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  • 21 December 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Malihe Alikhani

    Date & Time: Tuesday 21 December 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Malihe Alikhani (University of Pittsburgh)
    Title: Learning to Connect Images and Text for Natural Communication
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 20 December 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Lars Birkedal

    Date & Time: Monday 20 December 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Lars Birkedal
    Title: Iris: A Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic Framework
    Location: Zoom

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

    This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic .

  • 20 December 2021, Reading Group on Causal Learning (Causal Inference Lab)

    Date & Time: Monday 20 December 2021, 14:10-15:30
    Location: Hybrid Form (look at our website)

    Our main reading is Peters, Jonas, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf. 2017. Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms. The MIT Press. [pdf]

    For the next meeting, we have to read:

    1) Chapter 5 "Connections to Machine Learning, I"

    2) Chapter 6 "Multivariate Causal Models" until Subchapter 6.5 "Markov Property, Faithfulness, and Causal Minimality".

    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/cil/page_Reading-Group/ or contact Evan Iatrou at .
  • 17 December 2021, DIP Colloquium, Magdalena Kaufmann

    Date & Time: Friday 17 December 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Magdalena Kaufmann (Connecticut)
    Title: Topics in conjunctions are conditional
    Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/86242098185
  • 16 December 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Branden Fitelson

    Date & Time: Thursday 16 December 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University, Boston)
    Title: Probabilities of Conditionals & Conditional Probabilities — Revisited
    Location: Online
  • 15 December 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Johannes Kloibhofer

    Date & Time: Wednesday 15 December 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Johannes Kloibhofer (ILLC)
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Tobias Kappé at .
  • 15 December 2021, Stress relief for PhDs

    Date & Time: Wednesday 15 December 2021, 15:00-17:00
    Location: Online

    In 2021, the Faculty of Science organizes multiple editions of the stress relief workshop for PhDs given by a psychologist. First, you will practice some mindfulness to help you slow down and take better care of yourself. After that, you will also have time to share difficult work situations and support each other. Let's prevent the negative effects of stress together!

  • 15 December 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Alessio Guglielmi

    Date & Time: Wednesday 15 December 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Alessio Guglielmi
    Title: Totally Linear Proofs for Classical Logics
    Location: Online via Zoom
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    14 December 2021, ILLC Midwinter Colloquium 2021, Online

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 December 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Location: Online

    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.

    The current organisers of the colloquium are Malvin Gattinger and Aybüke Özgün.

    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/ or contact Aybüke Özgün and Malvin Gattinger at .
  • 14 December 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Marcus Rossberg

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 December 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Marcus Rossberg (Connecticut)
    Title: An Inferentialist Redundancy Theory of Truth
    Location: Online

    This talk is online, please contact the organizer for details.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 14 December 2021, ILLC Midwinter Colloquium 2021

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 December 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Location: Online

    Dear colleagues,

    You will have noticed that due to you-know-what there has been no ILLC colloquium during this year. We do not want to let the year end without bringing the ILLC together, even if it has to be online. We will have the following programme, consisting of talks from three different research units.

    - 16h00-16h30 Sandro Pezzelle (NLP&DH)

    Visually-grounded semantics in human speakers and deep neural networks

    - 16h30-17h00 Milica Denić (LMC)

    Inferring cognitive representations underlying the meanings of numerals

    - 17h00-17h30 Tobias Kappé (MCL)

    Leapfrog: Certified Equivalence for Protocol Parsers

    After the talks everyone is welcome to stay online - but obviously you will have to bring your own hot chocolate or beer!

    To access the event, use the following link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83631435297

    Looking forward to see you,

    The ILLC Colloquium organizers

    (Aybuke and Malvin)

    For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/.
  • 10 December 2021, Cool Logic, Amity Aharoni and Rodrigo Almeida

    Date & Time: Friday 10 December 2021, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: Amity Aharoni and Rodrigo Almeida (ILLC)
    Title: Brouwer's Intuitionism: Philosophy, the Continuum, and boxing with your Feet
    Location: Room D1.111, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    When mathematicians and logicians hear the term 'intuitionism' they often think about the law of excluded middle, weak proof systems, and Heyting's formalisation of his teacher's philosophy. In this talk we will look at Brouwer's philosophy and mathematics of intuitionism, tracing some of the philosophical underpinnings, and motivating his mathematical results with contemporary mathematical tools. In it, we emphasise Brouwer's attempt to undermine the place of logic in the foundation of philosophy, replacing it with a special notion of 'intuition'.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/122 or contact Vasily Romanovskiy and Tibo Rushbrooke at .
  • 9 December 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Giorgio Sbardolini

    Date & Time: Thursday 9 December 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Giorgio Sbardolini
    Title: Coordination without Common Knowledge
    Location: Online
  • 7 December 2021, EXPRESS / PhilMath Seminar, Lucas Rosenblatt

    Date & Time: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Lucas Rosenblatt (Buenos Aires)
    Title: Theories of Paradoxicality
    Location: Online via Zoom

    A lot has been written on solutions to the semantic paradoxes but very little on the topic of general theories of paradoxicality. The reason for this, I believe, is that in most cases it is not easy to disentangle a solution to the paradoxes from a specific conception of what those paradoxes consist in. In this talk I want to do things differently. I will first address the question of what one should expect from a theory of paradoxicality. Then I will present and critically evaluate a number of theories that have been offered in the literature. The main claim I want to make is that, in many respects, these theories needn’t be seen as competing with one another. This is joint work with Camila Gallovich.

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Lwenn Bussière at .
  • 6 December 2021, Reading group: Elements of Causal Inference (Causal Inference Lab)

    Date & Time: Monday 6 December 2021, 14:10-15:40
    Location: Hybrid Form (look at our website)

    Main reading: Peters, Jonas, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf. 2017. Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms. The MIT Press.

    For the next meeting, we have to:
    - Work on the problems of Chapter 3.5 "Problems" (pp. 39-41)For programming, prefer R.Submit solutions to the drive file [link in our website], so that others can access them for discussion.
    - Read Chapter 4 "Learning Cause-Effect Models" (pp. 43-70)

    At the beginning of the meeting, Matt will give a 10' presentation on the main arguments of the Dawid (2021) and Janzing et al. (2016) papers in the "Suggested Readings" [see website].

    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/cil/page_Reading-Group/ or contact Evan Iatrou at .
  • 4 December 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Tristan van der Vlugt

    Date & Time: Saturday 4 December 2021, 11:00
    Speaker: Tristan van der Vlugt (Hamburg)
    Title: Slalom cardinals
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • DIP Colloquium cancelled

    Speaker: Michael Franke
    Title: Probabilistic Models of Question and Answer Choices
    Location: Online

    Michael Franke's talk at the DIP Colloquium, originally scheduled for tomorrow, is cancelled. We hope to reschedule it for some time in the Spring (date TBD), and to see Michael very soon!

  • 2 December 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Adam Brandenburger

    Date & Time: Thursday 2 December 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Adam Brandenburger
    Title: Agreement and Disagreement in a Non-Classical World
    Location: Online
  • 1 December 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Raoul Koudijs

    Date & Time: Wednesday 1 December 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Raoul Koudijs (ILLC)
    Title: Finite Model Property and Bisimulation for the Logic of Functional Dependence (LFD)
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Tobias Kappé at .
  • 30 November 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Dennis Paperno

    Date: Tuesday 30 November 2021
    Speaker: Dennis Paperno (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS)
    Title: On Compositional Generalization of Transformer Models for Toy Tasks
    Location: Room A1.14, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 26 November 2021, Cool Logic, Vasily Romanovskiy

    Date & Time: Friday 26 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
    Speaker: Vasily Romanovskiy
    Title: Ramsey's Representation Theorem for degrees of belief
    Location: Room D1.116, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    In his pioneering ‘Truth and Probability’ (1931), Frank Ramsey sets out an influential account of the nature, measurement, and norms of partial belief. The centrepiece of this work is a representation theorem that allows Ramsey to construct a unique probability function representing an agent’s subjective degrees of confidence. In many ways, this marks the birth of decision theory as a field and the birth of the subjective interpretation of probability. In this expository talk we will examine the philosophical background underlying Ramsey’s goals in this work, we will re-construct the main formal moves Ramsey makes in proving his representation theorem and finally, we will criticise some of the philosophically contentious assumptions that permeate throughout ‘Truth and Probability’ (1931). Taking a broader perspective, representation theorems are the underbelly of much work in theoretical economics, the underbelly behind claims like ‘humans are rational’. This talk will give a first-hand look at (just) one such representation theorem, but the illustrative purposes this will serve will hopefully be felt by anyone who is a slave of some defunct economist. Which, if some are to believed, includes all of us.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact Vasily Romanovskiy, Tibo Rushbrooke at .
  • 25 November 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Catholijn Jonker

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Catholijn Jonker
    Title: Revisiting Computational Fragments of Logic and Meta-Reasoning: the DESIRE framework
    Location: Online
  • 25 November 2021, Workshop on Social Choice

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-17:45
    Location: Belle van Zuylenzaal, Singel 425

    To mark the occasion of Sirin Botan's PhD defense, we are organising a one-day workshop in the centre of Amsterdam.

    For more information, see https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/workshop-2021/ or contact Sirin Botan at .
  • 24 November 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Rajeev Gore

    Date & Time: Wednesday 24 November 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia)
    Title: Modular Synthesis of Certifying STV Counting Programs
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Tobias Kappé at .
  • 23 November 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Natasha Alechina

    Date & Time: Tuesday 23 November 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Natasha Alechina (Utrecht)
    Title: Responsibility in multi agent teams
    Location: Online

    This talk is on MS Teams, please contact the organizer for details.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 22 November 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Sara L. Uckelman

    Date & Time: Monday 22 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
    Speaker: Sara L. Uckelman
    Title: John Eliot’s Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Wôpanâaak logic textbook
    Location: Zoom

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

    This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic .

  • 22 November 2021, Reading group: Elements of Causal Inference

    Date & Time: Monday 22 November 2021, 14:00
    Location: Zoom and in Science Park (TBA)

    For our next meeting, we have to read Chapter 4 "Learning Cause-Effects Models" and work on the problems of chapter 3.5 "Problems". If you want to use programming, prefer R.

    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/cil/page_Reading-Group/ or contact Evan Iatrou at .
  • 19 November 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Tom Roberts

    Date & Time: Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Tom Roberts
    Title: Parentheticality and the justification of speech acts
    Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81225439983
  • 19 November 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Robert Paßmann

    Date & Time: Friday 19 November 2021, 11:00-13:00
    Speaker: Robert Paßmann (Amsterdam)
    Title: On the logic of CZF
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 18 November 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Sebastian De Haro

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30
    Speaker: Sebastian De Haro
    Title: Visualization and Understanding in Physics
    Location: Online
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    18 November 2021, the Big Meetup, Start Up Village, Amsterdam Science Park

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-17:00
    Title: How To Build The Future Quantum Workforce?
    Location: Start Up Village, Amsterdam Science Park

    Two times a year Quantum.Amsterdam organises the Big Meetup. This time

    four speakers will give special attention to Quantum Education. Each

    speaker with his or her own expertise, varying from high school education,

    towards MSc programs and courses for business, will give answer to the

    question: "How to build the Future Quantum Workforce?"

    Speakers:
    - Jacob Sherson, Professor (Aarhus University / EU Quantum Flagship)
    - Miriam Blaauboer, Associate Professor (Delft University of Technology)
    - Koen Groenland, Quantum Innovation Officer (QuSoft / Quantum.Amsterdam)
    - Henk Buisman, High school liaison Physics & Astronomy (Leiden University)

  • 17 November 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Raiean Banerjee

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-13:00
    Speaker: Raiean Banerjee (Hamburg)
    Title: Laver forcing does not add Silver reals, Part 2: the iteration case.
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 17 November 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Alexis Saurin

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 November 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Alexis Saurin
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 16 November 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Vlad Niculae

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Vlad Niculae (Informatics Institute UvA)
    Title: Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
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    12 November 2021, Women in Philosophy Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 12 November 2021, 19:00
    Location: Roeterseiland, Amsterdam

    Students of the MoL are arranging a reading group to explore the collective corpus of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch, a quartet of philosophers who met and became friends at Oxford University during WWII. We would be charting, through scholarly and archival work, the distinctive methodology, philosophical attitude and metaphysics of the school in order to demonstrate the transformative potential of its philosophy.

    Meetings will be held in Amsterdam on Fridays at 19:00 on a bi-weekly basis. Please join our Discord channel at https://discord.gg/afMphHdr if you wish to attend. To learn more about the reading group material and the proposed schedule, see https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/curated-resources/reading-groups/reading-group-schedule/.

    For more information, contact Amity Aharoni at .
  • 12 November 2021, Cool Logic, Tibo Rushbrooke

    Date & Time: Friday 12 November 2021, 18:00-20:00
    Speaker: Tibo Rushbrooke
    Title: A Meaning-Relative Logical Consequence Relation
    Location: Room D1.111, Science Park 904, Amsterdam

    In his seminal 1936 paper "On the Concept of Logical Consequence", Tarski provides a notion of logical consequence which has become standard in analytic philosophy today. Tarski argues that logical consequence is independent of the meanings of non-logical terms, on the grounds that a logical inference cannot rely on any empirical knowledge of the objects referred to. Accordingly, he defines a logical consequence relation which is insensitive to the meanings of the non-logical vocabulary. In this talk, I will closely scrutinise Tarski’s original reasoning. I will then give an alternative notion of logical consequence in natural language, which is entirely sensitive to the meanings of the terms involved. I argue that the alternative notion is both interesting and fruitful, in that it captures certain inferences not reckoned as ‘logical’ by the traditional notion, thus broadening the scope of logic.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic or contact Tibo Rushbrooke, Vasily Romanovsky at .
  • 12 November 2021, Cross-Alps Logic Seminar, Sandra Müller

    Date & Time: Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Sandra Müller (Vienna)
    Title: Large Cardinals and Determinacy
    Location: Virtual

    We are happy to announce the 'Cross-Alps Logic Seminars', a series of talks jointly organized by the logic groups of Genoa, Lausanne, Turin and Udine. We are going to meet every Friday at 16.00 from November 5th to December 17th. The seminars are going to be varied, with topics from all areas of logic, and will be held by international guests and members of our groups. All seminars can be followed remotely on the WebEx platform.

  • 11 November 2021, Joint LIRa-A|C Session, Yanjing Wang

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00
    Speaker: Yanjing Wang (Peking University)
    Title: Intuitionistic logic as an epistemic logic of knowing how
    Location: Online
  • 11 November 2021, Science communication workshop

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00
    Location: Science Park, Amsterdam
    Target audience: Scientific staff of all levels
    Costs: Free

    Do you want to communicate about your research to non-scientists, but are you unaware of the options to reach out to a broader audience? What type of help does the UvA offer, and what can you do yourself? These are the topics we’ll explore in this workshop on the basics of science communication.

  • 9 November 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Zoé Christoff

    Date & Time: Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Zoé Christoff (Groningen)
    Title: Priority Merge and Intersection: from group attitudes to collective truth-tracking
    Location: Ravensteynzaal (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06, Utrecht University)

    This talk will also be broadcast on Microsoft Teams. Contact the organizer for details.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 9 November 2021, Reading Group: Elements of Causal Inference

    Date: Tuesday 9 November 2021

    The reading group is about the book: Peters, Janzing & Schölkopf (2017), Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms, The MIT Press. The book "teaches readers how to use causal models: how to compute intervention distributions, how to infer causal models from observational and interventional data, and how causal ideas could be exploited for classical machine learning problems". It can be openly accessed from the publisher's website.

    For our first meeting, we have to read the first three chapters:
    1. Statistical and Causal Models (pp. 1-14)
    2. Assumptions for Causal Inference (pp. 15-32)
    3. Cause-Effect Models (pp. 33-42).

    The reading group is held under the supervision of Dr. Katrin Schultz and is organized along with Evan Iatrou (MoL student, ).

    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/cil/page_Reading-Group/ or contact Evan Iatrou at .
  • 5 November 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Dean McHugh

    Date & Time: Friday 5 November 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Dean McHugh
    Title: Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 4 November 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Giuseppe Primiero

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 November 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Giuseppe Primiero
    Title: A Typed Natural Deduction System to verify Trustworthiness of Probabilistic Computations
    Location: Online

    (joint work with Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro)

  • 3 November 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Wilfried Sieg

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 November 2021, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon)
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 3 November 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Revantha Ramanayake

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 November 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen)
    Title: Decidability and complexity for substructural logics with weakening or contraction
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 844-1353-6364)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 3 November 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Raiean Banerjee

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 November 2021, 11:00-13:00
    Speaker: Raiean Banerjee (Hamburg)
    Title: Laver forcing does not add Silver reals, Part 1: the one-step case.
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 2 November 2021, EXPRESS / PhilMath Seminar, Corine Besson

    Date & Time: Tuesday 2 November 2021, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Corine Besson
    Title: Carroll’s Regress, Guidance and Explicit Representation
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Abstract: What is the nature of one’s justification to use a logical principle such as Modus Ponens in reasoning? It is widely agreed amongst epistemologists of logic that such justification cannot be internalist. One key reason offered for this view is that internalist accounts of justification are susceptible to Carroll-style regresses. In this talk, I examine this claim and argue that internalist accounts of justification are not open to such regresses. I further argue that the sorts of externalist accounts of the justification of logical principles typically put forward as alternatives are inadequate.

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leïla Bussière at .
  • 29 October 2021, DIP Colloquium, Robert Williams

    Date & Time: Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Robert Williams (Leeds)
    Title: Mindreading, Simulation, and Interpretation
    Location: Online
  • 28 October 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Matías Osta Vélez

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Matías Osta Vélez
    Title: Nonmonotonic reasoning, expectation orderings, and conceptual spaces
    Location: Online
  • 26 October 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Thomas Ferguson

    Date & Time: Tuesday 26 October 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Thomas Ferguson (ILLC)
    Title: "Subject-Matter and Nested Topic-Sensitive Intentional Modals"
    Location: Online

    Please contact the organizer to join this online meeting.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 25 October 2021, AUC Logic Lectures Series, Ulle Endriss

    Date & Time: Monday 25 October 2021, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Ulle Endriss
    Title: Judgment Aggregation
    Location: AUC Common Room - Science Park 113, Amsterdam

    This lecture will be an introduction to the theory of judgment aggregation (JA). JA deals with the problem of combining the views of several individual agents regarding the truth of a number of propositions, expressed in the language of logic, into a single such view that appropriately reflects the stance of the group as a whole. Applications of JA range from aggregating the opinions of several judges in a court of law into a single legal opinion, all the way to aggregating information received from several autonomous software agents in the context of distributed computing systems.

  • 25 October 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Erich Grädel

    Date & Time: Monday 25 October 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Erich Grädel
    Title: Semiring Semantics for Logical Statements with Applications to the Strategy Analysis of Games
    Location: Zoom

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

    This is the announcement for the next talk. Those who wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, can subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic .

  • 21 October 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Francesca Poggiolesi

    Date & Time: Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Francesca Poggiolesi
    Title: Grounding principles for (relevant) implication
    Location: online.
  • 21 - 23 October 2021, MECORE kickoff workshop: Approaches to the semantics of clause-embedding predicates: theories, cross-linguistic data, and experimentation

    Date: 21 - 23 October 2021
    Location: Online

    This workshop is organized by the MECORE project, a collaboration between the ILLC, the University of Edinbugh and the University of Konstanz on the semantics of clause-embedding.

    For more information, see https://wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk/mecore/mecore-kick-off-workshop/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .
  • 20 October 2021, MoL thesis presentations, MoL students

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 October 2021, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: MoL students
    Title: MoL thesis presentations S1 2021/22
    Location: Room F2.04, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam

    MoL students graduating in the current semester will present their ongoing thesis projects to the ILLC community.

    For more information, contact Maria Aloni at .
  • 20 October 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, R. Ramanujam

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
    Title: Decidable fragments of first order modal logic
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 20 October 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Fedor Pakhomov

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Fedor Pakhomov
    Title: Fast growing hierarchies, ordinal collapsing, and Π¹₁-CA₀.
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 15 October 2021, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Zoi Terzopoulou

    Date & Time: Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Zoi Terzopoulou (Paris)
    Title: Majority Dynamics for Groups with Incomplete Preferences
    Location: Room D1.162, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 15 October 2021, Compositionality in the domain of tense, mood and aspect, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

    Date & Time: Friday 15 October 2021, 13:30-17:00
    Location: Paushuize, Kromme Nieuwegracht 49, Utrecht, the Netherlands (in the centre of Utrecht, 100 meters away from the Academy Building)

    In October this year Cambridge University Press will publish The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect, written by Henk Verkuyl (UiLOTS, Utrecht). The title of this book clearly alludes to the PhD defended in Utrecht on Friday 15 October 1971, called On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects. It was published in 1972 without substantial corrections. The fact that October 15 this year will fall on a Friday was such a nice coincidence that it was impossible to escape from the idea that the book could be presented on that very day in a celebratory setting of some sort, exactly fifty years later. This has been developed into the more concrete idea of a workshop with distinguished speakers working in the domain of tense, aspect and mood who could connect their contribution to topics broached in the new book. The book addresses both linguists and logicians, so we are happy that UiLOTS (Utrecht) and ILLC (Amsterdam) have joined forces in organizing this workshop.

    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/Verkuyl2021/ or contact Nick Bezhanishvili at .
  • 14 October 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Jürgen Landes

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 October 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Jürgen Landes
    Title: Entropy Maximisation on Predicate Languages
    Location: Online
  • 12 October 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Sonia Marin

    Date & Time: Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Sonia Marin (UCL)
    Title: Ecumenical modal logic
    Location: Online

    Abstract: Recent works about ecumenical systems, where connectives from classical and intuitionistic logics can co-exist in peace, warmed the discussion of proof systems for combining logics, called Ecumenical systems by Prawitz and others.

    In Prawitz’ system, the classical logician and the intuitionistic logician would share the universal quantifier, conjunction, negation, and the constant for the absurd, but they would each have their own existential quantifier, disjunction, and implication, with different meanings.

    We extended this discussion to alethic K-modalities: using Simpson’s meta-logical characterization, necessity is shown to be independent of the viewer, while possibility can be either intuitionistic or classical.

    We furthermore proposed an internal and pure calculus for ecumenical modalities, where every basic object of the calculus can be read as a formula in the language of the ecumenical modal logic.

    (joint work with Elaine Pimentel, Luiz Carlos Pereira, and Emerson Sales, partially published in the proceedings of Dali’20 and WoLLiC’21)

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 8 October 2021, DIP Colloquium, Simon Kirby

    Date & Time: Friday 8 October 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Simon Kirby (Edinburgh)
    Title: From Item to System: modelling the evolution of compositional and combinatorial structure in emerging sign languages
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 7 October 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Dingmar van Eck

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 October 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Dingmar van Eck
    Title: Mechanist Idealisation in Systems Biology
    Location: Online
  • 7 October 2021, IoP Career Lunch

    Date & Time: Thursday 7 October 2021, 12:00-13:30
    Location: Online via Zoom

    On Thursday October 7th at 12:00 a new online edition of the IoP (Institute of Physics) Career Lunch will take place.

