards PhD students.

    We invite submissions of original, unpublished work in any area and at the intersection of Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Bioinformatics, Biology and Mathematics. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters. We aim to publish accepted papers open-access on the University of Tuebingen Library Publication System.

  • 26 - 30 March 2017, 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving AITP 2017 (AITP 2017), Obergurgl, Austria

    Date: 26 - 30 March 2017
    Location: Obergurgl, Austria
    Deadline: Thursday 1 December 2016

    Large-scale semantic processing and strong computer assistance of mathematics and science is our inevitable future. New combinations of AI and reasoning methods and tools deployed over large mathematical and scientific corpora will be instrumental to this task. The AITP conference is the forum for discussing how to get there as soon as possible, and the force driving the progress towards that.

    There will be several focused sessions on AI for ATP, ITP and mathematics, modern AI and big-data methods, and several sessions with contributed talks. The focused sessions will be based on invited talks and discussion oriented.

    We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages formatted with easychair.cls.
    DATES Submission deadline: December 1, 2016

    For more information, see http://aitp-conference.org/2017.
  • 8 - 11 March 2017, Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2017), Hannover, Germany

    Date: 8 - 11 March 2017
    Location: Hannover, Germany
    Deadline: Sunday 25 September 2016

    The conference includes talks by invited speakers Artur Jez (Wroclaw, Poland), Antoine Joux (Paris) and Till Tantau (Lübeck, Germany), and a tutorial by Juha Kontinen (Helsinki, Finland).

     

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Submission deadline: Sep 25, 2016.

    For more information, see https://stacs2017.thi.uni-hannover.de/.
  • 8-11 March 2017, 34th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2017), Hannover, Germany

    Date: 8-11 March 2017
    Location: Hannover, Germany
    Deadline: 25 September 2016

    The STACS conference Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science takes place each year since 1984, alternately in Germany and France. Typical topics of the conference include algorithms and data structures, automata and formal languages, computational and structural complexity, logic in computer science, and current challenges.

    Further details are available on the conference website https://stacs2017.thi.uni-hannover.de.

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Submission deadline: Sep 25, 2016.

  • 6 - 10 March 2017, Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2017), Umea, Sweden

    Date: 6 - 10 March 2017
    Location: Umea, Sweden
    Deadline: Friday 21 October 2016

    LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field organized by Rovira i Virgili University since 2002, LATA 2017 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.

    LATA 2017 will consist of nvited talks, invited tutorials andpeer-reviewed contributions.

    Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research.
    Deadline for paper submission: October 21, 2016 (closing at 23:59h, CET).
    For more information, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2017/.
  • 2 - 3 March 2017, Consequence and Paradox between Truth and Proof, Tuebingen, Germany

    Date: 2 - 3 March 2017
    Location: Tuebingen, Germany
    Deadline: Thursday 15 December 2016

    The notion of logical consequence has been traditionally analysed as necessary truth-preservation, and such an analysis is at the core of contemporary model-theoretic approaches to semantics. An alternative approach to semantics is inferentialism, according to which the notions of inference and proof should play a more fundamental role than those of reference, truth and satisfaction in the construction of a semantic theory.

    Inferentialism has mostly been developed in opposition to the more traditional semantic approach. However, the tight relationships between the basic concepts involved in the two approaches suggest a more complex interplay than mere opposition. Many of the central notions (e.g. admissibility) and results (e.g. interpolation) in logic usually have both a model-theoretic and a proof-theoretic dimension. Moreover, the notions of truth and proof, when conceived as the central notions of a theory of meaning, share many of their core features.

    This complex interplay between truth and proof can be found in current debates on paradoxes as well. Solutions to paradoxes are motivated sometimes by traditional semantic considerations, sometimes by considerations about the structural features of our inferential practices. Plausibly, a thorough understanding of paradoxes requires resources coming from both model-theoretic and inferential conceptions of language and meaning.

    The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of logical consequence and paradoxes to exchange ideas and methods and discuss recent results.

    If you would like to contribute a talk (30-45 minutes), then please send a one-page abstract to Luca Tranchini at . The deadline for submission is 15 December 2016.

  • 1 - 3 March 2017, Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in the Philosophy of Science, Causation & Complexity (MuST10), Sydney, Australia

    Date: 1 - 3 March 2017
    Location: Sydney, Australia
    Deadline: Thursday 1 December 2016

    Causation and Complexity is the tenth MuST conference, an international collaborative conference series with a distinctive focus on philosophical issues in the sciences that can be addressed using exact reasoning and which have some potential policy relevance. MuST conferences bring together philosophers and scientists to explore these topics.

    MuST10 is organized by the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS) and the Tilburg Centre for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), in collaboration with the Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) at the University of Sydney.  Keynote speakers are Professor Stuart Kauffman, Professor Anne-Marie Grisogono, and Professor Kevin Korb.

    Papers are invited on any aspect of scientific study of complexity, including philosophical, sociological and psychological studies of complex systems science, and on the policy implications of complex systems science. Abstracts should be submitted by December 1st.

  • 24 - 26 February 2017, Partiality, Underspecification and Natural Language Processing (PUaNLP 2017), Porto, Portugal

    Date: 24 - 26 February 2017
    Location: Porto, Portugal
    Deadline: Friday 9 December 2016

    Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) can participate in informational content, or influence its flow as information conveyors and interpreters.

    This Special Session at ICAART 2017 covers theoretical work, advanced applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

    Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any topic relevant to the Special Session. The publication rules for PUaNLP are the same as for ICAART conference. Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short Papers have an 8-page limit. Paper Submission deadline: December 9, 2016.

     

    For more information, see http://www.icaart.org/PUaNLP.aspx or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .
  • 10 - 12 February 2017, 93th Workshop on General Algebra (AAA93), Bern, Switzerland

    Date: 10 - 12 February 2017
    Location: Bern, Switzerland
    Deadline: Sunday 1 January 2017

    The 93th Workshop on General Algebra (93. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra) will take place at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Switzerland and will be jointly organized by the University of Bern and the Pädagogische Hochschule Bern.  We are happy to announce plenary lectures of the fowolling colleagues: Peter Gumm (Universität Marburg), Michael Pinsker (TU Wien / Charles University Prague), Marcel Tonga (Université de Yaounde I), Laura Ciobanu (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg), Hilary Priestley (University of Oxford), Jens Zumbrägel (TU Dresden) and Jürg Schmid (Universität Bern).

    On Friday 10 we will organize a special session on applications of algebra with contributions of Bernhard Ganter (TU Dresden), Baris Sertkaya (FH Frankfurt a.M.), Jens Zumbrägel (TU Dresden), Peter Mayr (University of Colorado) and Geoff Ostrin (Berner Fachhochschule).

    Besides the plenary talks, contributed talks by the conference participants will be scheduled. If you intend to give a contributed talk (20min), please submit an abstract not later than 1 January 2017. Registration

  • CfP special issue of Journal of Automated Reasoning (JAR) on Automated Reasoning Systems

    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017

    The past few decades have seen major developments and practical achievements in automated reasoning systems. For example, SAT solving has become an inherent part of the standard hardware production process; SMT solvers are now the backbone of most software verification techniques; first-order theorem provers have pushed the productivity of interactive theorem proving to a new level; computer algebra systems have solved difficult problems in mathematics and biology; knowledge representation systems have become indispensable for reasoning in the world wide web; automatic termination checkers routinely prove the termination of complex programs.

    This special issue is dedicated to automated reasoning systems in their full variety, along the dimensions of considered logic, considered problem, application area and user base. In particular, we welcome papers emphasizing engineering aspects because, while often crucial for the success of automated reasoning tools, they are typically not given a sufficiently detailed treatment in theory papers or system description papers published at conferences or workshops.

    For more information, see https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/JARS17/.
  • 29 January - 5 February 2017, 6th Entia et Nomina workshop, Palolem, Goa, India

    Date: 29 January - 5 February 2017
    Location: Palolem, Goa, India
    Deadline: Sunday 30 October 2016

    The 'Entia et Nomina' series features English language workshops for researchers in formally oriented philosophy, in particular in logic, philosophy of science, formal epistemology and philosophy of language. The aim of the workshop is to foster cooperation among philosophers with a formal bent. Previous editions took place at Gdansk University, Ghent University (as part of the Trends in Logic series), Jagiellonian University, and Warsaw University. The sixth conference in the series will take place in Palolem, Goa, India, on 29 January - 5 February 2017.

    Please send questions and any inquiries to both Rafal Urbaniak <> and Juliusz Doboszewski < >.

    Authors of contributed papers are requested to submit short (up to 2 normalized pages) and extended (up to 6 pages) abstracts, prepared for blind-review, in PDF format, by 30.10.2016. Decisions about acceptance will be communicated by 20.11.2016.

    For more information, see http://philevents.org/event/show/26782.
  • 28 - 29 January 2017, 10th Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Cambridge, U.K.

    Date: 28 - 29 January 2017
    Location: Cambridge, U.K.
    Deadline: Friday 21 October 2016

    Our keynote speakers for the conference are Prof Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame) and Prof Ian Rumfitt (Oxford).

    We invite papers from graduate students or those who have recently completed their PhD on any topic in the Philosophy of Mathematics or Logic, broadly construed. The deadline for submission of papers is the 21st October 2016.

    For more information, see http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/events/camb-grad-conf-2017 or contact Wes Wrigley and Luke Cash at .
  • CfP special issue of Studia Logica on "From Permissions to Obligations"

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2017

    Even though deontic logic has long been concerned with the relation between obligation and permission, this relation is usually understood the other way around. Obligations imply permissions, or permissions constrain the promulgation of further obligations. However, exercising one's rights, or acting on one's permission can also generate obligations for others. For instance, debtors are obligated to comply when their creditors exercise their right to request payment. Free trade agreements place their signatories under the obligation not to pass protectionist regulations. This aspect has received comparatively little attention. This special issue of Studia Logica aims at filling this gap by focusing on the essential aspects of obligations generated from permissions.

    Guest Editors: Piotr Kulicki (KUL, Lublin, Poland) and Olivier Roy (UNI Bayreuth, Germany).

    For more information, see here or at https://www.editorialmanager.com/stud or contact .
  • CfP special issue of IfCoLog Journal on Argument Strength

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    We invite authors to submit papers to a Special Issue on Argument Strength to be published in IfCoLog (Journal of Logics and Their Applications, College Publications). In December 2016 the workshop "Argument Strength 2016" took place at Ruhr-University Bochum. In the special issue we intend to publish original high quality contributions on the basis of talks given at the workshop and we also welcome contributions from other authors.

    Arguments vary in strength. The strength of an argument is affected, for instance, by the plausibility of its premises, the nature of the link between its premises and its conclusion, and the prior acceptability of the conclusion. The aim of this special issue is to collect original and high quality contributions from the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, logic, and argumentation theory, which are related to the strength of arguments.

  • 16 - 17 January 2017, The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2017), Paris, France

    Date: 16 - 17 January 2017
    Location: Paris, France
    Deadline: Wednesday 5 October 2016

    CPP is an international forum on theoretical and practical topics in all areas, including computer science, mathematics, and education, that consider certification as an essential paradigm for their work. Certification here means formal, mechanized verification of some sort, preferably with production of independently checkable certificates.

    We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. Abstracts must be submitted by October 5, 2016 (AOE). The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other published conferences or workshops.

    For more information, see http://cpp2017.mpi-sws.org/.
  • 9 - 12 January 2017, Model Theory: Philosophy, Mathematics, and Language, Munich, Germany

    Date: 9 - 12 January 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany
    Deadline: Saturday 15 October 2016

    Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic that studies languages and their interpretations. As such, research in model theory overlaps many areas in philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics. The introduction of model theory in the beginning of the previous century was intertwined with the development of set-theoretic foundations for mathematics; the implications and applications for philosophy and linguistics soon followed. The aim of this conference is to bring together philosophers, linguists and mathematicians for whom model theory is a basic tool-kit.

    We wish to facilitate knowledge transfer between these disciplines and create a fruitful discussion on the applicability and the foundational role of model theory. To do this, the conference will explore the following research questions: Are model-theoretic tools sufficient for an adequate demarcation of logical from non-logical constants? How does the model-theoretic definition of truth advance our understanding of the semantic paradoxes? How is meaning in natural language represented in models? How can models account for specific linguistic phenomena (e.g., natural language quantifiers)? What are the philosophical and linguistic consequences of a theory's complexity as measured by model-theoretic classification theory?

    We invite the submission of abstracts, suitable for a 45 minute talk, on topics related to any aspects of model theory. We encourage submissions from early-career researchers and PhD students. Submission deadline: 15 October, 2016.

  • 8-10 January 2017, 9th Methods for Modalities Workshop (M4M-9), IIT Kanpur, India

    Date: 8-10 January 2017
    Location: IIT Kanpur, India
    Deadline: 2 September 2016

    The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof methods, verification methods, algorithms and tools based on modal logic. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, dynamic logic, etc.

    M4M resumes after a short break, but will continue to be an important avenue for discussions of research in modal logics, especially on proof methods and decision procedures, and linkages of modal formalisms to computer science. In M4M-9 we hope to have a substantial part of the meeting devoted to tutorial lectures to increase the instructional content of the event. M4M-9 will be co-located with the Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) to be held during January 5-7, 2017.

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in proof methods, verification methods, algorithms and tools based on modal logics. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. Submission deadline: September 2, 2016.

  • 5-7 January 2017, 7th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA 2017), Kanpur, India

    Date: 5-7 January 2017
    Location: Kanpur, India
    Deadline: 12 August 2016

    ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant role, along with mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers and logicians studying foundations of formal logic in itself. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic.

    For more information, see http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/icla/ or contact .

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, computer science logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, logic and linguistics, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome. Deadline for Submission: 12 August 2016.

  • CfP special issue of "Philosophies" on logic, inference, probability, and paradox

    Deadline: Thursday 20 July 2017

    Reasoning with uncertain knowledge is a growing area of interest, involving several tendencies, such as reasoning with non-standard theories of probability (e.g., theories of probability based on non-classical logics) and combining argumentation systems with probabilities or probabilistic semantics. All such tendencies and areas of investigation are naturally generalized to possibility systems and other credal calculi. This poses new and intriguing questions on the philosophy of probability and credal calculi in general, amplifying the discussions around the correct formal theories of probability and on the interpretations of probability, among the classical, logical, frequentist, propensity, and subjectivist (and possibly others). Dilemmas and paradoxes in probabilities and credal calculi are also a relevant area of research.

    This Special Issue intends to contribute to the state-of-the-art of such research topics by gathering together the contribution of authors in interconnected areas including logical, mathematical and conceptual aspects. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. Guest Editors: Julio Stern Walter Carnielli Juliana Bueno-Soler.

    All papers are invited in the following (non-exclusive) topics:
    -interpretations of probability, possibility and other credal calculi
    -philosophy of probability, possibility and other credal calculi
    -probabilistic and possibilistic argumentation and inference
    -probability, possibility and uncertain reasoning
    -paradoxes in probability, possibility and other credal calculi

Past Conferences

  • 17 - 21 December 2017, Advanced Winter School on Formal Verification, Jerusalem, Israel

    Date: 17 - 21 December 2017
    Location: Jerusalem, Israel

    Formal Verification is the study of algorithms and structures applicable to the verification of hardware and software designs. It draws upon ideas and results from logic, graph theory, and automata theory, and combines theoretical and experimental aspects. The IIAS Winter School on Formal Verification would bring together several leading researchers to cover the mathematicall and algorithmic foundations of the field, as well as to discuss its application in industry, and its impact on related areas in computer science.

    Application Deadline: October 1, 2017.

    For more information, see http://ias.huji.ac.il/CSE2.
  • 14 - 16 December 2017, Mathematical & Metaphysical Explanation II: Explanation, Grounding & Dependance, Pavia, Italy

    Date: 14 - 16 December 2017
    Location: Pavia, Italy
    The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in two related notions, the notion of metaphysical explanation, or grounding, and the notion of mathematical  explanation. Grounding is often described as a relation in which  explanans and  explanandum are connected, not through some sort of causal mechanism, but through  some constitutive form of determination. Mathematical explanations, on the other hand,  are seen as mathematical proofs that not only prove that something is true, but also why  something is true.
    After a first meeting aimed at taking a first step towards bridging these two areas of investigation, the workshop aims at further deepening our understanding of the connections between mathematical explanation, grounding, and metaphysical dependance, exploring in particular the relationship between grounding and recent views of mathematical explanation, the role of metaphysical dependance in the debate on indispensability argument, and the application of metaphysical and conceptual grounding to abstraction principles in the foundations of mathematics.
  • 11 - 15 December 2017, School & Workshop on Univalent Mathematics, Birmingham, England

    Date: 11 - 15 December 2017
    Location: Birmingham, England

    Univalent Type Theory is an emerging field of mathematics that studies a fruitful relationship between homotopy theory and (dependent) type theory. This relation plays a crucial role in Voevodsky's program of Univalent Foundations, a new approach to foundations of mathematics, based on ideas from homotopy theory, such as the Univalence Principle.

    The UniMath library is a large repository of computer-checked mathematics, developed from the univalent viewpoint. The workshop will give many young researchers an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the UniMath library and become contributors. During the school/workshop, the participants will be working either individually or in small groups, mentored by experienced UniMath developers. The problems will be designed to be of practical importance in the development of the UniMath library as well as of pedagogical value to participants.

    For more information, see https://unimath.github.io/bham2017/.
  • 30 November - 1 December 2017, Workshop "Global Perspectives on Reasoning & Scientific Method", Salzburg, Austria

    Date: 30 November - 1 December 2017
    Location: Salzburg, Austria

    The Division for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST/IUHPST) is the global voice for logic and philosophy of science, representing our field in global research councils such as the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Conseil International de Philosophie et des Sciences Humained (CIPSH). Our disciplines serve as an important instrument of methodological reflection for all sciences. The workshop in Salzburg, organised on the occasion of a meeting of the Council members of DLMPST/IUHPST, will cover these aspects and serve as a moment of methodological introspection.

    Speakers include Rachel Ankeny (Australia), Verónica Becher (Argentina), Amita Chatterjee (India), Helen Longino (U.S.A.), Hannes Leitgeb (Germany), Menachem Magidor (Israel), Mitsuhiro Okada (Japan), Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman (Poland), Peter Schroeder-Heister (Germany), and Charlotte Werndl (Austria).

    For more information, see https://dlmpstworkshop.wordpress.com/.
  • 16 November 2017, Workshop "Reflective Equilibrium in Logic & Philosophy of Science", Bern, Switzerland

    Date: Thursday 16 November 2017
    Location: Bern, Switzerland

    The main idea of 'reflective equilibrium' is that both our commitments to the validity of inferences as well as our logical theories are justified if they agree with each other, and that this agreement results from a process of mutually adjusting commitments and theories that try to systematize them. This idea was later discussed and further developed in different fields, most notably ethics, but also in theories of rationality, general epistemology, and philosophy of science. The aim of the workshop is to discuss and reassess the method of reflective equilibrium in light of recent developments and applications in logic and philosophy of science.

    For more information, see http://www.sgslps.ch/upcoming.
  • 4 - 5 November 2017, 3rd Conference on Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence (PT-AI 2017), Leeds, U.K.

    Date: 4 - 5 November 2017
    Location: Leeds, U.K.

    Artificial intelligence is set to change the world - as well as the way we see ourselves and the world. This triennial conference will consider the essential issues raised by artificial intelligence and its expected developments: Fundamental Concepts, Ethics, Approaches & Methods, and Challenges.

    We are pleased to announce our programme includes an outstanding selection of 35 papers and 20 posters from around the world.

    For more information, see https://www.pt-ai.org/2017/.
  • 18 - 21 October 2017, Symposium "On the infinite", Paris, France

    Date: 18 - 21 October 2017
    Location: Paris, France

    In this four-day interdisciplinary symposium we juxtapose lectures by set theorists and other mathematicians with those by art historians, architects, artists and philosophers, in an attempt to create a dialogue across cultures. Some of the mathematical talks will be aimed at a general audience.  The symposium is accompanied by an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Fred Sandback.

    For more information, see http://www.i-n-f-i-n-i-t-y.org/.
  • 11 - 14 October 2017, Axiomatic Thinking, Lisbon, Portugal

    Date: 11 - 14 October 2017
    Location: Lisbon, Portugal

    100 years ago, in 1917 David Hilbert gave his seminal talk Axiomatisches Denken at a meeting of the Swiss Mathematical Society in Zurich. It marks the beginning of Hilbert's return to his foundational studies, which ultimately resulted in the establishment of proof theory as a new branch in the emerging field of mathematical logic.  The aim of this conference is to reevaluate the success of Hilbert's axiomatic method, which did not only lay the foundations for the understanding of modern mathematics, but which also found its way in many applications, first of all - and as vividly advocated by Hilbert - in Physics.

    On Wednesday 11, the conference will take place in the beautiful main hall of Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. That day is fully dedicated to the Foundations of Mathematics. For the remaining days, the conference moves to the campus of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (across from the Tagus river), and the topic of the conference widens to other aspects of Axiomatic Thinking, not only in Mathematics but also in Physics and other fields of science. Also, philosophical and methodological aspects of Axiomatic Thinking will be discussed.

    For more information, see http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/aips17.
  • 25 - 27 September 2017, 13th Tbilisi Summer School in Logic & Language, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Date: 25 - 27 September 2017
    Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

    The Kurt Gödel Society will host a summer school on Logic and Language at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. The summer school targets students in Logic, Computer Science and Mathematics at PhD, Masters or Bachelor level, but the event is open to all interested students.

    The school will feature lectures by Federico Aschieri, Matthias Baaz, Guram Bezhanishvili, Uwe Egly, Carles Noguera and Michel Parigot.

    For more information, see https://www.logic.at/tbilisi17/.
  • 25 - 29 September 2017, Summer School on computer simulation methods, Stuttgart, Germany

    Date: 25 - 29 September 2017
    Location: Stuttgart, Germany

    The transformation of science through computer simulation is often considered to be a methodological one. A lot of literature has been dedicated to determining the relationship between computer simulation, experiments or theories as the classical sources of knowledge. This relation is both methodologically and technically complex. On the one hand, it is difficult for philosophers, social scientists, and historians to gain detailed insight into the methods used among practitioners. On the other hand, for computer scientists and practitioners in general, the methodological limitations and design constraints that simulation techniques impose on hypothesis formulation and testing may not be obvious. The summer school addresses these problems by offering lectures and tutorials on computer simulation methods for scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and computer science.

    The morning sessions will include lectures by faculty members, focusing on the philosophical, methodological, and technical aspects of different simulation techniques (including numerical methods, software techniques, visualization, agent-based modelling, and computational experiments). These will be followed by project presentations by participants. The afternoons will be dedicated to hands-on tutorials by practitioners. Finally, in the evenings, distinguished scholars will offer lectures on the most inspiring and exciting issues in this increasingly important research area.

  • 23 - 26 September 2017, Autumn School "Proof & Computation", Herrsching, Germany

    Date: 23 - 26 September 2017
    Location: Herrsching, Germany
    Target audience: Graduate or PhD students and young postdoctoral researchers

    An international autumn school "Proof and Computation" will be held from 23rd to 26th September 2017 at Haus der bayerischen Landwirtschaft Herrsching in Herrsching near Munich. Its aim is to bring together young researchers in the field of Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy.

  • 18 - 29 September 2017, ICCL Summer School 'Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning'

    Date & Time: 18 - 29 September 2017, 09:00-17:00
    Location: Dresden, Germany
    Target audience: students, PhD students
    Costs: 200 - 500EUR

    The summer school "Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning" is a platform for knowledge transfer within the rapidly increasing research communities in the field of "Computational Logic", i.e. logic based Artificial Intelligence, and "Human Reasoning", i.e. Cognitive Science. We will offer introductory courses covering the fundamentals of cognitive science, logic and reasoning, courses at advanced levels, as well as applied courses and workshops dedicated to specialized topics and the state of the art.

    For more information, see https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/SummerSchool2017 or contact Irina Karadschow at .
  • 14 September 2017, Workshop "How to bridge neurobiology and psycholinguistic theory by computational modelling?"

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 September 2017, 13:00

    On 14/9 we have a little workshop in Nijmegen to launch the project 'The nature of the mental lexicon: How to bridge neurobiology and psycholinguistic theory by computational modelling?' (Big Question 1 in Language in Interaction). There will be talks by Brain Murphy (Belfast), Stefan Frank (Nijmegen), Marcel van Gerven (Nijmegen), Hartmut Fitz (MPI Nijmegen) and Jelle Zuidema (Amsterdam), and lots of discussion on brain decoding and computational modeling of language processing in the brain. Registration is free.

    For more information, see https://www.languageininteraction.nl/BQ1workshop.html or contact Jelle Zuidema at .
  • 14 - 15 September 2017, Workshop "Attitudes in Context", Regensburg, Germany

    Date: 14 - 15 September 2017
    Location: Regensburg, Germany

    "Attitudes in Context" is an interdisciplinary workshop with philosophers and psychologists on recent developments and problems in the theory of attitudes. Philosophical debates on the nature of attitudes ? triggered by phenomena of behavioral inconsistency ? have received novel input from psychological methods of measuring attitudes. In turn, the debate on techniques of measuring attitudes in psychology has led to discussions of foundational issues in attitude theory. This workshop creates a shared floor for discussing attitude theory and recent empirical results.