    Your career after a PhD or postdoc might not be a topic you often think about, but it is important! Most PhD students and postdocs will not end up working as a scientist at a university, but what are your options outside academia? These career lunches are organized to help orient yourself on possible career paths. During the event, two invited guests will share their career story and in moderated sessions they will answer your questions about what it is like to work as a PhD graduate in a non-academic environment.

    For more information, see here or at http://bit.ly/3t9xsap or contact Bard Sibon at .
  • 6 October 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Jeremy Avigad

    Date & Time: Wednesday 6 October 2021, 19:00-20:00
    Speaker: Jeremy Avigad
    Title: The conservativity of weak König's lemma (a proof from the book).
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 6 October 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Balder ten Cate

    Date & Time: Wednesday 6 October 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Balder ten Cate (ILLC)
    Title: The homomorphism lattice of finite structures, unique characterization, and exact learnability.
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 5 October 2021, EXPRESS Seminar, Richard Pettigrew

    Date & Time: Tuesday 5 October 2021, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)
    Title: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leïla Bussière at .
  • 5 October 2021, Discussion Round "The Positive Side of the Pandemic"

    Date & Time: Tuesday 5 October 2021, 13:00-15:00
    Location: Room D1.14, Science Park 904, Amsterdam / Zoom

    Students and staff with disabilities and/or chronic diseases have experienced some positive sides of the pandemic: traveling to campus was unnecessary and some developed more focused working habits. The FNWI Diversity Sounding Board and Diversity Office is convinced that we all can learn from their experience, also as we are now returning to pre-lockdown conditions. You are invited to join the discussion round on Diversity Day 2021, where some working experiences will be presented, and you are welcome to share your own lessons.

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    2 October 2021, Open day Amsterdam Science Park, Simon Rey

    Date & Time: Saturday 2 October 2021, 14:45-15:30
    Speaker: Simon Rey
    Title: Improving the Buurtbudget: Can mathematics and Computer Science help?
    Location: Room C0.05, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam

    The buurtbudget, known as participatory budgeting in English, is a democratic process aiming at involving citizens in public spending decisions. In several neighborhoods of Amsterdam, residents already can vote for community-driven projects to be paid for from public funds. However, organizing this process is not straightforward, especially when it comes to making a decision based on the ballots that have been submitted. During this talk, we will see why some natural procedures to determine the winning projects suffer major drawbacks and how to circumvent those drawbacks.

    For more information, see http://www.amsterdamsciencepark.nl/event/open-dag/ or contact Simon Rey at .
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    2 October 2021, Open day Amsterdam Science Park, Jeroen Smid

    Date & Time: Saturday 2 October 2021, 12:15-13:00
    Speaker: Jeroen Smid
    Title: Graaf Tel en de drie-en-een-half miljard dollar vraag
    Location: Room C1.110, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam

    Tellen kunnen we bijna allemaal. Toen ik jong was leerde ik vleermuizen tellen met Graaf Tel. Nu ik wat ouder ben tel ik examens die ik moet nakijken. Maar wat is tellen eigenlijk? En is tellen wel zo kinderlijk eenvoudig als het lijkt? In dit praatje denken we na over de dingen die we tellen en hoe tellen zich verhoudt tot de concepten die we gebruiken. We zullen zien dat tellen met verschillende filosofische puzzels samenhangt en dat het zelfs een verschil van drie-en-een-half miljard dollar kan maken.

    For more information, see http://www.amsterdamsciencepark.nl/event/open-dag/ or contact Jeroen Smid at .
  • 2 October 2021, Open day Amsterdam Science Park

    Date & Time: Saturday 2 October 2021, 11:00-17:00
    Location: Amsterdam Science Park, Amsterdam and Online

    Discover more about the secrets of the universe or the surprising properties of smart materials during the Amsterdam Science Park open day. Or take a look behind the scenes, for example in the greenhouses of the University of Amsterdam during a guided tour.

    After a year in which the Open Day could not take place due to coronavirus, this year a hybrid form has been chosen, partly in-person and partly online. On October 2nd, there will be live lectures at the Science Park at various locations, and tours for small groups.

  • 1 October 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Fausto Carcassi

    Date & Time: Friday 1 October 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Fausto Carcassi
    Title: Simple Languages of Thought can be Recovered from Learning Data
  • 1 October 2021, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Oliviero Nardi

    Date & Time: Friday 1 October 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Oliviero Nardi (ILLC)
    Title: A Graph-Based Algorithm for the Automated Justification of Collective Decisions
    Location: Room D1.110, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 30 September 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Johan van Benthem

    Date & Time: Thursday 30 September 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Johan van Benthem
    Title: Interleaving Logic and Counting
    Location: Online
  • 29 September 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Jan Rooduijn

    Date & Time: Wednesday 29 September 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Jan Rooduijn (ILLC)
    Title: Cyclic hypersequent calculi for some modal logics with the master modality
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 27 September 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar , Anupam Das

    Date: Monday 27 September 2021
    Speaker: Anupam Das
    Title: On the proof theoretic strength of cyclic reasoning
    Location: Zoom

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

  • 23 September 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hans Rott

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 September 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Hans Rott
    Title: Difference-making and ‘Because’
    Location: Online
  • 23 September 2021, Reading Group (historical) Epistemology

    Date & Time: Thursday 23 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

    In the academic year 2021-2022, the Vossius Center will launch a close reading group with a focus on epistemology. We will read and discuss texts that the members of the group find relevant and interesting. Meetings will, ideally, take place on location, and there will be no presentations, just questions and discussion.

    As a text to start with, we propose the recently translated On Logic and the Theory of Science (1942, Engl. Trans. with Urbanomic & Sequence Press, 2021) by Jean Cavaillès. The first discussion topic will be chapter 1 of this book (pp. 39-69).

  • 20 September 2021, Master of Logic defense, Antonio Cleani

    Date & Time: Monday 20 September 2021, 17:00
    Title: Translational Embeddings via Stable Canonical Rules
    Location: Zoom or Science Park 107 (TBA)
    Supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili
  • 16 September 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Sonja Smets

    Date & Time: Thursday 16 September 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Sonja Smets
    Title: Learning what Others Know
    Location: Online
  • 15 - 17 September 2021, ILLC Workshop on Stereotypes in Language

    Date: 15 - 17 September 2021
    Location: Online

    Please join us for an online workshop on Stereotypes in Language which will be held on the afternoons of September 15th and September 17th, 2021. The workshop will feature talks from linguists, psychologists and NLP researchers and aims to discuss current research on stereotypes from a diversity of view points.

    For more information, see https://generics-illc.netlify.app/workshop/ or contact Patricia Mirabile at .
  • 14 September 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Dominik Klein

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 September 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Dominik Klein (Utrecht)
    Title: Worlds far apart: From Kripke Models to Dynamical Systems
    Location: Ravensteynzaal (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06)
    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 27 August 2021, Master of Logic defense, Terence Hui

    Date & Time: Friday 27 August 2021, 15:00
    Title: Free Choice cancellation and Dependence
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Maria Aloni
  • 23 August 2021, Master of Logic defense, Maximilian Siemers

    Date & Time: Monday 23 August 2021, 13:00
    Title: Hyperintensional Logics for Evidence, Knowledge and Belief
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Aybüke Özgün
  • 26 July - 13 August 2021, 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2021), Online

    Date: 26 July - 13 August 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Saturday 1 June 2019

    Under the auspices of FoLLI the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year in a different European country. It takes place over two weeks in the European Summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both the introductory and advanced levels, attracting around 400 participants each year from all the world.

    The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis in human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures.

    The circumstances around the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced the organizers to postpone the 32nd edition of ESSLLI, planned for 2020 in Utrecht as ESSLLI-2020, to 26 july-13 august 2021, as well as hold it online. In view of the online format, the program is spread over three weeks so as to facilitate attendance.

    For more information, see https://www.esslli.eu or contact .
  • 17 - 24 July 2021, Course "Using Logic as a Tool for Modelling" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam summer school

    Date: 17 - 24 July 2021
    Location: Online
    Target audience: Advanced BSc students, MSc students, PhD candidates
    Costs: please see the website for details
    Deadline: Saturday 1 May 2021

    Logic is not merely the study of different forms of reasoning, but also a powerful tool for representing and analyzing diverse phenomena. This course, at the summer school of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, provides an introduction to logic and its application to a variety of fields, from computer science to linguistics and the social sciences. Throughout the course, we will encourage students to think about how they can apply logic to other disciplines they are interested in and discuss their ideas with lecturers and peers based on the information in the tutorials.

  • 16 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, David de Graaf

    Date & Time: Friday 16 July 2021, 13:00
    Title: A modernisation of a partition calculus in set theory
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Benedikt Löwe
  • 15 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, Mateo Jaramillo

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 July 2021, 10:00
    Title: Epistemic Logics For Cryptographic Protocols and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Aybüke Özgün
  • 8 July 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Clara List

    Date & Time: Thursday 8 July 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Clara List (Amsterdam)
    Title: Project report: Forcing
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 7 July 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Antonina Kolokolova

    Date & Time: Wednesday 7 July 2021, 19:00-20:00
    Speaker: Antonina Kolokolova (Newfoundland)
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 5 - 9 July 2021, Summer School Science Communication

    Date: 5 - 9 July 2021
    Location: Online

    From 5-9 July 2021, Leiden University will organize a summer school for researchers who want to learn about communicating science to diverse audiences. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, postdoc and other early career researchers in the natural sciences and related fields. Registration is open until April 16 2021 through a registration form on the web page.

  • 1 July 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Jonathan Osinski

    Date & Time: Thursday 1 July 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Jonathan Osinski (Amsterdam)
    Title: Compactness Properties and Symbiosis
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 25 June 2021, ABC Networking Event 2021

    Date & Time: Friday 25 June 2021, 14:30-17:00
    Location: Online

    The ABC Networking Event provides you with the opportunity to discover all research treasures that ABC holds, and connect with other ABC researchers. All researchers (PhDs, post-docs,  assistant/associate/full professors) are invited to attend and actively participate.

    The Networking Event will consist of:

    • ABC Pitch talks: Flash talks that are all about getting to know each other, to foster fresh collaborations, and, possibly, to team-up for grant proposals. In small groups you present your research and/or listen to and discuss all the great research ABC has to offer.
    • Networking session: in an informal atmosphere, the discussions continue in break-out rooms. These are small gatherings focused on a certain topic or just to get to know each other, it’s up to you!
  • 24 June 2021, ABC International Symposium on Musicality

    Date & Time: Thursday 24 June 2021, 20:00-22:30
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands / Online

    A hybrid evening of research, music, and emotion. Honorary Frijda Chair holder Prof. dr. David Huron guides us through the science of sad sounds, addressing two questions:
     - What makes something sound sad?
     - And how is it that listening to sad music can be enjoyable?
    Enriched by an interdisciplinary panel discussion, and accompanied by a measured dose of sad music.

  • 24 June 2021, DIEP Seminars, Maris Ozols

    Date & Time: Thursday 24 June 2021, 11:00
    Speaker: Maris Ozols (UvA)
    Title: Introduction to quantum circuits
    Location: Zoom

    Any Boolean function can in principle be decomposed into elementary logical gates, such as AND, OR and NOT, that act only on one or two bits at a time. Similarly, any operation on a quantum computer can be broken up into elementary gates that act only on one or two qubits at a time. I will explain how this works and what consequences this has for quantum algorithm design.

    For more information, contact Soroush Rafiee Rad at .
  • 23 June 2021, Cool Logic, Maximilian Siemers

    Date & Time: Wednesday 23 June 2021, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Maximilian Siemers
    Title: Hyperintensional Evidence Logics for Knowledge and Belief
    Location: Room C1.10, Science Park 904, Amsterdam / Online via Zoom

    Traditional epistemic logic often comes without any notion of evidence and renders belief and knowledge susceptible to logical omniscience. I present an approach that defines belief and knowledge based on hyperintensional evidence, which comes with a notion of evidential aboutness and gives rise to more realistic epistemic agents.

    Zoom ID TBA.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic or contact Maximilian Siemers at .
  • 23 June 2021, Talks on topics in Artificial Intelligence, Dr Katrin Schulz

    Date & Time: Wednesday 23 June 2021, 11:00-11:30
    Speaker: Dr Katrin Schulz (ILLC, UvA)
    Title: Responsibility through Causation
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 22 June 2021, Talks on topics in Artificial Intelligence, Dr Behzad Bozorgtabar

    Date & Time: Tuesday 22 June 2021, 11:00-11:30
    Speaker: Dr Behzad Bozorgtabar (EPFL, Lausanne, Switserland)
    Title: Towards Responsible AI in Healthcare
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 21 - 22 June 2021, Workshop "Truth, proof and communication"

    Date & Time: 21 - 22 June 2021, 14:00-18:00
    Location: Online

    The EXPRESS-IHPST workshop online workshop Truth, proof and communication, jointly organised by the European Research Council project EXPRESS (grant agreement no. 758540) and the IHPST, brings together researchers from the ILLC at the University of Amsterdam and IHPST, UMR 8590, CNRS and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. It will take place on 21-22 June from 14 to 18 in the afternoon, and will consist of three talks per day. Each talk will last 60 minutes including discussion, and coffee breaks are planned in between talks. Attendance is free and everybody is welcome. The registration form can be found on the website.

    Speakers: Aybüke Özgün (ILLC, Amsterdam); Francesco Genco (IHPST, Paris); Leïla Bussière-Caraes (ILLC, Amsterdam); Yuta Takahashi (IHPST, Paris); Giorgio Sbardolini (ILLC, Amsterdam); Francesca Poggiolesi (IHPST, Paris).

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/events/1041-2/ or contact Julian Schlöder at .
  • 21 June 2021, Talks on topics in Artificial Intelligence, Dr Sandro Pezzelle

    Date & Time: Monday 21 June 2021, 11:00-11:30
    Speaker: Dr Sandro Pezzelle (ILLC, UvA)
    Title: Integration of language and vision in multimodal pre-trained Transformers
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 21 June 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Dag Normann

    Date: Monday 21 June 2021
    Speaker: Dag Normann
    Title: An alternative perspective on Reverse Mathematics
    Location: Zoom

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

    If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for the talk, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic .
    Val Goranko and Graham Leigh, NOL seminar organisers

  • 18 June 2021, DIP Colloquium, Kyle Blumberg & Simon Goldstein

    Date & Time: Friday 18 June 2021, 10:00-11:30
    Speaker: Kyle Blumberg & Simon Goldstein (ACU)(Abstract)
    Title: A Semantic Theory of Redundancy
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 17 June 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Raiean Banerjee

    Date & Time: Thursday 17 June 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Raiean Banerjee (Hamburg)
    Title: Laver vs Silver
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 17 June 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Cedegao Zhang

    Date & Time: Thursday 17 June 2021, 15:00-16:30
    Speaker: Cedegao Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)
    Title: A Computational Model of Higher-Order Epistemic Reasoning
    Location: Online
  • 17 June 2021, DIEP Seminars, Alexandru Baltag

    Date & Time: Thursday 17 June 2021, 11:00-12:30
    Speaker: Alexandru Baltag
    Title: Group (Ir)Rationality: Can Logic help?
    Location: Zoom

    Abstract: I present some applications of logical methods (in particular, of so-called dynamic epistemic logics) to the study of emergent phenomena in groups of `agents', capable of reflection, communication, reasoning, argumentation etc.The main focus on the understanding of belief/preference formation and diffusion in social networks, and on how this affects the group's ``epistemic potential": the ability of the agents to track the truth of the matter (with respect to some given relevant topic). While in some cases, ``wisdom of the crowds" can increase the epistemic potential, in other situations the group's dynamics leads to informational distortions (-- the ``madness of the crowds": cascades, ``groupthink", the curse of the committee, pluralistic ignorance, group polarization, doxastic cycles etc). I explain how logic (in combination with probabilistic methods) can be used to provide some explanations for both types of situations, as well as to suggest some partial solutions to informational distortions.

    For more information, contact Soroush Rafiee Rad at .
  • 16 June 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Hugo Herbelin

    Date & Time: Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris)
    Title: On the logical structure of choice and bar induction principles
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 14 - 24 June 2021, ABC Summer School: Musicality - Unraveling our capacity for music

    Date: 14 - 24 June 2021
    Location: Online

    From 14-24 June 2021 an impressive cast of international lecturers, from a wide range of disciplines, will try to unravel our capacity for music. Students will, next to attending lectures, work groups and online social events, work in groups with a designated tutor on a research project, within the broad topic of musicality, which they will present towards the end of the Summer School. Organized by Prof. Henkjan Honing and the Music Cognition Group.

  • 11 June 2021, DIP Colloquium, Anna Alsop & Lucas Champollion

    Date & Time: Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Anna Alsop & Lucas Champollion (NYU)
    Title: A compositional account of Japanese ka in Inquisitive Semantics
    Location: Online
  • 10 June 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Michel Gaspar

    Date & Time: Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Michel Gaspar (Hamburg)
    Title: Borel chromatic numbers as cardinal invariants, Part II
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 10 June 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Jiatu Li

    Date & Time: Thursday 10 June 2021, 15:00-16:30
    Speaker: Jiatu Li
    Title: Formalization of PAL in Lean
    Location: Online
  • 10 June 2021, DIEP Seminars, Casper van Elteren

    Date & Time: Thursday 10 June 2021, 11:00
    Speaker: Casper van Elteren (UvA)
    Title: Through the looking glass-Information flows in complex systems
    Location: Zoom

    Understanding dynamical systems is a fundamental problem for the 21st century. Despite the prima facie differences and purposes of many real-world networks, previous research shows several universal characteristics in networks properties such as the small-world phenomenon, fat-tail degree and feedback loops. This has led to the common but often implicit assumption that the connectedness of a node in the network is proportional to its dynamic importance. For example in epidemic research, high degree nodes or "super-spreaders" are associated to dominant epidemic risk and therefore deserve special attention. Yet prior research shows that the shared universality in network characteristics is not shared in the dynamic or functional properties of many real-world systems.

    In this talk I will explore the relation between local interactions and macroscopic properties of a system through the lens of statistical physics and information theory. In particular, I will show novel methods on determining the so-called driver node in complex systems, and how tipping points can be studied from an information theoretical perspective. (website + slides: https://cvanelteren.github.io/talk/diep2021/)

    For more information, see https://www.d-iep.org/diep-seminars or contact Soroush Rafiee Rad at .
  • 9 June 2021, Cool Logic, Quentin Gougeon

    Date & Time: Wednesday 9 June 2021, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Quentin Gougeon
    Title: Epistemic Logic without Possible Worlds
    Location: Room C1.10, Science Park 904, Amsterdam / Online via Zoom

    Abstract:

    While possible worlds can be seen as the semantic backbone of epistemic logic, they can be tedious to deal with. In this talk I introduce epistemic presentations, a kind of structure wherein "issues on the table" are primitive objects and possible worlds are only derivative. In addition to be more flexible, these models lend themselves to an interesting algebraic approach and provide inspiration for new dynamic operators.

    Location:

    We have a room in the big building of Science Park (house 904, room SPC1.110) with corona capacity 44. The talk will also be streamed live on Zoom. For the Zoom address, please email .

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact Maximilian Siemers at .
  • 8 June 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, Rosalie Iemhoff

    Date & Time: Tuesday 8 June 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University)
    Title: Proof-Theoretic Formalization
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leila Bussiere at .
  • 7 - 9 June 2021, Logic of Conceivability Conference 2021, Online

    Date: 7 - 9 June 2021
    Location: Online

    The ability to think about non-actual possibilities is crucial for rational decision and action. When deciding what to do in situations of uncertainty or risk, we use our powers of imagination and conception to surveil the ways the world might be for all we know, and ponder the possible consequences of our actions. What is the logic of conceivability? Do thinking and imagining exhibit sufficient structure so to be amenable to precise modeling? Under what conditions does an imaginative episode establish a non-actual scenario as a real possibility? What are the special features of thought, talk and knowledge about mere possibility and conditionality? The aim of this conference is to facilitate the conversation on these questions by bringing together both senior and rising young researchers from around the world.

  • DIP Colloquium cancelled

    Title: Topics in conjunctions are conditional

    Unfortunately the speaker had to cancel today's DIP Colloquium, due to coming down with a (non-covid) fever. We hope to have Madgalena Kaufmann present sometime in the next semester.

  • 3 June 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Michel Gaspar

    Date & Time: Thursday 3 June 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Michel Gaspar (Hamburg)
    Title: Borel chromatic numbers as cardinal invariants
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 3 June 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Guillermo Menéndez Turata

    Date & Time: Thursday 3 June 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Guillermo Menéndez Turata
    Title: Uniform interpolation from cyclic proofs: the case of modal mu-calculus
    Location: Online
  • 3 June 2021, DIEP Seminar, Velimir Ilić

    Date & Time: Thursday 3 June 2021, 11:00
    Speaker: Velimir Ilić (Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
    Title: An overview and characterization of generalized information measures
    Location: Online (Zoom)

    The aim of this talk is to present a comprehensive classification of the main entropic forms introduced in the last fifty years within statistical physics and information theory and to review the fundamental questions about the meaning of information. I will particularly focus on axiomatic approaches to the characterization of various generalizations of the Shannon entropy, such as the Rényi, the Tsallis, the Sharma-Mittal, and the Sharma-Mittal-Taneja entropies, as well as the more general classes of pseudo-additive entropies with a well-defined mathematical and information theoretic structure. Finally, I will point out possible applications of these measures in communication theory, statistical inference and complex systems modeling.

    For more information, contact Soroush Rafiee Rad at .
  • 2 June 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Lutz Straßburger

    Date & Time: Wednesday 2 June 2021, 19:00-20:00
    Speaker: Lutz Straßburger (INRIA & LIX Paris)
    Title: Towards a Combinatorial Proof Identity
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 28 May 2021, VvL Logic at Large Lectures, Moshe Y. Vardi

    Date & Time: Friday 28 May 2021, 15:30-18:45
    Speaker: Moshe Y. Vardi
    Title: And Logic Begat Computer Science
    Location: Zoom / Gather.Town

    To mark its relaunch the VvL (Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy of Exact Sciences) has the privilege to announce its first outreach event in 2021. It will take place on Friday 28 May 2021. We are very pleased to announce that Professor Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) will give a public lecture entitled And Logic Begat Computer Science.

    This event will take place online using Zoom. The talk will be followed first by a short session where invited commentators will react to it, and later by a general Q & A session with the audience. The outreach event will be concluded by a social gathering on the virtual platform Gather.Town.

    Registration is free, but necessary to receive links to Zoom and Gather.Town.

  • 27 May 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, David de Graaf

    Date & Time: Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: David de Graaf (Amsterdam)
    Title: Negative stepping up results for partition relations
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 27 May 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Francesca Zaffora Blando

    Date & Time: Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Francesca Zaffora Blando
    Title: Weak merging of opinions for computationally limited agents
    Location: Online
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    27 May 2021, Humane Conversation on AI ethics in academia

    Date & Time: Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00
    Location: Online via Zoom
    Costs: Free registration required

    In this roundtable conversation, part of the Humane AI conversation series, Beate Rössler, Raquel Fernández and Max Welling will discuss topics related to AI ethics in teaching and research, moderated by Natali Helberger.

  • 27 May 2021, DIEP Seminar, Olivier Roy

    Date & Time: Thursday 27 May 2021, 11:00-13:00
    Speaker: Olivier Roy (Bayreuth University)
    Title: Deliberation, Coherent Aggregation, and Anchoring
    Location: Zoom

    In this talk we will present a number of results stemming from a computational model of collective attitude formation through a combination of group deliberation and aggregation. In this model the participants repeatedly exchange and update their preferences over small sets of alternatives, until they reach a stable preference profile. When they do so the collective attitude is computed by pairwise majority voting. The model shows, on the one hand, that rational preference change can fill an existing gap in known mechanisms purported to explain how deliberation can help avoiding incoherent group preferences. On the other hand, the model also reveals that when the participants are sufficiently biased towards their own opinion, deliberation can actually create incoherent group rankings, against the received view. The model suggests furthermore that rational deliberation can exhibit high levels of path dependencies or "anchoring", where the group opinion is strongly dependent on the order in which the participants contribute to the discussion. We will finish by discussing possible trade-offs between such positive and negative features of group deliberation.

    For more information, contact Soroush Rafiee Rad at .
  • 26 May 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Luigi Santocanale

    Date & Time: Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Luigi Santocanale (Aix-Marseille Université)
    Title: Fixed-point elimination in the Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 25 May 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Mark Jago

    Date & Time: Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Mark Jago (Nottingham)
    Title: "Metaphysical Structure"
    Location: Online

    Contact the organizer for information about how to join the online meeting.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 25 May 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, Justin Clarke-Doane

    Date & Time: Tuesday 25 May 2021, 10:00-12:00
    Speaker: Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia)
    Title: Russell’s Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Julian Schlöder at .
  • 24 May 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Wilfrid Hodges

    Date & Time: Monday 24 May 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Wilfrid Hodges
    Title: How the teenage Avicenna planned out several new logics
    Location: Online (Zoom)

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

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

    Val Goranko and Graham Leigh, NOL seminar organisers.

  • 20 May 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Nina Gierasimczuk

    Date & Time: Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Nina Gierasimczuk
    Title: Multi-agent language coordination and cognitive semantics of quantity terms
    Location: Online
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    19 May 2021, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting

    Date & Time: Wednesday 19 May 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Location: Zoom
    Target audience: ILLC Staff, PhD candidates, guests

    As in previous editions, the purpose of this meeting is to inform you about issues that are currently of importance in the ILLC and/or the Master of Logic programme. We will also use this opportunity to welcome new members of staff and to provide you with an update about upcoming and other plans.

    For more information, contact .
  • 18 May 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, Seth Yalcin

    Date & Time: Tuesday 18 May 2021, 18:00-20:00
    Speaker: Seth Yalcin (California)
    Title: Iffy Knowledge
    Location: Online
    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leila Bussiere at .
  • 18 May 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Robert Hawkins

    Date & Time: Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Robert Hawkins (Princeton)
    Title: Coordinating on meaning in communication
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 18 May 2021, Master of Logic defense, Fergus Smiles

    Date & Time: Tuesday 18 May 2021, 14:00
    Title: Learning Deterministic Finite Automata with Signed Examples: An Investigation into the Role of Entropy in Optimal Model Selection
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Pieter Adriaans (IvI)
  • 12 May 2021, Logic of Conceivability seminar, Graham Priest

    Date & Time: Wednesday 12 May 2021, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: Graham Priest
    Title: Mission Impossible
    Location: Online via Zoom

    LoC online seminar session on Wednesday, May 12 : Graham Priest on Mission Impossible.

  • 12 May 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Nick Galatos

    Date & Time: Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Nick Galatos (University of Denver)
    Title: Distributive lattice-ordered monoids (Joint work with A. Colacito, G. Metcalfe and S. Santschi)
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 11 May 2021, Social-half hour for PhD students and postdocs

    Date & Time: Tuesday 11 May 2021, 17:20-18:00
    Location: Online via Zoom
    Target audience: PhD students and postdocs

    The weekly social event for PhD students, postdocs, and generally non-permanent research people at the ILLC is still on-going. Please feel free to join us! We meet for roughly 45 minutes and have an open informal discussion, often featuring a short (generally non-academic) presentation by one of the attendants on a topic of their choice.

    Zoom url: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85133392465.

    For more information, contact Patricia Mirabile at .
  • 11 May 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Anthi Solaki

    Date & Time: Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Anthi Solaki (ILLC)
    Title: Actualizing Distributed Knowledge in Bounded Groups
    Location: Online

    Contact the organizer to join this online seminar.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 6 May 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Han Xiao

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 May 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Han Xiao (Hamburg)
    Title: Medvedev's Logic is not finitely axiomatisable (a proof by Maksimova, Shehtman, and Skvorcov)
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 6 May 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hein Duijf

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 May 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Hein Duijf
    Title: Should one be open-minded?
    Location: Online
  • 5 May 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Revantha Ramanayake

    Date & Time: Wednesday 5 May 2021, 19:00-20:00
    Speaker: Revantha Ramanayake (Groningen)
    Title: Up and Down the Lambek Calculus
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 30 April 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 30 April 2021, 18:00-19:15
    Title: Introduction to Set-Theoretic and Suis Generis Structuralism
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 29 April 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Rustam Galimullin

    Date & Time: Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Rustam Galimullin
    Title: Group Knowledge in Public Communication
    Location: Online
  • 28 April 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Jurriaan Rot

    Date & Time: Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University)
    Title: Expressive Logics for Coinductive Predicates
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 28 April 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Sandro Pezzelle

    Date & Time: Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Sandro Pezzelle
    Title: Semantic adaptation to the interpretation of gradable adjectives via passive exposure and active information seeking
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 27 April 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Pablo Cobreros

    Date & Time: Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Pablo Cobreros (Navarra)
    Title: Classicality and the ST approach to paradoxes
    Location: Online

    Contact the organizers for more information about how to join this online talk.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 26 April 2021, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Jouko Väänänen

    Date & Time: Monday 26 April 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Jouko Väänänen
    Title: Dependence logic: Some recent developments
    Location: Online (Zoom)

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

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

    Val Goranko and Graham Leigh, NOL seminar organisers.

  • 23 April 2021, Spinoza Lectures, Prof. Robert Brandom

    Date & Time: Friday 23 April 2021, 19:30-21:00
    Speaker: Prof. Robert Brandom
    Title: Hegel’s Recollective Account of Representation
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Prof. Robert Brandom holds the Spinoza Chair at the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities during the second term of the academic year 2020-2021. Prof. Brandom will be delivering the Spinoza Lectures under the title of 'Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality.'

  • 22 April 2021, Spinoza Lectures, Prof. Robert Brandom

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 19:30-21:00
    Speaker: Prof. Robert Brandom
    Title: A Rortyan Pragmatist Master-Argument
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Prof. Robert Brandom holds the Spinoza Chair at the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities during the second term of the academic year 2020-2021. Prof. Brandom will be delivering the Spinoza Lectures under the title of 'Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality.'

  • 22 April 2021, KNAW-webinar: De logica van AI

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 19:00-20:30
    Location: Zoom

    [Dutch only]

    Artificiële intelligentie moet ons leven verrijken, maar er niet mee aan de haal gaan. Het moet zich houden aan door mensen gehanteerde logica en principes voor rationaliteit, moraliteit en consistentie. Kortom, wij willen machinaal handelen kunnen begrijpen en sturen. Mens en machine moeten elkaar in voldoende mate verstaan om op de gewenste manier met elkaar om te gaan.

    Vier sprekers (Catholijn Jonker, Jan Broersen, Rineke Verbrugge en Bart Jacobs) leggen uit welke rol logica, in combinatie met probabilistisch denken, speelt in het onderzoek naar de vervulling van deze wensen.

  • 22 April 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Lucas Wansner

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Lucas Wansner (Hamburg)
    Title: Separating DC from ACω (the hard way)
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 22 April 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Patricia Rich

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Patricia Rich
    Title: Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations
    Location: Online
  • 22 April 2021, Logic Lunch, Arianna Novaro

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 April 2021, 12:30
    Speaker: Arianna Novaro (ILLC)
    Title: Unravelling multi-agent ranked delegations
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 21 April 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, David Fernández-Duque

    Date & Time: Wednesday 21 April 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: David Fernández-Duque (Gent)
    Title: The topological mu-calculus
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 21 April 2021, Mini-conference "Methods & Math Psych"

    Date & Time: Wednesday 21 April 2021, 13:00-16:45
    Location: Online via Zoom

    The conferencewill feature short talks from six leading experts in mathematical psychology, cognitive modelling, and psychological methods.Talks will be approximately 20 minutes long,with 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Attendance is free and open to everyone. However, as this is intended as an expert meeting, some familiarity with computational modelling and psychological methods will be assumed.

  • 21 April 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Greg Restall

    Date & Time: Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Greg Restall (Melbourne)
    Title: Comparing Rules for Identity in Sequent Systems and Natural Deduction
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 20 April 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, postponed

    Date & Time: Tuesday 20 April 2021, 16:00-18:00
    Location: Online

    Rosalie Iemhoff's talk on 'Proof-Theoretic Formalization' has been postponed. The new
    date is to be announced.

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leila Bussiere at .
  • 16 April 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Wang's Paradox; Dummet's case against Strict Finitism
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 16 April 2021, Master of Logic defense, Hrafn Oddsson

    Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2021, 11:00
    Title: Paradefinite Zermelo–Fraenkel Set Theory: A Theory of Inconsistent and Incomplete Sets
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Yurii Khomskii
  • 15 April 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Tobias Stonier Emma Palmer

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 April 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Tobias Stonier (Cambridge) Emma Palmer (Cambridge)
    Title: Wadge determinacy and the semi-linear ordering principle Reflection at large cardinals
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 15 April 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Phil Pützstück

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Phil Pützstück
    Title: Logics of Dependence and Independence: The Local Variants
    Location: Online
  • 14 April 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Matteo Mio

    Date & Time: Wednesday 14 April 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Matteo Mio (ENS-Lyon)
    Title: Towards a Proof Theory of Probabilistic Logics
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 13 April 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Helle Hvid Hansen

    Date & Time: Tuesday 13 April 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Helle Hvid Hansen (Groningen)
    Title: Complete Proof Systems for Parikh’s Game Logic
    Location: Online

    Please contact the organizer if you would like to join the online meeting.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 9 April 2021, DIP Colloquium, Cailin O'Connor

    Date & Time: Friday 9 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Cailin O'Connor (UC Irvine)
    Title: Measuring Conventionality
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 8 April 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Isabel Macenka & Allison Wang

    Date & Time: Thursday 8 April 2021, 17:00
    Speaker: Isabel Macenka & Allison Wang (Cambridge)
    Title: Determinacy of long games
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 8 April 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Marta Bilkova

    Date & Time: Thursday 8 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Marta Bilkova
    Title: Belief based on inconsistent information
    Location: Online
  • 6 April 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Nick Bezhanishvili

    Date & Time: Tuesday 6 April 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Nick Bezhanishvili
    Title: Linear bi-intuitionistic calculus
    Location: Online

    This talk is online, please contact the organizer to join.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 2 April 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 2 April 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Debate: Is Second-Order Logic Set Theory in Sheep's Clothing?
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 1 April 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Hrafn Oddson

    Date & Time: Thursday 1 April 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Hrafn Oddson (Amsterdam)
    Title: Paradefinite Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory: a Theory of Inconsistent and Incomplete Sets
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 1 April 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hans van Ditmarsch

    Date & Time: Thursday 1 April 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Hans van Ditmarsch
    Title: Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows: Gossip Protocols for Super Experts
    Location: Online
  • 31 March 2021, Cool Logic, Ezra Schoen

    Date & Time: Wednesday 31 March 2021, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Ezra Schoen
    Title: An Almost Constructive Proof of Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
    Location: Online via Zoom

    As a young mathematician, Brouwer gained prominence by proving a number of fundamental theorems in topology, the most famous of which is his eponymous fixed point theorem. However, Brouwer would later come to reject this theorem as not intutionistically acceptable. In this talk, I will (briefly) sketch the proof of Brouwer's fixed point theorem as it is given in most textbooks, and present an alternative, 'almost constructive' proof based on Sperner's lemma. I will also discuss how this second proof can be used to obtain intuitionistically valid variants of the fixed point theorem.

    Zoom link: TBA. Please check website - Zoom link will be provided the day before.

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/117 or contact Maximilian Siemers at .
  • 31 March 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Corina Cirstea

    Date & Time: Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton)
    Title: Measure-theoretic semantics for quantitative linear-time logics
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 30 March 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, Lavinia Picollo

    Date & Time: Tuesday 30 March 2021, 10:00-12:00
    Speaker: Lavinia Picollo (Singapore)
    Location: Online
    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leila Bussiere at .
  • 29 - 30 March 2021, Workshop Lexical Restrictions on Grammatical Relations

    Date & Time: 29 - 30 March 2021, 09:00-16:30
    Location: Online via Zoom

    In many languages grammatical relations are to some extent lexically restricted, in the sense that certain verbs or verb classes take different argument coding frames than others. While such constraints are well studied for case marking, they have also been reported for grammatical relations defining other types of constructions, including a range of voice- and valency-related constructions and some clause-combining constructions. This hybrid (on-line/on-site) workshop aims to unite scholars from different (sub)disciplines, bringing together descriptive, comparative, corpus-based, and experimental studies, as well as studies that compare linguistic data with genetic and/or socio-historical evidence. Together, we hope to further our understanding why lexical restrictions should exist, how they are processed and acquired, and why/how/where they persist in languages.

  • 26 March 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Sonia Ramotowska

    Date & Time: Friday 26 March 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Sonia Ramotowska
    Title: Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 25 March 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Tristan van der Vlugt

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 March 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Tristan van der Vlugt (Hamburg)
    Title: A higher counterpart to random forcing
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 25 March 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Line van den Berg

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 March 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Line van den Berg
    Title: Multi-Agent Knowledge Evolution in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
    Location: Online
  • 23 March 2021, Social-half hour for PhD students and postdocs

    Date & Time: Tuesday 23 March 2021, 17:20-17:50
    Location: Online
    Target audience: PhD students and postdocs

    Weekly social event for PhD students, postdocs, and generally non-permanent research people at the ILLC. Meetings last between 30 and 45 minutes and feature a short (generally non-academic) presentation by one of the attendants on a topic of their choice followed by an open informal discussion.

    Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85133392465

    For more information, contact Patricia Mirabile at .
  • 23 March 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Clara Meister

    Date & Time: Tuesday 23 March 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Clara Meister (ETH Zürich)
    Title: If Beam Search is the Answer, what was the Question?
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 23 March 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Sebastian Melzer

    Date & Time: Tuesday 23 March 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Sebastian Melzer (ILLC, Amsterdam)
    Title: Canonical Formulas for the Lax Logic
    Location: Online

    Contact the organizer to join the talk on Microsoft Teams.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 22 March 2021, Nordic online logic semina (new), Dag Prawitz

    Date & Time: Monday 22 March 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Dag Prawitz
    Title: Validity of inference and argument
    Location: Online via Zoom

    The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar), will be organised monthly over Zoom, with talks on logic topics of interest for the broader logic community.
    The first talk will be given by Dag Prawitz on Monday, March 22, 16.00-17.30 (UTC+1).

    For more information, see here or at https://www2.philosophy.su.se/goranko/nol_seminar.html or contact Valentin Goranko  at .
  • 19 March 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Guest Talk, Joel David Hamkins

    Date & Time: Friday 19 March 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Speaker: Joel David Hamkins
    Title: Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Professor Joel David Hamkins from the University of Oxford will be at Φ-Math to present his upcoming book Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. The presentation will contain an overview of the book's contents and motivation with a focus on selected philosophical problems tackled in it, followed by a discussion/questions from attendants.

    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading or contact Noel Arteche at , or Evan Iatrou at .
  • 19 March 2021, DIP Colloquium, Annemarie Kocab

    Date & Time: Friday 19 March 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Annemarie Kocab (Harvard)
    Title: The Origins of Language: Evidence from Nicaraguan Sign Language
    Location: Online, via Zoom

    All human societies have languages capable of expressing the richness of human thought. To what extent is this achievement an historical accomplishment, similar to mathematics or science, and to what extent does it rely on our evolved cognitive capacities? I study these questions by looking at language creation in different communities, including Nicaraguan Sign Language (a new language only 50 years old), homesign systems, and laboratory-created communication systems. I will present results on how a new language comes to have recursion and quantifiers like “some” and “all." In both cases, I find evidence for rapid emergence of linguistic structure within a few generations. One possible explanation for these findings is that features that emerge early are those that reflect underlying shared semantic structures that are universal (or nearly) in languages. In contrast, the features that emerge later (e.g., grammatical morphology) may be those that vary across languages and require convergence and iterated learning.

    This talk will be given in American Sign Language (ASL) and interpreted into English. If anyone would like to attend the talk and have it interpreted in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), please send an email to in advance and we will do our best to arrange an NGT interpreter.

  • 18 March 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Robert Schütz / David de Graaf

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 March 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Robert Schütz (Amsterdam) / David de Graaf (Amsterdam)
    Title: Multiverses with more than two modal logics of forcing, Part II / A partition calculus in set theory
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 18 March 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Yuri David Santos

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Yuri David Santos
    Title: Social Consolidations: Rational Belief in a Many-Valued Logic of Evidence and Peerhood
    Location: Online
  • 17 March 2021, Cool Logic, Alex Keizer

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 March 2021, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Alex Keizer
    Title: Session Coalgebra: Using State-based Systems to Describe Communication Protocols
    Location: Online (Zoom)

    Type systems are a useful tool to prevent programmers from making obvious mistakes, but they are generally quite limited in what they can describe. We've taken a look at a session types, a type system aimed at describing communication protocols, and checking that programs adhere to these protocols. Where previous work on session types has treated them as syntactical objects, we find that protocols have a natural notion of state and characterize them as coalgebras, i.e., state-based machines. In doing so, we retrieve natural definitions for type-equivalence, subtyping and duality of types as coinductive relations between states. In my talk I'll explain what session types are and present our syntax-free description of protocols as states of a coalgebra (without assuming prior knowledge of coalgebras).

    Zoom Meeting ID: 878 6558 7983 (link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/87865587983)

     

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/116 or contact Cool Logic at .
  • 17 March 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Sara Negri

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Sara Negri (Università degli Studi di Genova)
    Title: A proof-theoretic approach to formal epistemology (joint work with Edi Pavlović)
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 17 March 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Andreas Weiermann

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 March 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Andreas Weiermann (Ghent)
    Title: Notation systems for natural numbers and Goodstein sequences
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 16 March 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar Postponed

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:00-14:00

    Originally scheduled speaker: Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia) on "Russell’s Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy"

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Julian Schlöder at .
  • 15 March 2021, Causal Inference Lab, Niels Skovgaard-Olsen

    Date & Time: Monday 15 March 2021, 10:00-11:30
    Speaker: Niels Skovgaard-Olsen
    Title: Conditionals and the Hierarchy of Causal Queries
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 12 March 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Debate: Is the universe a mathematical object?
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 11 March 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Valentin Goranko

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Valentin Goranko
    Title: The temporal logic of coalitional goal assignments in concurrent multi-player games
    Location: Online
  • 10 March 2021, SMART Cognitive Science Live Interviews, Sonja Smets

    Date & Time: Wednesday 10 March 2021, 17:00-18:00
    Speaker: Sonja Smets
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Prof. dr. Sonja Smets (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation):
    "When agents learn new information they have to be very careful, because the fact of learning information may interfere with the reality that is being learned."
    Interviewed by: Dr. J. Ashley Burgoyne (Amsterdam Music Lab).
    Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82520968502

    For more information, see http://smartcs.uva.nl/.
  • 9 March 2021, Machine learning, logic, and structured knowledge, Balder ten Cate

    Date & Time: Tuesday 9 March 2021, 18:15-19:00
    Speaker: Balder ten Cate (Google Research)
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Over the last decade, advances in machine learning have taken the computer science community by storm, enabling new applications and pushing the envelope on existing ones. Even on tasks that are traditionally viewed as falling in the domain of logical reasoning (e.g., reading comprehension tasks), deep neural models are now the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, logic and learning are perceived by some as being distinct or even opposing approaches. At the same time, while various algorithmic and hardware limitations that inhibited deep learning solutions in the past have been successfully addressed, other fundamental problems arise, such as problems concerning fairness, explainability, and controllability. In this talk, I will discuss a few problems at the intersection of machine learning and logic, including providing deep models with means to access structured knowledge.

    Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82670894282

    For more information, see https://research.google/people/107268/.
  • 9 March 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Lucas Rosenblatt

    Date & Time: Tuesday 9 March 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Lucas Rosenblatt
    Title: Recapture Results and Classical Logic
    Location: Online

    This talk will take place on Microsoft Teams. Contact the organizer for more details.

    For more information, see http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 5 March 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 5 March 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Φ-Tea III: Your most and least favorite aspects of PoM
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 5 March 2021, DIP Colloquium, Matthew Mandelkern

    Date & Time: Friday 5 March 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Matthew Mandelkern (NYU)
    Title: Witnesses
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 4 March 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Luke Gardiner

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 March 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Luke Gardiner (Cambridge)
    Title: Infinite exponent partition relations on the reals, Part II
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 4 March 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Frederik Van De Putte

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 March 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Frederik Van De Putte
    Title: The Problem of No Hands: Responsibility Voids in Collective Decisions
    Location: Online
  • 4 March 2021, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Adrian Haret

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 March 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Adrian Haret (ILLC)
    Title: Learning in Social Networks: Naïve Rules and the Wisdom of Crowds
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see here or at https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 3 March 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Dale Miller

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 March 2021, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Dale Miller (Paris)
    Title: A proof-theoretic approach to formal
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 3 March 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Daniyar Shamkanov

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 March 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Daniyar Shamkanov (Steklov Mathematical Institute)
    Title: On cut-elimination for the Grzegorczyk modal logic
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 26 February 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group, Anna Bellomo

    Date & Time: Friday 26 February 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Speaker: Anna Bellomo
    Title: Bernard Bolzano's Philosophy of Mathematics
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading.
  • 26 February 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Ciyang Qing

    Date & Time: Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Ciyang Qing
    Title: Neg-raising and responsivity
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 26 February 2021, PhD defense, Hadi Hashemi

    Date & Time: Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00
    Title: Modeling Users Interacting with Smart Devices
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Jaap Kamps and Wim Hupperetz
  • 26 February 2021, Master of Logic defense, Pepijn Vrijbergen

    Date & Time: Friday 26 February 2021, 14:00
    Title: Validity, Logic and Models
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen
  • 25 February 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Lucas Wanser & Ned Wontner

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 February 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Lucas Wanser (Hamburg) & Ned Wontner (Amsterdam)
    Title: Borel and projective pointclasses with no choice at all
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 25 February 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Sven Rosenkranz

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Sven Rosenkranz
    Title: To be in no position to know to be in no position to know: methods, safety, and luminosity
    Location: Online
  • 25 February 2021, CoSaQ seminar, Heming Strømholt Bremnes

    Date & Time: Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:30
    Speaker: Heming Strømholt Bremnes
    Title: Computational Complexity Explains Neural Differences in Quantifier Verification
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Sonia Ramotowska at .
  • 23 February 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Svitlana Vakulenko

    Date & Time: Tuesday 23 February 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Svitlana Vakulenko (University of Amsterdam)
    Title: Conversational Question Answering at Scale
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 19 February 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 19 February 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Conceptions of the Continuum, by Solomon Feferman
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading or contact Noel Arteche at , or Evan Iatrou at .
  • 18 February 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Robert Schütz

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 February 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Robert Schütz (Amsterdam)
    Title: Multiverses with more than two modal logics of forcing
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 18 February 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Marija Slavkovik

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 February 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Marija Slavkovik
    Title: Conflicts in machine ethics
    Location: Online
  • 17 February 2021, Cool Logic, Paul Maurice Dekker / Giovanni Cina

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 February 2021, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: Paul Maurice Dekker / Giovanni Cina
    Title: Shuffling Pennies / Pacmed Internships
    Location: Zoom

    The student-run ILLC talk series Cool Logic has been revived and will, for the first time this year, take place on Wednesday, Feb 17 in the time slot that is usually occupied by the MoL Graduation Trajectory. There will be a talk by Paul Maurice Dekker (abstract below), followed by a round of questions and discussion. Afterwards, there will be a presentation by Giovanni Cina on internship opportunities at the Amsterdam-based company Pacmed.

    Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81396779133

    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/talks/115 or contact Cool Logic at .
  • 17 February 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Philip Kremer

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 February 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Philip Kremer (University of Toronto)
    Title: Strong Completeness in Topological Semantics
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 17 February 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Keita Yokoyama

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 February 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Keita Yokoyama (JAIST)
    Title: Forcing interpretation, conservation and proof size
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 16 February 2021, EXPRESS/PhilMath Seminar, Greg Restall

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 February 2021, 10:00-12:00
    Speaker: Greg Restall (Melbourne)
    Title: An Inferentialist Account of Identity and Modality
    Location: Online

    This semester, the EXPRESS Seminar is joining forces with the PHILMATH Seminar in Paris. Our first speaker will be Greg Restall on "An Inferentialist Account of Identity and Modality".

    For more information, see https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/ or contact Leila Bussiere at , or Julian Schlöder at .
  • 12 February 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group, Pieter Adriaans

    Date & Time: Friday 12 February 2021, 18:00-19:15
    Speaker: Pieter Adriaans
    Title: Φ-Tea IV: An Information Theoretical Perspective on the Separation of the classes P and NP
    Location: Online via Zoom

    The P vs. NP problem, one of the seven Millenium Problems, is one of the most relevant unsolved questions in theoretical computer science. The progress in the last decade, however, has been little. Can information theory and philosophy of information provide new insights as to why these classes should be distinct (or the same)? Pieter Adriaans will be offering a talk on the subject, followed by a discussion.

    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/PhilMathReading or contact Noel Arteche at , or Evan Iatrou at .
  • 11 February 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Raiean Banerjee

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Raiean Banerjee (Hamburg)
    Title: Regularity properties in iterations of length ℵ1
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 11 February 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Elise Perrotin

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Elise Perrotin
    Title: Knowledge “whether” and belief “about” as a lightweight alternative to Dynamic Epistemic Logic
    Location: Online
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    11 February 2021, Celebration of CWI's 75th birthday

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-17:00
    Location: Zoom

    CWI is counting down to its 75th anniversary and kindly requests you to save the date: on 11 February 2021 we will celebrate our jubilee with a special online event.

    Preliminary programme:
    14.00 Opening
    14.10 Breakout sessions round 1: Daniel Dadush, Marten van Dijk, Benjamin Sanderse, Irene Viola
    14.40 Ton de Kok
    15.00 Break
    15.10 Breakout sessions round 2: Peter Bosman, Stacey Jeffery, Lisa Kohl, Hannes Muhleisen
    15.40 Jos Baeten
    16.00 Comedian Adam Fields
    16.35 Closing
    Chair of the day is Ans Hekkenberg.

    For more information, see https://www.cwi.nl/events/2021/online-celebration-of-cwis-diamond-jubilee or contact Danielle Kollerie at .
  • 11 February 2021, CoSaQ seminar, Fausto Carcassi

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:30
    Speaker: Fausto Carcassi
    Title: The Shape of Modified Numerals
    Location: Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Sonia Ramotowska at .
  • 11 February 2021, Faces of Science Park: Sense of Belonging in Times of Crisis

    Date & Time: Thursday 11 February 2021, 09:30-20:30
    Location: Online

    On 11 February 2021, it’s time for ‘Faces of Science Park: Sense of Belonging in Times of Crisis’. On this day we will reflect on the diversity within the Faculty of Science and within the university. On this day, we welcome students and staff of the Faculty of Science to talk and think about diversity.

  • 9 February 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Emil Jerabek

    Date & Time: Tuesday 9 February 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Emil Jerabek (Czech Academy of Sciences)
    Title: Disjunction properties in modal proof complexity
    Location: Online

    This talk will take place in Microsoft Teams. Please contact the organizer for information about how to join the talk.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 5 February 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 5 February 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Free Will and Mathematical Thought, by Solomon Feferman
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 5 February 2021, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Robert van Rooij

    Date & Time: Friday 5 February 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Robert van Rooij
    Title: Conditionals: causality and relevance
    Location: Online, via Zoom
  • 4 February 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Luke Gardiner

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 February 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Luke Gardiner (Cambridge)
    Title: Infinite exponent partition relations on the reals
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 4 February 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Sophia Knight

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 February 2021, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Sophia Knight
    Title: Reasoning about agents who may know other agents’ strategies in Strategy Logic
    Location: online
  • 4 February 2021, NWO Synergy '21

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 February 2021, 14:30-17:00
    Location: Online

    What is your position on Future Societies? At Synergy ’21 we will explore Future Societies from the perspective of the individual and the collective, moving through the development of new interactions and communities, to perspectives on the future of humanity in a posthuman society. Synergy ’21 will underscore the significance and relevance of scientific research and knowledge development that will affect our shared future.

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/meetings/synergy-21 or contact Dr. R.P.W. Heinsbroek at .
  • 3 February 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Sara Negri

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 February 2021, 18:00-19:00
    Speaker: Sara Negri (Genova)
    Title: A proof-theoretic approach to formal epistemology
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 3 February 2021, Logic of Conceivability seminar, Thomas Ferguson

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 February 2021, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: Thomas Ferguson
    Title: Rethinking Griss’ Negationless Intuitionistic Mathematics
    Location: Virtually (Zoom)
  • 3 February 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Alexandra Silva

    Date & Time: Wednesday 3 February 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Alexandra Silva (University College London)
    Title: Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests: Coequations, Coinduction, and Completeness
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • 29 January 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group, Dean McHugh

    Date & Time: Friday 29 January 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Speaker: Dean McHugh
    Title: Φ-Tea: Newcomb's Paradox
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 29 January 2021, Master of Logic defense, Daniël Louwrink

    Date & Time: Friday 29 January 2021, 13:00
    Title: A Separation Logic for Stacked Borrows
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Alban Ponse
    Mentor: Ronald de Wolf
  • 28 January 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Robert Paßmann

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 January 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Robert Paßmann (Cambridge & Amsterdam)
    Title: A categorical model for Heyting arithmetic
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 28 January 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Claudia Fernández-Fernández

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Claudia Fernández-Fernández
    Title: Awareness in Logic and Epistemology
    Location: Online
  • 28 January 2021, CoSaQ seminar, Lorenzo Pinton

    Date & Time: Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00
    Speaker: Lorenzo Pinton
    Title: A few surprising data on surprisingly few
    Location: Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/ or contact Sonia Ramotowska at .
  • 26 January 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Francesca Poggiolesi

    Date & Time: Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Francesca Poggiolesi (Paris 1, CNRS, IHPST)
    Title: Explanatory proofs (or grounding proofs): philosophical framework, core ideas and results
    Location: Online

    This talk will take place online in MS Teams, please contact the organizers for more information.

    For more information, see here or at http://tulips.sites.uu.nl/ or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 26 January 2021, BIAS project meeting, Prachi Solanki

    Date & Time: Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00
    Speaker: Prachi Solanki
    Title: Judgements of Social Groups
    Location: Zoom (contact Katrin for the link)

    Abstract:
    A stereotype is a generalization about a class of people but does not necessarily represent every individual with the group (McCauley, Stitt, & Segal, 1980). Category information (i.e., stereotype information) is often used to make probabilistic predictions about people within a particular group. For instance, a probabilistic judgement about Germans would be that, “Germans are more likely than other people to be efficient.” Here we are making a prediction about an individual’s personality (i.e., efficiency) based on their group membership (i.e., German). McCauley and Stitt (1978) suggest that people are accurately Bayesian in their judgements and tend to make probabilistic judgements about people’s personality based on stereotype information. The current project aims to replicate the original McCauley and Stitt (1978) work to test whether stereotype prediction from category information to personality adheres to Bayes’ rule.

  • 22 January 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Friday 22 January 2021, 18:00-19:30
    Title: Reading Meeting: Why Philosopher Should Care about Computational Complexity, by Scott Aaronson
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 21 January 2021, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Dominik Wehr

    Date & Time: Thursday 21 January 2021, 18:00
    Speaker: Dominik Wehr (Amsterdam)
    Title: Aczel's Type-Theoretic Interpretation of Constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 21 January 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Rafał Gruszczyński

    Date & Time: Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Rafał Gruszczyński
    Title: Galileo’s thought experiment in mereological setting
    Location: Online
  • 20 January 2021, Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, Georg Moser

    Date & Time: Wednesday 20 January 2021, 10:00-11:00
    Speaker: Georg Moser (Innsbruck)
    Title: Herbrand Complexity and Hilbert's Epsilon Calculus
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 19 January 2021, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Douwe Kiela

    Date & Time: Tuesday 19 January 2021, 16:00
    Speaker: Douwe Kiela (Facebook AI Research)
    Title: Rethinking Benchmarking in AI
    For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
  • 15 January 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Book Presentation

    Date & Time: Friday 15 January 2021, 18:00-19:15
    Title: Luca Incurvati's 'Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics'
    Location: Online via Zoom

    Our Philosophy of Mathematics Reading Group has the honor to start 2021 by hosting Luca Incruvati presenting his 2020 book 'Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics' published by the Cambridge University Press. The book is accessible from the UvA Library.

    Book Summary: Sets are central to mathematics and its foundations, but what are they? In this book Luca Incurvati provides a detailed examination of all the major conceptions of set and discusses their virtues and shortcomings, as well as introducing the fundamentals of the alternative set theories with which these conceptions are associated. He shows that the conceptual landscape includes not only the naïve and iterative conceptions but also the limitation of size conception, the definite conception, the stratified conception and the graph conception. In addition, he presents a novel, minimalist account of the iterative conception which does not require the existence of a relation of metaphysical dependence between a set and its members. His book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/phi-math/meetings or contact Evan Iatrou at , or Noel Arteche at .
  • 14 January 2021, World-Logic-Day Lecture, Moshe Vardi

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 19:00-20:00
    Speaker: Moshe Vardi
    Title: "From Aristotle to the iPhone" (WLD 2021 event)
    Location: Virtual

    Abstract: Logic started as a branch of philosophy, going back to Greeks, who loved debates, in the classical period. Computers are relatively young, dating back to World War II, in the middle of the 20th century. This talk tells the story of how logic begat computing, tracing the surprising path from Aristotle to the iPhone. This is a story full of both intellectual drama, as well as real-life drama, with most of the characters dying young, miserable, or both.

    The talk is part of a series of World Logic Day events and is aimed at a general audience.

    The talk is now available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOQuW6QFdos&feature=youtu.be

  • 14 January 2021, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Brian Logan

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 16:30-18:30
    Speaker: Brian Logan
    Title: Intention Progression in Multi-Agent Settings
    Location: Online
  • 12 January 2021, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Raheleh Jalali

    Date & Time: Tuesday 12 January 2021, 16:00-17:15
    Speaker: Raheleh Jalali (Utrecht)
    Title: On Hard Theorems
    Location: Online

    This talk will take place in Microsoft Teams. Please contact the organizers in order to be added to the TULIPS 'team'.

    For more information, see here or at https://tulips.sites.uu.nl or contact Colin R. Caret at .
  • 9 January 2021, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group

    Date & Time: Saturday 9 January 2021, 11:00-12:30
    Title: Towards a Philosophy of Music, by Iannis Xenakis
    Location: Online via Zoom
  • 6 January 2021, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Jason Parker

    Date & Time: Wednesday 6 January 2021, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Jason Parker (Brandon University)
    Title: Isotropy Groups of Quasi-Equational Theories
    Location: Online (Zoom Meeting ID 922-5064-0302)
    For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg/ or contact Jan Rooduijn at .

Calls for Paper

  • 13 - 17 December 2021, Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021), Montpellier, France and Online

    Date & Time: 13 - 17 December 2021, 08:00-21:00
    Location: Montpellier, France and Online
    Target audience: researchers, academic people
    Costs: 20 Euro
    Deadline: Sunday 14 November 2021

    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 1950s, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - 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 symposium assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress.

    The symposium focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches.

    LACompLing2021 is part of the week "Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN) 2021"

    We welcome submissions of abstracts of presentations of original work. The intended papers should not be submitted concurrently to another conference or conference event and should not have been published or submitted for publication consideration elsewhere. Authors can submit more than one abstract. Invited speakers can submit invited and contributed abstracts.

    For more information, see https://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing2021-web/ or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .
  • 8 - 10 December 2021, Workshop "Mathematics as/in Science", Gent, Belgium

    Date: 8 - 10 December 2021
    Location: Gent, Belgium
    Deadline: Monday 25 October 2021

    The relationship between mathematics and science continues to be of considerable philosophical interest. Within contemporary philosophy of science, for example, pinpointing the exact role of mathematics in the sciences remains a hotly debated issue. Does mathematics play a mere inferential role in that it allows for the derivations of one substantial truth from another or is mathematics more than a 'theoretical juice-extractor'? Are there distinctive mathematical explanations of physical phenomena? Similar questions can be asked about the role of logic in science.

    These issues connect with discussions within the philosophy of mathematics (and the philosophy of logic) concerning the nature of mathematics (or logic). Within the philosophy of mathematics, Platonists, nominalists and structuralists consider mathematics to be fundamentally different in kind from empirical science, while empiricists have argued that mathematics is, just like other sciences, fundamentally about aspects of the empirical world. Different positions within the debate about the nature of mathematics will, arguably, lead to different answers to the question as to how mathematics and science are related.

    In this workshop we want to focus on how these different philosophies of mathematics fare in giving an account of mathematical practice and the role of mathematics in scientific practice.

    We welcome contributions that approach these (and related) topics either from a systematic or a historic angle. In other words, we welcome contributions that elaborate and defend your own position, but also contributions that discuss the views that philosophers and scientists had on these topics in the past.

    For more information, see https://www.lrr.ugent.be/mathematicsscience/ or contact .
  • 6 - 8 December 2021, Trends in Logic XXI "Frontiers of connexive logic", Bochum, Germany

    Date: 6 - 8 December 2021
    Location: Bochum, Germany
    Deadline: Tuesday 14 September 2021

    The 21st Trends in Logic international conference will be held at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, from December 6-December 8, 2021 under the title 'Frontiers of connexive logic'. It is organized by the chairs of Logic and Epistemology and Nonclassical Logic at the Department of Philosophy I of Ruhr University Bochum, in co-operation with Studia Logica.

    Modern connexive logic started in the 1960s with seminal papers by Richard B. Angell and Storrs McCall. Systems of connexive logic have been motivated by considerations on a content connection between the antecedent and succedent of valid implications and by applications that range from Aristotle's syllogistic to Categorial Grammar and the study of causal implications. As we are observing some growing interests in topics related to connexive logics, after six annual workshops, the Trends in Logic XXI aims at discussing directions for future research in connexive logics.

    Any papers related to connexive logics are welcome. Moreover, we will have a special session on contra-classical logics, and thus any papers related to contra-classical logics are welcome. Submissions of extended abstracts (up to three pages) should be submitted electronically as pdf documents using the EasyChair submission page. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, and attend, the conference to present their work. Full versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Studia Logica after an open call for papers.

  • 6 December 2021, 3rd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications (CIFMA 2021)

    Date: Monday 6 December 2021
    Deadline: Friday 24 September 2021

    The objectives of this new international workshop are:
    1. to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions who are interested in the foundations and applications of cognition from the perspective of their areas of expertise and aim at a synergistic effort in integrating approaches from different areas;
    2. to nurture cooperation among researchers from different areas and establish concrete collaborations;
    3. to present formal methods to cognitive scientists as a general modelling and analysis approach, whose effectiveness goes well beyond its application to computer science and software engineering.

    Keynote speaker: Martin Davis (New York University, USA) on "The Brain As a Computer".

    Authors are invited to submit, via Easychair, research contributions or experience reports. All papers should be written in English and prepared using the Springer LNCS templates. Submissions are required to report on original, unpublished work and should not be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere .There are six categories of submissions: Research papers, Position papers, Interdisciplinary Project papers, Case Study papers, Tool papers, and Tool Demonstration papers. Contributions will be in the form of Regular papers (12-15 pages), Short papers (6-8 pages), and Presentations (abstract up to 4 pages). Short papers and Presentations can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated.

    For more information, see https://cifma.github.io/ or contact .
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    2 - 4 December 2021, Proof Society Workshop

    Date: 2 - 4 December 2021
    Location: Funchal, Madeira
    Target audience: Researchers Proof Theory and related
    Costs: €300
    Deadline: Monday 8 November 2021

    The workshop will bring together researchers on proof theory and its applications through a series of invited and contributed talks as well as panel discussion.

    Confirmed speakers include Eduardo Fermé, David Fernández Duque, Stepan Kuznetsov, Fedor Pakhomov, Michael Rathjen, and Andrei Voronkov. The event will be attending-only and shall not be streamed online.

    Workshop Contributed Talks Submission:
    •Submission of abstracts opens Monday, October 11;
    •Submission of abstracts closes Monday, November 8;
    •Acceptance is confirmed Thursday, November 11.

    For more information, see https://kgs.logic.at/madeira2021/workshop or contact Anela Lolic at .
  • CfP special issue of Topoi on "Mathematical Practice & Social Ontology"

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 December 2021

    The relationship between mathematics and social ontology is often guided by the question of the possibility of applying mathematics to social sciences, especially economy. As interesting as these questions may be, they neglect the inverse possibility of applying a conceptual analysis derived from social ontology to mathematics. The issue will be devoted to the question whether the distinction between social object and social fact, on the one hand, and between different theoretical approaches to the notion of social fact, can be successfully applied to mathematical practice.

    All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Submission is organized through TOPOI's online editorial manager. Papers should not exceed 8000 words (excluding notes).

    For more information, see https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/18364346 or contact Paola Cantù at , or Italo Testa at .
  • 23 - 26 November 2021, 3rd international conference on Non-classical Modal and Predicate Logics (NCMPL 2021), Bochum, Germany (Hybrid)

    Date: 23 - 26 November 2021
    Location: Bochum, Germany (Hybrid)
    Deadline: Wednesday 15 September 2021

    Modalities and predicates have since ancient time been central notions of logic. In the 20th century, various systems of non-classical logics have emerged, with applications in many disciplines like Computer Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, and Philosophy. This gave rise to the questions of a non-classical treatment of quantifiers and modalities and the accommodation of quantifiers and modalities in non-classical logics. In response, various modal and predicate variants of non-classical logics have been introduced and studied in the past decades.

    NCMPL is a conference series solely dedicated to modal and predicate non-classical logics. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from various branches of non-classical logics, not only to present recent advances in their particular fields, but also to identify common problems and methods and foster the exchange of ideas between researchers from separate fields.

    Papers are sollicited. The scope includes theoretical works on the conference topics coming from all branches of formal logic (proof-theory, model theory, game theory, computational complexity, philosophical and historical aspects), as well as their applications in computer science, linguistics, 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, infinitary logics, etc.). Full versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal (to be specified).

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/ncmpl2021 or contact .
  • 18 - 20 November 2021, 32nd Novembertagung on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics "Mathematics in Times of Crisis", Virtual

    Date: 18 - 20 November 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 1 July 2021

    The Novembertagung on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics is an annual international conference aimed at graduate students in the history and philosophy of mathematics and neighboring fields. It provides an opportunity for young researchers to present and discuss their research in a safe, informal environment, and serves as a place for them to share experience and advice, as well as to establish new contacts. Participants are welcome from around the world.

    On the Theme: Crisis, instability and times of uncertainty undoubtedly influenced the development of the sciences, and mathematics is no exception. Throughout history, mathematicians found themselves facing wide-ranging challenges, both internal and external to mathematics, to which they had to respond in new and creative ways. Inspired by contemporary global events, this conference is interested in the ways that times of crisis shaped the development of mathematics. The time of uncertainty might be frustrating and confounding for the mathematicians, but from a historical perspective it can be viewed as an engine of mathematical creativity.

    Abstracts, of around 250 words, should be submitted as a PDF file via email to . In your email, please also include your full name and affiliation as they should appear on the conference program. Please note that the theme serves as a guide, not a criterion for exclusion, and as such it is not necessary for a submission to engage with the theme to be accepted. However, establishing links with the theme will allow for more fruitful discussions, and as such is recommended.

  • 6 - 12 November 2021, 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021), Hanoi, Vietnam

    Date: 6 - 12 November 2021
    Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
    Deadline: Wednesday 24 March 2021

    Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents.

    The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge.

    We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR that clearly contribute to the formal foundations of relevant problems or show the applicability of results to implemented or implementable systems. We also welcome papers from other areas that show clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KR.

    In addition to the main conference track, KR2021 will host the following tracks and sessions:
    - Applications and Systems Track
     - Recently Published Research Track
     - Special Session on KR and Machine Learning
     - Special Session on KR and Robotics

    The KR2021 program will also feature workshops and tutorials, solicited by means of an open call, as well as a doctoral consortium.
    The Recently Published Research track, workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium will have different submission and notification dates, which will be announced separately.

    For more information, see https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de.
  • 6 - 8 November 2021, 19th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR-2021), Hanoi, Vietnam (Virtual attendance)

    Date: 6 - 8 November 2021
    Location: Hanoi, Vietnam (Virtual attendance)
    Deadline: Friday 25 June 2021

    NMR is the premier forum for results in the area of Non-Monotonic Reasoning. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in this broad field within knowledge representation and reasoning (KR), including belief revision, uncertain reasoning, reasoning about actions, planning, logic programming, preferences, argumentation, causality, and many other related topics including systems and applications.

    NMR-21 will be co-located with the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021).

    NMR-2021 invites contributions from the area of nonmonotonic, defeasible and default reasoning within the field of knowledge representation and reasoning (KR), including in particular belief revision, uncertain reasoning, reasoning about actions, planning, logic programming, preferences, argumentation, causality, and many other related topics including systems and applications.

    The accepted papers will be published as a technical report and will be made available in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) (https://arxiv.org/corr). Papers should be at most 10 pages in AAAI style including references, figures and appendices, if any. Papers already published or accepted for publication at other conferences are also welcome, provided that the original publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page. In the same vein, papers under review for other conferences can be submitted with a similar indication on their front page. Papers that have already been published or submitted elsewhere may have any length.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/nmr2021 or contact .
  • 4 November 2021, Second Workshop on Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics (SOQE 2021), Virtual

    Date & Time: Thursday 4 November 2021, 10:00-18:30
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 16 September 2021

    Second-order quantifier elimination (SOQE) is the problem of equivalently reducing a formula with quantifiers upon second-order objects such as predicates to a formula in which these quantified second-order objects no longer occur. In slight variations, SOQE is known as forgetting, projection, predicate elimination, and uniform interpolation. It can be combined with various underlying logics, including propositional, model, description and first-order logics. It is attractive as a logic-based approach to various computational tasks.