  • 12 - 16 September 2017, 1st Summer School on Formal Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems, Verona, Italy

    Date: 12 - 16 September 2017
    Location: Verona, Italy

    The 1st Summer School on Formal Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems (FM-CPS) focuses on the foundations, techniques, and tools for analysis, verification, control, synthesis, implementation, and applications of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Applications deal broadly with engineering and natural systems, including signal circuits, robotics, automotive and avionics, large-scale infrastructure networks, as well as biochemical and physiological processes.

    This first edition of the school has the goal of presenting the state of the art of the current techniques in controller synthesis for hybrid systems, to enable doctoral students and young researchers to advance the field and apply the developed methodologies to concrete scenarios promoting their application in the industrial practice. The control synthesis problem will be addressed both in the discrete domain and in the timed/hybrid one with techniques ranging from supervisory control, to synthesizing strategies in a two-player game, and to control-theoretic techniques.

    The school will include tutorial presentations as well as laboratory sessions that will allow the students to apply the concepts introduced during the lectures in a laboratory set-up.

  • 11 - 22 September 2017, 9th DGfS Computational Linguistics Fall School, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Date: 11 - 22 September 2017
    Location: Duesseldorf, Germany

    The DGfS Computational Linguistics Fall School was established in 2001 by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society as a biennial event for students who wish to broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing. The motivation is to give interested students an understanding of innovative and emerging fields in computational linguistics, including fields not traditionally taught in standard degree programs.

    The Fall School offers the following four courses, each of which consists of ten 90-minutes lectures:
    - Michael Franke, Michael Henry Tessler: Computational Pragmatics
    - Hassan M. Sajjad, Fahim Imaduddin: Deep Learning for Machine Translation
    - Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Rainer Osswald, Simon Petitjean: Grammar Implementation with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars and Frame Semantics
    - Felix Bildhauer, Roland Schäfer: Creation, Use, and Analysis of Linguistically Annotated Resources

    For more information, see http://cl-fallschool2017.phil.hhu.de/.
  • 10 - 12 September 2017, 70th birthday of John Truss: homogeneous structures, permutation groups, and connections to set theory, Leeds, England

    Date: 10 - 12 September 2017
    Location: Leeds, England

    This conference focusses on several related interests of John: first order structures which are homogeneous in the sense of Fraïssé (or of more recent generalisations), and also ω-categorical structures in model theory; automorphism groups of such structures, and connections to other fields such as permutation group theory, semigroup theory, Ramsey theory and other aspects of combinatorics, topological dynamics; connections to set theory – related questions in combinatorial set theory, and permutation group methods in set theory.

    This is a BLC-supported meeting.

    For more information, see http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/pure/logic/events/homogeneous/ or contact Dugald Macpherson at .
  • 7 - 12 September 2017, Conference & Workshop on Set Theoretic & Topological Methods in Model Theory, Tezpur, India

    Date: 7 - 12 September 2017
    Location: Tezpur, India

    The aim of this programme is to bring together mathematicians and logicians working on/interested in various topics on the border of model theory, topology and set theory. The leading themes are topological dynamics and descriptive set theoretic methods in model theory. Apart from the state of the art lectures by leading experts, two tutorials, each consisting of 3 one-hour talks on the main themes of the meeting, are being planned. The meeting will give opportunity for discussion and collaboration between experts from different but related parts of logic. This may result in the future in discovering new interactions between model theory, topology and set theory.

    For more information, see http://www.isical.ac.in/~statmath/smsconf/.
  • 4 September 2017, Workshop "From minimal to complex collective actions", Milan, Italy

    Date: Monday 4 September 2017
    Location: Milan, Italy

    This workshop aims at bringing together philosophers of mind and action to discuss the interrelation between minimal and complex collective actions from different angles. Questions include (but are not restricted to): What are the minimal criteria for there to be a collective action? How do minimal or basic cases of joint action come into existence and how do they interrelate with more complex cases that may take place in larger groups and in institutional frameworks? Are complex collective actions reducible to a set of minimal collective actions? Are non-human animals able to engage in minimal collective action? What is the developmental basis of minimal and complex collective actions? What are the implications of minimal collective action for social science? What is the contribution of neuroscience to our understanding of collective action?

    Keynote Speakers: Stephen Butterfill (University of Warwick), Sara Rachel Chant (Tulane University) and Kirk Ludwig (University of Bloomington).

    For more information, see http://www.cssa.unimi.it/events/workshops/.
  • 25 August 2017, Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zoltán Ésik, Stockholm, Sweden

    Date: Friday 25 August 2017
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden

    Zoltán Ésik was an automata theorist of high calibre from the Institute of Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary. Among his many contributions to the subject, perhaps the most important is the study of equational properties of fixed point operators, constituting Iteration Theories (a book he co-authored with Stephen Bloom). This one-day workshop, a satellite event of CSL 2017, is intended as a tribute to Zoltán Ésik, constituting a discussion of topics that lie at the intersection of automata theory, logic and algebra. The workshop mainly consists of invited talks but also has room for the sharing of memories.

  • 22 - 27 August 2017, International Summer School for Proof Theory in First-order Logic, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

    Date: 22 - 27 August 2017
    Location: Madeira, Portugal

    The Kurt Gödel Society will host a summer school on Proof Theory in First-Order Logic at the University of Madeira, Funchal, Madeira from August 22 to August 27.

    The summer school targets master and doctoral students in Logic, Computer Science and Mathematics with a strong interest in Logic and Proof Theory. We particularly encourage students to apply to student lessons in order to present their ongoing research, but the event is open to all interested students.

    For more information, see https://kgs.logic.at/madeira/.
  • 21 - 23 August 2017, 3rd Workshop on Philosophy, Logic and Analytical Metaphysics (Filomena 2017), Natal, Brazil

    Date: 21 - 23 August 2017
    Location: Natal, Brazil

    The third edition of the FILOMENA Workshop (FIlosofia, LOgica e MEtafísica aNAlítica), promoted by the Group for Logic and Formal Philosophy from the UFRN, has the purpose of gathering logicians working at the intersection of Logic and Metaphysics, through the application of formal methods in Philosophy. Logic, a branch of Philosophy on its own, has outgrown its original purposes and found connections with other areas of Philosophy, such as Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind. Logic has proved to be a powerful tool for analyzing different philosophical theories, as well as their foundations and implications; moreover, the birth and development of non-classical logics has expanded its domain of application much beyond the dreams of its progenitors.

    Invited Speakers: Tuomas Tahko (University of Helsinki), Jonas Arenhart (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and Giorgio Venturi (State University of Campinas).

  • 7 - 25 August 2017, Logic in Stockholm 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

    Date & Time: 7 - 25 August 2017, 08:00-22:00
    Location: Stockholm, Sweden
    Target audience: mathematics, computer science, philosophy

    Logic in Stockholm 2017 is a series of logic related events organised by the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University, and the Group of Theoretical Computer Science at KTH. The series consists of the following events:

    • August 7–11: The Third Nordic Logic Summer School,  NLS 2017
    • August 14–20: The 2017 ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium),  LC 2017
    • August 20–24: The 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic,  CSL 2017
    • August 16–19: Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017,  LACompLing2017.
    • August 25: Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems,  LAMAS 2017.
    • August 25: Workshop on Logic and Automata Theory in memory of Zoltán Ésik.

    See the conference homepages or the individual conference announcements for CFPs.

  • 2 - 4 August 2017, W6: Topics on Philosophy of Logic, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Date: 2 - 4 August 2017
    Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

    This is the annual meeting of the Buenos Aires Logic Group. The scope of the event includes topics in non-classical logic, recovery operators, semantics paradoxes, logical pluralism and applications of logic.

    For more information, see http://ba-logic.com/workshops/6th-workshop/.
  • 31 July - 4 August 2017, 10th International Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Date: 31 July - 4 August 2017
    Location: Saarbrücken, Germany

    We believe that all three aspects verification technology, systems & applications strongly depend on each other and that progress in the area of formal analysis and verification can only be made if all three aspects are considered as a whole. Our five speakers Rajeev Alur, Christel Baier, Hoon Hong, Andrew Reynolds and Thomas Wies stand for this view in that they represent and will present a particular verification technology and its implementation in a system in order to successfully apply the approach to real world verification problems.

    The school is synchronized with the SC2 Summer School 2017, happening at the same time in the same place. The deadline for application is June 1st, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/vtsa17/ or contact .
  • 30 July - 5 August 2017, Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students 2017, Munich, Germany

    Date: 30 July - 5 August 2017
    Location: Munich, Germany

    The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) is organizing the fourth Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students. Since women are significantly underrepresented in philosophy generally and in formal philosophy in particular, this summer school is aimed at encouraging women to engage with mathematical methods and apply them to philosophical problems.

    This year the focus of the summer school will be to provide a framework for developing expertise in formal approaches used in (1) philosophy of language, (2) philosophy of logic, and (3) philosophy of mathematics. The summer school will offer the opportunity for study in an informal setting, for lively debate, and for the development of a network with students and professors interested in the application of formal methods in philosophy. Finally, being located at the MCMP, the summer school will also provide a stimulating and interdisciplinary environment for meeting like-minded philosophers.

    The deadline for applications is *March 5, 2017.

  • 29 July - 4 August 2017, Set Theory Conference on the occasion of Ronald Jensen's 80th birthday, Muenster, Germany

    Date: 29 July - 4 August 2017
    Location: Muenster, Germany

    Tentative list of speakers (incomplete): Gunter Fuchs (CUNY), Moti Gitik (Tel Aviv University), Menachem Magidor (Jerusalem), Adrian Mathias (Reunion), Itay Neeman (UCLA), John Steel (Berkeley), W. Hugh Woodin (Harvard) and Martin Zeman (UC Irvine).

  • 23 - 29 July 2017, Hilbert-Bernays Summer School on Logic & Computation, Goettingen, Germany

    Date: 23 - 29 July 2017
    Location: Goettingen, Germany

    This summer school offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to experience compelling lectures on Logic and Computation.

    Encouraged by previous years of success, we offer students from all over the world the possibility to sign up this 1-week (3 ECTS) Summer School course covering topics such as: Term Rewriting Systems, Recursion and Complexity, Proof Theory and the Art of Ordinal Analysis, or Geometric Logic-Topos Theory. Students may anticipate a high professional outcome in a dedicated international environment along with extra-curricular activities.

  • 14 July 2017, Omni Buss Celebration Workshop on the occation of Sam Buss's 60th birthday, La Jolla CA, U.S.A.

    Date: Friday 14 July 2017
    Location: La Jolla CA, U.S.A.

    Sam Buss's work has had major impact on many areas of mathematics and computer science, including logic, proof theory, proof complexity, computational complexity, algorithms, and graphics.

    The programme will include a series of invited talks, including the following speakers: Arnold Beckmann (Swansea Univeristy), Maria Luisa Bonet Carbonell (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña), Jonathan Buss (University of Waterloo), Russell Impagliazzo (UCSD), Toniann Pitassi (Univeristy of Toronto), Steve Rotenberg (UCSD) Ryan Williams (MIT).

  • 13 - 14 July 2017, Logic in Question 7, Paris, France

    Date: 13 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Paris, France

    Logic goes back to the night of time. But what it is exactly, what it consists in, what are its methods, how it developed, this is not necessarily clear. Logic in Question is since 2011 a yearly Spring workshop at the Sorbonne about logic examining these questions and trying to answer them. Free entrance, registration required.

    For more information, see http://www.logic-in-question.org or contact .
  • 10 - 23 July 2017, 12th Summer School "Algebra, Topology, Analysis", Kolochava, Ukraine

    Date: 10 - 23 July 2017
    Location: Kolochava, Ukraine

    The 12th Summer school 'Algebra, Topology, Analysis' continues the traditional annual summer school holding from 2003. The event includes lectures in different topics of algebra, topology, geometry and analysis.

  • 10 - 14 July 2017, Young Set Theory Workshop 2017 (YST 2017): New directions in the higher infinite, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Date: 10 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

    The aims of the “Young Set Theory Workshops” are to bring together young researchers in the domain of set theory and give them the opportunity to learn from each other and from experts in a friendly environment. A long-term objective of this series of workshops is to create and maintain a network of young set theorists and senior researchers, so as to establish working contacts and help disseminate knowledge in the field.

    The theme of the 2017 workshop is "New directions in the higher infinite".

  • 10 - 14 July 2017, Workshop on Computer-aided mathematical proof, Cambridge, England

    Date: 10 - 14 July 2017
    Location: Cambridge, England

    This event is part of the activities for the programme on Big proof (26 June - 4 August 2017). The workshop brings together mathematicians interested in employing proof technology in their research, logicians exploring pragmatic and foundational issues in the formalisation of mathematics, and computer scientists engaged in developing and applying proof technology. It will explore foundational, theoretical, and practical challenges in exploiting proof technology to transform mathematical practice across a range of scientific and engineering disciplines.

    Closing date for applications: 8 April.

    For more information, see https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/bprw01.
  • 4 - 7 July 2017, Summer School on Social Choice and Ethics, Warwick, UK

    Date: 4 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Warwick, UK

    The issues of social justice and ethics percolate extensively in various aspects of decision-making including policy choices and business strategies. The last decade, particularly, has witnessed the emergence of novel theoretical and empirical models in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethics. The Summer School is targeted at doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty in the fields of economics, behavioural science, and management and organisation studies who are interested in learning novel economic and behavioural science approaches to justice, fairness, and ethics.

    Application deadline 31 March 2017.

  • 3-7 July 2017, 6th European Set Theory Conference (6ESTC), Budapest, Hungary

    Date: 3-7 July 2017
    Location: Budapest, Hungary

    We are pleased to announce that the 6th European Set Theory Conference (6ESTC) of the European Set Theory Society will be organized in Budapest, at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, next year, July 3 - 7, 2017. (Date of arrival: July 2, date of departure: July 8.)

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/6thestc/

  • 3 - 5 July 2017, Conference on Mereology and Identity, Pisa, Italy

    Date: 3 - 5 July 2017
    Location: Pisa, Italy

    The contemporary debate on mereology is largely hinged on the notion of identity. Indeed, classical mereology dictates that complex entities are identical if and only if they have the same proper parts. On the other hand, many scholars who doubt the adequacy of classical mereology point to real or fictional cases in which different wholes would have the same proper parts.  The upholders of Composition as Identity think that identity, or a relation analogous to identity, also connects a whole with its parts. By contrast, the opponents of Composition as Identity retort that composition fails to respect some pivotal principles that holds for standard identity, such as the Indiscerniblity of Identicals, coreferentiality  or transitivity. Finally, in the debate about Composition as Identity, the so-called Sider-Yi Collapse seems to show that some roles sometimes attributed to identity are incompatible with the standard characterization of plural identity.

    The conference will host the main scholars involved in this debate, with the purpose of encouraging innovative solutions to various open problems.

    The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy) and the University of Padua (Italy) have the pleasure to offer 6 bursaries (including a single room in Pisa, one social dinner and meals at the university restaurant for the duration of the conference) to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are willing to be actively involved in the conference. The selected participants ARE NOT expected to deliver a presentation, but to attend the lectures of the invited speakers and raise objections and questions. Travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

    For more information, see http://www.sns.it/en or contact .
  • 3 - 5 July 2017, LogiCS/RiSE Summer School on Logic, AI, and Verification, Vienna, Austria

    Date: 3 - 5 July 2017
    Location: Vienna, Austria

    The doctoral college Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), and the Austrian Society for Rigorous Systems Engineering (RiSE) will host a summer school on Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Verification at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria from July 3 to July 5.

    The summer school targets master and doctoral students in Computer Science and Mathematics with a strong interest in Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Automated Verification. The event is open to all interested students.

    For more information, see http://forsyte.at/laive-summer-school-2017.
  • 3 - 6 July 2017, Summer School on Logic in Computer Science, Warsaw, Poland

    Date: 3 - 6 July 2017
    Location: Warsaw, Poland

    The Lipa Summer School is a school on topics connected to logic in computer science. The school consists of 4 mini-courses given by:

    • Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin) Algorithmic meta-theorems
    • Joël Ouaknine (Saarbrücken) Decision Problems for Linear Recurrence Sequences
    • Moshe Vardi (Rice)  Linear-time verification and synthesis
    • Mikołaj Bojańczyk (Warsaw, organiser) What is a recognisable language?

    Each mini-course is 6 hours long (4 x 90 minutes). The school is followed by ICALP.

  • 3 - 7 July 2017, 9th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2017), Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Date: 3 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Rewriting is a branch of computer science whose origins go back to the origins of computer science itself. It has strong links with mathematics, algebra, and logic, it is used in many areas of software engineering, and it is the basis of well-known programming paradigms like functional and equational programming. The 9th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2017) is aimed at master and PhD students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the study of rewriting concepts and their applications.

    The school features lectures by renowned researchers in rewriting, and is organized in two parallel tracks. The Basic Track is an introduction to Term Rewriting taught by Aart Middeldorp and Sarah Winkler from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It can be concluded with an exam for 3 EC. The Advanced Track consists of a variety of lectures on advanced topics in rewriting. There will also be the opportunity for participants to present their own research.

    Deadline for early registration is May 15, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/~hzantema/isr.html or contact .
  • 3 - 7 July 2017, 14th International conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Date: 3 - 7 July 2017
    Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    The conference brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome.

    For more information, see http://qpl.cs.ru.nl.
  • 29 June - 1 July 2017, The structure of modal & semantic reasoning, Muenchen, Germany

    Date: 29 June - 1 July 2017
    Location: Muenchen, Germany

    In the last 50 years, the success of possible worlds semantics for intensional logics has determined a discrepancy between techniques, aims and themes employed in the study of modal notions (broadly conceived as to include propositional attitudes, probability, validity) and in the study of truth. If the former endeavour focuses more on analyzing the logical space given by possible worlds semantics -- leaving aside problems and limitations that full self-reference and quantification may provide -- as a model for understanding modal concepts, the philosophical and logical mainstream in the study of truth is still deeply concerned with paradox and the self-referential aspects of sufficiently expressive languages containing a truth predicate.

    The conference aims at bringing together researchers working on the interaction between these two traditions with a particular emphasis on expressive frameworks that treat truth and modalities as interacting predicates.

  • 26 - 30 June 2017, Summerschool Music, Language and Cognition

    Date: 26 - 30 June 2017
    Location: Lake Como, Italy
    Costs: 250 euro

    The Summer School “Music, Language and Cognition” offers an extended overview of complex behavioral events whose existence is time dependent, including language, music and body movement. We focus on how sounds, melodies, rhythm and syntactic information in music and language may afford the extraction of regularities, the generation of expectations, the coordination of perception and action, the directing of attention, and the priming of interactive social behavior. Lecturers will be integrated by brain storming and students presentations.

    For more information, see http://mlcs.lakecomoschool.org.
  • 26 - 27 June 2017, Workshop "Perspectives on Scientific Error", Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Date: 26 - 27 June 2017
    Location: Tilburg, The Netherlands

    This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in issues of scientific error. Participants share their views on how scientific errors can be detected and corrected, how they influence scientific communities, and the perception of science as a whole.

    Invited Speakers: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Barbara Osimani (Munich), Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven), Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Amsterdam).

    For more information, see https://scientificerror2017.wordpress.com/.
  • 20 - 25 June 2017, STP 2017: Set Theoretic Pluralism, Bristol, England

    Date: 20 - 25 June 2017
    Location: Bristol, England

    The second and final symposium of the Set Theoretic Pluralism (STP) network will take place at the University of Bristol on June 20-25, 2017. We would like to invite researchers from all relevant disciplines to attend the symposium, including set theory, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. The registration deadline is Monday 5 June, 2017.

  • 18 June 2017, The 2nd Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW)

    Date & Time: Sunday 18 June 2017, 23:00
    Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
    Target audience: Bachelor, Master and PhD students
    Costs: Workshop fee, but scholarships are available (also for travel and accommodation expenses)

    The 2nd Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW) will focus on the technical and practical aspects of a career in logic research, including talks and panel sessions from leaders in the subject. LMW '17 builds on the success of the first edition which took place last year, also colocated with LICS.

    LMW invites applications from students (undergraduate, master's and PhD), in all areas of logic for scholarships to attend the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) conference this year. There are scholarships available to cover the workshop and conference fees, and possibly travel and accommodation expenses. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2017.

    For more information, see http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/lics17/lmw.html or contact Valeria Vignudelli at .
  • 17 June 2017, "Magic in Science": Grzegorz Rozenberg's 75th Birthday, Turku, Finland

    Date: Saturday 17 June 2017
    Location: Turku, Finland

    The symposium, co-located with CiE-2017, celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg. Grzegorz Rozenberg is is often called the guru of Natural Computing, having started promoting it as a coherent scientific discipline already from the 1970s. He played a central role in the development of theoretical computer science in Europe. His research is very broad in scope and it is a prime example of interdisciplinary research.

    The talks given at the symposium will have an overview character and together they will cover a broad range of topics reflecting Grzegorz Rozenberg's broad research interests. Among the topics covered are: P vs NP, stochastic search, natural computing, biologically-inspired models of computation, reaction systems, chemical reaction networks, membrane computing, graph isomorphism, graph polynomials, matroids, synthesis of concurrent systems, Petri nets, formal language theory and combinatorics on words, DNA rearrangements in ciliates, patterns in genomes, smart textiles, smart drones, magic squares, wonder cubes, and odor reproduction.

    For more information, see http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/ or contact .
  • 13 June 2017, Workshop "The Experimental Philosophy of Morality & Causation", Bochum, Germany

    Date: Tuesday 13 June 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany

    The Ruhr University Bochum and the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany are happy to announce a one-day workshop on Experimental Philosophy.

    Over the last two decades, philosophers have taken an increasing interest in experimental approaches to philosophical questions. Experimental philosophers use tools from a variety of empirical sciences, such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, and neurosciences. In this workshop, we would like to address this approach. Just in the spirit of experimental philosophy, we believe that the best progress is made by joining forces from different disciplines. We therefore invited seven speakers from philosophy, psychology, and law.

  • 8 - 12 June 2017, 12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR-2017), Kazan, Russia

    Date: 8 - 12 June 2017
    Location: Kazan, Russia

    CSR is an annual conference that intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science. The topics covered vary from year to year, but in general try to cover as much of the contemporary computer science as possible.

    For more information, see http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2017/ or contact .
  • 1 - 2 June 2017, International Workshop on Proofs, Paris, France

    Date: 1 - 2 June 2017
    Location: Paris, France

    The Institute of History and Philosophy of Sciences and Techniques (IHPST) hosts a workshop on Proofs on the 1st and 2nd of June 2017.

    There will be talks by Andrew Arana, Agata Ciabattoni, Serenella Cerrito, Jacques Dubucs, Rosalie Iemhoff, Peter Milne, Florian Steinberger and Silvia de Toffoli.

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • 29 May 2017, SGSLPS 2017 Spring meeting on "Borel Reducibility of Equivalence Relations", Lausanne, Switzerland

    Date: Monday 29 May 2017
    Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

    Classification has always been a central theme in mathematics. The study of Borel Reducibility of Equivalence Relations deals with the classification of points of standard Borel spaces up to equivalence relations by explicit, or Borel, mappings between such spaces.

    This idea gives rise to a notion of complexity of equivalence relations, and tools from Descriptive Set Theory are used to compare such relations and measure their complexities.

    The SGSLPS 2017 Spring meeting on "Borel Reducibility of Equivalence Relations" will feature four hour-long talks by leading experts in the field. The first talk will be introductory and will aim at a general audience.

    For more information, see http://sgslps.ch/upcoming.
  • 29 May - 4 June 2017, 1st School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems, Braga, Portugal

    Date: 29 May - 4 June 2017
    Location: Braga, Portugal

    It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first edition of the School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. The school is jointly funded by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG, and ACM SIGPLAN. The topic of the first edition is Probabilistic programming. It will take place in Braga, Portugal, May 29th - June 4th 2017.

    Probabilistic programming languages are used for modelling and analysis purposes across multiple areas of computer science, including machine learning, security, and quantitative biology. In particular, they provide a rigorous foundation for machine learning where they are used to describe probabilistic models and to perform inference in presence of uncertain information. Probabilistic programs are also used in cryptography and in privacy for modelling and quantifying security. The goal of the school is to introduce attendants to theoretical and practical aspects of programming languages, and will propose courses that cover the following topics: semantics, analysis, verification, applications to machine learning, privacy, and security. The school will have lectures by Andy Gordon, Catuscia Palamidessi, Christel Baier, Dexter Kozen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Javier Esparza, Michael Carbin, Peter Selinger, Prakash Panangaden, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov.

    For more information, see http://probprogschool2017.di.uminho.pt/.
  • 21 - 26 May 2017, 7th Summer School on Formal Techniques, Atherton CA, U.S.A.

    Date: 21 - 26 May 2017
    Location: Atherton CA, U.S.A.

    Techniques based on formal logic, such as model checking, satisfiability, static analysis, and automated theorem proving, are finding a broad range of applications in modeling, analysis, verification, and synthesis. This school, the seventh in the series, will focus on the principles and practice of formal techniques, with a strong emphasis on the hands-on use and development of this technology. It primarily targets graduate students and young researchers who are interested in developing and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school will have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.

    The main lectures in the summer school will be preceded by a background course on logic taught by Natarajan Shankar (SRI)and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) on "Speaking Logic".

    For more information, see http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17.
  • 19 - 20 May 2017, 2nd Bochum-Rutgers Workshop in Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 19 - 20 May 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany

    Keynote speakers: Frances Egan, Ahmed Elgammal, Alan Leslie, Martina Manns, Albert Newen, Jonas Rose, Tobias Schlicht and Markus Werning.

  • 12 May 2017, Donau-Rhein Modelltheorie & Anwendungen, Konstanz, Germany

    Date: Friday 12 May 2017
    Location: Konstanz, Germany

    A one-day meeting, held to inaugurate a new era of regional cooperation between researchers in model theory and its applications at the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Konstanz and Passau.

    Speakers: Derya Çıray (Universität Konstanz), Deirdre Haskell (McMaster University), Chris Miller (The Ohio State University), Daoud Siniora (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/University of Leeds), Patrick Speissegger (McMaster University/Universität Konstanz).

  • 12 May 2017, "Proof meets Truth": An Informal Bath-Bristol Workshop on Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bath, England

    Date: Friday 12 May 2017
    Location: Bath, England

    The Mathematical Foundations group at the Computer Science department at the University of Bath and the Foundational Studies group of the Philosophy department at the University of Bristol are organising an informal workshop at Bath on May 12th 2017, Friday.

    The "Proof meets Truth" Workshop will include 10 talks from philosophers and computer scientists in order to enrich and reinforce the connections between truth theoretical and proof theoretical approaches. The workshop is open to all, but please let the organizers know if you plan to attend.

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • 5 - 6 May 2017, Logic at UC Berkeley

    Date: 5 - 6 May 2017

    A two-day conference in mathematical logic and related areas organized by The Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at UC Berkeley. The conference is partly occasioned by the fact that the Group in Logic turns sixty next year.

    The first day of the conference will have four invited speakers in the so-called 'foundational' areas: set theory, model theory, recursion theory, and proof theory. The second day will have four invited speakers in areas where mathematical logic plays a prominent role, namely philosophy of logic and mathematics, formal semantics for natural languages, modal logic, and foundations of computer science.

    For more information, see http://logic.berkeley.edu/events.html.
  • 5 - 13 May 2017, School on Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Erice, Italy

    Date: 5 - 13 May 2017
    Location: Erice, Italy

    Graph problems have applications in many fields and typically require  multidisciplinary approaches. The fourth edition of  this school aims to bring together leading scientists, junior researchers and PhD students from several areas in order to discuss, possibly in a systematic and organic way, different  approaches for solving graph problems.

    The school is organized in plenary lectures held by internationally renowned speakers.The intended audience consists of PhD students and junior researchers interested in graph problems, coming from several areas including (but not limited to) the design, analysis and experimentation of algorithms, operations research, optimization, and discrete mathematics.

    For more information, see http://www.graphalgorithms.it/erice2017/.
  • 27 April 2017, Public Event: Remembering Raymond Smullyan, New York NY, U.S.A.

    Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
    Location: New York NY, U.S.A.

    Please join us to celebrate the memory of Raymond Smullyan, mathematician, musician, magician, teacher, author, showman, and dear friend. There will be two speakers, Melvin Fitting and Graham Priest, followed by an open mic session. If you would like an open mic slot or would like to contribute to a slide show of Ray's life, please indicate that on the RSVP.

    While this event is open to the public, a photo ID is needed to enter the building and an RSVP is appreciated as space is limited. A dinner will follow at a nearby restaurant.

  • 8 - 9 April 2017, Group Knowledge & Mathematical Collaboration, Oxford, England

    Date: 8 - 9 April 2017
    Location: Oxford, England

    In this workshop we aim to explore the social dimensions of mathematics, connecting new work in social epistemology, mathematical practice, and sociology, in order to gain a better understanding of how collaboration in mathematics produces knowledge, proofs and understanding.

    Speakers include Patrick Allo (Oxford), Line E. Andersen (Aarhus), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) and S. Orestis Palermos (Edinburgh).

  • 7 April 2017, Reasoning about Enterprise Architecture: Logic and reasoning (REAL2017), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Date: Friday 7 April 2017
    Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Large and complex enterprises are a common occurrence in today?s business environment. Such enterprises usually involve complex and interdependent business processes and IT systems. Enterprise architecture is used to model such enterprises in a holistic fashion by connecting their IT infrastructure and applications to the business processes they support.

    In this interdisciplinary workshop, organized in conjunction with the PhD defense of Marc van Zee, we attempt to build bridges between Enterprise architecture and formal reasoning methods in Artificial Intelligence, with the goal to recommend practitioners in their daily activities.

    For more information, see http://www.marcvanzee.nl/REAL2017 or contact .
  • 1 - 2 April 2017, MAMLS at VCU: Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar, Richmond VA, U.S.A.

    Date: 1 - 2 April 2017
    Location: Richmond VA, U.S.A.

    MAMLS at VCU will be a gathering of set theorists working on large cardinals, inner models, forcing and relative consistency results, sponsored by the NSF and the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University.

    Speakers: Omer Ben-Neria, James Cummings, Monroe Eskew, Victoria Gitman, Joel David Hamkins, John Krueger, Dima Sinapova, Hugh Woodin.

  • 24 March 2017, Workshop "Imagination and Modality", Padova, Italy

    Date: Friday 24 March 2017
    Location: Padova, Italy

    The aim of this one-day workshop is to discuss and exchange new ideas on imagination and modality and related topics.

    Speakers: Andrea Altobrando (Okkaido University, Sapporo), Roberta Ballarin (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Franz Berto (University of Amsterdam and ILLC, Amsterdam), Lisa Benossi (ILLC, Amsterdam), R. Dietz (Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo), and V. Morato (Padua University, Padova).

  • 20 - 23 March 2017, 2017 ASL North American Annual Meeting, Boise ID, U.S.A.

    Date: 20 - 23 March 2017
    Location: Boise ID, U.S.A.

    *2017 ASL North American Annual Meeting* *Boise, Idaho* *March 20--23 2017*

    The twenty-eighth annual Gödel Lecture will be delivered by C. Parsons. The invited speakers include: M. Aschenbrenner, C. Conley, I. Kalimullin, P. Koellner, A. Rinot, M. Seisenberger, and C. Terry. A tutorial will be offered by V. Harizanov. Special sessions (with organizers in parentheses) include: Computable structures (D. Hirschfeldt and R. Miller), Computer-aided proofs (S. Buss and V. Ganesh), Continuous model theory (B. Hart and W. Henson), Proofs in mathematical practice (K. Easwaran and C. Dutilh Novaes), and Set theory and its applications to analysis and topology (M. Hrusak and M. Scheepers). The members of the Program Committee are: L. Babinkostova, G. Cherlin, B. Csima, A. Kolokolova, and J. Moore (Chair). The Local Organizing Committee includes: L. Babinkostova, A. Cortens, S. Coskey, S. Crowley, R. Holmes, A. Jackson, and M. Scheepers (Chair). Electronic registration is available at

    http://www.aslonline.org/meeting_registrationsecure.html. The complete program for this meeting is included in the January 2017 Newsletter mailing (as a pdf attachment for those receiving the Newsletter via email). For further information, visit the webpage below.

    https://asl2017.boisestate.edu

    For more information, see https://asl2017.boisestate.edu.
  • 16 - 17 March 2017, Workshop "Modal Knowledge", Bielefeld, Germany

    Date: 16 - 17 March 2017
    Location: Bielefeld, Germany

    Workshop organized by Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld) and Barbara Vetter (Erlangen). Speakers: Al Casullo (Nebraska), Barbara Vetter (Erlangen), Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld), Margot Strohminger (Salzburg), Michael Wallner (Graz), Rebecca Hanrahan (Whitman College), Sonia Roca-Royes (Stirling), Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Wolfgang Schwarz (Edinburgh)

  • 6 - 10 March 2017, Spring School on "Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action" 2017, Bochum, Germany

    Date: 6 - 10 March 2017
    Location: Bochum, Germany

    The spring course aims to provide state-of-the-art scientific and research-oriented training for post-doctoral researchers and highly promising doctoral students from European and overseas universities and research institutes on central questions concerning 'Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action'.

    We invite applications from PhD students, and post-doctoral researchers. Application deadline: 15 November 2016. Applicants may also propose poster presentations.

  • 27 February - 1 March 2017, Workshop "Formal methods in the philosophy of science", Sydney, Australia

    Date: 27 February - 1 March 2017
    Location: Sydney, Australia
    Costs: $150

    Formal methods add rigour to the analysis of conceptual and methodological issues in science. In this course, leading proponents of formal approaches to scientific inference give accessible introductions to some formal methods. They also present relevant examples for the application of formal tools, including those that arise in the biomedical and biological research fields of the Charles Perkins Centre. This intensive course provides an opportunity for advanced students and early career researchers to learn how to enhance their research through the use of new formal tools.

  • 13 - 17 February 2017, 2nd Indian Winter School on Diagrams, Kolkata, India

    Date: 13 - 17 February 2017
    Location: Kolkata, India

    Following on from the success of the first school in 2015, the 2nd Indian Winter School on Diagrams will bring together graduate students and early career researchers with interests in diagrams research, although participation from all researchers, regardless of career stage, is welcomed. The week-long school will provide accessible courses on the state-of-the-art in diagrams research, covering three main themes: diagrammatic logics, philosophical and historical developments, and empirical research. Courses will be delivered by internationally renowned experts and will have an emphasis on interactivity.

    The School aims to enable delegates to begin research into diagrams by introducing them to current research and through thought-provoking exchanges and discussions. The experienced facilitators will tease out research questions that are appropriate for early-stage researchers to tackle, providing a starting point for a research career in the study of logical diagrams. Delegates will be encouraged to identify collaboration opportunities both with other delegates and the course facilitators.

     

  • 12 - 16 February 2017, 7th BIU Winter School on Cryptography, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Date: 12 - 16 February 2017
    Location: Ramat-Gan, Israel
    Costs: 750 shekels

    The concept of differential privacy is central to the rigorous foundational approach to private data analysis that has emerged in cryptography in the last decade. The development of this approach was motivated by the vast amounts of personal information that are collected in today’s information environment, and by a rapidly growing body of work demonstrating how traditional approaches to privacy, such as de-identification, fail to provide adequate privacy preservation.

    The framework of differential privacy provides a rigorous mathematical treatment of privacy, with concrete provable guarantees that are robust against adversaries with arbitrary computational power and with arbitrary auxiliary knowledge. There is now a large body of theoretical work in this vein, and many established relationships to scientific fields including statistics, machine learning, databases, algorithms, information theory, program verification, and game theory. The products of this research are also making their first strides into use in real world applications where sensitive personal information is analyzed, with algorithms currently deployed by the US Census Bureau, Google, Yahoo, and Apple.

    The target audience for the school is graduate students and postdocs in cryptography (we will assume that participants have taken at least one university-level course in cryptography). However, all faculty, undergrads and professionals with the necessary background are welcome. The winter school is open to participants from all over the world; all talks will be in English.

    For more information, see http://cyber.biu.ac.il/event/the-7th-biu-winter-school/ or contact Christian Schaffner at .
  • 9 February 2017, Workshop "Culture and Cognition", Göttingen, Germany

    Date: Thursday 9 February 2017
    Location: Göttingen, Germany

    A number of disciplines make use of the concept of culture in their analyses, employing it in different contexts and with varying degrees of explicitness. There are myriad definitions of 'culture', and open questions about how culture is related to social life, evolution, and cognitive processes on the individual level - e.g. in human psychology as explored in both developmental and cross-cultural analyses - and in the understanding of non-human behaviors such as social learning, imitation, and creative problem solving.

    The goal of the workshop is to highlight interdisciplinary connections that will ameliorate our understanding of the phenomenon of culture and the ways in which this concept can enrich our analyses of cognition.

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • 3 - 5 February 2017, Very Informal Gathering of Logicians at UCLA (VIG 19), Los Angeles, U.S.A.

    Date: 3 - 5 February 2017
    Location: Los Angeles, U.S.A.

    There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians at UCLA, from Friday February 3 to Sunday February 5, 2017. The invited speakers are Itai Ben-Yaacov (Hjorth lecture), Philipp Hieronymi, Elaine Landry, Joseph Miller, Kobi Peterzil, Dima Sinapova, Simon Thomas, Todor Tsankov, and Ryan Williams. It is expected that travel grants will be available for graduate students and faculty in early career stages; to apply contact the organizers by December 1.

    For more information, see http://www.logic.ucla.edu/vig2017/.
  • 2 - 3 February 2017, Mathematical and Metaphysical Explanation Workshop, Paris, France

    Date: 2 - 3 February 2017
    Location: Paris, France

    The Institute of History and Philosophy of Sciences and Techniques (IHPST) hosts a workshop on Mathematical and Metaphysical Explanation. This is the first of two twin workshops to be jointly organized by IHPST and IUSS Pavia whose aim is to build a bridge a bridge between mathematical and metaphysical explanation, opening to unexplored and fruitful future directions of research.

    There will be talks by: Andrew Arana (University of Paris 1, IHPST), Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam), Marc Lange (University of North-Carolina at Chapel-Hill), Hannes Leitgeb (University of Munich), Mary Leng (University of York), Daniele Molinini (University of Lisbon), Francesca Poggiolesi (University of Paris 1, IHPST), Stefan Roski (University of Hamburg) and Erik Weber (University of Ghent).

  • 28 January - 4 February 2017, Winter School in Abstract Analysis: section set theory & topology, Hejnice, Czech Republic

    Date: 28 January - 4 February 2017
    Location: Hejnice, Czech Republic

    The Winter School is a traditional conference for mathematicians working in diverse areas of Set Theory, Topology and Analysis. The school is a meeting where emphasis is put on the joy of doing mathematics. Questions and discussions are welcome and there is plenty of space for them outside of the talks.

    The meeting aims to be a meeting for both experienced researchers as well as advanced students who are most welcome to not only participate but to also present their work.

    The program is split into a tutorial part and a research part. The tutorial part consists of a series of lectures delivered by the invited speakers. The tutorials are meant to be accessible to students and non-experts. Tutorial speakers for this year are: David Asperó, Joan Bagaria, Christina Brech and Andrew Marks. The research part consists of presentations of research papers/problems from the area of Set Theory, Set Theoretic Topology, Measure Theory and related fields.

    For more information, see http://www.winterschool.eu.
  • 25 - 27 January 2017, BPGMTC 2017: British Postgraduate Model Theory Conference, Leeds, England

    Date: 25 - 27 January 2017
    Location: Leeds, England

    This is the 7th version of this conference, and it is a great occasion for PhD students and young researchers in model theory to give talks and interact with each other. We expect to fund accommodation and part of travel expenses.

    The invited speakers are: Zoe Chatzidakis, Amador Martin-Pizarro, Jaroslav Nesetril and Boris Zilber.

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • 20 January 2017, "Zwischen Philosophie und Mathematik. Eine Erinnerung an Heinrich Scholz (1884-1956)", Muenster, Germany

    Date: Friday 20 January 2017
    Location: Muenster, Germany
  • 9 - 13 January 2017, Model Theory Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Date: 9 - 13 January 2017
    Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa

    This is a general model theory conference. The model theory of fields will receive particular attention, but contributed talks can be on any aspect of model theory. Students are very welcome and we intend to have a poster session. Talks will take place in Stellenbosch except on Tuesday 10 January when we shall visit the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg.

    Invited speakers: Artem Chernikov (UCLA), Franziska Jahnke (University of Muenster), Gareth Jones (University of Manchester) and Angus Macintyre (QMUL).

     

  • 2 - 5 January 2017, Workshop on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Manipal, India

    Date: 2 - 5 January 2017
    Location: Manipal, India

    Manipal University is glad to inform you that they are organising a four-day international workshop on "Sanskrit Computational Linguistics - linking Sanskrit grammar and texts with modern Science and Technology" from January 2nd to 5th, 2017 at Dvaita Philosophy Resource Centre (DPRC), Department of European Studies (DES), Manipal University (MU) as part of their research project 'Grammatical Analysis and XML Tagging of Mahabharata'.

    This workshop is open to all interested. Please send your details with letter of motivation by December 20, 2016 to .

    For more information, contact .

MoL and PhD defenses

  • 29 November 2017, PhD defense, Raquel G. Alhama

    Date & Time: Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00
    Title: Computational Modelling of Artificial Language Learning: Retention, Recognition and Recurrence
    Location: UvA Aula, Singel 411, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Willem Zuidema
    Promotor: Carel ten Cate
    Copromotor: Remko Scha

    The dissertation may be found on the ILLC site at http://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Dissertations/#DS-2017-08

    For more information, contact Miloš Stanojević at , Phong Lê at , or Sonia Garrido Alhama at .
  • 27 November 2017, Master of Logic defense, Albert Janzen

    Date & Time: Monday 27 November 2017, 10:00
    Title: The Paradoxes of Self-Negation
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Prof.dr Franz Berto and Dr Luca Incurvati
  • 24 October 2017, Joost Baptist MSc AI defense, Joost Baptist

    Date & Time: Tuesday 24 October 2017, 14:00
    Location: Room F1.08, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Ivan Titov & Joost Bastings

    Joost Baptist will defend his MSc AI thesis "Re-encoding in Neural Machine Translation" in F1.02 on Tuesday 24 October. You are welcome to attend!

  • 4 October 2017, PhD defense, Aybüke Özgün

    Date & Time: Wednesday 4 October 2017, 16:00
    Title: Evidence in Epistemic Logic: A Topological Perspective
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Hans van Ditmarsch and Sonja Smets
    Copromotor: Nick Bezhanishvili
    For more information, contact Aybüke Özgün at .
  • 28 September 2017, Master of Logic defense, Esteban Landerreche

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 September 2017, 14:00
    Title: Leaning on Impossible to Parallelize Work for Immutability Guarantees in the Blockchain
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Marc Stevens, Christian Schaffner
  • 27 September 2017, Master of Logic defense, Marco Bacchin

    Date & Time: Wednesday 27 September 2017, 15:30
    Title: The perception of number: towards a topological approach
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen
  • 31 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Bonan Zhao

    Date & Time: Thursday 31 August 2017, 14:00
    Title: Dynamic Epistemic Logic Models for Predicting the Cognitive Difficulty of the Deductive Mastermind Game
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jakub Szymanik, Iris van de Pol
  • 31 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Michael Repplinger

    Date & Time: Thursday 31 August 2017, 11:15
    Title: Understanding Generalization: Learning Quantifiers and Negation with Neural Tensor Networks
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jelle Zuidema
  • 31 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Shuai Wang

    Date & Time: Thursday 31 August 2017, 09:00
    Title: Turing Learning with Nash Memory
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Leen Torenvliet, Frans Oliehoek
  • 30 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Jotte Kuilder

    Date & Time: Wednesday 30 August 2017, 16:00
    Title: On the domain generality of higher-order Theory of Mind: Transfer between the Marble Drop game and the False Belief task
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jakub Szymanik, Gert-Jan Munneke
  • 30 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Laura Aina

    Date & Time: Wednesday 30 August 2017, 14:00
    Title: Not logical: A distributional semantic account of negated adjectives
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Raquel Fernández, Raffaella Bernardi
  • 30 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Bas Cornelissen

    Date & Time: Wednesday 30 August 2017, 11:15
    Title: Bayesian Language Games: Unifying and evaluating agent-based models of horizontal and vertical language evolution
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jelle Zuidema
  • 29 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Zeno de Hoop

    Date & Time: Tuesday 29 August 2017, 16:00
    Title: Context-Free Processes and Push-Down Processes
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jos Baeten
  • 29 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Jakob Piribauer

    Date & Time: Tuesday 29 August 2017, 14:00
    Title: The Modal Logic of Generic Multiverses
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Benedikt Löwe
  • 29 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Jonathan Sippel

    Date & Time: Tuesday 29 August 2017, 11:15
    Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Difficult: Complexity in a Monotonicity-Grounded Logic for Reasoning with Generalized Quantifiers
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jakub Szymanik
  • 24 August 2017, Master of Logic defense, Jana Wagemaker

    Date & Time: Thursday 24 August 2017, 11:00
    Title: Gossip in NetKAT
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jan van Eijck
  • 5 July 2017, Latent Domain Models for Statistical Machine Translation, Hoang Cuong

    Date & Time: Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16:00
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Prof. dr. K. Sima’an
    Copromotor: Dr. I. Titov

    Keywords: Computational Linguistics, Statistical Machine Translation, Domain Adaptation

    For more information, see here or contact Joachim Daiber at , or Phong Le at .
  • 3 July 2017, Master of Logic defense, Merlijn Koek

    Date & Time: Monday 3 July 2017, 11:00
    Title: Extensions Of The Garden-hose Model
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Harry Buhrman, Leen Torenvliet
  • 3 July 2017, Master of Logic defense, Laura Biziou-van Pol

    Date & Time: Monday 3 July 2017, 09:00
    Title: Dialogical Logic in a Quantum Setting
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets, Soroush Rafiee Rad
  • 30 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Alison Pasquariello

    Date & Time: Friday 30 June 2017, 10:00
    Title: Mohawk Temporality: Embodiment, Ritual, and Cognition
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen
  • 29 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Stella Moon

    Date & Time: Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:00
    Title: Isaacson's thesis and Wilkie's theorem
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Luca Incurvati, Sean Walsh
  • 28 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Anthia Solaki

    Date & Time: Wednesday 28 June 2017, 11:00
    Title: Steps Out of Logical Omniscience
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Franz Berto, Sonja Smets
  • 28 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Lisa Benossi

    Date & Time: Wednesday 28 June 2017, 09:00
    Title: Pretending to work: a closed world reasoning formalisation of pretend play
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Francesco Berto, Michiel van Lambalgen
  • 23 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Levin Hornischer

    Date & Time: Friday 23 June 2017, 16:30
    Title: Hyperintensionality and Synonymy: A logical, philosophical, and cognitive investigation
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Franz Berto, Hannes Leitgeb
  • 23 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Andrzej Buleczka

    Date & Time: Friday 23 June 2017, 14:30
    Title: Medieval vs Contemporary Metaphysics and Logic of Intentionality
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Francesco Berto
  • 19 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Natalia Philippova

    Date & Time: Monday 19 June 2017, 11:00
    Title: Quantifiers and verification strategies: connecting the dots (literally)
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jakub Szymanik, Arnold Kochari
  • 16 June 2017, Categories for the working modal logician, Giovanni Cinà

    Date & Time: Friday 16 June 2017, 11:00
    Location: Aula, Singel 411, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Alexandru Baltag
    Promotor: Johan van Benthem

    Giovanni will defend his thesis, titled "Categories for the working modal logician". The thesis revolves around the connection between Category Theory and Modal Logic, focusing on the bearing of the former discipline on the latter.

    For more information, contact Giovanni Cinà at .
  • 15 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Simone Griffioen

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:00
    Title: Covertly controlling choices
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jan van Eijck
  • 15 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Zoi Terzopoulou

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:00
    Title: Manipulating the Manipulators: Richer Models of Strategic Behavior in Judgment Aggregation
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Ulle Endriss
  • 14 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Ottilia Kasbergen

    Date & Time: Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00
    Title: Abstractions and Idealisations in Epistemic Logic
    Location: Room C1.112, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets, Martin Stokhof
  • 9 June 2017, Master of Logic defense, Aafke de Vos

    Date & Time: Friday 9 June 2017, 11:00
    Title: The Logic of Divinatory Reasoning
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen, Martin Stokhof
  • 25 April 2017, Master of Logic defense, Tim Coopmans

    Date & Time: Tuesday 25 April 2017, 15:00
    Title: Robust self-testing of all pure two-qubit states
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Jed Kaniewski, Christian Schaffner
  • 21 April 2017, Master of Logic defense, Pablo Sierra

    Date & Time: Friday 21 April 2017, 14:00
    Title: A formalization of Spinoza's Ethics, Part 1: Consequences for interpretation
    Location: Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen
  • 30 March 2017, Master of Logic defense, Mees de Vries

    Date & Time: Thursday 30 March 2017, 10:00
    Title: An Extensional Modified Realitability Topoi
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
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    23 March 2017, Exhaustivity and intonation: a unified theory, Matthijs Westera

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 March 2017, 10:00
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Jeroen Groenendijk
    Copromotor: Floris Roelofsen

    Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of the dissertation of Matthijs Westera, with reception afterwards.

    In his dissertation he develops a rationality-based account of two central linguistic/cognitive phenomena: exhaustivity (that we tend to assume that what isn't explicitly mentioned is false) and intonational meaning (that we use rises and falls in our speech to indicate compliance with certain standards for rational conversation).