    The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on SOQE and all these related topics to present, discuss and compare issues shared by problems emerging from different special contexts, interesting open research problems (perhaps with partial solutions), new applications and implementation techniques. SOQE will be associated with the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021).

    We invite submissions of high-quality research on variants of SOQE and related topics, including work that describes applications, new systems or relevant data releases. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions.

    Submissions can be one of the following type:
    Regular paper: up to 11 pages + bibliography Short paper: up to 5 pages + bibliography
    Both regular and short papers should be written in English, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
    Submissions must contain enough substance that it they can be cited in other publications and may not have appeared before.

    For more information, see http://2021.soqe.org/.
  • 4 - 5 November 2021, 2nd Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2021) , Hanoi, Vietnam (Virtually)

    Date: 4 - 5 November 2021
    Location: Hanoi, Vietnam (Virtually)
    Deadline: Friday 2 July 2021

    The problem of explaining why a consequence does or does not follow from a given set of axioms has been considered for full first-order theorem proving since at least 40 years, but there usually with mathematicians as users in mind. In knowledge representation and reasoning, efforts in this direction are more recent, and were usually restricted to sub-areas of KR such as AI planning and description logics. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different sub-areas of KR and automated deduction that are working on explainability in their respective fields, with the goal of exchanging experiences and approaches.

    Sheila McIlraith and Joe Halpern will deliver the keynotes. The workshop will be co-located with KR 2021.

    Researchers interested in participating in the workshop should submit extended abstracts of 2-5 pages on topics related to explanation in logic-based KR. The papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS Style and must be submitted via EasyChair.

    The workshop will have informal proceedings, and thus, in addition to new work, also papers covering results that have recently been published or will be published at other venues are welcome.

    For more information, see https://xlokr21.ai.vub.ac.be/.
  • 4 - 5 November 2021, XII Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification (PSSV-2021): Theory and Applications, Virtual and Innopolis, Russia

    Date: 4 - 5 November 2021
    Location: Virtual and Innopolis, Russia
    Deadline: Sunday 10 October 2021

    Research, work in progress, position and student papers were welcome. List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): formalisms for program semantics, formal models and semantics of programs and systems, semantics of programming and specification languages, formal description techniques, logics for formal specification and verification, deductive program verification, automatic theorem proving, model checking of programs and systems, static analysis of programs, formal approach to testing and validation, and program analysis and verification tools.

    PSSV-2021 is planned to be held in hybrid mode online (using Zoom) and offline (at Innopolis University).

    The Program Committee solicits regular research submissions in the form of an extended detailed abstract (6-8 pages in English, LNCS style recommended) to be reviewed by 3 PC members, as well as work in progress, position, poster and student research reports in the form of extended abstract (3-4 pages in English, LNCS style recommended) to be reviewed by a PC member.

    Selected revised and extended papers will be published (after the workshop) in the Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems, a Russian peer-review journal where PSSV selected and revised papers are published since the very first edition of the workshop in 2010. We expect (as it was in the previous years of the PSSV) that English translations of some of these selected papers will appear next year in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences.

    For more information, see https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv21.
  • 2 - 5 November 2021, 19th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS 2021), Marseille, France

    Date: 2 - 5 November 2021
    Location: Marseille, France
    Deadline: Friday 14 May 2021

    The RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodologica tools in computer science and beyond.

    Submissions in the general fields of algebras relevant to computer science and applications of such algebras are invited. Topics include but are not limited to:

    *** Theory ***
    - algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales
    - their connections with program logics and other logics
    - their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages
    - the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories
    - their formalisation with theorem provers

    *** Applications ***
    - tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification
    - quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes
    - algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control
    - industrial applications

    For more information, see https://ramics19.lis-lab.fr/ or contact Luigi Santocanale at .
  • 27 - 29 October 2021, 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2021), Virtual & Zürich (Switzerland)

    Date: 27 - 29 October 2021
    Location: Virtual & Zürich (Switzerland)
    Deadline: Monday 3 May 2021

    The growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing in our days in all dimensions of social life. The global and collective nature of the challenges our epoch is facing (e.g. climate change, global pandemics, systemic inequalities, resurgence of totalitarianism, to name a few) requires a comprehensive perspective on computing, where social and cultural aspects occupy a central position. For these reasons, thinking about machines asks today for an interdisciplinary approach, where art is as necessary as engineering, anthropological insights as important as psychological models, and the critical perspectives of history and philosophy as decisive as the axioms and theorems of theoretical computer science.

    For more than a decade, the 'History and Philosophy of Computing' Conference (HaPoC) has contributed to building such an interdisciplinary community and environment. We aim to bring together historians, philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, designers, manufacturers, practitioners, artists, logicians, mathematicians, each with their own experience and expertise, to take part in the collective construction of a comprehensive image of computing.

    For HaPoC 2021, we welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary horizons who intend to participate in the debate on the impact of computers on culture, science, and society from the perspective of their area of expertise, and who are open to engage in interdisciplinary discussions across multiple fields. Topics include but are not limited to:

    - Historical and philosophical perspectives on computing knowledge, objects and practices - Social, cultural and pedagogical aspects of computing - Computing and the human sciences - Epistemological dimensions of computing - Impact of computing technologies - Computing and the arts.

  • 20 - 22 October 2021, Fourth International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2021), Hangzhou (China) and virtual

    Date: 20 - 22 October 2021
    Location: Hangzhou (China) and virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 11 July 2021

    CLAR 2021 will be held in Hangzhou at Zhejiang University City College. Due to the uncertainties of the epidemiological situation, the conference will be held in a HYBRID format (virtual and physical attendance both accepted), and we encourage physical participation if possible.

    The CLAR 2021 conference will highlight recent advances in logic and argumentation and foster interaction between these areas within and outside China.

    CLAR 2021 invites contributions from logic, artificial intelligence, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, law, and other areas studying logic and formal argumentation. We invite two types of submissions: full papers (12 - 20 pages) describing original and unpublished work and extended abstracts (5 - 8 pages) of preliminary original work or extended abstracts of already published work, from either the field of logic or the field of formal argumentation. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX, using the Springer LNCS style.

  • 16 - 18 October 2021, The Eighth International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-VIII), Xi'an (China) and Online

    Date: 16 - 18 October 2021
    Location: Xi'an (China) and Online
    Deadline: Friday 14 May 2021

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

    We invite submission of contributed papers on any of the broad themes of the LORI series. Submitted papers should be at most 12 pages long, with one additional page for references, in PDF format following the Springer LNCS style. Submission is via the EasyChair for LORI-VIII. Accepted papers will be collected as a volume in the FoLLi series on Logic, Language and Information, and extended versions of some will later be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (to be announced). A best student paper award will be given at the conference.

    For more information, see http://golori.org/lori2021/ or contact Wei Wang at .
  • 11 - 13 October 2021, Third Workshop on Argument Strength (ArgStrength2021), Hagen (Germany) or Virtual

    Date: 11 - 13 October 2021
    Location: Hagen (Germany) or Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 19 July 2021

    Arguments vary in strength. The strength of an argument is affected by e.g. the plausibility of its premises, the nature of the link between its premises and conclusion, and the prior acceptability of the conclusion. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, logic, and argumentation theory to discuss questions related to the strength of arguments.

    Originally planned for 2020 in Koblenz, Germany, after consideration the organizers decided to postpone the workshop in light of the current COVID-19 crisis, and hold it online.

    We solicit abstracts, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Extended abstracts (2 pages max., including references) can report on research in progress or other issues of interest. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system.

  • 7 - 9 October 2021, 13th French Philosophy of Maths Workshop (FPMW 13), Nice (France)

    Date: 7 - 9 October 2021
    Location: Nice (France)
    Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

    The thirteenth edition of the French Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop (FPMW) will be held from the 7th to the 9th of October 2021 at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice.

    Each year, the workshop program consists of five talks by invited speakers, and five contributed talks,

    This year, the invited speakers are: Hourya BENIS SINACEUR (CNRS, IHPST), Valeria GIARDINO (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod), Patrick POPESCU-PAMPU (Université de Lille, laboratoire Paul-Painlevé), Dominique PRADELLE (Sorbonne Université, Archives Husserl) and Dirk SCHLIMM (McGill University).

    For the five contributed talks, all topics in the philosophy of mathematics are welcome, no matter their approach. The workshop is also open to philosophical talks presenting a link to mathematics that do not fall under the philosophy of mathematics in a strict sense. The languages of the workshop will be French and English. Young researchers as well as doctoral students are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal. This workshop will be an occasion to have their work discussed by recognized international experts.

  • 6 - 8 October 2021, Special Session on Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021 (CompLingInfoReasAI'21) at DCAI'21, Salamanca, Spain and Online

    Date: 6 - 8 October 2021
    Location: Salamanca, Spain and Online
    Target audience: Computational linguists, Logicians
    Deadline: Friday 28 May 2021

    Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning.

    The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

    We invite contributions relevant to the session topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI'21.

    DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.

    Accepted papers will be included in DCAI Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series of Springer Verlag.

    For more information, see https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/clirai or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .
  • 5 - 8 October 2021, 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2021), Virtual

    Date: 5 - 8 October 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    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 twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021.

    WoLLIC 2021 is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film 'Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani' about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death.

    Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. 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.

    For more information, see http://wollic.org/wollic2021/.
  • 4 - 6 October 2021, Reasoning and Interaction Conference (ReInAct2021), Virtual and Goeteborg, Sweden

    Date: 4 - 6 October 2021
    Location: Virtual and Goeteborg, Sweden
    Deadline: Tuesday 17 August 2021

    Reasoning and Interaction (ReInAct) is a conference organized by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV). It is sponsored by SIGSEM, the ACL special interest group on semantics. The ReInAct conference proceedings will be published online in the ACL Anthology for 2021 as a SIGSEM workshop event.

    ReInAct will bring together researchers interested in computationally relevant approaches to reasoning and interaction in natural language. ReInAct is open to Machine Learning, Symbolic and Experimental approaches, as well as combinations of these. ReInAct will also involve a shared task on Dialogue Natural Language Inference (DNLI).

    We welcome all computational and/or computationally relevant approaches to reasoning and interaction in natural language. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas.

    ReInAct2021 will feature three types of submissions: long papers, student papers, and short papers. Long papers must describe original research, and they must not exceed 8 pages excluding references. Student papers describe original research, and the first author must be a student, or at least 2/3 of the work on a paper should be done by students. Student papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding references. Short papers present work in progress, or they describe systems and/or projects. They must not exceed 4 pages excluding references. Position papers are also accepted. These should be formatted in the same way as long papers. Submissions should be pdf files and use the Latex or Word templates provided for ACL 2021 submissions.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/reinact2021/.
  • CfP post-proceedings of ITRS 2021: Intersection Types & Related Systems

    Deadline: Friday 1 October 2021

    ITRS workshops have been held every two years (with the exception of 2020). The ITRS 2021 workshop aimed to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. We are planning post-proceedings, including presentations to the workshop and submissions accepted via an open call.

    Papers should not be published elsewhere, with original results or surveying ongoing research. They should be written in English using LaTex and will appear on EPTCS. Submissions should be 20 pages long, excluding bibliography and avoiding technical appendices. Submissions are expected via EasyChair.

  • CfP Special Issue of Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (APAL) on “Combining Probability and Logic”

    Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2021

    We invite submissions for a Special Issue on “Combining Probability and Logic”, to be published with Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.

    Classically, logic and probability offer competing representations of partial or incomplete information, with the former assuming a qualitative perspective on uncertainty and the latter focusing on a quantitative account. Both provide their own policies for updating on new information, combining evidence from different sources, and acting under partial information.

    We solicit submissions of original papers that bridge these two perspectives. These could, for instance, connect representations of inductive reasoning in either setting, but they may also apply to specific sub-areas, such as game theory, network theory, causal modelling, machine learning, or maximum entropy reasoning. Likewise, the Special Issue is interested in articles that apply probabilistic tools to the study of logical systems or that use logical frameworks, classical or substructural, for understanding probabilistic approaches.

  • 28 - 30 September 2021, 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams 2021), Virtual

    Date: 28 - 30 September 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

    Diagrams 2021 is the twelth conference in the series that started in 2000. The multidisciplinary nature of Diagrams means it encompasses: architecture, art, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from these interrelated fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area.

    In addition to the Philosophy track, Diagrams 2021 will have two further tracks: Main, and Psychology and Education.

    The conference will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside a graduate symposium. We invite submissions for peer review that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows: Long Papers (16 pages), Abstracts (3 pages), Short Papers (8 pages), Posters (4 pages). If the main research contribution of your submission is considered to fit either of the special tracks then you are strongly encouraged to submit to that track.

    We also invite proposals for tutorials of 1.5 hours in length. Tutorials are expected to address topics that are of interest to the Diagrams 2021 conference attendees. Tutorials differ from workshops in that they do not solicit contributions from attendees. Previously, attendees have particularly enjoyed tutorials that are interactive and spark debate. Tutorial submission deadline: April 30, 2021.

    For more information, see http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021.
  • 21 - 24 September 2021, Sixteenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021), Prague, Czech Republic (Hybrid)

    Date: 21 - 24 September 2021
    Location: Prague, Czech Republic (Hybrid)
    Deadline: Saturday 1 May 2021

    The biennial ECSQARU conferences constitute a major forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty, with a focus on bringing symbolic and quantitative aspects together. Contributions come from researchers interested in advancing the scientific knowledge and from practitioners using uncertainty techniques in real-world applications. The scope of the ECSQARU conferences encompasses fundamental issues, applications, representation, inference, learning, and decision making in qualitative and numeric uncertainty paradigms.

    For ECSQARU 2021 we invite submissions of original papers on the conference topics. Authors are requested to prepare their conference papers in the LNCS/LNAI format. Submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, original and not under review in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. They will be evaluated by peer reviews based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference to present their work: at least one author of each paper must register for the conference.

    In accordance with the previous conferences, the proceedings of ECSQARU 2021 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In addition to that, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.

    For more information, see http://ecsqaru.utia.cas.cz/.
  • 20 - 24 September 2021, 14th-15th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2020 & 2021), Milan, Italy

    Date: 20 - 24 September 2021
    Location: Milan, Italy
    Deadline: Monday 19 October 2020

    LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 & 2021 will consist of invited talks and peer-reviewed contributions, and 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 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for LATA 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.

    Keynote speakers: Eric Allender (Rutgers University),  Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), Christoph Haase (University College London), Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), and Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux).

    Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series. If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.

    For more information, see https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/.
  • 20 - 27 September 2021, 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021), Virtual

    Date: 20 - 27 September 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 3 May 2021

    Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming.

    Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks and special sessions:
     - Applications Track
     - Recently Published Research Track
     - MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming
     - Fall School on Logic and Constraint Programming
     - Doctoral Consortium: the Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic
     - Tutorials and Co-located Workshops.

    Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to Foundations, Languages issues, Programming support, Implementation, Related Paradigms and Synergies, and Applications. Both regular and short papers will be accepted for the main track (for the additional tracks, please follow the specific CFP). Submissions will be done via EasyChair. All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. All submissions must be written in English.

    The ICLP conference series has a long standing tradition of hosting a rich set of co-located workshops. ICLP workshops provide a unique opportunity for the presentation and discussion of work that can be preliminary in nature, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2021 are invited to submit a workshop proposal.

    For more information, see https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ or contact .
  • 20 - 21 September 2021, International Joint Workshop on “Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage” (SWODCH 2021), Virtual and Bolzano, Italy

    Date: 20 - 21 September 2021
    Location: Virtual and Bolzano, Italy
    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    SWODCH 2021 is the association of the 2nd edition of WODHSA and the 4th edition of SW4CH. It is also in continuation of the 1st edition of ODOCH and the special issue of the Semantic Web journal on "Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage".

    The purpose of WODHSA is to gather original research work about both application and foundational issues emerging from the design of conceptual models, ontologies, and Semantic Web technologies for the Digital Humanities (DH). The aim of SW4CH is to bring together stakeholders from various scientific fields, Computer Scientists, Data Scientists and Digital Humanists, involved in the development or deployment of Semantic Web solutions for Cultural Heritage. The overall goal of SWODCH 2021 is to provide a scientific forum where scholars and stakeholders will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and analyses, while presenting realizations and outcomes of relevant projects and discussing the related challenges.

    Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the workshop will have a hybrid format, allowing both physical and virtual participation.

    We seek original and high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the conference  topic areas. We will accept two different types of contributions: Research Articles for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue, and Extended Abstracts for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. All the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the LNCS format and must comply with the LNCS formatting guidelines.

    For more information, see https://swodch2021.inf.unibz.it/.
  • 20 - 22 September 2021, 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2020 / PotsDial), Virtual and/or Potsdam (Germany)

    Date: 20 - 22 September 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Potsdam (Germany)
    Deadline: Monday 7 June 2021

    PotsDial will be the 25th 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 2021 the workshop will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. (If the pandemic situation allows for it, there will be a local component for those who want to travel to Potsdam, but fully remote participation, including presentation, will be possible. Please see the website for updates closer to the date.)

    We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Authors should submit an anonymous paper at most 8 pages of content (additional pages are allowed for references). SemDial 2021 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

    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 20 August. Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.

  • 20 - 24 September 2021, 4th workshop Formal Reasoning and Semantics (FORMALS 2021), Dubrovnik (Croatia) and Virtual

    Date: 20 - 24 September 2021
    Location: Dubrovnik (Croatia) and Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 10 June 2021

    The 4th workshop Formal Reasoning and Semantics will be held at the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik (IUC), as a part of the 10th conference Logic and Applications (LAP 2021) 20-24 September 2021. Virtual participation is also possible.

    The workshop is organized within the research project Formal Reasoning and Semantics (FORMALS). The emphasis of the project is on applications of logic in computer science, and vice versa, the application of computational tools in logical and mathematical research. Another goal is to apply logic to specific problems of linguistics or, more generally, cognitive and information sciences, as well as interdisciplinary areas in which economics and mathematics overlap (game theory, social choice theory).

    We have several 30 min slots available for contributed talks. All contributions which broadly fit the main goal of the project - mutual enrichment of pure and applied logic - are welcome. Authors should submit an abstract in LaTeX format, not exceeding three pages.

    For more information, see http://formals.ufzg.hr/ or contact Tin Perkov at .
  • 20 - 22 September 2021, Twelfth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification (GandALF 2021), Virtual and/or Padua (Italy)

    Date: 20 - 22 September 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Padua (Italy)
    Deadline: Wednesday 23 June 2021

    The aim of GandALF 2021 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.

    This year, GANDALF will be organised together with the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and fOrmal VERification, Logic, Automata, and sYnthesis (OVERLAY 2021). The OVERLAY workshop focuses on the relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods, and discusses on the opportunities and challenges at the border of the two areas.

    GANDALF 2021 is planned to be a hybrid conference. We aim at organizing an in-presence event, but there will be possibilities for virtual participation for delegates affected by travel restrictions.

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

    Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission.

    For more information, see https://gandalf2021.math.unipd.it/.
  • 20 - 22 September 2021, Conference "Explanation between Logic & Philosophy", Online via Zoom

    Date: 20 - 22 September 2021
    Location: Online via Zoom
    Deadline: Sunday 11 July 2021

    The topic of the conference is the study of the notion of explanation in the context of logic and philosophy. Particular attention will be devoted to the history of the investigation on explanation, to the connections with conceptual and metaphysical grounding, and to related philosophical issues such as logical pluralism and anti-exceptionalism about logic. The conference is organised in the framework of the ANR JCJC project Bolzano's Insights. The conference will be held online through Zoom and will be open to anyone who is interested.

    Keynote speakers:

    - Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    - Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
    - Ole Hjortland (University of Bergen, Norway)
    - Carrie Jenkins (University of British Columbia, Canada)

    We invite submissions on any subject connected to the notion of formal explanation in logic and in philosophy. A title and abstract (max. 750 words together with 2 or 3 keywords) should be submitted before the 30 June 2021 via e-mail.

    For more information, see https://bolzano-insights.com/445-2/#content or contact Francesco A. Genco at .
  • 20 - 27 September 2021, The 8th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP 2021), Virtual

    Date: 20 - 27 September 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 1 August 2021

    Probabilistic logic programming (PLP) approaches have received much attention in this century. They address the need to reason about relational domains under uncertainty arising in a variety of application domains, such as bioinformatics, the semantic web, robotics, and many more. Developments in PLP include new languages that combine logic programming with probability theory, as well as algorithms that operate over programs in these formalisms.

    The workshop encompasses all aspects of combining logic, algorithms, programming and probability and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of results and preliminary work. After seven successful editions of this workshop, the eighth edition of PLP will be held at the ICLP virtual conference organised by the University of Porto. We hope that this encourages further collaboration between researchers in PLP and researchers working in other areas of ICLP.

    Submissions will be managed via EasyChair. Contributions should be prepared in the LNCS style. A mixture of papers are sought including: new results; work in progress; and technical summaries of recent substantial contributions.  Papers presenting new results should be 6-15 pages in length. Work in progress and technical summaries can be shorter (2-5 pages). The workshop proceedings will clearly indicate the type of each paper. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution.

    For more information, see http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2021.
  • 19 - 22 September 2021, 34th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2021), Bratislava, Slovenia or Virtual

    Date: 19 - 22 September 2021
    Location: Bratislava, Slovenia or Virtual
    Deadline: Wednesday 16 June 2021

    The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum in which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences.

    We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics.

    Submissions may be of two types: regular papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references), and abstracts of up to 2 pages (excluding references). Both regular papers and abstracts must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions of both types will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based on their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation.

    For more information, see http://dl.kr.org/dl2021 or contact .
  • 19 - 24 September 2021, Workshop Continuity, Computability, Constructivity - From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2021) , Virtual

    Date: 19 - 24 September 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 30 August 2021

    CCC is a workshop series that brings together researchers applying logical methods to the development of algorithms, with a particular focus on computation with infinite data, where issues of continuity, computability and constructivity play major roles. Specific topics include 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 other continuous data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation.

    Invited Speakers: Suguman Bransal (U Penn), Franz Brauße (U Manchester), Sewon Park (KAIST), Monika Seisenberger (Swansea U) and Michael Yampolsky (U Toronto). Tutorial Speaker: André Platzer (CMU).

    Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome. 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, Domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas.

    For more information, see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/ccc2021.
  • 17 September 2021, 5th International Workshop on Cognition and Ontologies (CAOS 2021), Bolzano (Italy) & Virtual

    Date & Time: Friday 17 September 2021, 09:45-13:30
    Location: Bolzano (Italy) & Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 3 July 2021

    The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation. More specifically CAOS investigates how key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) can be found across language, psychology and reasoning and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. It moreover seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems in general.

    CAOS 2021 is going to happen at the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, BOSK 2021, in September 2021, organised as a FOIS 2021 workshop.  CAOS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event.