    For more information, contact Matthijs Westera at .
  • 21 March 2017, Master of Logic defense, Guido van der Knaap

    Date & Time: Tuesday 21 March 2017, 14:00
    Title: The philosophical motivation for proof-theoretic harmony
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Luca Incurvati
  • 2 March 2017, Master of Logic defense, Rana Klein

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 March 2017, 15:00
    Title: The Logical Dynamics of Gossip: an analysis in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets, Fernando Velazquez-Quesada
  • 24 February 2017, Master of Logic defense, Nina Dongen

    Date & Time: Friday 24 February 2017, 11:00
    Title: Analysis and prediction of Dutch-English code-switching in social media messages
    Location: Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Raquel Fernandez
  • 25 January 2017, Play Without Regret, Paolo Galeazzi

    Date & Time: Wednesday 25 January 2017, 11:00
    Location: Aula, Oude Lutherse kerk
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets
    Promotor: Sonja Smets
    Copromotor: Alexandru Baltag
    For more information, contact Paolo Galeazzi at .

Projects and Awards

  • MoL Students and ILLC PhD Candidate among those elected UvA person of the year

    Luca van der Kamp (Master of Logic), Marlou Gijzen (Master of Logic), and PhD candidate Joran van Apeldoorn (Quantum Computing) were among five of the UvA academic community, the others being Tijn de Vos (math) and Nina Boelsums (Industrial Design), who started a petition demanding a referendum on the new `sleepwet'.

  • Daniel Wiechmann and Elma Kerz win "best paper award" at EUROPHRAS 2017

    Daniel Wiechman and Elma Kerz win best paper award at EUROPHRAS 2017 for their paper "Individual Differences in L2 Processing of Multi-word Phrases: Effects of Working Memory and Personality".

    EUROPHRAS is the international conference on Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology. The conference focusses on interdisciplinary approaches to phraseology and includes topics like: corpus-based, psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches to the study of phraseology, the computational treatment of multi-word expressions, and practical applications in translation, lexicography and language learning , teaching and assessment.

    For more information, see http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/europhras2017/ or contact Daniel Wiechmann at .
  • Honorary doctorate awarded to Barbara Partee

    On January 8th, 2018, during UvA's Dies Natalis celebration, the University of Amsterdam has awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Barbara Partee for her groundbreaking contributions to formal semantics and to the development of the research community in this interdisciplinary field that brings linguistics, philosophers and logicians together. From the late 1960s and early 1970s onwards, her work has inspired many researchers in this field worldwide, in the Netherlands and at the ILLC in Amsterdam. The ILLC-community is very proud that Prof. Barbara Partee received this honorary doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. We consider her to be
    our role model for the interdisciplinary research we conduct in this area and we invite everyone to learn more about her work and passion for formal semantics.

    See the videos about Barbara Partee and the Dies Natalis.

  • Malvin Gattinger wins ESSLLI 2017 Student Session Best paper award

    Malvin Gattinger wins Student Session Best paper award at ESSLLI 2017. On his website you can find the paper and the slides of his talk 'Towards Symbolic Factual Change in DEL'.

  • Mostafa Dehghani and Iris van de Pol receive a UvA Lustrum Grant

    We are pleased to announce that Mostafa Dehghani and Iris van de Pol receive a UvA Lustrum Grant.

    Mostafa Dehghani <http://mostafadehghani.com/> is a PhD student at ILLC.

    "This grant makes it possible for me to do a research visit in the
    Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) as the world-leading
    group in deep learning, and combine my experiences there with the knowledge
    I gained so far at the University of Amsterdam where we have the
    world-leading research group in information retrieval. I am sure this will
    be a tremendous boost for my research and thesis. Besides, it helps me
    extend my network of peers by meeting numerous senior researchers of the
    community in MILA as well as fellow students. I hope this also consolidate
    and grow long-term research collaborations between these two universities."

    Iris van de Pol is a PhD candidate at ILLC.

    "This grant gives me the opportunity to visit the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University for three months. My research concentrates on pragmatic communication, or being able to understand eachother without litterally saying what we mean, by using context and background knowledge. I study this topic from a computational perspective, using different logics and game theory. Members of CSLI are researchers from different disciplines (like logic, philosophy, cognitive science and psychology) precisely what I need for my research."

  • Elia Bruni wins 2017 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize

    Elia Bruni has received the 2017 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize for his paper "Multimodal Distributional Semantics", co-authored with Nam Khanh Tran and Marco Baroni. The paper was published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) in 2014, before his arrival at the ILLC. The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding paper published in JAIR during the preceding five calendar years. Funding for the award is provided by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

    For more information, see http://jair.org/bestpaper.html.
  • UvA385 Grant has been awarded to ILLC PhD student

    The Doctorate Board of the University of Amsterdam has awarded UvA385 grant to ILLC PhD student, Mostafa Dehghani. In 2017, the University of Amsterdam is celebrating its 385th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the UvA was introducing a new type of grant, the UvA385 Grant, which enables UvA PhD candidates to acquire international experience. UvA385 Grants were offered on top of existing regular opportunities.

    For more information, contact Mostafa Dehghani at .
  • Benedikt Löwe elected First Vice President of IASCUD

    At the General Assembly of the International Association for Science & Cultural Diversity (IASCUD) in Rio de Janeiro on 27 July 2017, Benedikt Löwe was elected to be the First Vice President of IASCUD for four years (2017-2021). IASCUD aims at studying philosophical and historical aspects of cultural diversity in science and scientific practice.

    For more information, see http://www.iascud.org/officers.html.
  • Ronald de Haan wins Beth Dissertation Prize

    Ronald de Haan has received the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2017 for his dissertation on Parameterized Complexity in the Polynomial Hierarchy, which he defended at the TU Wien in 2016. This award recognises outstanding contributions in the areas of logic, language and information. Ronald joined the Computational Social Choice Group at the ILLC in April 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher, after having been affiliated with the institute as a regular visitor since 2014.

    For further information on the award, consult the website of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) at http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74. The dissertation is available from Ronald's website at https://staff.science.uva.nl/r.dehaan/.

Funding, Grants and Competitions

  • Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master's Students

    Location: Vienna, Austria
    Deadline: Thursday 30 November 2017

    The annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master's Students at TU Wien, Austria, is accepting online applications. The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding scientist and advocate for women in computer science who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security.

  • NWO TOP-grants for curiosity-driven research in astronomy, computer science and mathematics

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 May 2018

    The TOP-Grants for curiosity-driven research for astronomy, computer science and mathematics are divided into two modules. Module 1 is a grant for senior researchers with a proven track record of significant research results in the last ten years. Module 2 is a grant for junior researchers at the beginning of their scientific career.

    This competition is set up for proposals for innovative or high-risk scientific research that addresses questions of high quality and urgency. Applications should have evident importance for astronomy, computer science and/or mathematics.

  • KNAW Visiting Professors Programme

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 November 2017

    The Visiting Professors Programme enables outstanding foreign researchers to spend time working in the Netherlands. The programme acts as an incentive for Dutch science and scholarship.

  • ABC Project Grant

    Deadline: Monday 15 January 2018

    In 2018 Amsterdam, Brain & Cognition (ABC) introduces an additional ABC Project Grant aiming to stimulate more interdisciplinary research cooperation between humanities and other sciences. Next to the two existing project grants, an additional (third) project will be awarded that consists of collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities.

  • PhD Finishing Fellowships at Faculty of Humanities, UvA

    Deadline: Sunday 1 October 2017

    The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 0.5 FTE PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2018. Each fellowship will be for a period of up to 12 months. Only PhD candidates currently registered with the Faculty of Humanities who have not previously received university or institutional funding for their research are eligible to apply. The award holder is required to deliver a completed dissertation (defined as "dissertation submitted to the examination committee") by the end of the fellowship period.

  • UvA FGw Cutting Edge Research Fund

    Deadline: Sunday 31 December 2017

    The UvA FGw Cutting Edge Research Fund is intended to support research staff in initiating or further developing international networking activities, with the aim of increasing research collaborations with foreign partners that can lead to International funding by a consortium (e.g., Horizon 2020: Marie Curie RISE, Marie Curie ITN, Societal Challenges; Creative Europe; COST).

    NB. this funding scheme is not intended to support the preparation of ERC Starting/Consolidate/Advanced grant proposals.

    For more information, see http://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2017/07/cutting-edge-research-fund.html or contact Brigit van der Pas at .
  • NWO Veni

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 January 2018

    Veni is part of the Incentives Scheme. It allows researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.

  • ERC Starting Grant

    Deadline: Tuesday 17 October 2017

    ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

  • NWO Vidi Grant

    Deadline: Thursday 5 October 2017

    Vidi is a funding instrument in the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. It allows researchers who have already spent several years doing postdoctoral research to develop their own innovative line of research, and to appoint one or more researchers for this.

  • Helmut Veith grants for female Master's students in Computer Science

    Location: Vienna, Austria
    Deadline: Sunday 20 August 2017

    The TU Wien invites academically excellent female applicants in pursuit (or planning to pursue) a master degree in Computer Sciences at TU Wien to apply for Helmut Veith Stipend. The recipients of Helmut Veith Stipend receive EUR 6000 annually for the duration of up to two years, and waiver of all tuition fees for the study at TU Wien. The application deadline is August 20, 2017.

    The stipend is named to honour the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), specifically his international influential research, and his visionary mentorship of building bridges between the computer science and the society. The Helmut Veith Stipend continues the late scholar's support of female scientist in the field of computer science, and his backing of the revival era in the Austrian logic scene.

  • NWO Rubicon

    Deadline: Thursday 31 August 2017

    Rubicon aims to encourage talented researchers at Dutch universities and research institutes run by KNAW and NWO to dedicate themselves to a career in postdoctoral research. To this purpose, Rubicon offers talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands, as international research experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant's academic career.

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/nwo/rubicon/index.html or contact Dhr. drs. J.S. Voskuilen at .
  • Holland Society Young Talent Awards 2017

    Deadline: Monday 25 September 2017

    The Holland Society Young Talent Awards are awarded annually for the promotion of academic education in technical and science subjects.  The prizes are awarded by the KHMW following the nominations from faculties, examination boards and graduation supervisors.

    Prizes are awarded in two categories:
    1. GRADUATION AWARDS, awarded for exceptional achievements (master theses/research reports) at a Dutch institution of academic education.
    2. INCENTIVE AWARDS, awarded for the best grades achieved in the first year at a Dutch institution for academic education, 61 prizes of €500, in the degree programmes.

    The prizes are awarded by the KHMW following the nominations from faculties, examination
    boards and graduation supervisors.
  • NWO Open Mind

    Deadline: Tuesday 5 September 2017

    NWO domain TTW ('Toegepaste en Technische Wetenschappen', meaning 'Applied and Engineering Sciences') invites scientists to submit out-of-the-box research ideas that contribute to sustainable solutions for global societal challenges (along the line with people, planet, profit).

    At the NWO domain TTW annual conference that will be held on November 9th 2017, NWO domain TTW provides a platform to scientists to discuss global challenges through creativity, passion, and their knowledge of technology. To support scientists to realise their ambition in solving and/or contributing to these global challenges, NWO domain TTW has a total budget of 250,000 euro available. Five Open Mind grants, with a maximum of 50,000 euro (inclusive of Dutch VAT) each and for a period of one year, will be awarded at the NWO domain TTW annual conference 2017 to the best ideas with significant societal impact

    For more information, see http://www.stw.nl/en/node/8282.
  • UvA FGw Cutting Edge Research Fund

    Deadline: Sunday 31 December 2017

    As of July 2017, the UvA FGw Cutting Edge Research Fund has been reopened. Applications can be submitted continuously until no later than 31 December 2017.

    The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the funding scheme 'Cutting Edge Research Fund' that fosters international collaboration aimed at innovative, cutting edge research. Applications are invited for two types of grants: 1. Network Grants and 2. Research Fellowships.

    For more information, see http://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2017/07/cutting-edge-research-fund.html or contact Brigit van der Pas at .
  • Nuffic: Van Gogh Programme

    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    The Van Gogh Programme promotes exchanges between researchers. It targets specific research projects and annually supports around 40 researchers from France and about the same number of researchers from the Netherlands. The programme supports research projects focused on developing science.

  • NWO TOP-Grant

    Deadline: Thursday 24 August 2017

    The TOP Grants programme aims to strengthen or renew challenging and innovative lines of research. In the projects funded, new lines of research are pursued or new partnerships are entered into. The projects take place within different scientific areas.

    Applications for TOP grants can be submitted at any time until 24 August 2017. Approximately twenty percent (20%) of the applications will be granted within this TOP call as long as sufficient funds are available. When the funds available have been exhausted before 24 August 2017, this application round will be closed before that date. The available funds for 2017 are posted on the Dutch version of this website (www.nwo.nl/top-subsidies-ew), which will be updated regularly.

  • NWO: An Integrated Approach to the Scientific Study and Conservation of Art (seed money proposal)

    Deadline: Thursday 6 July 2017

    Cultural heritage research generates large quantities of data that are difficult to match and compare. This means that their potential value is not fully utilised. In addition, this type of research deals with data that are difficult to substantiate, but that nonetheless play an important role in the interpretation of cultural heritage and decision making processes in conservation issues. Interdisciplinary teams consisting of senior researchers of at least one university and one museum can apply for funding for research projects focused on the potential of data science for the research agenda of NICAS.

  • NWO: Initial boost Dutch National Research Agenda

    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    As a knowledge partner in the Knowledge Coalition, NWO will realise the 'Startimpuls' (Initial Boost) for the Dutch National Research Agenda on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. With a sum of 32 million euros, the Startimpuls is an initial investment from the Ministry to make a start with the implementation of the Dutch National Research Agenda.

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2017/nwo-to-implement-initial-boost-dutch-national-research-agenda.html or (Dutch only) https://www.nwo.nl/financiering/onze-financieringsinstrumenten/nwo/nwa-startimpuls/nwa-startimpuls.html

    For more information, contact Mw. drs. I.J. Drijfhout at .
  • 15 April 2017, Final application deadline IERTNiL: Indo-European Research Training Network in Logic

    Date: Saturday 15 April 2017
    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Chennai, India), the Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften of the Universitaet Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) coordinated a research training network in logic with the name IERTNiL from 2013 to 2016. During the course of the network, eleven individual scientists and two conferences were funded.

    The network officially ended last year, but there are some limited remaining funds that can be used by Indian researchers for visits to Europe or by European researchers for visits to India. We are accepting applications for Research Visits, Training Visits, Training Courses and Workshops up to a maximum of EUR 1000 (or Rs. 70,000) per application.

    If you are interested in getting funding for research visits between India and Europe, please apply by the final deadline of 15 April 2017.

     

    For more information, see http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/IERTNiL/.
  • Lakatos Award 2018

    Deadline: Monday 2 October 2017

    The London School of Economics and Political Science invites nominations for the 2018 Lakatos Award.

    The Lakatos Award, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos, is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English. For the 2018 award, books with an imprint from 2012 to 2017 (inclusive) are eligible. Nominations must be received by Monday 2 October 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/lakatos-award/ or contact Tom Hinrichse at .
  • TOP-Grants for astronomy, computer science and mathematics

    Deadline: Thursday 24 August 2017

    The TOP Grants programme aims to strengthen or renew challenging and innovative lines of research. In the projects funded, new lines of research are pursued or new partnerships are entered into. The projects take place within different scientific areas.

  • NWO: Smart Culture - Big Data / Digital Humanities

    Deadline: Thursday 1 June 2017

    Senior researchers can apply for funding on behalf of consortia, consisting of at least two researchers from different faculties (and/or knowledge institutions) and at least one private partner, for research projects focused on research at the intersection of Big Data and Digital Humanities in relation to the creative industries.

    For more information, contact Mw. L. Frijhoff, MA at .
  • NWO Rubicon

    Deadline: Thursday 30 March 2017

    Rubicon aims to encourage talented researchers at Dutch universities and research institutes run by KNAW and NWO to dedicate themselves to a career in postdoctoral research.  To this purpose, Rubicon offers talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands, as international research experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant's academic career.

    For more information, see http://www.nwo.nl/en/funding/our-funding-instruments/nwo/rubicon/index.html or contact Molenkamp-van der Harst, Mw. A. at .
  • NIAS Theme-group Fellowships

    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    Theme Groups bring together scholars of different backgrounds with specific expertise to work together on a daily basis, to advance knowledge on a particular theme.

    A NIAS research theme group is a group composed of maximum five scholars, half of them from the Netherlands, the other half from other countries. They become Fellows at NIAS for one semester of five months, starting on 1 September or 1 February respectively. Researchers work both individually and as a team on a clearly defined research topic with the aim of producing a concrete result such as a book, scientific paper or conference.

    For more information, see http://www.nias.knaw.nl/theme-groups.
  • NIAS Individual Fellowships

    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    NIAS Individual Fellowships are awarded to senior scholars to carry out advanced research in the humanities and the social sciences. Fellows have at least three years of post-PhD degree academic experience and have already made a considerable contribution to their field.

  • E W Beth Dissertation Prize 2017

    Deadline: Friday 21 April 2017

    Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.info) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2016.

    For more information, see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=251 or contact Ian Pratt-Hartmann at .
  • Call for nominations: CAV Award 2016 for Fundamental Contributions to Computer-Aided Verification

    Deadline: Friday 10 February 2017

    The CAV award is given annually at the CAV conference for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer-Aided Verification. The award comes with a cash prize of US$10,000 shared equally among recipients.

    Anyone can submit a nomination. The Award Committee can originate a nomination. Anyone, with the exception of members of the Award Committee, is eligible to receive the Award. A nomination must state clearly the contribution(s), explain why the contribution is fundamental or the series of contributions is outstanding, and be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. The deadline for nominations for the 2017 award is 10 February 2017.

    For more information, see http://cavconference.org/2017/cav-award/.
  • Call for Nominations: Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by SIGLOG, EATCS, EACSL and KGS. The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research.

    Nominations for the 2017 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarise the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Goedel Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.)

  • Call for Nominations of Graduate Fellows in the CRA Education Committee

    Deadline: Monday 30 January 2017

    The Computing Research Association Education Committee  (CRA-E) is now accepting applications for the CRA-E Graduate Fellows Program. The program provides opportunities for Ph.D. candidates in computing fields to contribute to CRA-E projects, network with computer science education advocates on the committee, engage in advocacy for mentoring undergraduate students and promote undergraduate research and education at the national level.

    Faculty members are invited to nominate a graduate student by January 30, 2017. CRA-E plans to appoint up to two graduate fellows per year, who will serve as members of the committee, providing a voice for graduate students. The fellows will attend the annual CRA-E meeting (travel expenses funded by CRA-E), serve on a CRA-E subcommittee related to their interests and expertise, and contribute to the CRA-E Conquer site that provides resources for undergraduate research and applying to graduate school.

    For more information, see http://cra.org/crae/activities/fellows/.
  • FameLab 2017

    Deadline: Friday 10 February 2017

    The AMC and UVA jointly organise the Amsterdam heat of FameLab 2017, an international competition in science communication for young scientists. Are you a PhD candidate or post doc, between 21 – 40 years, into science and eager to explain scientific concepts to a general audience…in just three minutes? Then take the challenge and enter the competition.

  • 2017 BSPS Doctoral Scholarship Competition, UK

    Deadline: Tuesday 7 March 2017

    The British Society for the Philosophy of Science is offering a scholarship for doctoral work in the philosophy of science at a UK university, subject to a candidate of sufficient merit presenting themselves.

    The competition is open to both UK/EU and international students. The scholarship will cover UK/EU fees at the UK Research Councils rate. International fees will be covered in part or in full, depending on the case, but will be covered at least up to UK/EU levels. The scholarship is conditional on being accepted into an appropriate doctoral programme in philosophy of science at a UK university in time for the start of the 2017-18 academic year. In cases where an awardee has partial funding from other sources, the size of the BSPS grant will be set accordingly.

     

    For more information, see http://www.thebsps.org/funding/doctoral-scholarship/ or contact the Assistant to the Committee at .
  • 2017 Ackermann Award

    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. Nominations are now invited for the 2017 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2015 and 31.12.2016 are eligible for nomination for the award.

    The 2017 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 20-24 August 2017, in Stockholm (Sweden). The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year.

    For more information, see here or contact .

Open Positions at ILLC

  • MacGillavry Fellowship, Tenure Track position for women in Logic and Computation

    Deadline: Monday 19 March 2018
    ILLC participates in the recruitment programmeat the Faculty of Science for top level female talent. This programme is named after the ground breaking crystallographer Carolina MacGillavry, an alumna of the University of Amsterdam. The MacGillavry Fellowships at the Faculty of Science are offered to women who excel in their discipline, who possess leadership potential and aspire to a career as a professor at the University of Amsterdam.
  • PhD candidate in Philosophy of Language and Semantics

    Deadline: Monday 15 January 2018

    The ILLC is looking to fill one PhD position in Philosophy of Language and Semantics within the project EXPRESS: From the Expression of Disagreement to New Foundations for Expressivist Semantics. This is a five-year project funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and led by Dr Luca Incurvati (Principal Investigator). The project aims to develop a novel theory and logic of the way disagreement is expressed in dialogue. This theory will then be used to establish a novel approach to natural language semantics, inferential expressivism.

  • PhD candidate in Experimental Semantics of Quantifiers at the Faculty of Humanities

    Deadline: Sunday 19 November 2017

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is looking for an excellent PhD candidate in the areas of Experimental Semantics within the project 'Cognitive Semantics and Quantities', CoSaQ. This is a 5-year project (2017-2021) funded by the European Research Council, and led by Principal Investigator (PI) Dr Jakub Szymanik.

    The PhD candidate will work within the subproject 'Experimental study of quantifiers' and will have the PI Jakub Szymanik as the main supervisor. The main task of the PhD candidate will be to empirically evaluate logical models of quantifier processing. The starting point will be the recent debate between various approaches to quantifier processing. The subproject will last for the last four years of the CoSaQ project (2018-2021), and the candidate will be fully funded.

    The Candidate should have completed an MA or MSc in Psycholinguistics or Cognitive Science, and should have demonstrable competence in experimental methods (online experiments, eye-tracking, EEG), statistics and data analysis, computational cognitive modeling, and semantics.

  • PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

    Deadline: Thursday 21 September 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill one position for a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics in Arianna Betti’s group Concepts in Motion within e-Ideas (2017-2022), a project funded by a prestigious personal grant (VICI scheme) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and directed by Arianna Betti (Principal Investigator). The project is carried out by a team of experts in history and philosophy of logic, mathematics and biology, and computational experts. We aim at developing a groundbreaking, new computational methodology to trace how concepts change in writings in the history and philosophy of science from 1749-1940 in English, German, and Polish (about 600 books/240.000 pages in total), including works by Wolff, Kant, Bolzano, Frege, Russell and Quine.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

    Deadline: Thursday 21 September 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill one position for a postdoc in History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics in Arianna Betti’s group Concepts in Motion within e-Ideas (2017-2022), a project funded by a prestigious personal grant (VICI scheme) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and directed by Arianna Betti (Principal Investigator). The project is carried out by a team of experts in history and philosophy of logic, mathematics and biology, and computational experts. We aim at developing a groundbreaking, new computational methodology to trace how concepts change in writings in the history and philosophy of science from 1749-1940 in English, German, and Polish (about 600 books/240.000 pages in total), including works by Wolff, Kant, Bolzano, Frege, Russell and Quine.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Computational Linguistics

    Deadline: Thursday 21 September 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill one position for a postdoc in Computational Linguistics in Arianna Betti’s group Concepts in Motion within e-Ideas (2017-2022, VICI), a project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and directed by Arianna Betti (Principal Investigator). The project is carried out by a team of computational experts, and experts in history and philosophy of logic, mathematics and biology. We aim at developing a groundbreaking, new computational methodology to trace how concepts change in historical corpora from 1749-1940 in English, German, and Polish. The corpus is of extreme conceptual density and rather small from a computational perspective (about 240.000 pages in total) but big from a philosophical one, and includes works by Wolff, Kant, Bolzano, Frege, Russell and Quine. We want to use a mix of top-down and bottom-up approaches: from the humanities point of view we plan to rely on a scholarly sound method in intellectual history that we have developed ourselves (the ‘model approach’ to the history of ideas), and from the computational point of view on an ontology approach coupled with distributional semantics.

  • Postdoctoral researcher Language in Interaction

    Deadline: Sunday 10 September 2017

    This postdoc position is part of the larger Dutch research consortium 'Language in Interaction', sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour. The postdoc will be part of a team working on the question "The nature of the mental lexicon: How to bridge neurobiology and psycholinguistic theory by computational modelling?", and will focus on the problem of how to learn word vector representations that encode the combinatorial properties of words required to account for complex linguistic phenomena.

    The postdoctoral researcher should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in (computational) linguistics, or another relevant field of study, and a strong background in syntax, formal semantics and/or parsing. Knowledge of methods in distributional semantics and machine learning for Natural Language Processing is desirable, as is previous experience with vector space models of semantic compositionality.

  • PhD candidate in deep learning for natural language processing

    Deadline: Monday 31 July 2017

    Appplications are invited for a PhD position in a joint project between the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Institute of Informatics (IvI). This PhD vacancy will focus primarily on deep learning for natural language processing (affiliated with ILLC, supervised by Dr. Ivan Titov). The PhD candidate will spend much of the time posted at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh, where the project leader holds his main faculty appointment.

    The project will attempt to develope deep learning methods for predictive analysis of complex network data (e.g., social networks, trading networks etc.). In this work we will use very large amounts of real data from a trading network (an industrial partner) but the methods will generalize to other types of networks where heterogeneous data is being exchanged. We will be developing predictive algorithms relying on the flow of transactions in the network. We also seek to cluster the businesses trading over the networks as well as the products that are being traded. As information in these networks mostly comes in a textual form, we will develop methods for inducing predictive semantics representations of texts relying both on the text itself but also on the flow of information in the network.

    Necessary qualifications for candidates include excellent grades, proven research talent, affinity with machine learning, statistics and excellent programming skills. A master’s degree in computer science (preferably with a specialization in artificial intelligence and/or machine learning), applied mathematics or computational linguistics. Strong programming skills are required.

  • Secretariaatsmedewerker ILLC

    Deadline: Wednesday 28 June 2017

    The ILLC has expanded recently due to an increase in external funding. The ILLC Office is therefore looking for a colleague (HBO level) with experience in a similar position, to provide support to projects and to participate in the general support tasks carried out by office staff.

  • Research project assistants (Internal vacancy) at the Faculty of Humanities

    Deadline: Sunday 25 June 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill one or more positions for Project Assistants in Arianna Betti's group 'Concepts in Motion' within the projects 'eIdeas' and 'CatVis'.

    The project 'eIdeas' aims at developing a groundbreaking new computational methodology for the History of Ideas. CatVis aims at developing insightful visualisations for the humanities based on cutting edge geometrical algorithmics.

    The ideal candidate for this position is a born organiser: a flexible, accurate, highly team-oriented person, capable of working independently, of quickly adjusting to changes of plan, with outstanding social and communicative skills. A BA in philosophy or other field relevant to the project is required. The RA supports the internal and the external workings of the Concept in Motion team by monitoring and taking care of the more practical and collaborative aspects of its internal workings, as well as of its external, digital presence in the internet.

  • Six Lecturers in Artificial Intelligence

    Deadline: Sunday 14 May 2017

    In this position, the lecturers in question will report to the Academic Skills coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence programme. In addition, the lecturers will be part of the team of skills lecturers from other Bachelor’s programmes within the College of Science.



    The lecturers will be responsible for the preparations and the practical realisation and content of seminars, lab sessions and projects for a number of courses within the Artificial Intelligence programme, in consultation with Academic Skills coordinator and the relevant course coordinators in charge of the theoretical and didactic content of the course. They will be responsible for a sub-set of courses in the field of mathematics, logic, language theory, psychology, programming, image processing and machine learning; the sub-set will depend on the relevant candidate’s background. In any case, candidates’ responsibilities will also include supervision of the weekly meetings of the Academic Skills learning track.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Natural Language Understanding

    Deadline: Thursday 1 June 2017

    ILLC is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for semantic reasoning and semantic parsing, as part of Ivan Titov’s NWO VIDI Project Scaling Semantic Parsing to Unrestricted Domains. The aim of the PhD project is to develop effective semantic parsers and statistical models for reasoning relying on machine learning (incl. deep learning / deep generative models / structured prediction). The primary focus is on inducing these models from large amounts of unannotated text (on the Web) while guided by existing prior knowledge (e.g., in the form of annotated data).

  • Assistant professor in Computational Linguistics

    Deadline: Monday 15 May 2017

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) invites applications from excellent researchers in the field of Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing for a tenured Assistant professorship at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Depending on their level of seniority, candidates may instead be considered for an Associate professorship.

  • Associate professor in Logic and Philosophy of Language (internal vacancy)

    Deadline: Sunday 2 April 2017

    This vacancy is open only to candidates who hold a permanent appointment within the University of Amsterdam.

    The Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, is looking for an Associate professor in Logic and Philosophy of Language, to be embedded in the Capacity Group Logic and Language (LLA).

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Mathematical Logic and AI

    Deadline: Sunday 7 May 2017

    The ILLC is looking for an exceptional postdoctoral researcher in the interface between Mathematical Logic and Artificial Intelligence, within the project 'The Logic of Conceivability [LoC]. Modelling Rational Imagination With Non- Normal Modal Logics' . This is a 5-year project (2017-2021) funded by the European Research Council, and led by Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Franz Berto, Chair at the Department of Philosophy.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in the Psychology of Reasoning

    Deadline: Sunday 7 May 2017

    The ILLC is looking for an exceptional postdoctoral researcher in the interface between Logic and Cognitive Science, ideally in the area of the Psychology of Reasoning, within the project 'The Logic of Conceivability [LoC]. Modelling Rational Imagination With Non- Normal Modal Logics' . This is a 5-year project (2017-2021) funded by the European Research Council, and led by Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Franz Berto, Chair at the Department of Philosophy.

  • PhD position in Homotopy Type Theory

    Deadline: Wednesday 15 March 2017

    The position is part of a research project, The Computational Content of Homotopy Type Theory. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under the TOP2 scheme.

    The aim of the project is to develop a computational understanding of Homotopy Type Theory by using concepts from category theory and realizability.

  • Open position at ILLC: Data research analyst

    Deadline: Friday 24 February 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill a position for a Data research analyst within the project Golden Agents: Creative Industries and the Making of the Dutch Golden Age. This is a 5-year NWO Groot project (2017-2021) funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and carried out by a consortium consisting of a large number of universities, research institutes and national cultural heritage institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the National Library of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Institute for History of Art.

  • Open position at ILLC: Ontology specialist

    Deadline: Friday 24 February 2017

    The ILLC is looking to fill a position for an Ontology specialist (‘Semantic Lead’) within the project Golden Agents: Creative Industries and the Making of the Dutch Golden Age. This is a 5-year NWO Groot project (2017-2021) funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and carried out by a consortium consisting of a large number of universities, research institutes and national cultural heritage institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the National Library of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Institute for History of Art.

  • Vacature Secretariaatsmedewerker

    Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017

    Vanwege de sterke groei van het ILLC, zijn wij op zoek naar een medewerker die de bedrijfsvoerder inhoudelijk ondersteunt met de personeelsadministratie binnen het instituut.

Open Positions, General

  • Several positions (Assistant, Associate, and Full Professorships) in Logic & Philosophy, Chongqing (China)

    Deadline: Tuesday 20 March 2018

    The Institute of Logic and Intelligence (ILI) of Southwest University in Chongqing China offers several job positions in logic and philosophy.

    Ideal candidates from Logic:  logic applied in philosophy, artificial intelligence, computer science and so on.   Variants of Positions like professorship, associate professorship,  assistant professorship, lecturership and postdoctoral positions are available until been full filled.

  • PhD student position in knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, Ulm (Germany)

    Deadline: Tuesday 20 March 2018

    BMW Car IT is offering a 3-year doctoral position starting from February 2018 in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm the University of Ulm.

    BMW Car IT in Ulm is working on the development of the latest generation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). These systems need anticipatory map data to create a representation of the road ahead. The data is transformed in a foresight by a component that needs to satisfy a set of requirements like the ability to easily incorporate and distribute new information, the possibility to infer and extract knowledge related to these data and the aptitude of offering a generic and abstract interface to extract this knowledge. The objective of this research is to address the challenges generated by the previous requirements by adopting a knowledge-oriented approach based on defining an ontological model to store, extract and distribute the map data to the ADAS functions.

    For more information, see here or contact Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm at .
  • PhD student position in Cognitive Reasoning, Wernigerode (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 3 January 2018

    The Harz University of Applied Sciences conducts the project "CORG - Cognitive Reasoning", which aims at the construction of a cognitive computing system by modeling aspects of human reasoning. We are looking to recruit a dedicated project staff. The position is limited to 3 years, full-time. The salary will be according to qualification up to salary scale 13 TV-L. The successful candidate will pursue a PhD thesis in collaboration with the partner university.

  • PhD positions in Theoretical Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 21 January 2018

    The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science.

    The PhD positions are in the area of computational complexity theory, focusing on questions at the intersection of approximation algorithms, subexponential algorithms, and proof complexity. The overarching goal is to understand fundamental properties of efficient computation by proving mathematical theorems about the power and limitations of different computational models.

    This research project is led by Johan Hastad, Per Austrin, and Jakob Nordstrom, and is financed by grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Swedish Research Council.

    In addition to the PIs and the announced PhD positions, the research project will also involve 3-4 existing PhD students and 4-5 postdocs. Thus, this will be a unique opportunity to explore new connections between different subareas of complexity theory within a vibrant and growing research environment.

    For more information, see http://apc.csc.kth.se/D-2017-0885-Eng.php or contact APC group at .
  • Postdoc positions in Theoretical Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 21 January 2018

    The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for postdoctoral positions in theoretical computer science.

    The postdoc positions are in the area of computational complexity theory. Current research in the group focuses mostly on approximation algorithms/hardness of approximation, subexponential algorithms, and proof complexity, but excellent researchers in neighbouring areas such as, e.g., communication complexity, circuit complexity, algebraic complexity, and harmonic analysis are also warmly welcome to apply.

    This research project is led by Johan Hastad, Per Austrin, and Jakob Nordstrom, and is financed by grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Swedish Research Council. In addition to the PIs, the research project is planned to involve a total of 4-5 postdocs and 4-5 PhD students. Thus, this will be a unique opportunity to explore new connections between different subareas of complexity theory within a vibrant and growing research environment.

    These postdoc positions are full-time employed positions for one year with a possible(and expected) one-year extension. The expected starting date is in August-September 2018, although this is to some extent negotiable.

    For more information, see http://apc.csc.kth.se/D-2017-0898-Eng.php or contact APC group at .
  • Position as summer lecturer in digital humanities, Berkeley CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Tuesday 2 January 2018

    The Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of outstanding lecturers to teach in the Summer Minor in the Digital Humanities. Courses are offered in a six-week session, July 2, 2018 - August 10, 2018.

    General duties (include but are not limited to): Teaching topical digital humanities courses offered in the Summer Minor program. These courses fall under four categories: Digital Humanities and Archival Design; Digital Humanities and Text and Language Analysis; Digital Humanities and Visual and Spatial Analysis; and Critical Digital Humanities. In addition to classroom responsibilities, general duties include holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), and maintaining a course website.

  • Postdoctoral position in formal verification, dynamical systems, and constructive analysis, Pittsburgh PA (U.S.A.)

    The logic group in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a project in formal verification, dynamical systems, and constructive analysis, beginning August 2018. There are no teaching duties, and the position is for one academic year with a possibility of renewal.

    Candidates should have a PhD and research experience in a related area, and a desire to collaborate with the existing research group, which consists of several faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. Background in interactive theorem proving or other uses of formal methods is desired.

    For more information, see here or contact Jeremy Avigad at .
  • PhD position in SAT solving at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 21 January 2018

    The TCS Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for a PhD position in computer science focused on SAT solving.

    The PhD student will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordstrom. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of efficient algorithms for satisfiability in propositional logic (SAT solving) and lower bounds on the efficiency of methods for reasoning about SAT (proof complexity). On the practical side, one problem of interest is to gain a better understanding of, and improve, the performance of current state-of-the-art SAT solvers --- in particular, solvers using conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) --- but we are even more interested in exploring new techniques that hold out the theoretical possibility of exponential improvements over CDCL, but which have so far turned out to be hard to implement efficiently in practice.

    This is a four-year full-time employed position, but PhD positions usually (though not necessarily) include 20% teaching, in which case they are prolonged for one more year. The successful candidate is expected to start at the latest in August-September 2018, although this is to some extent negotiable. The position is fully funded and comes with a competitive salary.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0883-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Postdoc positions in SAT solving at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 21 January 2018

    The TCS Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for postdoc positions in computer science focused on SAT solving.

    The postdoctoral researchers will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordstrom. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of efficient algorithms for satisfiability in propositional logic (SAT solving) and lower bounds on the efficiency of methods for reasoning about SAT (proof complexity). On the practical side, one problem of interest is to gain a better understanding of, and improve, the performance of current state-of-the-art SAT solvers based on conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL). We are even more interested in exploring new algebraic or geometric techniques (such as Groebner bases or pseudo-Boolean solving) that could potentially yield exponential improvements over CDCL. We also believe that there should be ample room for technology transfer with related areas such as SMT solving, constraint programming, and/or mixed integer linear programming, and so excellent researchers in these areas are also warmly welcome to apply.

    These postdoc positions are full-time employed positions for one year with a possible (and expected) one-year extension. The expected starting date is in August-September 2018, although this is to some extent negotiable.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0893-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Postdoc in Economics and Computation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

    Deadline: Thursday 1 March 2018

    Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoc position in Economics and Computation at the Computer Science Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, in the research group of Prof. Lirong Xia.

    For more information, see here or contact Lirong Xia at .
  • Postdoctoral position in philosophical logic, Helsinki (Finland)

    Deadline: Monday 15 January 2018

    There is an opening of a Post-Doc position for one year, renewable for a second year, within the Academy of Finland project "Modalities and conditionals: systematic and historical studies" directed by Sara Negri at the Philosophy Unit of the University of Helsinki.

    The proposed research belongs to philosophical logic, a core area of theoretical philosophy. The main objectives of the proposal are the application and further development of a novel logical methodology for the study of the inferential aspect of modalities and conditionals and the study of the sources of related modal concepts in European philosophy. The ideal candidate is expected to have a strong background in modal logic, epistemic logic and proof theory, research experience with labelled deductive systems, and a strong motivation for collaborative work with the PI on the project's specific themes.

  • Postdoctoral position in logic ("Reflection & Truth"), Gothenburg (Sweden)

    Deadline: Monday 8 January 2018

    The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg is advertising a Postdoc position in Logic. The position is full-time for two years, starting Spring 2018. The successful applicant will be employed on the project Reflection and Truth,  led by Graham Emil Leigh. This project investigates the philosophical, mathematical and computational properties of reflection principles and formal truth through a cross-disciplinary research team.

  • PhD student positions in computer science ("logic for agents"), Nottingham (England)

    Deadline: Sunday 11 March 2018

    There are 10 PhD positions available for UK and international students at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. If you are interested in doing a PhD in logics for agents, agent theories and architectures, agent programming languages, verification and synthesis of agent programs and controllers for multi-agent systems, please contact or .

  • Two postdoctoral positions in computational logic, Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Wednesday 13 December 2017

    Multiple postdoctoral positions are available in Oxford in the project Proof-Driven Query Planning. Topics of interest include model theory and proof theory for guarded logics, interpolation, proof search and automata-to-logic translation.

    Starting time and duration are flexible, with the latest starting time being fall of 2018. Both applied and theoretically-oriented candidates will be considered. The position has no teaching or administration duties.

  • PhD studentship in applications of logic & category theory, Londen (UK)

    Location: London, England

    Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship at University College London under the supervision of Fabio Zanasi, for a project on the applications of logic and category theory to the semantics of non-classical computational models (probabilistic, quantum, concurrenct, cyber-physical, ?). Starting date can be negotiated (February to September 2018).

  • PhD Scholarship available at University College London, UK, on categorical approaches to non-classical computation

    A fully-funded PhD position is available at University College London for a project on the applications of logic and category theory to the semantics of non-classical computational models (probabilistic, quantum, concurrenct, cyber-physical, …). Starting date can be negotiated (February to September 2018).

  • PhD student positions in homotopy type theory, Pittsburgh PA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Tuesday 2 January 2018

    The Pure and Applied Logic PhD program at CMU has positions open in the coming academic year 2018-19. The Homotopy Type Theory research group has positions open  incoming PhD students interested in doing research in type theory, homotopy theory, (higher) category theory, and related areas. The department also has a research group focused on interactive theorem proving, formal verification, and formalization of mathematics, centered on the Lean Theorem Prover.

    For more information, see https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/graduate/phd/pure-and-applied-logic/ or contact Steve Awodey at , or Jeremy Avigad at .
  • PhD studentship on "The ethics of AI", Oxford (U.K.)

    Location: Oxford, England
    Deadline: Friday 19 January 2018

    Applications are invited for a three-year doctoral studentship on The Ethics of AI: Challenges and Opportunities. The studentship will commence in October 2018.

    Eligible candidates will need to qualify for UK or EU fee status and be ordinarily resident in the UK or EU. The successful candidate will investigate the ethical aspects, requirements, and desiderata underpinning the design and development of AI, and develop original and innovative research to foster value-based and ethically sound solutions to the problems posed by AI. The student will be supervised by Prof. Luciano Floridi and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, and will be a member of, and collaborate with, the OII's Digital Ethics Lab (DELab).The studentship is supported by funding donated by Google.

  • PhD student position on discrete-time models with uncertainty, Liverpool (England)

    Deadline: Monday 20 November 2017

    A fully funded 3-year PhD position is available at the Computer Science Department of the University of Liverpool, UK. The successful candidate will do research in the areas of verification, theory of computation and algorithms designing new methods for predictability of probabilistic discrete-time models. This PhD project will focus on theoretic limits, algorithm design and implementation of new verification procedures. We are interested to develop and apply new methods in the area of infectious disease control, where the model of disease spreading can be seen as a multilayer probabilistic system with complex dynamics and significant level of uncertainty.

    The candidate will be supervised by Dr. Igor Potapov, and will become a member of Automata, Computability and Complexity Theory Group at the Department of Computer Science. In addition due to interdisciplinary nature of the proposal the position will be co-supervised by Dr. Kieran Sharkey (Mathematical Sciences) and Prof. Matthew Baylis (Epidemiology and Population Health). The selected candidate can start this position immediately, but the latest starting date for this fully-funded PhD position is 1 March 2018.

    For more information, see https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=89958 or contact Dr. Igor Potapov at .
  • (Senior) Lectureship in Artificial Intelligence, London (England)

    Deadline: Monday 18 December 2017

    The Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK, invites applications for full-time faculty members at the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level, comparable to tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor, who can contribute in particular to research and teaching in Artificial Intelligence (including autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, logic-based AI, planning and natural language processing).

  • Two postdoctoral positions on interpretable vector space models, Cardiff (Wales)

    Deadline: Sunday 10 December 2017

    Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research posts at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science & Informatics in the context of the ERC funded project FLEXILOG. The overall aims of this project are (i) to learn interpretable vector space embeddings (or conceptual spaces) from a variety of structured and unstructured information sources, and (ii) to exploit these embeddings for improving statistical and symbolic inference from imperfect data.

    Start date: 1 January 2018 (or as soon as possible thereafter). Successful candidates are expected to have excellent programming skills, as well as a strong background in natural language processing, machine learning, or knowledge representation. Keywords: Knowledge graphs, conceptual spaces, vector space embeddings, statistical learning, neural networks.

  • Associate Professorship in Philosophy, Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Monday 4 December 2017

    Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) of Philosophy to be held in the Faculty of Philosophy in association with a Sir Peter Strawson Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy at University College. The appointee will be a member of both the College and the University community, and will have an active role to play in the running of the College (as a member of the Governing Body and a trustee of the College) and of the University (as a member of Congregation).

    Applications for this post are welcome from well-qualified candidates with expertise in Philosophy. The College requires someone with the capacity to teach Introductory Logic, Epistemology, and Metaphysics courses. More specifically, the appointee will be expected to give tutorials or classes in General Philosophy and Introduction to Logic to 1st year undergraduates, and Knowledge and Reality and at least one other subject to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year undergraduates. The Faculty is keen to develop its research profile in Logic/Philosophical Logic and the successful candidate must have an area of specialisation in this field.

  • University of Groningen: Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy

    Deadline: Thursday 30 November 2017

    The position is in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and includes research (40%) as well as teaching and some administrative tasks (60%). We are particularly interested in candidates who have a strong affinity with science and technology studies, the social organization of science, and/or the science-policy interface. Ideally the research of the candidate can complement and strengthen the existing research profile of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy, and contribute to the lively intellectual life of the faculty as a whole. The candidate will be expected to teach in the philosophy programme on both BA and MA level, including the MA programme on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Additionally the candidate may be asked to provide philosophy of science courses to programmes outside the Faculty of Philosophy, in the natural, life, and social sciences.

  • Lise Meitner Fellowship for Excellent Women in Computer Science

    Deadline: Friday 1 December 2017

    Every second year the Max Planck Institute for Informatics awards the Lise Meitner Award Fellowship. This postdoctoral grant supports excellent female computer scientists in their careers, giving them the opportunity to develop their scientific ideas without exertion of influence. It consists of a two-year tax-free research fellowship and business expenses. Fellows will be chosen based on the strength of their academic background and research credentials.

  • Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships, Berkeley CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Friday 15 December 2017

    The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing invites applications for Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships for the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 semesters. Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships are intended for exceptional young scientists to participate in at least one of the semester-long programs at the institute. The Institute will host programs on "Foundations of Data Science" and "Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity" in Fall 2018 and "Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications" and "Geometry of Polynomials" in Spring 2019.

    For more information, see https://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2018.
  • Tenure-track instructorship in logic, Vancouver (Canada)

    Location: Vancouver BC, Canada
    Deadline: Wednesday 22 November 2017

    The Department of Philosophy at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Campus, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Logic at the rank of Instructor, in UBC's educational leadership stream. Start date: July 1, 2018. This is a full-time tenure-track appointment.

    A PhD in Philosophy prior to taking up the position is required. Exceptional communication and teaching skills, a strong commitment to high-quality undergraduate education, a record or promise of educational leadership, a record or promise of excellence in teaching logic at the undergraduate level, and a research background appropriate for the development of upper-level logic courses are necessary qualifications for this position. Ability or experience in teaching high-enrolment online logic courses, and/or ability or experience relevant to participation in UBC's Cognitive Systems program, would be additional assets for this position. The successful applicant will be expected to teach a load of six one-semester courses annually and to maintain an active program of excellent teaching, service, and educational leadership. The range of courses includes critical thinking, scientific reasoning, symbolic logic, metatheory and computability, and additional advanced undergraduate courses in logic.

    For more information, see http://philosophy.ubc.ca/people/work-with-us/ or contact Erika Yep at .
  • Junior Professorship (W1) in Theoretical Computer Science, Berlin (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 9 November 2017

    The Institute of Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany invites applications for a Junior Professorship in Theoretical Computer Science (salary grade W 1) reference code: W1 TheoInf

    Candidates should have outstanding and innovative international research in the field of algorithms, experience with grant-sponsored research and have an excellent track record of university teaching. The appointee will strengthen the research area Theoretical Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin and work with colleagues of the research groups. She or he will further develop and teach courses in Theoretical Computer Science in the bachelor's and master's programs. Additionally, the junior professor will be prepared to participate in collaborations within the Berlin area and work interdisciplinarily, especially with the working groups of discrete mathematics as well as with the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS).

  • Postdoctoral fellowship in public engagement of science, Cincinnati OH (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Friday 15 December 2017

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to contribute to a new center focused on the public engagement of science. We invite applications from recent Ph.D.s with a strong background in philosophy of science and significant interest in the public engagement of philosophy and/or science.

    This is a two-year appointment beginning August 15, 2018, with a salary of $54,000 per year. Responsibilities include teaching one course per semester, including one graduate seminar on a topic of the Fellow's choosing; helping to develop and coordinate public engagement activities; and pursuing independent research with the support of faculty mentor(s) in the department.

  • Tenure-track position in Computer Science, New York City NY (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Saturday 20 January 2018

    Lehman College of The City University of New York invites applications at all levels for a computer science faculty position beginning in Fall 2018. Outstanding candidates from all areas of computer science will be considered, but those working in the following research areas are particularly encouraged to apply: machine learning, robotics, networks, security, data center-scale computing, and cyber-physical systems. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue an active, externally funded research program and to perform high-quality undergraduate teaching and mentoring.

  • Assistant or Associate Professorship in Logic & Philosophy of Science, Irvine CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Friday 10 November 2017

    The Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured appointment at the rank of Assistant to mid-Associate Professor. AOS/AOC: open, but with a strong preference for a scholar in Mathematical Logic and/or one who can make substantial contributions to our recently launched MA program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, with an emphasis on formal approaches (e.g., game theory, decision theory, probability, or social choice). Ph.D. required or expected before start of employment.

    For more information, see https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF04295 or contact Patty Jones at .
  • Senior teaching & research assistantship (postdoctoral) in theoretical philosophy

    Location: Zuerich, Switzerland
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 November 2017

    The Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zurich invites applications for the post of Senior Teaching and Research Assistant to be filled from the 1st of February 2018 (or as agreed) in the area of Theoretical Philosophy. At the start the employment level is 50%; from September 2018 there is the possibility to raise the employment level up to 100%. The post is for three years in the first instance, but can be extended for another three years.

  • PhD student position in Artificial Intelligence (computational models of strategic behaviour), Warwick (England)

    Deadline: Tuesday 16 January 2018

    We are seeking expressions of interest from candidates interested in pursuing a PhD at the University of Warwick in the topic of Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on computational models of strategic behaviour in multi-agent interaction.

    The research will be in mathematical modelling and analysis of strategic behaviour for distributed Artificial Intelligence. Desirable research directions include, but are not limited to, strategic reasoning in complex games, protocols for collective decision-making, mechanism design for electronic commerce. The research will be supervised by Dr Paolo Turrini.