    We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesized building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling. Work in progress (short papers) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work.

    We encourage three types of contributions: Full research papers (10-14 pages), Short papers (5-7 pages), and Abstracts for presentation (2-4 pages). All papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal.

    For more information, see https://caos.inf.unibz.it.
  • 16 - 17 September 2021, Third international workshop "Concepts in Action, Representation, Learning, & Application" (CARLA 2021), Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual

    Date: 16 - 17 September 2021
    Location: Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 16 May 2021

    "Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" (CARLA) is an international workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. The workshop is open for research on any aspect of concepts, but there are three overarching topics that are of special interest with the following (not exhaustive) list of exemplary subtopics:

     - Representation: How can we formally describe and model concepts?
     - Learning: Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?
     - Application: How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?

    This workshop provides an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on concepts, both from theoretical/formal and applied/experimental viewpoints. CARLA 2021 is currently planned to be conducted as a *hybrid* event allowing for both physical and virtual attendance. Invited Speakers: Monique Flecken and Antonio Lieto.

    We invite concept researchers from all fields related to cognitive science to submit abstracts to the workshop. We invite contributions from all fields related to cognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, and computer science. The abstracts should use two to three pages (including references) and should be uploaded as pdf based on a template downloadable from the conference website.

  • 13 - 17 September 2021, Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2020 (LATD 2020) , Tbilisi, Georgia

    Date: 13 - 17 September 2021
    Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
    Deadline: Monday 1 June 2020

    This is one of the main events of the Tbilisi Autumn of Logic, a series of conferences and summer schools taking place in Tbilisi promoting research in pure and applied logic at an international level.

    The LATD conference series started as an official meeting of the working group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic and has evolved into a wider meeting in algebraic logic and related areas. Its main goal is to foster collaboration between researchers in these areas, and to promote communication and cooperation with members of neighbouring fields.

    The conference will be preceded by the Sixteenth International Tbilisi Summer School in Logic and Language devoted to courses on core topics of LATD 2020.

    We regret to announce that due to the coronavirus pandemic LATD has been postponed to September 2021.

    We invite contributions on any relevant aspects of logical systems (including many valued, fuzzy, substructural, modal and quantum logics), in particular:
    * Proof theory and computational complexity
    * Algebraic semantics and abstract algebraic logic
    * First-order, higher-order and modal formalisms
    * Geometric and game-theoretic aspects
    * Applications and foundational issues

    For more information, see https://www.logic.at/latd2020/.
  • 13 - 17 September 2021, 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual

    Date: 13 - 17 September 2021
    Location: Bolzano (Italy) and Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 22 April 2021

    The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication, inclusive of researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology.

    FOIS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event: there will be a physical meeting in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, with a remote participation option. FOIS 2021 includes a number of activities: FOIS conference (single track program), workshops, tutorials, an early-career symposium, a demo and industry track, and an ontology show and tell.

    FOIS 2021 seeks three types of full-length (14 page) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: Foundational papers (addressing content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems), Application papers (addressing novel methods and systems related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents on the application) and Domain ontology papers (describing a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use).

    Related activities, such as workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission formats, for example, short papers or posters.

    For more information, see https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/.
  • 13 - 15 September 2021, 22th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2021), Virtual (Bologna, Italy)

    Date: 13 - 15 September 2021
    Location: Virtual (Bologna, Italy)
    Deadline: Monday 17 May 2021

    The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS) is the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The purpose of ICTCS is to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. In particular, ICTCS provides an ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers.

    Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly invited from researchers of all nationalities. Two types of contributions, written in English and formatted accordingto Springer LNCS style, are solicited: Regular papers (up to 12 pages PLUS bibliography, presenting original results not appeared or submitted elsewhere) and Communications (up to 5 pages PLUS bibliography, suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared/submitted or to be submitted elsewhere, as well as papers reporting ongoing research on which the authors wish to get feedback and overviews of PhD theses or research projects). Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EasyChair.

  • September or December 2021, Workshop "Intuition & rigour in geometrical thinking from antiquity to the 19th century", Prague, Czech Republic

    Date: September or December 2021
    Location: Prague, Czech Republic
    Deadline: Friday 20 March 2020

    From the end of the 19th century, mathematical and philosophical literature has often portrayed a contrast between visual intuition and logical rigor. However, the terms "rigour" and "intuition" have rich associations and connotations in different historical contexts, and well before the turn of the 20th century. The goal of our workshop is to study the historical evolution of these notions within the mathematical practice, and the epistemological debates that they have raised.

    Confirmed keynote speakers are: Helena Durnova (Masaryk University, Brno) Michael Friedman (Humboldt University, Berlin) Eduardo Giovannini (University of Wien) Marco Panza (CNRS, Universit́e Paris 1/Chapman University) Vincenzo de Risi (CNRS, Universit́e Paris 7).

    Note: the event as it was scheduled cannot unfortunately take place in December due to covid measures, but will be postponed to the next year, possibly September 2021 or December 2021.

    In the workshop there are a few (cca 5) slots for contributed papers (30 min. presentation). We invite abstracts in accordance to the theme of the conference, Submissions of abstracts should not exceed 250 words, and must be written in English.

    For more information, see here or contact .
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    8 - 9 September 2021, Seventh International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020)

    Date: 8 - 9 September 2021
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Online
    Target audience: researchers and practitioners
    Costs: €200 (small changes are possible)
    Deadline: Saturday 2 May 2020

    This workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called simplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable language, fragments of language, phraseologies, conceptual authoring, language generation, and guided natural language interfaces.

    Some CNLs are designed to improve communication among humans, especially for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided, semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning and formal knowledge representation from seemingly natural texts. All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop.

    Due to Covid-19, the workshop is postponed to 2021!

    We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL. Papers should be formatted in two-column ACL style and should not exceed 8 pages. Submission should be done via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2020. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.

    For more information, see http://www.sigcnl.org/cnl2020.html or contact Tobias Kuhn at .
  • 8 - 10 September 2021, The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science (SCSS 2021), Virtual

    Date: 8 - 10 September 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Tuesday 18 May 2021

    Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc.). Powerful algorithms have been developed during the past decades for the major subareas of symbolic computation: computer algebra and computational logic. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence methods and machine learning algorithms are widely used nowadays in various domains and, in particular, combined with symbolic computation. Several approaches mix artificial intelligence and symbolic methods and tools deployed over large corpora to create what is known as cognitive systems. Cognitive computing focuses on building systems which interact with humans naturally by reasoning, aiming at learning at scale.

    The purpose of SCSS 2021 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial intelligence techniques.

    SCSS 2021 solicits submissions on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science, in combination with artificial intelligence and cognitive computing techniques. Original submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages.

  • 6 - 9 September 2021, Twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2021), Olomouc (Czech Republic) or Virtual

    Date: 6 - 9 September 2021
    Location: Olomouc (Czech Republic) or Virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 18 April 2021

    The TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.  The conference program will include presentation of invited papers (keynote speeches), oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

    TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. But as the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD2021 organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary.

    The organizing committee invites papers to be presented during the conference, as well as proposals for workshops and demonstrations. Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources, Speech Recognition, Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech, Speech and Spoken Language Generation, Semantic Processing of Text and Speech, Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing, Automatic Dialogue Systems , and Multimodal Techniques and Modelling. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

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    6 - 9 September 2021, The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021), Birmingham (UK) and Virtual

    Date: 6 - 9 September 2021
    Location: Birmingham (UK) and Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 26 April 2021

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

    TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions.

    Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references.

    Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
    * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations;
    * sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation;
    * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches);
    * flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics;
    * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.);
    * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.);
    * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning;
    * techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation;
    * theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures;
    * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching.

    We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution.

    For more information, see https://tableaux2021.org/ or contact Anupam Das at .
  • 5 - 8 September 2021, Logic @ DGPhil, Online

    Date: 5 - 8 September 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Sunday 1 December 2019

    There will be a section on Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics at the XXVth Congress of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil), "The True, the Good, and the Beautiful".

    Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic it was impossible to hold our congress as planned (6th – 9th September 2020). The congress was therefore postponed by one year, and all events will be held online.

    Any papers related to philosophical logic (especially non-classical logic) and philosophy of mathematics are welcome. Abstracts of no more than 1,000 words should be prepared for blind review and are to be submitted via the website. The time slots for section talks will be 35 minutes, including discussion.

    For more information, see https://dgphil2020.fau.de/en/.
  • 5 - 11 September 2021, 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving (AITP 2021), Virtual & Aussois (France)

    Date: 5 - 11 September 2021
    Location: Virtual & Aussois (France)
    Deadline: Wednesday 5 May 2021

    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, mathematics, physics, relations to general AI, Formal Abstracts, linguistic processing of mathematics/science, 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. Submission is via EasyChair. We will consider an open call for post-proceedings in an established series of conference proceedings (LIPIcs, EPiC, JMLR) or a journal (AICom, JAR, JAIR).

    For more information, see http://aitp-conference.org/2021.
  • 1 - 3 September 2021, Third Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2021), Zaragoza (Spain) and virtual

    Date: 1 - 3 September 2021
    Location: Zaragoza (Spain) and virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 21 March 2021

    This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017 and the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019.

    In order to allow more people to attend the Conference physically, and due to the current state in the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, we decided to postpone LDK 2021 to early September. The conference will allow remote presentations by participants who cannot attend the conference in person owing to COVID-19 travelling restrictions, but we do think that physical encounter and gossip leads to better research.

    We welcome submission of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of:
    * Long research papers: 10-15 pages;
    * Short research or position papers: 6-8 pages;
    * Short scientific abstract submissions: be 4-6 pages.
    * Short abstracts on new challenges and research ideas ('Crazy New Ideas'): 1-4 pages.

    This year, we would like to propose a 'Crazy New Ideas' session that will be the occasion to present challenging research ideas that have not yet been fully explored, or you would like to see in ten years from now. Such ideas should be briefly presented in the form of a short abstract of one to four pages to initiate the discussions, which will also be included in the conference proceedings if permitted by the authors. This is your chance to be creative without censorship. Reviews for these abstract will focus on the potential of ideas to spark interesting discussions.

    Topics include Language Data, Knowledge Graphs, Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge, and Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge.

    For more information, see http://2021.ldk-conf.org/.
  • 31 August - 3 September 2021, 9th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2021), Virtual and/or Salzburg (Austria)

    Date: 31 August - 3 September 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Salzburg (Austria)
    Deadline: Thursday 3 June 2021

    CALCO 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). It aims to bring together researchers with interests in both foundational and applicative uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science, traditional as well as emerging ones. The 9th edition will be held in Salzburg, Austria, colocated with MFPS XXXVII.

    Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. CALCO invites papers relating to all aspects of algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications, and distinguishes between four categories of submissions.
    1. Regular papers that report * results on theoretical foundations * novel methods and techniques for software development * experiences with the technology transfer to industry.
    2. (Co)Algebraic Pearls papers that * present possibly known material in a novel and enlightening way.
    3. Early ideas abstracts that lead to * presentations of work in progress * proposals for original venues of research.
    4. Tool presentation papers that * report on the features and uses of algebraic/coalgebra-based tools.

    For more information, see https://www.coalg.org/calco-mfps2021/calco/.
  • 30 August - 2 September 2021, 37th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXVII / MFPS 2021), Virtual and/or Salzburg (Austria)

    Date: 30 August - 2 September 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Salzburg (Austria)
    Deadline: Monday 7 June 2021

    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.

    MFPS 2021 is co-located with the 9th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2021). Due to the pandemic situation, the conference will take place online. Should the situation improve and allow some international travel, we will do our best to organize a small component of the meeting in Salzburg for those participants who wish to attend the meeting in person.

    Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; logic; probabilistic systems; process calculi; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; 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 https://www.coalg.org/calco-mfps2021/mfps/ or contact Ana Sokolova at .
  • 23 - 27 August 2021, 26th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2021), Virtual

    Date: 23 - 27 August 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 7 May 2021

    The aim of the FMICS conference series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. FMICS brings together scientists and engineers who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. The FMICS conference series also strives to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.

    FMICS 2021 is part of the QONFEST umbrella conference. This year, a special session will be included on Formal Methods for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts along with a panel on this topic. Keynote Speaker: Joe Kiniry (Galois Inc. and Free & Fair, US).

    We welcome contributions of different categories:
    - Regular papers that describe original research work and results. Length: 15 pages + 2 pages of references.
    - Short papers that describe work-in-progress, or positions on the future of formal methods. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references.
    - Tool papers that describe software artefacts. The paper must contain a link to a publicly available video of at most 10 minutes length. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references.
    - Journal-first papers that summarize a paper recently published in a journal and not yet presented in a conference. The main aim of this category is to allow authors present archived work in a public forum. The original journal paper should have been published between January 1st, 2020 and the date of submission. Length: 2 pages + 1 page of references.

    Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS style (Springer). A Springer-sponsored award will be presented to the authors of the submission selected by the Program Committee as the FMICS 2021 Best Paper.

    For more information, see https://qonfest2021.lacl.fr/fmics21.php.
  • 23 - 27 August 2021, The 15th International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2020/21), Online

    Date: 23 - 27 August 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Sunday 6 June 2021

    Initially scheduled on August 26-28 2020 at NYC SUNY Global Center, ICGI’20 will be held on-line at the end of the summer 2021. This bi-annual conference focuses on all aspects of grammar learning, including (but not limited to) theoretical and experimental analysis of different models of grammar induction, and algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and automata.

    This edition will provide a particular insight on the relation with connectionist models such as neural networks: tutorials of the first day will focus on that subject and authors are encouraged to submit works on that subject.

    ICGI 2020 is the place to present your work on learning formal grammars, finite state machines, context-free grammars, Markov models, or any models related to language theory, stochastic or not. Both theoretical work and experimental analyses are welcomed as submissions. This year we especially encourage submissions related to connectionist models such as neural networks, since the tutorials of the first day will focus on that topic. We welcome three types of papers: formal and/or technical papers, position papers, and tool papers.

    For more information, see https://icgi2020.lis-lab.fr or contact .
  • 16 - 20 August 2021, 25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021), Virtual and/or Porto (Portugal)

    Date: 16 - 20 August 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Porto (Portugal)
    Deadline: Sunday 11 April 2021

    DLT is International Conference Series under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas.

    DLT 2021 will be held at Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto in an hybrid format with both in person and online participation.

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Each paper will be reviewed at least by three reviewers and review process will be single-blind. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style.

    For more information, see https://dlt2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ or contact .
  • 9 - 13 August 2021, ESSLLI-2021 Workshop "Approaches to Implicature", Online via Zoom

    Date: 9 - 13 August 2021
    Location: Online via Zoom
    Deadline: Saturday 15 February 2020

    Recent work in implicature has seen a great deal of activity within two lines of research: the rational choice approach associated with game-theoretic pragmatics and the Bayesian Rational Speech Act framework, and the exhaustification-based approach. While these frameworks have generally been thought to be in theoretical tension, there are also underexplored ways to combine them, with the potential to benefit both approaches. The workshop will explore explicit comparisons between the two frameworks as well as efforts to combine them, with the hope of producing a more unified theory of implicature and a more general understanding of the data that such a theory must account for.

    We welcome 2-page abstracts for presentations on topics related to the workshop theme, with an optional 3rd page for references and large figures. Depending on submissions received, there may also be a poster session. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format (12-point font, 1.5-cm or 1-in margins) to the Easychair site.

    Example topics of interest include but are not limited to: Applications of RSA or other game-theoretic or probabilistic pragmatics models to phenomena in semantics/pragmatics, Applications of exhaustification-based approaches to phenomena in semantics/pragmatics, Approaches to pragmatic inference that explicitly compare and/or combine theoretical perspectives, Theoretical, corpus-based, and experimental pragmatics, and Implicature, presupposition, not-at-issue content, expressive meaning, social meaning.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/approachestoimplicature/ or contact Dan Lassiter at .
  • 9 - 11 August 2021, 17th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2021), Virtual

    Date: 9 - 11 August 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 20 February 2021

    The Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, WADS, which alternates with the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT, is intended as a forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

    WADS 2021 will be fully online. CCCG 2021, the 33rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, is planned for August 10-12, and was originally planned to be held at the same location.

    We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on the theory and application of algorithms and data structures in all areas, including combinatorics, computational geometry, databases, graphics, and parallel and distributed computing. Contributors are invited to submit a full paper in Springer LNCS format. WADS 2021 will have a best paper award in memory of Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, and a best all-student paper award.

    For more information, see https://projects.cs.dal.ca/wads2021/.
  • 9 - 10 August 2021, ESSLLI Workshop on Logics of Dependence & Independence (LoDE 2021), Online

    Date: 9 - 10 August 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    Logics of dependence and independence are novel extensions of classical logics aiming at characterizing dependence and independence notions in sciences. This field of research has grown rapidly in recent years. The framework of the logics has found applications also in fields like database theory, linguistics, social choice, quantum physics and so on. This workshop will bring together researchers from all these relevant areas and provide a snapshot of the state of the art of logics of dependence and independence.

    This workshop is organized as part of the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2021): https://www.esslli.eu. The workshop has a 2-day program. The exact dates will be announced soon, see ESSLLI homepage for updates.

    We invite submissions of 1-page abstracts of contributed talks. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyChair.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/lode2021/ or contact Fan Yang at .
  • 9 - 10 August 2021, ESSLLI 2021 Workshop "Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics"

    Date: 9 - 10 August 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Monday 14 June 2021

    The field of natural language semantics has undergone what some refer to as an 'experimental turn' and is arguably currently undergoing a 'computational turn'. By expanding the toolbox available to the semanticist, these two turns have the effect of expanding the phenomena that can be explained and the varieties of semantic explanations that can be offered.

    Given this wider toolbox and purview, we aim to gather a workshop to showcase exciting new work that develops new semantic explanations using experimental and computational methods, as well as to invite broader reflection on the methodology of semantics now and in its future.

    Topics of potential interest include but are not limited to:
    • Experimental semantics and pragmatics
    • Graded/non-categorical semantic theories and explanations
    • Information-theoretic measures and explanations in semantics and pragmatics
    • Semantic universals
    • Learnability and evolution of semantics and pragmatics
    • Bayesian approaches to semantics and pragmatics
    • Probing neural models for learned semantic representations
    • Semantics in emergent communication protocols
    • The methodology of semantics
  • 1 - 4 August 2021, Spatial Cognition 2020/1 (SC 2020/1), Online (Zoom)

    Date: 1 - 4 August 2021
    Location: Online (Zoom)
    Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

    Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects in real, virtual or hybrid environments and processed by human or artificial agents. Spatial Cognition includes research from different fields insofar as they are concerned with cognitive agents and space. Research issues in the field range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. SC 2020 will bring together researchers working on spatial cognition from all of these perspectives.

    The conference is single-track, and the final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, and keynote talks by Sara I. Fabrikant, Steve Franconeri and Laure Rondi-Reig.

    The initial conference was scheduled August 2020 to be held in Riga, Latvia; this is the postponed version of it.The participants will receive the details and updates about Zoom events by email when the registration closes on July 25, 2021.

    Submissions for Oral Presentations (short papers) presenting original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Short papers should not exceed 1,200 words (including figures, tables, and references). Some short paper submissions may be accepted for poster presentation.

    Submissions for Poster Presentations (abstracts) are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition. Poster abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including figures, tables, and references).

    For more information, see http://sc2020.lu.lv/ or contact .
  • CfP commemorative issue of "Theory of Computing Systems" in memory of Alan Selman of ToCS

    Deadline: Saturday 31 July 2021

    We are editing a commemorative issue in memory of Alan Selman, former editor-in-chief of the journal Theory of Computing Systems and community leader in computational complexity, who passed away on 22nd January 2021.
    We solicit contributions in the form of new research investigations, technical surveys, and memoirs. A technical contribution may include a section describing Alan’s influence on the authors, both on their academic careers and personal lives.

  • 29 - 30 July 2021, ESSLLI 2021 Workshop "Workshop on automated synthesis", Virtual

    Date: 29 - 30 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 18 June 2021

    The workshop aims to bring together work on using logic, games and automata for automatically generating plans and strategies for AI agents, especially under uncertainty and resource constraints. Topics include, but are not limited to: reactive synthesis, behaviour and service composition, strategy synthesis under resource constraints, epistemic planning.

    The workshop will consist of a mixture of invited talks introducing topics in the area of the workshop and contributed talks by PhD students. Workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI 2021.

    Submission format for contributed talks:
    1) either a peer-reviewed published work in the area of the workshop, that you can submit in its original form or in the format below (but indicating which paper(s) it is based on)
    2) or original work, up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format (or similar size, single column).

  • 27 - 30 July 2021, 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , Virtual

    Date: 27 - 30 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 19 February 2021

    The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to learning and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. UAI 2021 will be held fully online from 27 to 30 July 2021.

    We invite papers that describe novel theory, methodology and applications related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. Papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact and clarity of writing.

  • 26 July - 13 August 2021, ESSLLI 2021 Student Session, Online

    Date: 26 July - 13 August 2021
    Location: Online
    Target audience: PhD and Master students
    Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

    The Student Session of the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place online during ESSLLI 2021 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, August 2nd to 13th, 2021.

    We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions from PhD and Master (and Bachelor) students are welcome. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally. Selected papers will appear in the Student Session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience.

    Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for long presentations and one for short presentations. This means that papers are directly submitted either as long or short. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for short papers, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress.

    For more information, see https://www.esslli.eu/programme/student-session or contact Alexandra Pavlova at , or Mina Young Pedersen at .
  • 26 - 28 July 2021, Eighteenth International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2021), Virtual

    Date: 26 - 28 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    The conference is concerned with the theory of computability and complexity over real-valued data. 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. If full versions of papers are already available as technical report or arXiv version, then corresponding links should be added to the reference list.

    For more information, see http://cca-net.de/cca2021/.
  • 26 - 27 July 2021, ESSLLI Workshop "Computing Semantics with Types, Frames, & Related Structures", Virtual

    Date: 26 - 27 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 7 June 2021

    The goal of this workshop is to bring together people interested in structured representations of semantic information, especially from a computational perspective. In recent years, there has been a growing body of research which aims to integrate structured entities into formal semantic accounts. Important developments in this direction are the introduction of rich type systems and the use of frame-based representations, among others. The workshop is open to both foundational issues of structured semantic representations and applications to specific linguistic phenomena.

    A first edition of the workshop took place in Gothenburg as part of IWCS 2019.

    Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
    * Richly typed formalisms for natural language semantics.
    * Frame-based approaches to formal and computational semantics.
    * Applications of dependent types in semantics.
    * Semantic computation with structured representations.
    * Interactions between lexical semantic structures and compositional semantics.

    Papers should not exceed 8 pages in length, excluding references, and should be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheets.

  • 26 - 31 July 2021, Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (NatFoM 2021), Virtual

    Date: 26 - 31 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 1 July 2021

    In mathematics there has always existed a strong informal sense of "naturality". Natural theories, notions, properties, or proofs are prefered over technical, convoluted, or counterintuitive approaches. If formal mathematics is to become part of mainstream mathematics, its formalizations and user experience have to become more natural. This workshop, following a first edition in 2020, broadly addresses the issue of naturality in formal mathematics.

    NatFoM 2021 wil be held as part of the 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021).. Invited speaker: Jeremy Avigad.