  • Associate / Full Professorship in Philosophy of Science & Technology, Munich (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 11 January 2018

    The Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites applications for the position of Associate Professor or Full Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology to begin in summer semester 2018. The position is a tenured W3 position.

    The professorship belongs to the TUM School of Governance (GOV) and will be affiliated with the Integrative Research Center (IRC) Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). The TUM School of Governance focuses its research and teaching on the interaction between politics, society and technology, for instance to integrate future technologies into the political dialogue and decision-making. The MCTS is representing a cross-faculty integrative research center focusing its activities in interdisciplinary research, teaching, outreach, on the interface between science, technology and society.

  • PhD student positions in philosophy of vagueness & indeterminacy, Tuebingen (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 November 2017

    The University of Tuebingen is advertising up to 4 PhD positions  in the DFG Graduiertenkolleg / Research Training Group "Ambiguity - Production and Reception". The group specifically welcomes doctoral projects in the philosophy of vagueness and indeterminacy.

  • Two PhD student positions in formal verification, Columbia MO (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Thursday 11 January 2018

    Two funded Ph.D. positions are available from Spring/Fall 2018 in EECS department at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA under the supervision of Dr. Khaza Anuarul Hoque. The research project will focus on the development of formal verification based techniques for designing dependable and safe cyber-physical systems (target application domain: aerospace, automotive and smart-energy).

    For more information, see http://www.kahoque.com/#hiring-tab or contact Dr. Khaza Anuarul Hoque at .
  • Postdoc in Algorithmic Economics, Microsoft Research NYC (USA)

    Deadline: Friday 1 December 2017

    Microsoft Research NYC is looking for a postdoc in Algorithmic Economics, with a start date in July 2018. Research in the Algorithmic Economics Group at Microsoft Research NYC spans a wide variety of topics at the intersection of economics and computation. Application areas include auctions and mechanism design, crowdsourcing and human computation, information aggregation and elicitation, machine learning in economics, polling and prediction markets, and online advertising.

  • PhD Studentship in Verification of Security and Privacy in Modern Threat Landscapes, Guildford (England)

    Deadline: Sunday 31 December 2017

    Formalism and (semi)-automatic tools based on non-classical logics, for the verification of systems’ security and privacy in modern threat landscapes.

    Duration of studentship: 3 years. The student will be registered with University of Surrey and join a team of researchers at Surrey Centre for Cyber Security,  and will be supervised by Dr. Ioana Boureanu , in collaboration with Prof. Steve Schneider.

  • Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in applying formal verification to new biological computing devices, Ramat Gan (Isral)

    Deadline: Monday 1 January 2018

    We invite students and postdocs to join a research program on applying formal verification and programming languages methods towards designing new biological computing devices, aimed to solve complex computational problems efficiently and investigate alternative computing technologies. The selected candidates will work with Dr. Hillel Kugler with opportunities to collaborate with several leading experimental groups in Europe that will be studying the development and design of the underlying methods and technology, as part of a 5-year European Project Bio4Comp.

    For more information, see http://www.eng.biu.ac.il/hillelk/ or contact Dr. Hillel Kugler at .
  • PhD student grants (in particular, mathematical logic and set theory), Hamburg (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 20 October 2017

    The research group in mathematical logic at the Universitaet Hamburg is supporting applications of excellent graduates in mathematics to do a PhD in mathematical logic. We expect that candidates have a strong research background in mathematical logic, preferably set theory, including a research thesis on a topic relevant for the work done in the group. Interested doctoral candidates can apply for a HmbNFG grant which gives a two year grant of 1200 Euro per month plus 1000 Euro per year for travel and research costs.

    The funding period would start on 1 April 2018 or later. Eligible are all researchers with a Master's degree in mathematics with performance that is clearly above average and a graduation date of 1 April 2017 or later.

  • PhD positions in TCS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Monday 23 October 2017

    The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science.

    The PhD positions are in the area of computational complexity theory, focusing on questions at the intersection of approximation algorithms, subexponential algorithms, and proof complexity. Examples of topics of particular interest are the use of linear and semidefinite programming to solve hard combinatorial problems, or of proof complexity to prove that the problems are beyond the reach of such methods. Exciting recent developments have identified the so-called sums of squares hierarchy as a unifying theme for these questions, and one aim of our research is to build and expand on this theme. However, we will also freely explore whatever other methods turn out to be helpful for attacking these and other topics of interest in algorithms and complexity theory. The overarching goal is to understand fundamental properties of efficient computation by proving mathematical theorems about the power and limitations of different computational models.

    This research project is led by Johan Håstad, Per Austrin, and Jakob Nordström, and is financed by grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Swedish Research Council.

    In addition to the PIs and the announced PhD positions, the research project will also involve 3-4 PhD students and 3-4 postdocs. Thus, this will be a unique opportunity to explore new connections between different subareas of complexity theory within a vibrant and growing research environment.

    For more information, see http://apc.csc.kth.se/D-2017-0619-Eng.php or contact APC group at .
  • Universität Konstanz: Doctoral Research Positions

    Deadline: Sunday 15 October 2017

    Applicants are invited for two three-year doctoral positions within the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “What is it to ask a question? A formal pragmatic investigation of interrogative force”, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the University of Konstanz. ( http://www.sven-lauer.net/emmy-noether-group/ )

  • Postdoc / phd positions in "Verification of Quantum Cryptography"

    At the Quantum Cryptography Group, University of Tartu, we have open postdoc and phd positions on Verification of Quantum Cryptography.

    We are starting a project in which we will develop methods for the verification of proofs in quantum cryptography. Similar to what the EasyCrypt tool does in classical cryptography. The scope of the project covers everything from the logical foundations, through the development of tools, to the verification of real quantum protocols.

    The ideal candidate would have experience in: Semantics, Theorem proving, Verification of classical cryptography, Quantum cryptography, and/or Quantum computation / communication. Of course, expertise in all those areas is very rare, so candidates who are strong in some of those areas and are interested in the others are encouraged to apply!

    For more information, see http://crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/PostdocInVerificationOfQuantumCryptography
    and http://crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/PhdInVerificationOfQuantumCryptography or contact Dominique Unruh at .

  • PhD student positions in computing, London (England)

    Deadline: Friday 10 November 2017

    The Department of Computing at Imperial College London invites applications from outstanding students for up to 30 fully-funded studentships for the 2018/19 PhD programme.  In particular, we seek to recruit outstanding students with an early record of accomplishment in computational logic, automated reasoning, or knowledge representation.

    Applicants are expected to have a First Class or Distinction Masters level degree, or equivalent, in a relevant scientific or technical discipline, such as computer science or mathematics, and are expected to be within the top 10% of their class.

  • PhD student positions in mathematics, Helsinki (Finland)

    Deadline: Thursday 14 September 2017

    The University of Helsinki Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics (Domast) invites applications for Doctoral Candidate Positions for a 1–4 year period starting from 1 January 2018. The duration of the employment contract depends on the phase of the appointee´s thesis. The Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics (Domast) offers PhD thesis topics and high-quality supervision in several areas of mathematics. These areas include analysis, inverse problems, mathematical biology, mathematical physics, mathematical logic and statistics.

  • PhD student grants in the humanities, Cologne (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 3 November 2017

    Starting in April 2018, the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne will award 9 Integrated Track doctoral scholarships.

    The a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School serves the entire Faculty of Arts and Humanities and covers all qualification levels of academic training in the arts and humanities – from Master to postdoc. The structured model of doctoral studies of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, the so-called “Integrated Track”, enables students to complete a high-quality dissertation within three years in a lively interdisciplinary research environment.

  • Department Chair position for the Department of Humanities, Chicago IL (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Thursday 7 December 2017

    The Department of Humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is searching for a new departmental chairperson. We are looking for a creative scholar, dedicated teacher, and vibrant, strong, and collaborative administrator committed to interdisciplinary work. We currently have faculty in history, philosophy, communications, linguistics, digital humanities, and media. We welcome candidates from these as well as other humanities fields.

  • Assistant / Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics

    Deadline: Saturday 30 September 2017

    The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication of Utrecht University invites applications from excellent researchers for a full-time tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant / Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing (NLP). The position starts January 1, 2018 (or earlier if possible), and will be in the Linguistics section of the Department. The researcher will be affiliated with the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL OTS), with most of the teaching done as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme of the Utrecht University (Bachelor and Master level).

  • Full professorship in Theoretical Philosophy

    Deadline: Thursday 28 September 2017

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz invites applications for a full-time, permanent appointment as Professor in Theoretical Philosophy. Candidates
    should have a PhD in Philosophy as well as post-doctoral experience amounting to the German qualification of “Habilitation” or equivalent. Apart from teaching in the
    Department’s degree programs (BA and MA in Philosophy, the Philosophy track of the BA and MA in Education, and Graduate supervision), the successful candidate will
    contribute adequately to the University’s self-administration. Fluency in German is expected upon appointment. Candidates with a clear commitment to reaching fluency
    within one to two years can be considered.

  • Postdoc positions in SAT solving at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 24 September 2017

    The TCS Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for a postdoc position in computer science focused on SAT solving.

    The postdoctoral researcher will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordstrom. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of efficient algorithms for satisfiability in propositional logic (SAT solving) and lower bounds on the efficiency of methods for reasoning about SAT (proof complexity). On the practical side, one problem of interest is to gain a better understanding of, and improve, the performance of current state-of-the-art SAT solvers --- in particular, solvers using conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL). We are even more interested in exploring new techniques that hold out the theoretical possibility of exponential improvements over CDCL, but seem hard to implement efficiently in practice, e.g., algebraic methods such as Groebner bases or geometric methods such as pseudo-Boolean solving.

    This postdoc position is a full-time employed position for one year with a possible (and expected) one-year extension. The starting date should preferably be during the autumn semester of 2017 or in early 2018, although this is to some extent negotiable.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0455-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Six full professorships in computing (including algorithms & complexity), Leeds (England)

    Deadline: Sunday 17 September 2017

    Six new full professorships are available at the School of Computing of the University of Leeds. Two of these Chairs are in any area of Computer Science. The School of Computing has five main research themes, among them Algorithms and Complexity.

  • Assistant, Associate or Full Professorship in Mathematical Logic, Helsinki (Finland)

    Deadline: Thursday 31 August 2017

    The Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki invites applications for a Professor or Assistant/Associate Professor in Mathematics.The appointee will be responsible for leading and developing the teaching in mathematical logic. Experience of teaching and research in at least one of the research areas in mathematical logic at the department is a requirement. The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track system consisting of two stages, each 3 - 5 years), depending on his or her qualifications and career stage.

  • Postdoctoral position in philosophy of science, Edinburgh (Scotland)

    Deadline: Thursday 21 September 2017

    The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant for a fixed-term period of 24 months. The position is to support the research project entitled *Perspectival Realism. Science, knowledge and truth from a human vantage point*, which is funded by the European Research Council and led by Prof. Michela Massimi. This full-time position is 35 hours a week, and is available from January 2018 for a fixed-term period of 24 months.

  • PhD student position in game theory, Paris (France)

    Deadline: Monday 4 September 2017

    The Laboratory of Mathematical Economics at the Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris is offering one funded PhD position in Economics in the fields of Game Theory, Epistemic Game Theory, Interactive Epistemology, or some other topic related to Game Theory to be agreed with the candidate.

    Applicants need to be holder of a Master's degree preferably in Economics or Mathematics, obtained prior to the contract's starting date (end of September 2017).

    For more information, see http://lemma.u-paris2.fr/en/node/100 or contact Jérémie Cabessa at .
  • Imperial College Research Fellowships in Computing, London (England)

    Deadline: Tuesday 29 August 2017

    The Department of Computing at Imperial College London invites talented early career researchers to apply for Imperial College London Research Fellowships. This scheme is comparable to an Assistant Research Professorship and provides funding for 4 years to conduct independent research within the research environments of our department, college and the entire cohort of successful fellows. The fellowship offers a competitive salary and attractive research package, support for mentoring, career management, and development opportunities.

    The department values to receive strong proposals in all research areas in or pertaining to Computer Science, in foundational or more applied aspects of the discipline. Applicants need to identify a host, who is a permanent member of our academic staff. We therefore encourage prospective applicants to contact potential hosts to discuss an application and proposed fellowship proposal with them.

    For more information, see http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-fellowships/information-for-applicants/ or contact the Director of Research at .
  • PhD student position in correct parallel algorithms, Leiden (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 27 August 2017

    The Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is looking for a PHD candidate for the project 'Correct Parallel Algorithms'. This project aims at creating a framework for the rapid development of correct Parallel Algorithms through the use of Computer-Aided Verification.

    We offer a full-time one year term position with the possibility of three-year renewal based on performance. Our individual choices model gives you some freedom to assemble your own set of terms and conditions. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a substantial tax break. All our PhD students are embedded in the Leiden University Graduate School of Science. www.graduateschools.leidenuniv.nl . Vacancy number: 17-311.

  • Ada Lovelace PhD student position in Mathematics & Computer Science, Muenster (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 1 October 2017

    The Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster, Germany, invites applicants for the Ada Lovelace PhD Position in Mathematics and Computer Sciences (75%, 13 TV-L).

    The Ada Lovelace PhD position programme was initiated by the program for female professors (Professorinnenprogramm II) of the state Nordrhine-Westfalia to promote gender equalization for junior scientists. The position comes with additional resources for travelling and material expenses. The position is temporary for three years. The regular weekly working time is 39 hours and 50 minutes. The candidate is expected to graduate within three years.

  • PhD student positions and postdoctoral fellowships in logic and topos theory, Como (Italy)

    Dear All,

    Applications are invited for Ph.D. studentships and post-doctoral fellowships at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria in Como, Italy. We particularly welcome candidates who wish to work in areas represented within the Department, including logic and topos theory.

    The deadlines are the 1st of September 2017 for the Ph.D. studentships and the 8th of September 2017 for the post-doctoral fellowships. More details are available at the following pages:

    http://www4.uninsubria.it/on-line/home/naviga-per-tema/didattica/post-lauream/dottorati-di-ricerca/articolo14089.html

    http://www4.uninsubria.it/on-line/home/naviga-per-tema/servizi/servizi-per-la-ricerca/opportunita-di-ricerca-presso-luniversita-degli-studi-dellinsubria/assegni-di-ricerca-senior.html

  • PhD studentship in verification of security & privacy

    Location: Guildford, England
    Deadline: Wednesday 30 August 2017

    The University of Surrey has an opening for a PhD Studentship researching formalism and (semi)-automatic tools based on non-classical logics, for the verification of systems’ security and privacy in modern threat landscapes.

    The student will be registered with University of Surrey and join a team of researchers at Surrey Centre for Cyber Security,  and will be supervised by Dr. Ioana Boureanu, in collaboration with Prof. Steve Schneider. The PhD studentship is aimed at focusing on the software development of the aforementioned (semi)-automatic tools. However, a move towards (more) theoretically-centred work in this space is also possible.

  • 1 postdoctoral position and 1 research assistant position in "Language in Interaction", Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 10 September 2017

    These positions are part of the larger Dutch research consortium 'Language in Interaction', sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour. The postdoc and research assistant will be part of a team working on the question "Variability in language processing and in language learning: Why does the ability to learn language change with age? How can we characterise and map individual language skills in relation to the population distribution?", and wil focus on using variability in learning ability to investigate why second-language acquisition can become harder in adulthood. Both positions will be based at the Donders Institute - Centre for Cognition, Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

    The postdoctoral researcher should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in the cognitive neuroscience of language learning or of human memory, or in a closely-related field of study, and be familiar, ideally, with running MRI experiments and with analysing MRI data (including DTI data), with carrying out psycholinguistic and/or learning experiments, with research on individual differences, and with testing children.

    The research assistant should have completed, with good grades, a Bachelor's or (Research) Master's degree in psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, or a closely-related field of study, be familiar, ideally, with running experiments with human subjects (MRI experiments and/or behavioural experiments in psycholinguistics and/or human memory and/or individual differences), and have experience with testing large numbers of participants. Experience with testing children would be especially welcome, as would  experience with analysis of large datasets on behavioural and/or neuroimaging measures.

    For more information, see http://www.languageininteraction.nl/jobs/BQthird.html or contact Prof. James McQueen at , Dr. Kristin Lemhöfer at , or Dr. Gabriele Janzen at .
  • PhD Position at the Vienna Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

    Deadline: Sunday 30 July 2017

    The group of Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information Theory at the Vienna Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) is offering a PhD position in the framework of the interdisciplinary project Quantum probabilities and objectivity: New pragmatist insights”.

    The project’s aim is to investigate new approaches to the ‘operational reconstruction’ of quantum mechanics based on the logical analysis of the status and role of the observer. The student is expected in particular to explore the possibility of exploiting recently proposed ‘inferentialist’ theories of objectivity in order to provide a rational justification of some structural features of quantum probabilities and analyze possible generalizations.

  • Lectureship in Philosophy of Science & Logic, Armidale (Australia)

    Deadline: Monday 31 July 2017

    The School of Humanities at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, Australia is seeking a dynamic academic for the role of Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science. The successful candidate will be a collegial and productive individual with a passion for teaching and research in the field of Philosophy of Science and Logic. The incumbent will collaborate with staff in the discipline of Philosophy & Religious Studies to enhance the discipline's research profile and community engagement, and work with staff across the School. Ref. nr 217123.

  • PhD student position in automated theorem proving, Paris (France)

    Deadline: Sunday 29 October 2017

    We are offering a PhD position on the integration of automated provers in proof assistants at the Laboratory on Specification and Verification (LSV) of the University Paris Saclay, starting 1st January 2018.

    For more information, see http://rewriting.gforge.inria.fr/grant.html.
  • Postdoctoral position in logic, proof theory, and semantics, Nancy (France)

    Deadline: Tuesday 25 July 2017

    A post-doc position is available at LORIA (Nancy, France) in logic, proof theory and semantics. It is a 1 year post-doc position that could be extended with 1 more year. The successful candidate will be working within the TYPES team at LORIA. He will have access to the resources of the team through the Ticamore project "Translating and Discovering Calculi for Modal and Related logics".

    The central goal of the Ticamore project is to study the proof-theory of sub-structural or modal logics with a focus on the bridges that can be built between internal calculi (like sequent, hyper-sequent, nested or bunched calculi) and external calculi (like labelled or display calculi). These bridges should be understood as proof (or counter model) transformation procedures, embeddings, encodings, ...

    For more information, see here or at https://ticamore.logic.at or contact Didier Galmiche at , or Dominique Larchey-Wendling at .
  • Postdoctoral position on first-order theory of rewriting, Innsbruck (Austria)

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 August 2017

    The Computational Logic research group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in connection with the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project "FORTissimo: Automating the First-Order Theory of Rewriting". The project runs for 3 years starting from 1 September 2017. The main task of a successful applicant will be to collaborate with other project members in order to extend the Isabelle Formalization of Rewriting with the decision procedure for the first-order theory of rewriting for left-linear and right-ground rewrite systems.

    Candidates must hold a PhD degree in computer science or mathematics. Knowledge of automata theory and rewriting is helpful, experience with and a liking of working with proof assistants (preferably Isabelle/HOL) is desirable. Candidates close to obtaining a PhD degree are also invited to apply. Knowledge of German is not required.

  • PhD student position in metaphysics of science, Duesseldorf (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 13 July 2017
    The Institute of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Dep. Philosophy III – Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language,
    Prof. Markus Schrenk, invites applications for a doctoral position scientific employee/doctoral student (50 %, pay grade 13 TV-L) starting at the earliest date. Initial appointment will be limited to a period of two years. Subject to continued funding, a further appointment for maximally one more year will be made.

    Topics for the PhD thesis must be chosen from one of Prof. Schrenk's research areas such as Metaphysics of Science (dispositions, laws of nature, causation, meta-metaphysics).

  • Seventeen PhD student and postdoctoral positions in "Limit of Variability in Language", Potsdam (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 20 September 2017

    The Collaborative Research Center SFB 1287 'Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects' in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for 17 positions for PhD candidates and Postdocs available from July 2017 for a duration of four years (subject to funding commitment).

    Language users exhibit a high degree of variability at all levels of the linguistic system, language use, and language development and change. By exploring the systematicity and the limits of variability in linguistic behaviours, the main focus of the CRC will be on identifying the constraints of the underlying linguistic system. Several projects will jointly evaluate the limits, relations, dependencies, and commonalities of different types of variability across a range of linguistic phenomena from the perspectives of (A) language interaction and change, of (B) language processing, and of (C) grammatical systems.

  • Twelve PhD student positions in "Uncertainty & Randomness in Algorithms, Verification & Logic", Aachen (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 14 July 2017

    The RWTH Aachen University is looking for enthusiastic and highly qualified doctoral researchers. 12 positions are available within the interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) UnRAVeL. The RTG UnRAVeL aims to significantly advance probabilistic modelling and analysis for uncertainty. Candidates must have (or soon obtain) a master degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related area and have completed their studies with excellent grades. Proficiency in German is helpful but not compulsory.

  • PhD position in Logic, Gothenburg (Sweden)

    Deadline: Monday 31 July 2017

    The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg is advertising a PhD position in Logic, with specialisation in Proof Theory. The successful applicant will be employed in the research project Truth and Reflection lead by Graham Leigh, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The position is fully-funded for four years.

  • Jobs in natural language processing at a company in Oxford

    Semmle is a software development company built on groundbreaking research in compilers and data analysis, developed by a team from the University of Oxford. The company is looking for an expert in data analysis with a strong background in natural language processing (including sentiment analysis) to automate the interpretation of software engineering data.

    For more information, see https://semmle.com/careers/.
  • PhD student position in epistemology & decision theory, Hamburg (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    Universität Hamburg invites applications for a Research Associate for the project "Knowledge and Decision (PI: Moritz Schulz)", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The position commences on October 1st 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. It is remunerated at 65% of the salary level TV-L 13.

    For more information, see https://knowledgeanddecisions.wordpress.com or contact Moritz Schulz at .
  • PhD student position in Deontic Logic, Vienna (Austria)

    We are searching for an exceptionally talented and motivated student to join our team as PhD student in the logic group. The ideal candidate should have or be about to obtain an excellent Masters degree (or comparable) in one of the following fields: Mathematics, Computer Science or Philosophy. Competencies in one or several of the following areas would be a plus: Structural proof theory, Deontic logic, Modal logic, Philosophical logic (in particular formalisation of philosophical texts), Implementations.

    Willingness to work in an interdisciplinary environment consisting of logicians and indologists is a must. The successful candidate will be an affiliated PhD student in the doctoral program Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) at the Vienna University of Technology.

    For more information, see https://mimamsa.logic.at/press.html or contact Prof. Agata Ciabattoni at .
  • Ten PhD student grants in computer science, Bolzano (Italy)

    Deadline: Monday 3 July 2017

    10 four-years grants are offered by the faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts to E68,000; for research visits abroad the grant can increase up to 50%. Substantial extra funding is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. The language of the PhD program is English.

    The KRDB Research Centre of the faculty is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in knowledge representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics described in the call, the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in Conceptual Data Modelling and Ontology Design, Intelligent Information Access and Query processing, Information Integration, Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Computational Logic, Artificial Intelligence, foundations of Process-aware Information Systems.

    For more information, contact prof. Alessandro Artale at .
  • PhD student position and postdoctoral position in program logics, Erlangen (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 10 September 2017

    In the Theoretical Computer Science group (Chair Computer Science 8) at the  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, we have a PhD and a postdoc position available in the DFG-Project "A High Level Language for Programming and Specifying Multi-Effect Algorithms", which is concerned with monad-based semantics and program logics for side-effecting iteration and recursion. The technical part of the project proposal can be made available on request.

    The project is supervised by Sergey Goncharov and Lutz Schröder. The positions are in the TV-L E13 or E14 pay scale depending on qualification of the applicant; the project duration is three years.

  • Lectureship in Philosophy (logic teaching need), Melbourne (Australia)

    Deadline: Friday 30 June 2017

    A *Level B* teaching and research academic is expected to develop curriculum, teach and undertake research or other scholarly work relevant to the development of their discipline or professional field. You must have a demonstrated capacity to teach into a wide range of undergraduate subjects for the Philosophy major. Staff may also be requested to contribute to teaching in interdisciplinary majors such as Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies and/or our Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree.

  • 10 PhD positions, Bolzano, KRDB Research Center

    Deadline: Monday 3 July 2017

    10 four-years grants are offered by the faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts to 68,000 €; for research visits abroad the grant can increase up to 50%. Substantial extra funding is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. The language of the PhD program is English.

    The KRDB Research Centre of the faculty is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in knowledge representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics described in the call, the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in Conceptual Data Modelling and Ontology Design, Intelligent Information Access and Query processing, Information Integration, Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Computational Logic, Artificial Intelligence, foundations of Process-aware Information Systems.

  • Three postdoctoral research associates on interactive theorem proving, Cambridge, UK

    Location: Cambridge, England
    Deadline: Monday 3 July 2017

    ALEXANDRIA is a five-year ERC-funded project aimed at making interactive theorem proving useful in mathematical research. The workplan includes pilot studies to identify critical issues, library development and the implementation of advanced search, perhaps using machine learning. Two mathematicians and an Isabelle architect will be hired.

    For more information, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/.
  • Three Postdoctoral positions on Narrative Science, London (England)

    Deadline: Thursday 22 June 2017

    Applications are invited for 3 Post-Docs to work on the EU-funded project Narrative Science under the direction of the principal investigator, Professor Mary S. Morgan at the London School of Economics. This team project will investigate how, when, and why scientists use narratives to explain their work within their own communities. Each researcher will develop their own case materials within the overall project, working - by agreement with the project leader - on particular topics and fields of science past and present.

    It is expected that candidates will have a PhD in history of science, or a closely related field (including narrative studies, science communication, etc) provided you have some experience of historical research work; or you must have an equivalent track record of independent and original research.  There will shortly also be an advert for a Research Fellow to help run the project, and to curate a web-based library of case studies in narrative science. Candidates are welcome to apply to both.

    For more information, see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBN614/research-officers-x-3/ or contact Prof. Mary S. Morgan at .
  • PhD student position and postdoctoral position in socially adaptive computing, Delft (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 25 June 2017

    The Interactive Intelligence group at Delft University of Technology invites applications for 1 PhD position (4 years) and 1 postdoc position (2 years) in the  CoreSAEP project (Computational Reasoning for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners) let by Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk.

    The goal of the project is to develop techniques for creating software that understands norms and values of people, which we call Socially Adaptive Computing. Through development of formal models we lay the foundations for intelligent supportive technology that can take into account social relations and human values, for example privacy, freedom and safety, when taking decisions on our behalf. Decisions may concern, e.g., which data to share with whom or who to contact if help is needed. This becomes more and more important with the rise of AI and Data Science and the increasing pervasiveness of intelligent technology in our daily lives.

    For more information, see http://ii.tudelft.nl/~birna/projects/CoreSAEP.html or contact Birna van Riemsdijk at .
  • PhD student position in cognitive science, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 5 July 2017

    The interdisciplinary Research Training (RTG) Group 'Situated Cognition' invites applications for 1 Ph.D. position for a three-year structured PhD program. The program will commence June 1st, 2017 and the candidate should be prepared to start as soon as possible but on 1st of Oct. 2017 at latest. The group is jointly based at the Department of Philosophy II and the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum and at the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy at Osnabrück University.

    The PhD candidate for this position will be based in Bochum and work on an essentially interdisciplinary project with an emphasis on philosophical theory formation regarding either (a) situated aspects of perception, supervised by Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, or (b) situated aspects of social understanding, supervised by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen. Ideally, the second supervisor will be an empirical scientist.

  • postdoctoral position in philosophy or cognitive science, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 5 July 2017

    The Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution at the Ruhr-University Bochum is offering a full-time postdoctoral position, beginning on 1st October 2017, with a limited contract until end of May 2020.

    The position is installed to foster the research of young postdocs who have already proven to be excellent in publications. It offers the opportunity to develop one's own research project and research profile in the area of philosophy of mind or cognition. Beside the scientific aspects of this position, there is also the assignment to teach two courses each semester. Moreover, the candidate will be asked to engage in some administrative tasks and to strongly support the organization of the Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution.

  • Postdoctoral research fellowship (2y) in dynamical multi-agent systems, Stockholm (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 4 June 2017

    A two-year postdoctoral research fellowship is available within the project "Dynamical multi-agent systems: modelling, algorithmic verification and synthesis" with principal investigator Prof. Valentin Goranko. The project is officially hosted at the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University, Sweden. Ref. No. SU FV-1480-17.

  • PhD student position on blockchain technologies, Stirling (Scotland)

    Deadline: Thursday 15 June 2017

    A fully funded PhD studentship on Blockchain Technologies and Applications is available at the Computing Science and Mathematics division of the University of Stirling, UK.

    The project aims to develop a suitable framework to support the development of reliable and trustable blockchain-based decentralised applications - which currently present interesting and challenging research questions, including aspects of distributed consensus, proof-of-Xs and the "crypto-economics" of incentives, security and privacy. The project can be adapted to the latest developments in the technology, as well as specific interests or expertise of the student. The project will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Bracciali, within an international network with expertise including verification, game theory, and cryptography.

    For more information, see http://cs.stir.ac.uk/vacancies/div-phd-studentship.html or contact Dr. Bracciali at .
  • Two PhD student positions in computational linguistics, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Saturday 10 June 2017

    Two 4-year PhD positions are sollicited in computational linguistics, starting September 2017. Successful applicants will be participating in the project 'A composition calculus for vector-based semantic modelling with a localization for Dutch'.

    Focusing on empirical data from Dutch, the project aims to combine a vector-based modelling of lexical semantics with a typelogical compositional account of how word meanings are combined to obtain interpretations for larger linguistic units. The project is funded by the NWO Open Competition programme and will be conducted at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Principal investigator (PI) is Michael Moortgat.

  • PhD student and postdoctoral positions in Information Security, Stuttgart (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 May 2017

    The Institute of Information Security at University of Stuttgart offers several Ph.D. and Postdoc Positions in the fields System and Web Security, - Services and Cloud Computing Security, Cryptography (e.g., in the context of electronic voting), and Formal Methods in Security.

    The successful candidate should have a Master's degree or a Ph.D. (or should be very close to completion thereof) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Security, or a related field. We value strong analytical skills. Knowledge in one of the mentioned fields is an asset. Since some teaching is done in German, knowledge of German is required for positions that involve teaching.

    For more information, see https://sec.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/jobopenings or contact Prof. Dr. Ralf Küsters at .
  • Six PhD student positions in information governance technologies, Hamburg (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2017

    Six fulltime PhD positions (TV-L 13) are available in the project "Information Governance Technologies - Ethics, Policies, Architectures and Engineering". The project is a cooperation between the Universiy of Hamburg, the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research. It offers six junior researcher positions, which will be situated in law, ethics and informatics. The researchers from the various disciplines will work closely together, e.g. by collaborating in joint work packages under co-supervision of senior researchers from the various disciplines.

  • Two 4-year PhD positions in computational linguistics

    Deadline: Saturday 10 June 2017

    You will be participating in the project ‘A composition calculus for vector-based semantic modelling with a localization for Dutch’. Focusing on empirical data from Dutch, the project aims to combine a vector-based modelling of lexical semantics with a typelogical compositional account of how word meanings are combined to obtain interpretations for larger linguistic units. The project is funded by the NWO Open Competition programme and will be conducted at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Principal Investigator (PI) is Michael Moortgat.

  • Postdoctoral position in philosophy of science, Pasadena CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Friday 4 August 2017

    The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Instructorship in philosophy of science, broadly construed. The successful candidate will be expected to begin the appointment prior to the start of Caltech’s fall term on September 25, 2017, and to teach three (ten-week) undergraduate courses during each of the two years. The appointment is contingent upon completion of the Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professorship in Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, Umea (Sweden)

    Deadline: Monday 29 May 2017

    The Department of Computing Science at Umeå University welcomes applications for a position as Assistant Professor in Computer Science with focus on theoretical foundations of computational or computer science. The department has about 90 employees with a background from more than 20 countries. We seek a person who can complement existing expertise in theoretical foundations in artificial intelligence, language processing, machine learning or matrix computations.

    The purpose of the position as Assistant Professor is that the holder will be given the opportunity to develop his/her independence as a researcher and gain competence and experience that allows them to apply for other academic positions with higher eligibility requirements. The successful applicant is expected to conduct independent research, including involvement in the research environment at the department, supervision of doctoral students, participate in postgraduate courses, and actively seek external funding. The position is full-time research for four years but we also encourage participation in teaching up to a level of 20 %.

  • PhD Studentship in Digital Humanities

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2017

    The Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCLDIS) invites competitive applications for a three year fully funded doctoral research studentship in the area of Digital Humanities.

    The proposed studentship will be embedded in Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections, a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant awarded to the British Museum and UCL. The aim of the studentship will be to use Sloane’s catalogues as a test bed on which to conduct research on how digital interrogation, inferencing and analysis techniques can allow new knowledge to be created about the information architectures of manuscript catalogues such as those of Sloane. The proposed research must also have a strong critical and analytical dimension so that it can be set within our wider framework of academic inquiry that is concerned with understanding how collections and their documentation together formed a cornerstone of the “laboratories” of the emergent Enlightenment.

    For more information, see https://goo.gl/aSLPgq.
  • European Master's Programme in Computational Logic (EMCL)

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2017

    The EMCL is an international study programme offering as a joint degree within a consortium composed of four universities: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz), Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Technische Universität Wien (TUW) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA). EMCL provides the theoretical and practical knowledge required for professional practice in the wide interdisciplinary field having its roots in artificial intelligence, computer science, logic, linguistics and cognitive science. You will learn how to develop programs that enable computers to display behaviour that can be characterised as intelligent.

    For more information, see http://www.computational-logic.eu.
  • Stipendiary Lectureships in Logic, General Philosophy, & Moral Philosophy, Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Wednesday 3 May 2017

    Two Stipendiary Lectureships in Philosophy University of Oxford http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYM088/two-stipendiary-lectureships-in-philosophy/ Salary: £15,197 to £17,092 (depending on experience) Hours: Part Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Closes: 3rd May 2017

    Applications are invited for two Stipendiary Lectureships in Philosophy, tenable for 12 months from 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018. These posts have been created to replace (a) Professor Arntzenius's college duties following his retirement, pending the appointment of a permanent replacement with effect from October 2018, and (b) Professor Child's college duties during a fixed period of sabbatical leave, and are non-renewable.

    Each appointee will be required to provide seven hours of tutorials for the College per week, averaged over three eight-week terms, and to participate in the annual undergraduate admissions process, pastoral care of students and the administration of the subject in the college, including marking college examinations.

    We expect the two appointees between them to cover all the following subjects, although no single candidate will be expected to cover all of these areas. The two appointments will be made in the light of that requirement:

    Logic, General Philosophy, and Moral Philosophy, for first-year students.

    Knowledge and Reality, and Ethics, for second-year students.

    In addition, each appointee must be able to offer one or more other subjects from the list of options available to second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students. It might be an advantage to be able to teach Ancient Philosophy (preferably in Greek). The College has teaching needs in Plato's Meno and Euthyphro; Plato's Republic; Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

    The stipend will be in the range £15,197-£17,092 (depending on experience) plus a number of college benefits. The further particulars and application form can be downloaded from http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk, where further details about University College and the courses offered are also available.

    The closing date for applications and the last date for receipt of references direct from referees is 12 noon (UK time) on Wednesday 3 May 2017.

    Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 15 May 2017.

    Please note that this post would not entitle the successful applicant to apply for a Tier 2 UK Visa, and thus any applicant should ensure that they have the legal right to work in the UK for the period of the lectureship.

    University College is an equal opportunities employer. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

    Applications must be received before 3 May, 2017

  • Postdoctoral position (1y) in automata theory, Lyon (France)

    Deadline: Wednesday 19 July 2017

    A one-year postdoctoral position is available at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, LIP. The position is based in the Plume Team, currently composed of 12 permanent researchers and 12 postdocs/PhD students. The main topics of the team are the logical foundations of programming languages and the verification of formal systems. The topic of the postdoc is the study of good-for-games automata, an intermediate model between determinism and nondeterminism, with applications in verification and synthesis.

    We are looking for candidates with expertise in one or several of the following fields: automata theory, games, logic, verification. Candidates should hold a PhD in theoretical computer science or mathematics, in relation with the above fields. The position is available from September 2017, with flexibility on the starting date.

    For more information, see here or contact http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/PLUME/ at .
  • Research position on "Neural basis of language" (4y, TV-L E13), Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Monday 17 April 2017

    The NWO Gravitation consortium 'Language in Interaction' invites applications for a PI position. We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and talented researcher who is able to establish a PI group on 'the neural basis of language'. You and your group will enrich a unique consortium of researchers that aims to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms of language at multiple levels. The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour.

    You will be given the opportunity to establish your own independent research group, and you will have free access to the scanning facilities at Donders Institute. You will be expected to conduct research in one or more research areas relevant to the position applied for. Supervision of BSc, MSc and PhD projects will be part of your responsibilities. Administrative duties will include local and/or national and international committee memberships. You will be provided with budgetary resources for a PhD candidate or technician, materials and travelling. You will be eligible to apply for further funding both internally and externally.

    For more information, see https://www.languageininteraction.nl/jobs/pi-position.html or contact Prof. dr. Peter Hagoort at .
  • Senior postdoctoral position in "Language in Interaction", Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Monday 17 April 2017

    The Language in Interaction research consortium invites applications for a senior postdoctoral position. We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and talented candidate to enrich a unique consortium of researchers that aims to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms of language at multiple levels. The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour.

    You will be appointed at the Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Radboud University, Nijmegen). You will act in close collaboration with Peter Hagoort, programme director of the consortium. This position provides the opportunity for conducting world-class research as a member of an interdisciplinary team. Moreover, it will provide the opportunity to contribute to developing a theoretical framework for our understanding of the human language faculty.

  • Researcher positions (postdoc) in "Verification of Quantum Cryptography"

    Deadline: Thursday 1 June 2017

    At the Quantum Cryptography Group, University of Tartu, we have two open postdoc positions on Verification of Quantum Cryptography.

    We are starting a project in which we will develop methods for the
    verification of proofs in quantum cryptography. Similar to what the
    EasyCrypt tool does in classical cryptography. The scope of the project covers everything from the logical foundations, through the development of tools, to the verification of real quantum protocols.

    The ideal candidate would have experience in:
    * Semantics
    * Theorem proving
    * Verification of classical cryptography
    * Quantum cryptography
    * Quantum computation / communication
    Of course, expertise in all those areas is very rare, so candidates who are strong in some of those areas and are interested in the others are encouraged to apply!

    For more information, see http://crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/PostdocInVerificationOfQuantumCryptography or contact Dominique Unruh at .
  • PhD student position in theoretical philosophy, Klagenfurt (Austria)

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 May 2017

    A fixed-term pre-doc position (PhD-position for PhD student or advanced PhD student) is opening at the Department of Philosophy at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt.

    Beginning of term: 1 October 2017, available for 4 years. Monthly salary: E 2,731 (gross). Duties: Teaching duties (in theoretical philosophy as well as introductory classes; standard teaching language is German), research (writing PhD and further research), other administrative and research-oriented activities in cooperation with the Department.

  • Postdoctoral research fellowship in algorithmic game theory, Warwick (England)

    Deadline: Monday 1 May 2017

    A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the area of the algorithmic game theory is available for three years. The start date can be negotiated for the right candidate.

    The position is in connection with an EPSRC research grant of Dr Marcin Jurdzinski and Dr Ranko Lazic on solving parity games in theory and practice. Parity games are an intriguing problem class, because they are simple to state and have proven to be resistant to countless attempts to classify their complexity. At the same time, algorithms for solving parity games play a paramount role in model checking, satisfiability checking, and synthesis. The main objective of the post is to pursue cutting-edge research on algorithms and solvers for parity games, as well as mean payoff, discounted payoff, and simple stochastic games.

  • Postdoctoral positions (both senior and junior) in mathematics, Barcelona (Spain)

    Deadline: Wednesday 3 May 2017
    The Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics opens a call for 3 SENIOR postdoctoral positions in all areas of mathematics. The fellowships will be funded through the Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence Award (2015-2019).

    The researcher will be offered a temporary contract (full-time, fixed-term appointment) by Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, as management entity of the BGSMATH, and hosted by one of the BGSMath research groups. Each fellow will be mentored by a senior researcher at the hosting group. Funding is available from Sept 1st, 2017 to June 30th, 2019.

  • Postdoctoral position in solving parity games, Liverpool (England)

    Deadline: Friday 5 May 2017

    We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work on the project Solving Parity Games in Theory and Practice with Sven Schewe, John Fearnley, and Dominik Wojtczak. The project is in collaboration with the University of Warwick. Our vibrant team also includes a number of PhD students and international visitors.

    You can enjoy developing theories, algorithms, and/or tools for solving parity games or related games, such as mean payoff games. You should have a PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science or relevant subject and an excellent track record of publications in theoretical computer science, automata- and game-theory, verification, synthesis, and/or tool development.

    You can write to Sven (), Dominik (), or John () for informal inquiries.

  • Two lectureships & one senior lectureship in Computer Science, Liverpool (England)

    Deadline: Friday 5 May 2017

    The School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science invites applications for three academic positions in the Department of Computer Science. Two of the positions are at Lecturer level (grade 8) and the third is at Senior Lecturer/Reader level (grade 9).

    The three posts available sit within our core areas of AI and Algorithms and within these we seek candidates with research expertise in one or more of the following topics: Machine learning, Human-robot interaction, or AI and law. The Department is involved in a number of collaborations within and outside the University and as such is also keen to strengthen its base in interdisciplinary research.

  • Postdoctoral position (3y+3y) in mathematics (algebra or analysis or logic), Gent (Belgium)

    Deadline: Tuesday 18 April 2017

    There is a 3-year position available in Ghent in logic or algebra or analysis, with the possibility of an extension for another 3 years.

    At least 70% of your assignment will be spent on academic research. You will assist in teaching activities at the Bachelor's or Master's level, counsel students in their Bachelor's project, literature study, seminar and Master's dissertation, as well as counsel doctoral students.

  • Assistant Teaching Professorship in Mathematics (non-tenure track), Rolla MO (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Monday 3 April 2017
    The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Missouri University of Science and Technology invites applications for a full time, non-tenure-track teaching position beginning fall semester 2017. The initial rank would be Assistant Teaching Professor, with opportunities for promotion and career advancement. This position is renewable annually.

    Candidates must hold at least a master’s degree in mathematics or a related field and show documented success in teaching college-level mathematics courses. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a clear passion for teaching. The primary teaching duties of the successful candidate will be introductory level courses, calculus and below. A demonstrated ability to teach a wide range of courses, including courses at the junior and senior level in mathematics or statistics would be a plus.

    For more information, see https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/10152 or contact .
  • PhD student positions in multi-agent systems, London (England)

    Deadline: Monday 10 April 2017

    Applications are invited for fully-funded PhD positions in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, awarded on the basis of academic excellence to new students who will commence a research programme in Sep 2017.

    We are looking for applicants interested in Multi-Agent Systems.Applicants should have a Master's degree in computer science or  artificial intelligence, strong programming and organizational skills, and affinity for a scenario-based research approach.

    For more information, see http://dice.cs.rhul.ac.uk/new-phd-positions-multi-agent-systems/ or contact Prof Kostas Stathis at .
  • Four lectureships & one senior lectureship in computer science, Swansea (Wales)

    Deadline: Monday 26 June 2017

    Swansea University is intensifying its investments in Computer Science. It wishes to expand the scale, relevance and intellectual diversity of the subject. To this end the University has available 9 permanent academic posts at the rank of lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor. For five positions the research focus can be in any area of Computer Science. The posts can enhance existing areas, or bring in new areas that resonate with the Department.

    The Department would welcome applications from early career academics with a developing portfolio of research interests that that they believe have the potential to play a significant role in the future development of the discipline. Exceptional applicants with a more developed academic portfolio may be appointed to a higher grade.

    More information on these positions can be found following the links to the University's web site:
    4 Lecturers in Computer Science (Research) - http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingId=4537&nPostingTargetId=7579&LG=UK
    1 Senior Lecturer (Teaching) - http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=4526&nPostingTargetID=7564&lg=UK
    Or contact the Head of Department, Arnold Beckmann, who many will know through CiE:

  • Four PhD student positions in philosophy of science, Hannover (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 May 2017

    Leibniz Universität Hannover and Bielefeld University jointly seek to fill 4 Doctoral Candidate Positions (65% TV-L 13) in Ethics of Science and/or Philosophy of Science starting October 1st, 2017, within the Graduiertenkolleg (research training group) GRK 2073 "Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research". Initial appointment will be for 2.5 years. Given the successful extension of the GRK’s funding period, the position is renewable for another 6 months.  Two of the positions are expected to be located at Leibniz Universität Hannover and the other two at Bielefeld University.

  • Postdoctoral fellowships in history & philosophy of science, Jerusalem (Israel)

    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    The Edelstein Center for the history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the academic year 2017-2018. Applications are welcome from those who have Ph.D. in the history or philosophy of science or in the physical, life, or social sciences, obtained not earlier than 30 September 2012, or those who expect to be awarded a Ph.D. by September 2017.

    Fellows are expected to dedicate their time to research (and acknowledge the support of the Center in any relevant publication or lecture), to attend the Center regularly (office space is provided), and to participate throughout their fellowship in the Center's activities, such as colloquia, discussion groups, conferences and workshops. In addition, fellows are expected to contribute actively to the Center by initiating activities such as discussion groups or workshops. In the application, candidates should specify in what way they intend to contribute to the Center during their fellowship.

  • Senior Visiting Fellowships in History and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem (Israel)

    Deadline: Saturday 1 April 2017

    The Edelstein Center for the history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites scholars with seniority in the history and philosophy of science to spend up to 3 months (except during the summer vacation) at the Center in order to carry out their research and interact with the Israeli community of researchers in these fields.

    Senior Fellows are expected to dedicate their time to research (and acknowledge the support of the Center in any relevant publication or lecture) and to participate throughout their fellowship in the Center's activities, such as colloquia, discussion groups, conferences and workshops. In addition, the Senior Fellows are expected to contribute actively to the Center by initiating activities such as discussion groups or workshops, for which the Center will provide organizational assistance and possibly partial funding. In the application the candidates should specify clearly in what way they intend to contribute to the Center during their fellowship.

    For more information, contact .
  • PhD student position in formal verification of sensor networks, Liverpool (England)

    Deadline: Monday 17 April 2017

    The Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool offers a PhD position, commencing in October 2017, and associated with the Science of Sensor Systems Software research programme. This position is available to both UK and EU students, and we are looking for outstanding candidates with either a first class degree or a distinction at masters level in Computer Science or Mathematical Logic, together with the desire to undertake PhD study on the formal verification for wireless sensor networks.

  • Postdoctoral position and PhD student position in "Oligomorphic clones", Vienna (Austria)

    Deadline: Saturday 15 April 2017

    A postdoc and a PhD position are now available at the Institute of Computer Languages of the TU Vienna within the project "Oligomorphic clones" of the Austrian Science Fund, held by Michael Pinsker.

    The positions are to be filled as soon as possible. The duration of the postdoc position is one year, with possible prolongation. Requirements for the applicant are a clear commitment to science and interest in (some of) the topics of the project: universal algebra, model theory (homogeneous structures), Ramsey theory, constraint satisfaction. Although the project is carried out at the TU Vienna, there will be intensive collaboration with the Department of Algebra of Charles University in Prague.

     

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • LSE Fellowship in Logic (1y), London (England)

    Deadline: Monday 17 April 2017

    At the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method seeks applications for a one-year LSE Fellowship in Logic.

    This is a fixed term appointment for 12 months, starting from 1 September 2017. The post holder's primary responsibility will be to teach introductory and advanced courses in logic for undergraduates and MSc students. These courses cover deductive logic, formal reasoning involving probability, and set theory and further (e.g., modal) logic.

    For more information, see https://tinyurl.com/jy8k3hb or contact .
  • PhD student position in quantitative logics and automata, Dresden (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 11 May 2017

    the DFG Research Training Group GRK 1763 'Quantitative Logics and Automata' offers 1 Position (fulltime, salary group E 13 TV-L) for a Doctoral Student. Applicants should be interested in performing high-quality research on the connection between quantitative logics and automata as well as their applications in verification, knowledge representation, natural language processing, or constraint solving. The start date is October 1, 2017.

  • PhD student or postdoc position in description logic, Bremen (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The University of Bremen, Department 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science), invites applications for one Research Assistant / Postdoc / PhD Student position in Computer Science. The position is associated with the research group "theory of artificial intelligence", led by Carsten Lutz, which carries out research on description logic, ontology languages, database theory, and logic in computer science.

    The position is suited for Postdocs as well as for PhD students and can be used for scientific qualification (PhD, habilitiation). The successful candidate will reinforce the research group both in teaching and research. (S)he is expected to support the introductory lectures on theoretical computer science given by the group. Depending on qualification, it is also possible to offer own lectures.

    For more information, see here or at http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/cms/detail.php?id=87235 or contact Carsten Lutz at .
  • Postdoctoral research fellowship on category theory, North Ride NSW (Australia)

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The category theory group at Macquarie is currently advertising a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on a project entitled "Enriched categories: new applications in geometry and logic". The position is expected to start in the second half of this year.

  • PhD and PostDoc position in "Data, Knowledge, Society", Hamburg (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 6 April 2017

    A PhD position (3 years, full-time) and a PostDoc position (full-time, 3 years + possibility of 3 years extension) are available in the newly established research group "Ethics in Information Technologies" at the University of Hamburg. For both positions we are looking for candidates with degrees in philosophy or related, relevant disciplines. Candidates from mathematics or informatics are also encouraged to apply, if they can demonstrate solid philosophical expertise.