    We call for submissions of extended abstracts (1 page) and demonstration proposals presenting work related to the workshop's topics of interest. Accepted abstracts can optionally be expanded to full papers (4 to 15 pages) to be published in proceedings on ceur-ws.org. To promote Natural Formal Mathematics, unfinished or exploratory work will also be welcome. Extended abstracts and papers should be formatted in LaTeX using the style onecolceurws.

  • 21 - 24 July 2021, 15th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON 2020/21), Online

    Date: 21 - 24 July 2021
    Location: Online
    Costs: No registration fees
    Deadline: Sunday 21 February 2021

    The biennial DEON conferences are designed to promote interdisciplinary cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts, normative language and normative systems with computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, organization theory and law. In addition to these general themes, DEON 2020/21 will encourage a special focus on the topic 'Norms in Social Perspective'.

    Keynote speakers: Marcia Baron (Indiana University, Bloomington), Emiliano Lorini (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse University, France), Shyam Nair (Arizona State University, Tempe), and Sonja Smets (ILLC, University of Amsterdam).

    We hope the global and local situation will allow us to hold the conference in person. If that will not be the case, we are prepared to hold the conference online, partially or totally. Contributors will be informed in advance.

    Authors are invited to submit an original, previously unpublished, short research paper pertaining to any of DEON topics. The paper should be in English, anonymized, and should be no longer than 15 pages (including notes and appendix, but excluding bibliography). The submission of a short abstract must precede the paper’s submission.

    Due to COVID-19, we had to postpone the DEON conference to the summer of 2021. A first round of papers was already selected last summer. With this extra call for new submissions, we hope to attract authors who were not already accepted within last summer's round. Selected submissions for this round will be published in the proceedings together with those of the first round, and presented at the conference. We strongly encourage women and other members of under-represented groups in academia to submit a paper.

  • 21 July 2021, The Seventh International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP 2021), Virtual

    Date: Wednesday 21 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Wednesday 21 April 2021

    The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automatic and interactive, during the past decades, has made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture.

    Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools for exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation, and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and descriptions of current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement.

    Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop.

    For more information, see https://pxtp.gitlab.io/2021.
  • 19 - 23 July 2021, 25th International Conference on Implementation & Application of Automata (CIAA 2021), Virtual

    Date: 19 - 23 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 15 March 2021

    The CIAA conferences concern research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. The purpose of these conferences is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving.

    Note: Remote attendance will be possible, regardless of whether or not there will be a physical meeting.

    Original papers are sought in all areas that relate to implementation and application of automata. Submissions must be written in LaTeX using the LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages, bibliography included. Simultaneous submissions of papers to journals or any other conference with published proceedings, or submitting previously published papers is not allowed.The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference. A "Best Paper Award," since 2014 called "Sheng Yu Award" will be presented to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best on the basis of the referee reports.

  • 19 - 24 July 2021, Logic Colloquium 2021 (LC 2021), Virtual

    Date: 19 - 24 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Logic Colloquium is the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and critical discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry.

    The program will feature special sessions on Set Theory, Model Theory, Modal and Epistemic Logic, Proofs and Programs, Computability, and Logic in Cognitive Science and Linguistics.

    Due to public health concerns regarding COVID-19, the ASL Executive Committee, in consultation with the local organizers and the ASL European Committee, has made the decision to postpone the 2020 Logic Colloquium. It will take place on July 19-24, 2021, approximately a year later than originally scheduled, as an on-line event.

    Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as pdf files, via EasyChair, Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instruction using the ASL abstract style.

    For more information, see https://lc2021.pl/ or contact .
  • 18 July 2021, 35th International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2021), Virtual

    Date: Sunday 18 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 16 April 2021

    Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying given (first- or higher-order) terms, either syntactically or modulo a theory. It is a fundamental technique that is employed in various areas of Computer Science and Mathematics. In particular, unification algorithms are key components in completion of term rewriting systems, resolution-based theorem proving, and logic programming. But unification is, for example, also investigated in the context of natural language processing, program analysis, types, modal logics, and in knowledge representation.

    UNIF 2021 is the 35th in a series of annual workshops on unification and related topics. Just as it predecessors', the purpose of UNIF 2021 is to bring together researchers interested in unification theory and its applications, as well as closely related topics, such as matching (i.e., one-sided unification), anti-unification (i.e., the dual problem to unification), disunification (i.e., solving equations and inequations) and the admissibility problem (which generalizes unification in modal logics). It will provide a forum for presenting recent (even unfinished) work, and discuss new ideas and trends in this and related fields. UNIF 2021 is associated with FSCD 2021 and will be a purely virtual event.

    Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of extended abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style. Topics of interest of the workshop include syntactic and equational unification algorithms, matching and constraint solving, unification in modal, temporal, and description logics, higher-order unification, narrowing, disunification, anti-unification, complexity issues, combination methods, implementation techniques, and applications. We also allow submission of work presented/submitted in/to another conference.

    For more information, see https://www.uoh.cl/unif-2021/.
  • 17 - 24 July 2021, Sixth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021), Virtual

    Date: 17 - 24 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Tuesday 16 February 2021

    FSCD is a series of annual conferences started in 2016 in Porto, merging and replacing the RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) andTLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications) conferences. Building on the RTA and TLCA communities, FSCD updates and modernizes the RTA and TLCA core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation (e.g. quantum computing, probabilistic computing, homotopy type theory), semantics and verification in new challenging areas (e.g. blockchain protocols or deep learning algorithms).

    FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online.

    The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is:
       - Calculi
       - Methods in Computation and Deduction
       - Semantics
       - Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems
       - Tools and Applications
       - Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas

    For more information, see https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar.
  • 17 July 2021, Tenth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2021), Virtual

    Date: Saturday 17 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 12 April 2021

    ITRS workshops have been held every two years (with the exception of 2020). The ITRS 2021 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. Invited Speaker: Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington). ITRS 2021 is affiliated with FSCD.

    Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macropackage and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees.

  • 16 July 2021, The Third International ARCADE (Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements) Workshop, Virtual

    Date: Friday 16 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 30 May 2021

    The main goal of this workshop is to bring together key people from various subcommunities of automated reasoning -such as SAT/SMT, resolution, tableaux, theory-specific calculi (e.g. for description logic, arithmetic, set theory), interactive theorem proving - to discuss the present, past, and future of the field. The intention is to provide an opportunity to discuss broad issues facing the community. What are the current challenges, applications, directions, or exemplary achievements of Automated Reasoning?

    The structure of the workshop will be informal. At the event, contributions will be grouped into similar themes and authors will be invited to make their case within discussion panels. After the workshop, they will be welcome to extend their abstracts for inclusion in post-proceedings (EPiC or similar), taking into account the discussion.

    We invite extended abstracts (2-4 pages, using the EasyChair class style) in the form of non-technical position statements aimed at prompting lively discussion. The title of the workshop is indicative of the kind of discussions we would like to encourage.

    For more information, see http://arcade2021.net/.
  • 13 - 16 July 2021, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021), Virtual (originally Glasgow, Scotland)

    Date: 13 - 16 July 2021
    Location: Virtual (originally Glasgow, Scotland)
    Deadline: Friday 12 February 2021

    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 12 July 2021.

    We are closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it is not viable to hold ICALP 2021 as a physical conference, we will run it virtually on the same dates. We will decide in January 2021 at the latest.

    Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, excluding references presenting original research on the theory of computer science. Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. All submissions must be formatted in the LIPIcs style and submitted via Easychair to the appropriate track of the conference. No prior publication and no simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed.

    We also invite proposals for workshops affiliated with ICALP 2021 on all topics covered by ICALP, as well as other areas of theoretical computer science. Deadline for workshop proposals: Monday 30 November 2020.

  • 12 July 2021, 2nd Workshop on Verification of Session Types (VEST 2021), Online

    Date: Monday 12 July 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Monday 3 May 2021

    Stateful entities offer services in a non-uniform way (one cannot pop from an empty stack). Traditional type systems cannot guarantee that operations are only invoked when the entity is in the right state. Session types are abstract representations of the sequences of operations that computational entities (such as channels or objects) must perform. Although the foundations of session types are now well established, and new works build on approaches that have become standard, there is still a lack of reusable libraries, namely machine-verified ones.

    The goal of the VEST workshop is to gather the researchers working on mechanisations of behavioural types using various theorem provers, such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. The workshop will be a platform to present both the now well-established efforts and the ongoing works the community has put on verification. The workshop will also be a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, potential obstacles and to foster collaboration.

    We request two types of research contributions.
    Type 1: Short presentations (1 page) of work published elsewhere;
    Type 2: Presentations (2-5 pages) of ongoing original work.
    Submissions of Type 1 will consist of 1 page papers presenting the work, the publication venue and the significance of the results; the PC will select the submissions with a ranking system.
    Submissions of Type 2 will consist of 2 - 5 page papers submitted to a light reviewing process.
    There will be no proceedings of VEST'21, but rather the aim is to strengthen and further expand our community.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home.
  • 12 July 2021, Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools (FOMEO'21), Virtual

    Date: Monday 12 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 8 May 2021

    Online instruction of formal methods has been a challenge in the last year, including teaching of basics of logics and automata theory, formal verification, theorem proving etc. This satellite workshop of ICALP brings together instructors of formal methods as well as developers of teaching support systems for formal methods to (1) present tools supporting teaching of formal methods education, and (2) discuss tips, tricks & experiences in online instruction gained in the last year.

    You can submit your contribution at EasyChair. Submissions should contain a title, a short abstract (to be published as part of the program) as well as a short description of how you plan to present (e.g. talk/live demo and/or poster/demo exhibition booth). The time slots for presentations can vary, as we expect short presentations of tips&tricks but also some longer demos of tools. In the gather-town-like sessions, every presenter/project will have a presentation area where demos, poster presentation, etc. (presenters have complete freedom) are possible.

    For more information, see https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html.
  • 11 - 16 July 2021, The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28), Pittsburgh PA (U.S.A.) or Virtual

    Date: 11 - 16 July 2021
    Location: Pittsburgh PA (U.S.A.) or Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 15 February 2021

    CADE is the major international forum for presenting research on all aspects of automated deduction. High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including logical foundations, theory and principles, applications in and beyond STEM, implementations, and the use/contribution of automated deduction in AI, are solicited. CADE-28 aims to present research that reflects the broad range of interesting and relevant topics in automated deduction.

    CADE will carefully monitor the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from from the health authorities, to determine whether CADE-28 will be physical or online.

    Paper submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. Submissions can be made in two categories: + Regular papers. Up to 15 pages in LNCS style. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit in the page limit may be provided in an appendix. Reviewers may consider additional material in appendices, but submissions must be self- contained within the page limit. + Short papers (including system descriptions, user experiences, domain models, etc.) Up to 10 pages in LNCS style.

    Additionally, proposals are sollicited for workshops, tutorials andcompetitions. Workshops and tutorials will take place before the conference. Both well-established workshops and newer ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are welcome. Tutorials are expected to be either half-day or full-day events, with a theoretical or applied focus, on a topic of interest to CADE-28. Proposed competitions should foster the development of automated reasoning systems and applications, in all areas relevant to automated deduction in a broad sense. Proposal submission deadline: 16 November 2020.

    For more information, see http://www.cade-28.info/.
  • 11 July 2021, 10th International Workshop on Theorem Prover Components for Educational Software (ThEdu'21), Virtual

    Date: Sunday 11 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

    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. The 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.

    ThEdu'21 will be virtual as part of the 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28), the exact details will be in the workshop Web-page as soon as possible. Invited Talk: Gilles Dowek, ENS Paris-Saclay.

    We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available online. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be approximately 5 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend ThEdu'21 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration.

    Topics of interest include:
     - methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input;
     - methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions;
     - combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps;
     - automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems;
     - proof and proving in mathematics education.

  • 5 - 9 July 2021, 17th Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE 2021): Connecting with computability, Virtual

    Date: 5 - 9 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The 'Computability in Europe' conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics.

    Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University.

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style and should have a maximum of 10 pages. Deadline: 17 jan 2021.

    Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for informal presentations is May 15th, 2021.

    For more information, see https://www.cie2021.ugent.be/.
  • 5 - 9 July 2021, International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond (QBF 2021), Virtual

    Date: 5 - 9 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    Quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) are an extension of propositional logic which allows for explicit quantification over propositional variables. Many problems from application domains such as model checking, formal verification or synthesis are PSPACE-complete, and hence could be encoded in QBF in a natural way. However, in contrast to SAT, QBF is not yet widely applied to practical problems in academic or industrial settings. The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF Workshop) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical and practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it addresses (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the state-of-the-art and to consolidate on immediate and long-term research challenges.

    QBF 2021 is affiliated to and co-located with: Int. Conf. on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2021) July 5-9, 2021. The workshop also welcomes work on reasoning with quantifiers in related problems, such as dependency QBF (DQBF), quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSP), and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) with quantifiers.

    The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on all formalisms enriched by quantifiers, and in particular QBF. Submissions of extended abstracts are invited and will be managed via Easychair. In particular, we invite the submission of extended abstracts on work that has been published already, novel unpublished work, or work in progress, as well as proposals for short tutorial presentations. Submissions which describe novel applications of QBF or related formalisms in various domains are particularly welcome.

    Each submission should have an overall length of 1-4 pages in LNCS format. Authors may decide to include an appendix with additional material.

    For more information, see https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/qbf2021 or contact .
  • 30 June - 3 July 2021, Sixth International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP 2021), Virtual

    Date: 30 June - 3 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 5 March 2021

    The meeting will be held as a Virtual Conference, through Zoom provided by Chapman University. Participation is free, but in order to join the meeting, please register. Keynote speakers: Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway), Andrew Granville (Universite de Montréal, Canada)), Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Dirk Schlimm (McGill University, Canada).

    We invite submissions on any areas connected to the philosophy of mathematical practice, both by professional philosophers of maths, and any scholar interested in reflecting on mathematical practice (its nature, its contents, its history), as well as from master and PhD students and post-doc (which are strongly encouraged to send proposals, indeed). A title and abstract (250-500 words together with 2 or 3 keywords) should be submitted before 5 March, 2021 via e-mail addressed to the chair of the Scientific Committee of the meeting: Carmen Martinez Adame, Notification will be sent out by 5 May.

  • 29 June - 2 July 2021, 16th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2021:16), Virtual

    Date: 29 June - 2 July 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 18 January 2021

    Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery.

    The ICFCA conference series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc.

    We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF format via the Easychair system. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    - Fundamental aspects of FCA
    - Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence
    - Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA

  • 28 June - 2 July 2021, 16th Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2021), Sochi (Russia) or Virtual

    Date: 28 June - 2 July 2021
    Location: Sochi (Russia) or Virtual
    Deadline: Thursday 24 December 2020

    CSR is an annual international conference held in Russia that is designed to cover a broad range of topics in Theoretical Computer Science.

    Topics include, but are not limited to: (i) algorithms and data structures (ii) computational complexity, including hardness of approximation and parameterized complexity (iii) randomness in computing, approximation algorithms, fixed-parameter algorithms (iv) combinatorial optimization, constraint satisfaction, operations research (v) computational geometry (vi) string algorithms (vii) formal languages and automata, including applications to computational linguistics (viii) codes and cryptography (ix) combinatorics in computer science (x) computational biology (xi) applications of logic to computer science, proof complexity (xii) database theory (xiii) distributed computing (xiv) fundamentals of machine learning, including learning theory, grammatical inference and neural computing (xv) computational social choice (xvi) quantum computing and quantum cryptography (xvii) theoretical aspects of big data.

    Opening lecture: Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University, USA).

    Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 12 pages in English, not including references, in the LNCS format (LaTeX, as pdf; final version with source).

    Proofs and other material omitted due to space constraints are to be put into a clearly marked appendix to be read at discretion of the referees. Papers must present original (and not previously published) research. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Springer's LNCS series.

    For more information, see https://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2021/ or contact .
  • 27 June 2021, 5th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2021), Virtual

    Date: Sunday 27 June 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Women in Logic 2021 is a satellite event of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'21) to be held virtually on June 29-July 2, 2021.

    Our aim is to:
    - provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements;
    - increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty;
    - establish new connections and collaborations;
    - foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community.
    We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers.

    Invited speakers: Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Rineke Verbrugge.

    Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at LICS 2021? Please join us on June 27 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic!Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 30, 2021 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure.

  • 25 - 27 June 2021, Eighteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2021), Beijing, China and/or Virtual

    Date: 25 - 27 June 2021
    Location: Beijing, China and/or Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 15 March 2021

    The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. 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, and foundations of multi-agent systems.

    Submissions: are now invited to TARK 2021. 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. Abstracts should be no longer than 10 pages. Optional technical details such as proofs may be included in an appendix.

    For more information, see http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=2034.
  • 25 - 26 June 2021, Kurt Goedel Day 2021 with Czech Gathering of Logicians, Brno (Czech Republic)

    Date: 25 - 26 June 2021
    Location: Brno (Czech Republic)
    Deadline: Sunday 16 May 2021

    This community event aims at bringing together researchers in logic and related areas. The event is open to all researchers interested in logic, while contributions related to Gödel's work are especially welcome. Promoting the heritage of Kurt Gödel , the Kurt Gödel Prize will be awarded during the meeting by the Kurt Gödel Society in Brno and the recipient will deliver a lecture.

    Invited speakers: Matthias Baaz (Technische Universität Wien, Vienna), Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Vítězslav Švejdar (Charles University, Prague) and Pavol Zlatoš (Komensky University, Bratislava).

    Note: The event will be postponed to September in case the pandemic situation prevents meeting on site.

    We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the conference to submit a short plain text abstract of approximately 200 words, and an extended abstract of at most 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair. Accepted submissions will be presented in 30 minute talks including discussion (please note that the time allotted to each talk may change slightly depending on the number of submissions). Abstracts can be in Czech/English; uploaded extended abstract need to be in pdf format.

    For more information, see https://www.physics.muni.cz/~godel/kgd2021/.
  • 24 - 25 June 2021, 20th annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics (LMP) Graduate Conference, Virtual

    Date: 24 - 25 June 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 12 February 2021

    The LMP Graduate Student Conference will bring together philosophers of logic, mathematics, and physics for two days of presentations and discussions with some of the leaders in these fields. We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker this year is James Owen Weatherall from the University of California, Irvine.

    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 Annual Clifton Memorial book prize. The contest will be adjudicated by philosophy of physics faculty members at Western. The maximum paper length is 5,000 words, including footnotes and appendices (but not references). Co-authored papers are not eligible for submission.

    For more information, see https://www.logicmathphysics.uwo.ca/ or contact .
  • 24 - 30 June 2021, Summer School and Conference "Toposes online", Online

    Date: 24 - 30 June 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    The event "Toposes online" represents the third edition of the main international conference on topos theory, following the previous ones "Topos à l’IHES" and "Toposes in Como". The format of the event is the same as that of the other two editions: it will consist of a three-day school, offering introductory courses for the benefit of students and mathematicians who are not already familiar with topos theory, followed by a three-day congress featuring both invited and contributed presentations on new theoretical advances in the subject as well as applications of toposes in different fields such as algebra, topology, number theory, algebraic geometry, logic, homotopy theory, functional analysis, and computer science.

    The main aim of this conference series is to celebrate the unifying power and interdisciplinary applications of toposes and encourage further developments in this spirit, by promoting exchanges amongst researchers in different branches of mathematics who use toposes in their work and by introducing a new generation of scholars to the subject.

    There is room for a limited number of contributed, 30-minute talks at the conference. If you want to present a paper, please send an extended abstract (between two and four pages long) before the 31st of May; you will be notified about the outcome of your submission by the 10th of June.

  • 23 - 25 June 2021, 2021 Australasian Association for Logic conference (AAL 2021), Virtually (Zoom)

    Date: 23 - 25 June 2021
    Location: Virtually (Zoom)
    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    The Australasian Association for Logic will hold its annual conference online via Zoom from Wednesday, June 23 to Friday, June 25, 2021. It will be hosted by the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne.

    There will be three keynote speakers. The keynote speakers confirmed are Xavier Caicedo (Los Andes), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) and Katalin Bimbó (Edmonton).

    We invite submission of abstracts in any area of logic, broadly construed. To submit, send an anonymized short abstract (?2 pages) and title to with the subject 'AAL 2021'. The soft deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 15. Submissions will be accepted for consideration until the hard deadline of Saturday, May 22. Decisions will be sent out in early June. We would like to encourage submissions from members of groups that are underrepresented in logic.

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    21 - 23 June 2021, Formal Philosophy 2021, Moscow (Russia) / Online

    Date: 21 - 23 June 2021
    Location: Moscow (Russia) / Online
    Target audience: logicians, philosophers
    Costs: -
    Deadline: Tuesday 25 May 2021

    The "Formal Philosophy" is an annual conference organized by the HSE International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy. The confernce will be dedicated to various topics in the fields of  philosophical logic, formal epistemology, formal ontology, philosophy of logic, epistemology of logic, and other branches of formal and mathematical philosophy.

    This year we are also planning two special sessions:
     - session on formal ethics
     - special session dedicated to the centennial of the publication of the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus".

    Authors are asked to submit an abstract up to 1000 words. We accept abstracts in PDF format only (12pt, single spacing, 2cm margin). Abstracts should be prepared for blind review (all identifying information should be removed from the abstract). Abstracts are to be submitted exclusively via the EasyChair system. The submitted materials will undergo a double-blind review. The Programme Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts that do not fit into the scope of the conference.
    Notification of acceptance will be on June 3, 2021.

    For more information, see https://llfp.hse.ru/en/formalphilosophy/2021/ or contact Vera Shumilina at .
  • 17 - 20 June 2021, Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory (BEST 2021), Virtual

    Date: 17 - 20 June 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Saturday 1 May 2021

    BEST is an international conference featuring talks on a broad range of recent advances in research in set theory and related fields. Researchers from all areas of set theory and logic are welcome. BEST particularly aims to support the careers of young researchers. The conference is organized by the Set Theory group at Boise State University.

    We are currently welcoming applications to speak at BEST from researchers in set theory and related fields. We hope to receive your application by May 1, but we will continue accepting applications as long as there is space.

    For more information, see https://www.boisestate.edu/math/best/ or contact .
  • 14 - 18 June 2021, Second NAtural LOgic meets MAchine Learning Workshop (NALOMA'21), Online, Netherlands

    Date: 14 - 18 June 2021
    Location: Online, Netherlands
    Deadline: Friday 26 March 2021

    After the successful completion of NALOMA'20 (NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning), NALOMA'21 seeks to continue the series and attract exciting contributions.  NALOMA'21 is set out to address two main issues of the NLI community. First, the approaches and systems currently used to address NLI are too one-dimensional: they are either purely DL or purely symbolic but do not attempt to combine the two worlds. A second issue concerns datasets: existing NLI datasets are either complex enough but too small to be used for proper learning, or large enough but too easy to be claimed to represent human inference. The workshop aims to bridge the gap between ML/DL and symbolic/logic-based approaches to NLI, and it is perhaps the only workshop organized to do so. It will take place from June 14-June 18, 2021, during the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2021) organized by the University of Groningen but taking place fully online due to the pandemic.