    In our research group "Ethics in Information Technologies" we analyze the ethical, epistemic, political and societal premises and implications of digital technologies. Based at the Department of Informatics, we also cooperate closely with colleagues from the Informatics department and actively participate in the design and development of new technologies. We further contribute to the academic, public and political debate around digitalisation.

    For more information, see https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/06-04-17-117-en.pdf (for the PhD position) or https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/06-04-17-118-en.pdf (for the Postdoc Position), or contact the head of the research group, Prof. Dr. Judith Simon, at .

     

  • PhD scholarships in computer science, Toulouse (France)

    Deadline: Tuesday 9 May 2017

    The Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) offers a number of PhD scholarships on all topics in computer science, especially subjects such as logics for multiagent systems, logics of action, epistemic logic, and computational social choice. PhD contracts start between September and December. The scholarships last for three years.

    The application process consists in first making contacts with a researcher at IRIT who will act as supervisor, prepare a scientific project together, and then pass an interview at the beginning of June. Candidates will be evaluated on the quality of their track-record, on the research project proposed, and on the coherence of the student profiles with both the research project and the supervisor(s) chosen.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.irit.fr/ or contact .
  • Assistant/Associate Professorship (tenure track) in computational linguistics, Trento (Italy)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 March 2017

    The Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest from highly motivated scholars in view of the opening of a principal investigator position at the level of Tenure Track Assistant Professor. Candidates who have already a tenured position elsewhere or holders of prestigious fellowships with duration of at least three years (e.g. ERC Grants) may be considered directly for a Tenured Associate Professor position.

    The successful candidate will work in the CIMeC Language, Interaction and Computation Lab. He/she is expected to be interested in interacting with the rest of CIMeC faculty on general cognitive and neurocognitive issues, and help developing cutting-edge research at the intersection between computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics and general cognition. Knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required.

    For more information, see here or at http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/ or contact .
  • University of Bath: PhD Position in Logic for Decision Making in Security

    Deadline: Tuesday 14 March 2017

    This PhD project will develop the theory and applications of this Compliance Budget Logic. The basic theory of the logic will be developed, followed by its application to security decision-making. For example, we may study how the interaction of multiple security policies and multiple budgets (e.g. users’ own time, laptop battery life, etc) may be described and analysed via our logic. Some of this work will be carried out in collaboration with leading security researchers at University College London.

    Main supervisor: Professor Guy McCusker, University of Bath. Second supervisor: Professor David Pym, University College London.
    Anticipated start date: 2 October 2017.

  • PhD position in SAT solving at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The TCS Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for a PhD position in computer science focused on SAT solving.

    The PhD student will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordstrom. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of efficient algorithms for satisfiability in propositional logic (SAT solving) and lower bounds on the efficiency of methods for reasoning about SAT (proof complexity). This is a four-year full-time employed position, but PhD positions usually (though not necessarily) include 20% teaching, in which case they are prolonged for one more year. The successful candidate is expected to start at the latest in August-September 2017, although this is to some extent negotiable. The position is fully funded and comes with a competitive salary.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0118-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Postdoc positions in SAT solving at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The TCS Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for a postdoc position in computer science focused on SAT solving.

    The postdoctoral researcher will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordstrom. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of efficient algorithms for satisfiability in propositional logic (SAT solving) and lower bounds on the efficiency of methods for reasoning about SAT (proof complexity). This postdoc position is a full-time employed position for one year with a possible one-year extension. The expected starting date is in August-September 2017, although this is to some extent negotiable.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0119-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Postdoc positions in Theoretical Computer science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for postdoctoral positions in theoretical computer science.

    The postdoctoral researchers will be working in the research group of Jakob Nordström. Much of the activities of this research group revolve around the themes of proof complexity and SAT solving. The group currently consists of two postdoctoral researchers and four PhD students (in addition to the PI). There are also several other professors, postdocs, and PhD students in the TCS Group working on other aspects of algorithms and computational complexity. These postdoc positions are full-time employed positions for one year with a possible one-year extension. The expected starting date is in August-September 2017, although this is to some extent negotiable.

    For more information, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/D-2017-0137-Eng.php or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • PhD positions in Theoretical Computer science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017

    The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for up to four PhD positions in theoretical computer science.

    The PhD positions are in the area of computational complexity theory, focusing on questions at the intersection of approximation algorithms, subexponential algorithms, and proof complexity. The overarching goal is to understand fundamental properties of efficient computation by proving mathematical theorems about the power and limitations of different computational models. This research project is led by Johan Håstad, Per Austrin, and Jakob Nordström. In addition to the PIs and the announced PhD positions, the research project will also involve 2-3 existing PhD students and 3-4 postdocs.

    For more information, see http://apc.csc.kth.se/D-2017-0117-Eng.php or contact APC co-PIs at .
  • 1 Postdoc positino and 1 Research Fellowship in Mathematics, Prague (Czech Republic)

    Deadline: Monday 17 April 2017

    A two-year Postdoctoral position and a two-year Research Fellowship have opened in the Institute of Mathematics in Prague. The positions starts June 1; the deadline for applications is April 17.

    For more information, see http://www.math.cas.cz/recrutements/postes.php?lang=0 or contact the Project Manager, Dr. Beata Kubis . at .
  • PhD student positions in artificial intelligence, Manchester (England)

    Deadline: Friday 17 March 2017

    PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE University of Manchester, UK Available for 2017 entry

    Application deadline: 17 March 2017

    The University of Manchester boasts one of the most innovative and successful schools of computer science in the world. Manchester saw the birth of computer science, with the creation of the world's first stored-program computer. We continue to work on pioneering research including cutting-edge image processing software, new technologies to exploit the power of the web, medical imaging software and low-power chip design.

    In REF2014, the most recent research assessment, we were ranked in the top 5% in the UK (4th out of 89 submissions) based on GPA for Computer Science and Informatics. REF2014 also assessed that The University of Manchester is the best environment in the UK for computer science and informatics research, and 94% of our research was classed as "world-leading" (4*) or "internationally excellent" (3*). All of our impact case studies were ranked 3* and 4*, which puts us joint-top for research impact.

    The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following fully-funded studentships for September 2017 entry:

    THE JAMES ELSON STUDENTSHIP

    The James Elson Studentship Award in Artificial Intelligence will provide an outstanding candidate with fees and an enhanced stipend to carry out a 3-year PhD research project relating to Artificial Intelligence, for September 2017 entry. This studentship has been established as a result of a bequest from James Elson, who passed away in 2012 after a long battle with cancer. Last year we awarded a James Elson Studentship in Cancer Research due to the nature of James' illness; this year the studentship focus is on Artificial Intelligence - the area of James' MEng dissertation whilst here at Manchester. The James Elson studentships are available for UK and EU nationals eligible to pay 'Home' fees. A list of eligible projects and further information about this studentship can be found on the School of Computer Science website:

    http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/programmes/phd/funding/james-elson/.

    The deadline for this studentship is Friday 17th March.

    SCHOOL STUDENTSHIPS

    A number of School studentships are available for UK and EU nationals for both 3-year PhD and the 4-year CDT PhD programmes in Computer Science.

    The 3-year PhD studentships pay all tuition fees and a stipend award for 3 years. Applicants must be eligible to pay 'home' fees. There will normally be opportunities to undertake some teaching, in the form of laboratory demonstration. A number of fees-only studentships are also available for international students. The School supports mid-year as well as the standard September entry point.

    The 4-year CDT PhD studentships are offered through our Centre for Doctoral Training, and are available for applicants eligible to pay 'home' fees. The programme consists of an initial 'foundation period' of six months of taught components, followed by a 3.5 year period of focused PhD level research, carried out under the supervision of a PhD supervisor or team of supervisors.

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Further information about these studentships can be found on the Funding section of the School of Computer Science website

    http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/programmes/phd/funding/school-studentships/.

    For further information about PhD study, funding and admissions, please contact our Postgraduate Research admissions team: or +44(0)161 275 0699.

    Applications must be received before 17 March, 2017

  • Three PhD student positions on algorithmic techniques for automated planning, Delft (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    The Algorithmics research group of Delft University of Technology offers three PhD positions on the development of algorithmic techniques for automated planning and scheduling.

    The first PhD position is within the NWO TOP project LearnSDM, and focuses on combining machine learning and model checking to learn and evaluate models for sequential decision making. The second and third positions are position are within the NWO project FlexI, and concern developing algorithms for planning under uncertainty for optimizing flexible energy use in industry, and forstrategic decision-making regarding longer-term investments and trading, respectively.

    For more information, see http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/vacancies/.
  • PhD student position in logic & security, London (England)

    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    Applications are invited for a PhD position at the Information Security Group of the UCL Department of Computer Science, funded by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The successful candidate will also be a member of the Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification (PPLV) Group. The studentship is open only to UK nationals because of the funder's eligibility requirements. The start-date for the studentship will be no later than October 2017 (this cannot be delayed).

    The successful candidate will develop logical and mathematical models of access control policies in physical and information systems, including the architectural and behavioural issues that affect the extent to which an implemented system complies with policies. The aim of the project is to develop a framework for modelling access control policies and their implementation in system architectures and will provide tools for reasoning about the circumvention of policies in the presence of behaviours that are driven by competing priorities.

    For more information, see https://www.prism.ucl.ac.uk/#!/?project=206 or contact Sarah Turnbull at .
  • Post-doc position on Distributional Semantics

    Two-year post-doc position at the Computational Linguistic Laboratory (CoLing Lab: http://colinglab.humnet.unipi.it/) of the University of Pisa (with the possibility of further extensions).Topic of the research: distributional models of sentence comprehension and dynamic semantic representations.

    Applicants should hold a PhD degree in computational linguistics, computational psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive science or related field. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply.

    For more information, see here or contact Alessandro Lenci at .
  • Postdoctoral fellowships in philosophy, Mexico City (Mexico)

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 March 2017

    The Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), offers postdoctoral research fellowships (one year, with possible renewal for a second year).

    The deadline for applications is March 1st, 2017. All documents must be received by this date. The fellowship begins on September 1st, 2017. The starting date is not deferrable.

  • University of Gdansk: Assistant Professorship in mathematical philosophy

    Deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2017

    An Assistant Professorship (“adiunkt” in Polish terminology) in the Chair of Logic, Philosophy of Science and Epistemology is available at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdansk, Poland. The position is to start some time between July 1 and September 1, 2017, for a fixed period of time with the possibility of extension. Decisions about the exact beginning date of the contract and the number of years will be made during the hiring process. The successful candidate will be expected to do research in mathematical philosophy, teach about 230 hrs per academic year, apply for external research funding, participate in the research activities of the Chair, in the life of the department, and in the administrative work as necessary.

  • Rosalind Franklin Fellowships in Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Groningen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Tuesday 31 January 2017

    The University of Groningen has initiated the prestigious Rosalind Franklin Fellowship programme to promote the advancement of talented international researchers at the highest levels of the institution. The programme is aimed at women in academia, research institutes or industry who have a PhD and would like a tenure-track position leading to a full professorship in a top European research university. Successful candidates will be expected to establish an independent, largely externally funded research programme in collaboration with colleagues at our Faculty and elsewhere. They will also be expected to participate in and contribute to the development of the teaching programme of their discipline.

    In the next round of Rosalind Franklin Fellowships, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has five Rosalind Franklin Fellowships to offer in the disciplines:
    - Fundamental Computer Science
    - Fundamental Mathematics, Mathematical Data Analysis, Complex Systems
    - Mechanical Engineering
    - Artificial Intelligence
    - Bioinformatics

    For more information, see http://www.rug.nl/fwn/organization/vacatures/vacatures/rff/ or contact Ms Dr Y.E.F.M. Jeuken at .
  • Associate Professorship in Automated Verification, Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Friday 3 March 2017

    Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) of Automated Verification to be held in the Department of Computer Science starting as soon as possible. The successful candidate will also be appointed as Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science at St. John's College.

    The Department is seeking to recruit an Associate Professor in Computer Science, with a research specialism in automated verification and synthesis, ideally complementing existing expertise. This is an area of fundamental importance in the design, evaluation and construction of software and systems (design flaws in applications such as autonomous vehicles can have devastating consequences, for example). The Associate Professor?s research will focus on developing theories and techniques to ensure system correctness and employing them in novel application domains. The appointee will also contribute to teaching on the Department's highly successful undergraduate and graduate programmes.

  • Postdoctoral position (5y) in computational logic, Innsbruck (Austria)

    Deadline: Thursday 2 February 2017

    The University of Innsbruck invites applications for a 5 year postdoctoral position in the Computational Logic research group. Candidates must hold a PhD degree in computer science. A strong background in computational logic (in particular automated and interactive theorem proving, SMT solving, term rewriting, type theory) is desired. The ideal candidate enjoys working with students at all levels. Candidates are expected to conduct research leading to a habilitation and contribute to teaching and administration. Knowledge of German is not essential.

  • Two postdoctoral positions in "trusted quantum software via a formally verified functional quantum programming language", Halifax NS (Canada)

    Deadline: Friday 20 January 2017

    Peter Selinger invites applications for two postdoctoral position, starting early in 2017 (ideally in February or March), at Dalhousie University under his supervision.

    The successful applicants will work on a project entitled "Trusted Quantum Software via a Formally Verified Functional Quantum Programming Language". Specifically, the project involves the design and semantics of a functional programming language for quantum computing, loosely modelled on the Quipper language. It will also involve developing the meta-theory of the language, and eventually the formalization of some of this meta-theory in a proof assistant. The research project is part of a team effort, also involving collaborators from Tulane, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Iowa, and the University of Pennsylvania.

    For more information, see here or at http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/ or contact Peter Selinger at .
  • Postdoctoral position in formal methods, Bordeaux (France)

    Deadline: Tuesday 11 April 2017

    The Formal Methods group at LaBRI, Bordeaux University, is advertising a 1-year full-time postdoctoral position. The successful applicant will join a research group working on the project Delta (Défis pour la Logique, les Transducteurs et les Automates). The position will be open from January 2017 and applications will be considered until the position is filled.

    For more information, see here or at http://delta.labri.fr or contact Marc Zeitoun at .
  • Several associate and assistant professorships in CS (including TCS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017

    The School of Computer Science and Communication at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications for several tenured associate professorships in computer science. These positions include two positions specializing in Software Engineering, one in Machine Learning, and one position with a broad profile, covering all research areas currently represented at the school including theoretical computer science. All of these positions have an application deadline of February 17, 2017.

    For more information, see http://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/larare-1.572162 or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Assistant Professorship in Theoretical Philosophy, Zuerich (Switzerland)

    Deadline: Sunday 19 February 2017

    The University of Zurich invites applications for an Assistant Professorship Tenure Track in Philosophy with a focus on Theoretical Philosophy. The post should be filled by August 1, 2018. After two temporary three-year contracts it will become tenured, on the condition that the candidate successfully completes the evaluation process.

    For more information, see http://www.phil.uzh.ch/jobs.html or contact Prof. Dr. Hans-Johann Glock at .
  • Postdoctoral/PhD student positions in "From Perception to Belief and Back Again", Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 15 February 2017

    The Ruhr-University Bochum is inviting applications for the positions of one Post-Doc Research Associate (TV-L E13, 100%, including social benefits; 3 years + option to extend 1 year) and either one PhD-Student (TV-L E13, 65%, including social benefits; 3 years) or one Post-Doc Research Associate (TV-L E13, 100%, including social benefits; 2 years) within the Emmy-Noether Research Group From Perception To Belief and Back Again under the direction of Peter Brössel. The positions will start May 1st, 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter.

    The successful candidate will have a PhD (for a Post-Doc position) or a Master's degree (for a PhD-student position) in philosophy or in cognitive science, respectively.  In addition, the appointee will have at least one of the following areas of specialization: cognitive science, epistemology (formal or non-formal epistemology), philosophy of cognition, philosophy of language, or philosophy of science. The appointee will be expected to carry out research relevant for the aims of the research project. The positions come without teaching obligations and no German language competency is required. An excellent command of English is necessary.

    For more information, see https://fromperceptiontobelief.wordpress.com/vacancies/ or contact Peter Brössel at .
  • Postdoctoral position in artificial intelligence, Cardiff (Wales)

    Deadline: Saturday 4 February 2017

    Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in Cardiff University's School of Computer Science & Informatics.

    This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 30 months, starting on 1 March 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be dedicated to finding creative solutions and have a genuine curiosity and enthusiasm to undertake world-class research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, the aim of this post will be to develop novel methods for learning interpretable/symbolic models from diverse sources of information, including knowledge graphs, vector space models and natural language text. These models will then be used as background theories in applications such as recognising textual entailment, automated knowledge base completion, or zero-shot learning. You will work closely with Steven Schockaert. You will possess or be near the completion of a PhD in Computer Science or a related area, or have relevant industrial experience.

    This research will be part of the ERC project FLEXILOG.

    For more details about the project and instructions on how to apply, please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs and search the Academic Vacancies for job 5545BR. Please note the requirement to evidence all essential criteria in the supporting statement.

  • Visiting Fellowships in Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Wednesday 25 January 2017

    The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) invites applications for visiting fellowships for the calendar year 2017. Short visits of several weeks are also possible; however, we encourage applicants to stay for a longer period.

    The fellowships are intended for advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs or faculty. Applicants should be keen on being an active part of a lively research community and on intellectual exchange with the resident fellows of TiLPS. The work of the candidates should relate to logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, ethics, or political philosophy. They should be committed to interdisciplinary and collaborative work, in line with the overall profile of TiLPS.

Past appointments

Miscellaneous

  • ILLC professors among those holding new Jin Yuelin Chair at Tsinghua University

    Jin Yuelin is the founding father of modern logic in China, as well as a pioneer in establishing bridges in the field of philosophy between China and the West. After receiving his doctorate at Columbia University in 1920, he returned to Beijing to lecture on mathematical logic, and then went on to create the department of philosophy at Tsinghua University. In 2017, Tsinghua University decided to institute a Jin Yuelin Visiting Chair to support the activities of its Logic Center that has been in existence since 2014.

    For more information, see http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=975 or contact Johan van Benthem at .
  • Christian Schaffner interviewed by tweakers.net

    Christian Schaffner was interviewed by tweakers.net for an extensive article about the dangers of quantum computers for cryptography.

  • 24 - 26 November 2017, ICTS maintenance planned

    Date: 24 - 26 November 2017

    From 24-26 November 2017 ICTS has planned major maintenance to its core systems. This means that on 24 and 25 November several ICT services will be offline. In addition, in Science Park the network will not be reachable.

    For more information, contact Peter van Ormondt at .
  • Launch of the Chinese translation of Rens Bod's book: A New History of Humanities

    Today (the 20th of November 2017) in Beijing Rens Bod will present the Chinese translation of his book to the Tsinghua-UvA Joint Research Center in Logic. The title is `A New History of Humanities'. Among those present will be the President of Tsinghua University, the Dean of the School of Humanities and the Dutch Deputy Ambassador.

    For more information, contact Rens Bod at .
  • Marcin Mostowski 1955-2017

    Professor Marcin Mostowski has passed away last Saturday, October 28th, 2017. He was an extremely inspiring teacher, great friend, charismatic logician and philosopher.

    For more information, see here or contact Jakub Szymanik at .
  • New Book on Trends in Computational Social Choice

    We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access book on Trends in Computational Social Choice.

  • ERC Starting Grant for Luca Incurvati

    We are very pleased to announce that the European Research Council (ERC) has just awarded a Starting Grant to six
    researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), including
    Luca Incurvati at ILLC (Faculty of Humanities), for his project
    From the Expression of Disagreement to New Foundations for
    Expressivist Semantics. A Starting Grant is a personal grant of
    about 1.5 million euros and provides research support to talented
    researchers for a period of five years.

  • Benedikt Löwe on the Executive Committee of CIPSH

    At the General Assembly of the Conseil International de Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH) on 6 August 2017 in Liège (Belgium), Benedikt Löwe was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of CIPSH for the period of three years (2017-2020). CIPSH is the global representation of the humanities within UNESCO, founded in 1949 at the request of UNESCO to bring together national and international non-governmental organisations in the human sciences.

    For more information, see http://www.cipsh.net/.
  • Miquel Fernandez Moll on the Logically Speaking podcast #4

    Miquel Fernandez Moll (MoL student) appeared on the Logically Speaking podcast episode #4. He spoke about his award winning essay 'The mission of University', which discusses the values, challenges and human face of the university.

  • The Logically Speaking Podcast is live!

    Location: ILLC, Amsterdam

    The Logically Speaking podcast is a podcast mostly about logic-related topics. The first three episodes featuring MoL students Silvan Hungerbühler, Saul Fernandez, Robert Passman and Isa Steinecker are now available on itunes.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.facebook.com/TheLogicallySpeakingPodcast/ or contact Max van den Broek at .
  • MoL student selected for internship Infosys

    Krsto Próroković of MSc Logic has been selected for a (summer) internship at Infosys, congratulation Krsto!

  • New online course on Python available (Dutch only)

    In deze cursus gaan cursisten werken met de programmeertaal Python, om te leren wetenschappelijke problemen uit de verschillende bètawetenschappen op te lossen. De cursus is bedoeld voor mensen die nog helemaal geen ervaring hebben met programmeren. Trouwens: het is ook heel leuk om de cursus met z’n tweeën te doen, dan kun je discussiëren over hoe je de problemen aanpakt.

    Het doel is dat je na de cursus zelf verder kunt leren, en waar nodig, je eigen programmaatjes gaat schrijven om je te helpen tijdens je studie, in het onderzoek of buiten de universiteit. De cursus bestaat uit vier modules en voor elke module kun je kiezen uit meerdere opties. Doe wat je leuk lijkt!

    For more information, see http://www.semesterofcode.nl.
  • Contribute to the Amsterdam Science Magazine

    Are you conducting your research at one of the Amsterdam universities or research institutes? Are you eager to share your exciting research with others? Are there developments in your field that we should all know about? Then contribute to the next issue.

    Please use the official form to submit a contribution. One of the editors will contact you, primed to hear about your own exciting story or striking image, and to discuss with you how it could reach a broad audience via publication in the magazine.

  • Call for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2018/2019

    The NIAS-Lorentz Program *calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group* (NLTG) 2018/2019: http://www.nias-lorentz.nl/program.html.

    The (extended) deadline for application with a pre-proposal is 15 March 2017.

    The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 by NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Wassenaar) and the Lorentz Center (Workshop Center in the Sciences; Leiden).

    The NIAS-Lorentz Program promotes innovative interdisciplinary research that brings together perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities on the one hand and the Natural Sciences and Technologies on the other. This program gives special attention to topics of societal importance that require extensive collaboration across traditional scientific boundaries in order to progress. An NLTG can particularly benefit early/mid-career researchers who wish to explore and open a new interdisciplinary scientific field.

    For more information, see http://www.nias-lorentz.nl/program.html or contact Petry Kievit at .
  • Nick Bezhanishvili: Lecturer in the Spotlight

    Nick Bezhanishvili (ILLC) teaches two courses in the Master’s programme Logic, as well as a logic course in the second year of the Mathematics Bachelor’s programme. In his research he studies mathematical structures arising from logic.

  • Martin Stokhof appointed vice-president of the ERC

    Martin Stokhof has been appointed to Vice-president of the European Research Council. The Scientific Council, the ERC's governing body, defines the scientific funding strategy and methodologies. It acts on behalf of the scientific community in Europe to promote creativity and innovative research.

  • Harry Buhrman appointed as distinguished research professor

    Professor H.M. Buhrman (ILLC) and Professor J.N. H. Reek (IBED) have been appointed as distinguished research professors at the Faculty of Science with effect from 1 January 2017. The professors will succeed the current distinguished research professors, Jos Engelen and Kareljan Schoutens. Harry Buhrman, professor of computing science at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, will serve as the figurehead for the quantum software consortium QuSoft and work to develop it further in his capacity as a distinguished research professor.

  • Benedikt Loewe appointed on joint Strategy Working Group of ICSU and ISSC

    Benedikt Loewe has been appointed to serve on the joint Strategy Working Group of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC).[b][b]ICSU and ISSC are the highest international bodies for the sciences and social sciences, respectively. The two councils consist of national members, represented by national research councils or national academies (e.g., the Netherlands are represented by the KNAW) and international scientific unions acting as the global representatives of individual scientific disciplines. The mandate of the Strategy Working Group is the development of the strategy of the new institution, taking into account the interdisciplinary connections between the natural and the social sciences. Benedikt Loewe represents the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).

    For more information, see http://www.icsu.org/road-to-2018/strategy-working-group or contact Benedikt Loewe at .

Former Regular Events

  • QuSoft Seminar

    Date & Time: Friday, 11:00-12:00
    Location: Room L016, CWI, Science Park 123, Amsterdam

    The QuSoft seminar is the weekly meeting of researchers involved with QuSoft, the national research center for quantum software. Talks cover topics from physics, computer science and mathematics. The seminar usually takes place on Friday morning and is followed by a free lunch!

    For more information, see http://www.qusoft.org/events2-directory-2/.
  • Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar

    The AMS Seminar is organized by a small group of researchers at the University of Amsterdam, who meet regularly to discuss recent work on topics within metaphysics and adjacent areas.

    For a schedule, see the website. If you want to join, or receive emails from the mailing list, please notify one of the organizers.