    The workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) topic concerning NLI.
    We invite two types of submission:
    - Archival (long or short) papers should report on complete, original and unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and appear in the ACL anthology.
    - Extended abstracts may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue.

    For more information, see https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma21/.
  • 14 - 18 June 2021, First Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR 2021): Beyond Language, Virtual

    Date: 14 - 18 June 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 26 March 2021

    The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning.

    This workshop intends to bring together researchers who aim to capture elements of multimodal interaction such as language, gesture, gaze, and facial expression with formal semantic representations. We provide a space for both theoretical and practical discussion of how linguistic co-modalities support, inform, and align with 'meaning' found in the linguistic signal alone. MMSR 2021 is co-located with IWCS 2021.

    We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation. Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages, excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references. Both types will be published in the workshop proceedings and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop and will consider a student session depending on the number of submissions.

  • 14 - 18 June 2021, Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, & Cognitive Sciences (SemSpace2021), Online

    Date: 14 - 18 June 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Tuesday 6 April 2021

    Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021) is the latest edition of a series of workshops that brings together research at the intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science. Using the common ground of vector spaces, the workshop offers researchers in these areas an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between the three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically.

    This year we are excited to be (virtually) co-located with IWCS.

    We welcome two types of submission:
    - Archival papers of up to 8 pages should report on complete, original and unpublished research.
    - Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue.
    Papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use the IWCS specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken from ACL 2021.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2021/.
  • 14 - 19 June 2021, 27th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2021), Virtual

    Date: 14 - 19 June 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 16 April 2021

    The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalised and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming.

    This year's TYPES will be held virtually (online), possibly in combination with a physical meeting in Leiden in the Netherlands if the political situation permits that. TYPES 2021 will not only consist of presentations, but also a setup of working groups that get together throughout the week. The hope is that we can retain at least some of the exchange and chatter that is the heart of the TYPES conference series.

    TYPES solicits contributed talks to stimulate discussions. The contributed talks are selected on the base of extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages (excluding bibliography) formatted with the LaTeX EasyChair3.5. We encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. In the spirit of workshops, talks may be based on newly published papers, work submitted for publication, but also work in progress.

    For more information, see https://types21.liacs.nl/ or contact .
  • 9 - 13 June 2021, Conference on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic and Quantum Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, and Set-theoretic and Point-free Topology (BLAST 2021), New Mexico State University / Online

    Date: 9 - 13 June 2021
    Location: New Mexico State University / Online
    Deadline: Sunday 11 April 2021

    BLAST is a conference series focusing on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, Set-theoretic Topology, and Point-free Topology. The series circulates between different universities. The central BLAST web page, with links to past meetings, can be found here: http://math.colorado.edu/blast/

    This year's installment of BLAST will take place at New Mexico State University. The scientific program will include invited lectures, tutorial lectures, two special sessions, and contributed talks. Due to the current pandemic, the conference will be entirely online.

    Abstracts of contributed talks should be submitted through EasyChair:

    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blast2021
    Please indicate if you would like to submit to a special session. The abstract should not exceed 2 pages.

    For more information, see https://math.nmsu.edu/blast-2021/ or contact .
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    7 - 10 June 2021, 8th International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-2021), Haifa, Israel and Online

    Date & Time: 7 - 10 June 2021, 18:00
    Location: Haifa, Israel and Online
    Deadline: Monday 1 March 2021

    The aim of the COMSOC workshop series is to bring together different communities: computer scientists interested in computational issues in social choice; people working in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems who are using ideas from social choice to organise societies of artificial software agents; logicians interested in the logic-based specification and analysis of social procedures; and last but not least people coming from social choice theory itself.

    Submissions of papers describing original, under review, or recently published work on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. We welcome theoretical, empirical and experimental work on the conference topics, including, in particular, research on algorithms (exact, approximate, parameterized, online and distributed), learning, logic, and simulations in the context of social choice.

    For more information, see https://comsoc2021.net.technion.ac.il/.
  • CfP special issue of the journal "Theoria" on Thin Objects

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    In his recent book 'Thin Objects: An Abstractionist Account' (Oxford University Press, 2018), Øystein Linnebo claims that mathematical objects are thin in the sense that "very little is required for their existence". Linnebo articulates this view in terms of Fregean abstraction principles, arguing that it is sufficient for abstract objects to exist that some nonabstract objects, or pluralities thereof, stands in the appropriate equivalence relations. Linnebo set up, among others, a defence of predicative vis-á-vis impredicative abstraction, and articulates a 'dynamic' approach to abstraction itself, on which abstraction is taken to extend the domain of objects available for quantification, and predicative abstraction is iterated over larger and larger domains.

    The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together contributions addressing both the philosophical and the technical aspects of Linnebo's book, also in connection to similar proposals in the philosophy of mathematics and logic. Contributions to the Special Issue should consist in short papers (4000-6000 words). Øystein Linnebo will contribute a précis of his book, opening the issue, and a 'Reply to Critics', closing the issue.

  • Call for proposals of sessions on philosophy of mathematics at the APA meetings

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    The Philosophy of Mathematics Association is an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association and as such is invited to organize sessions in the group program at APA divisional meetings. The PMA has held such a group session at the 2020 Eastern meeting and the 2021 Pacific meeting, and is hoping to make philosophy of mathematics symposia a regular component of APA divisional meetings. Proposals will be vetted by a joint committee of the PMA and the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP), and successful proposals will be scheduled for inclusion at the 2022 APA Eastern division meeting (January 4-8, 2022, Montreal).

    The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Submission deadline is 1 June, 2021.

    For more information, see https://forms.gle/djVziN81SX6RsY5U9.
  • 24 - 28 May 2021, Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021), Virtual

    Date: 24 - 28 May 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 27 November 2020

    The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.

    New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.

    Due to the COVID-19, the organizers have decided to hold NFM 2021 virtually only, rather than in person.

    We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.

    There are two categories of submissions:
    1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages);
    2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages).
    All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere.

  • Postponed, Trends in Logic XX "Logic and Reasoning: Formal and Informal", Kyiv, Ukraine

    Date: Postponed
    Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
    Target audience: Researchers in logic
    Costs: Conference fee: 160/190 EUR
    Deadline: Friday 31 January 2020

    Reasoning is at the very heart of logic, constituting its subject matter. In the last few decades, there has been considerable progress both in the purely logical analysis of reasoning and in applied logical investigations of various concrete subject domains, such as philosophical and scientific discourse, logic programming and everyday communication. Along with further elaboration of standard techniques a range of other approaches and semantic modeling of logical systems are being developed. Moreover, there is a powerful tradition of analyzing and evaluating reasoning patterns by means of informal logic and argumentation theory. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars working in various areas of proof-theoretic, semantic, argumentative and informal logic analysis.

    Invited Speakers: Hans van Ditmarsch (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France), Valentin Goranko (Stockholm University, Sweden), Dale Hample (University of Maryland, USA) and Hitoshi Omori (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany).

    Due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic, the event in May 2021 has been suspended, but the organizers hope to hold the conference in Kyiv as soon as circumstances permit, as well as hold the regular conference in May 2022.

    Abstracts of at most three pages length (including references) should be submitted electronically as pdf documents using the EasyChair submission page. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, and attend the conference to present her or his work.

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    3 - 7 May 2021, 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021), Virtual

    Date: 3 - 7 May 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 2 October 2020

    AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing and internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field

    We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

    For more information, see https://aamas2021.soton.ac.uk/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .
  • 3 - 4 May 2021, International Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems & Strategic Reasoning (LAMAS & SR 2021), Virtual

    Date: 3 - 4 May 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Wednesday 10 February 2021

    Logics and strategic reasoning play a central role in multi-agent systems. Logics can be used, for instance, to express the agents' abilities, knowledge, and objectives. Strategic reasoning refers to algorithmic methods that allow for developing good behavior for the agents of the system. At the intersection, we find logics that can express existence of strategies or equilibria, and can be used to reason about them.

    The LAMAS&SR workshop merges two international workshops: LAMAS, which focuses on all kinds of logical aspects of multi-agent systems from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory, and SR, devoted to all aspects of strategic reasoning in formal methods and artificial intelligence. Over the years the communities and research themes of both workshops got closer and closer. LAMAS&SR unifies LAMAS and SR under the same flag, formally joining the two communities in order to expose each of them to a wider range of work relevant to their research.

    LAMAS&SR 2021 will be held with AAMAS 2021 Online.

    Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages plus 1 page for references in the AAMAS format. Both published and unpublished works are welcome. Submissions are subject to a single-blind review process (submissions should not be anonymous).

    There will be no formal proceedings, but accepted extended abstracts will be made available on the workshop's website. We envisage that extensions of selected papers will be invited to a journal.

    For more information, see https://lamassr.github.io/ or contact .
  • 30 April 2021, Workship on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, Virtual

    Date & Time: Friday 30 April 2021, 14:30-22:00
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 9 April 2021

    The ERC-Starting Grant Truth and Semantics (TRUST 803684) at the University of Bristol is organizing a one-day online workshop on the application of formal theories of truth to expressively rich languages, e.g., languages with generalized quantifiers, conditionals, modalities etc.

    Confirmed Speakers: Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol), Hartry Field (NYU), Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), Lorenzo Rossi (MCMP), Johannes Stern (Bristol).

    There are one or two slots for submitted contributions of 45-60min. If you are interested in giving a talk please send a paper or extended abstract of around 1000 words.

    For more information, see https://www.truthandsemantics.xyz/event/exprtruth/ or contact Johannes Stern at .
  • CfP special issue of Logic & Logical Philosophy on "Relating Logic & Relating Semantics"

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    We invite contributions to the Special Issue of Logic and Logical Philosophy (LLP): "Relating Logic and Relating Semantics". Guest editors: Tomasz Jarmużek (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari, Italy).

    High quality research papers concerning theory and applications of relating logics and relating semantics, including, but not limited to, the following topics, are welcome:
    - applications of relating semantics,
    - algebraic interpretation of relating logics,
    - comparison of relating semantics with other formal semantics, - history of relating logics,
    - modal extensions of relating logics,
    - model theory of relating logics,
    - philosophical logics defined by relating semantics,
    - proof theory for relating logics,
    - philosophical foundations of relating logics,
    - other related topics (like dependence logic, set-assignment semantics etc.).
    Contributions are welcome from philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and computer scientists.

    For more information, see http://llp.umk.pl/ or contact Tomasz Jarmużek at , or Francesco Paoli at .
  • CfP special issue of "Linguistics and Philosophy" (L&P) on "Super Linguistics"

    Deadline: Friday 23 April 2021

    The journal Linguistics and Philosophy (L&P) have agreed to publish a special issue of Super Linguistics. Super Linguistics subsumes the application of formal linguistic methodology and methodologies inspired by formal linguistics to diverse non-standard objects. In addition to manuscripts by linguists, we welcome submissions from all relevant fields (such as, but not limited to, biology and musicology) provided that they are super linguistic in nature. To be considered, the manuscript should include a short paragraph outlining in what way the research is super linguistic in nature and how the research advances this new sub-field. Submissions must propose a clear formal analysis based on rich and detailed data. The manuscript submission deadline for this special issue is April 23rd 2021.

  • 22 - 23 April 2021, 15th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2021:15), Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)

    Date: 22 - 23 April 2021
    Location: Virtual (Tokyo, Japan)
    Deadline: Tuesday 15 September 2020

    The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

    ICFCA 2021:15 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Formal Concept Analysis. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Formal Concept Analysis.

    Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Formal Concept Analysis are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.

  • 15 - 16 April 2021, Third International Workshop on Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence (FMAI 2021), Virtual

    Date: 15 - 16 April 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Friday 7 February 2020

    The aims of FMAI 2021 are to:
     - Present success stories about the application of formal methods in AI.
     - Discuss strategies for bringing the Formal Methods and the AI communities closer together.
     - Consolidate collaborations between these two communities and foster new ones.

    The programme features 3 invited talks (by Giuseppe de Giacomo, Jane Hillston and Dvijotham Krishnamurthy) and 6 thematic sessions (on Learning, LTL, Logic, Verification, Data, and Games and MAS).

    Formerly FMAI 2020, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic the workshop has been postponed to Spring 2021.

    If you would like to attend the workshop, please submit a proposal for a talk (title and abstract for a 20 minutes talk) by January 31. The talk proposals can be about published or unpublished work. You should specify the category in the abstract. If the talk is based on a joint work, please mention your co-authors in the abstract. If you plan to attend but not give a talk, please submit an empty abstract with title 'no talk'.

  • 7 - 9 April 2021, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Online (Seville, Spain)

    Date: 7 - 9 April 2021
    Location: Online (Seville, Spain)
    Deadline: Sunday 1 November 2020

    The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held online in Seville, Spain, on 7-9 April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

    The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) 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 Artificial Intelligence techniques in the generation, analysis and interpretation of Art, Music, Design, Architecture and other artistic fields. Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in Springer LNCS format. Each submission must be anonymised for a double-blind review process. The deadline for submission is 1 November 2020. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

    For more information, see http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/.
  • 27 March - 1 April 2021, 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021), Online

    Date: 27 March - 1 April 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Thursday 15 October 2020

    ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops:

    • ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
    • FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
    • FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
    • TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

    A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. TACAS '21 will also host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP).

    Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ETAPS 2021 will take place virtually only.

    The four main conferences of ETAPS 2021 solicit contributions of the following types: ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp + mandatory appendix of max 6 pp, * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp.

    For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden.

    For more information, see https://etaps.org/2021 or contact .
  • 20 - 21 March 2021, The 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference in Logic (GSCL XXII), Virtual

    Date: 20 - 21 March 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Monday 1 February 2021

    Hosted virtually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The GSCL is a two-day conference organized by and for mathematical logic students in Master's and PhD programs.

    If you are a graduate student (Master's or PhD) in mathematical logic and wish to speak at GSCL XXII, please include your title and abstract in your registration form, and submit it by February 1st, 2021.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/gsclxxii/ or contact .
  • CfP special issue of Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (APAL) on "Logics of Dependence & Independence"

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    Logics of dependence and independence are novel non-classical logics aiming at characterizing dependence and independence notions in philosophy and in social and physical sciences. This field of research has grown rapidly in recent years. This family of logics has found applications in fields such as database theory, linguistics, social choice, quantum physics along with other fields. This special issue aims to provide a snapshot of the state of the art of logics of dependence and independence.

    The special issue is related to the topics of the Workshop on Logics of Dependence and Independence.Participants of the workshop, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions.

  • CfP special issue of "Journal of Logic and Computation" (JLC) on "Reasoning about Social Networks"

    Deadline: Sunday 21 February 2021

    Following a successful workshop at ECAI2020 we invite submissions for a Special Issue on Reasoning about Social Networks in the Journal of Logic and Computation. The special issue focuses on the issues of information spread in a social networks of natural and artificial agents, as studied by the emerging interdisciplinary field of multi-agent systems, logic and social network analysis.

    Submissions are to be sent to all the guest editors, written in English and formatted in LaTeX. All papers will be peer reviewed according to the standards of the Journal. Authors of submissions might also be asked to review a paper.

    For more information, see https://sites.unimi.it/gprimiero/2020/10/01/netreason-special-issue-at-jlc/ or contact Giuseppe Primiero at , Marija Slavkovik at , or Sonja Smets at .
  • CfP special issue of Logic and Logical Philosophy on "Logics & their interpretations"

    Deadline: Saturday 20 February 2021

    Logical systems of classical and non-classical sorts are often endowed with a variety of interpretations: semantic, proof-theoretic, metaphysic, epistemic, pragmatic, informational, dialogical, and more. Work along these lines has led to the connection of logic to many other areas of knowledge and research. The attempt to draw these connections is, however, sometimes met with a number of criticisms. On the one hand, many of these interpretations have been subject to discussion, trying to determine if the conceptual and the formal aspects align as required. On the other hand, scholars who reject some contentions interpretations of certain formal systems debate whether these logics should be dispensed with in light of their philosophical interpretations, or whether it is possible to embrace them without endorsing such interpretations. Examples of the above are the debates between the fictionalist and the realist interpretations of possible worlds for modal logics, and between the dialetheic and the epistemic interpretations of paraconsistent logics. Furthermore, there is a question of which if any is the canonical application of logic as a discipline and therefore of any given logical system. In this vein, some scholars believe that a distinction between pure logic and applied logic needs to be taken into account, which may or may not resemble the medieval divide between logica docens and logica utens.

    The aim of this special issue is to discuss these topics and to assess the effect of the answers provided in the relation between logic and the many disciplines related to it. Contributions are welcome from philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and computer scientists. Submissions must be in English and use the form of a source LaTeX file.

    For more information, see http://llp.umk.pl/inf4a.html or contact Henrique Antunes (UFMG) at , or Damian Szmuc (IIF-SADAF-CONICET & UBA) at .
  • 4 - 6 February 2021, ICAART Session "Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence" (NLPinAI 2021), Online

    Date: 4 - 6 February 2021
    Location: Online
    Deadline: Thursday 26 November 2020

    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) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

    The session covers theoretical work, 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 computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

    We invite contributions relevant to the following topics. All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings bookm and be made available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

    For more information, see http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2021 or contact Roussanka Loukanova at .
  • 4 - 5 February 2021, Workshop "Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling", Berlin (online)

    Date: 4 - 5 February 2021
    Location: Berlin (online)
    Deadline: Friday 1 January 2021

    The ERC Project SPAGAD: Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse invites to a workshop on biased questions that focuses on (a) experimental results concerning the conditions of use of questions that express a bias towards particular answers, and (b) on the theoretical modelling of such questions that includes morphological markers, discourse particles, specialized syntactic structure, prosody and gestures.

    We call for additional submissions for presentations on this topic (30 minutes talk). Anonymous abstracts of 2 pages maximum should be submitted as pdf files, named by the title of the abstract, by January 1, 2021.

  • CfP special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS) on Computing with Infinite Data / Continuity, Computability, Constructivity

    Deadline: Sunday 31 January 2021

    After two years of successful work in the EU-MSCA-RISE project "Computing with Infinite Data" (CID) and two excellent Workshops CCC 2019 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and CCC 2020 (online), we are planning to publish a collection of papers dedicated to the meetings, to the project and to the subject in general as a Special Issue in the open-access journal "Logical Methods in Computer Science" (LMCS).

    The issue should reflect progress made in Computable Analysis and related areas, and is not restricted to work in the CID project or presented at the Workshop. Submissions are welcome from all scientists on topics in the entire spectrum from logic to algorithms. Editors: Daniel Graça (Faro, Portugal) and Alex Simpson (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

    For more information, see here or at https://lmcs.episciences.org/ or contact Daniel Graça at , or Alex Simpson at .
  • 25 - 28 January 2021, Computer Science Logic (CSL'21), Virtual

    Date: 25 - 28 January 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2020

    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.

    Invited Speakers:
    - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, Rennes, France
    - Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, UK
    - Linda Westrick, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
    - Sylvain Schmitz, Université de Paris, Paris, France
    - Bartek Klin, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsawa, Poland

    Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, CSL 2021 will be held as a virtual meeting.

    Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (not including references), presenting unpublished work fitting the scope of the conference. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC.

    Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal.

    For more information, see https://www.eacsl.org/?page_id=62 or contact .
  • 17 - 18 January 2021, Certified Programs & Proofs (CPP 2021), Virtual

    Date: 17 - 18 January 2021
    Location: Virtual
    Deadline: Wednesday 16 September 2020

    Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their work. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education.

    CPP 2021 will take place on January 18-19, 2021 as a virtual meeting.

    We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the contribution.Concurrent submissions to other conferences, journals, workshops with proceedings, or similar forums of publication are not allowed.

    The submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained without the appendices. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. CPP 2021 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.

    For more information, see https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021 or contact Cătălin Hriţcu at , or Andrei Popescu at .

Past Conferences

  • 10 - 12 December 2021, Sixth Indian SAT+SMT School, Virtual

    Date: 10 - 12 December 2021
    Location: Virtual

    The theme of this year's school is the advancement of SAT and SMT solvers and their novel use in mathematical proofs and trustworthy AI. Registration of academics and students is free. We look forward to participation of all those seriously interested in SAT and SMT solving, both from theoretical and practical perspectives.

    For more information, see http://sat-smt.in or contact .
  • 8 - 10 December 2021, Weyl 2021: Hermann Weyl's Philosophy of Mathematics, Oslo (Norway) and Virtual

    Date: 8 - 10 December 2021
    Location: Oslo (Norway) and Virtual

    To celebrate the 100 years since the publication of Hermann Weyl’s “Über die neue Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik”, we will hold a Workshop dedicated to Hermann Weyl’s Philosophy of Mathematics, with special (but not exclusive) focus on his intuitionistic turn. 

    The workshop will be run in dual-mode, in Oslo and on Zoom. Registration is required to attend the workshop. Speakers: Stefania Centrone, Laura Crosilla, José Ferreirós, Janet Folina, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Mirja Hartimo, Øystein Linnebo, Henri Lombardi, Pierluigi Minari, Stefan Neuwirth, Michael Rathjen, Wilfried Sieg, Iulian Toader, Mark van Atten.

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    29 November - 1 December 2021, Proof Society Winter School 2021

    Date: 29 November - 1 December 2021
    Location: Funchal, Madeira
    Target audience: Advanced master students, PhD students, postdocs and experienced researchers new to the field in mathematics, computer science and philosophy
    Costs: €300

    The intended audience for the Winter School is advanced master students, PhD students, postdocs and experienced researchers new to the field in mathematics, computer science and philosophy. The winter school offers courses of various levels by the following experts in the field: Bahareh Afshari, Juan Aguilera , Anupam Das, Graham Leigh, Alexander Leitsch and Norbert Preining. The event will be attending-only and shall not be streamed online.The conference fee includes registation to the affiliated The Proof Society Workshop on Proof Theory and its Applications

    For more information, see https://kgs.logic.at/madeira2021/winter-school or contact Anela Lolic at .
  • 26 - 27 October 2021, 2nd ENCODE Workshop: Logic & Deliberation, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) or Virtual

    Date: 26 - 27 October 2021
    Location: Rotterdam (The Netherlands) or Virtual

    The ENCODE workshops are organized bi-annually at the EIPE/ESPhil (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), as part of the NWO-funded project ENCODE: Explicating Norms of Collective Deliberation. In this workshop we welcome all presentations on original contributions in philosophical logic and formal philosophy more generally that are relevant for the study of deliberative, multi-agent decision processes and procedures. In contemporary democratic theory and political science, the importance of group deliberation is stressed over and again. But what exact form should such deliberation take, and what can we expect from it?

    Keynote Speakers: Natacha Alechina (Utrecht), Zoé Christoff (Groningen), Dominik Klein (Utrecht) and Hannes Leitgeb ((Munich).

  • 29 - 30 September 2021, Workshop "New Work on Induction & Abduction", Virtual

    Date: 29 - 30 September 2021
    Location: Virtual

    This workshop aims at bringing together scholars from the field of inductive and abductive reasoning. It will focus on discussing the following four recent monographs: Igor Douven's "The theory and Practice of Abduction" (forthcoming), Ilkka Niiniluotto's "Truth-Seeking by Abduction" (2018), John Norton's "The Material Theory of Induction" (2021), and Gerhard Schurz' "Hume's Problem Solved" (2019). Each of these monographs will be discussed in form of a comprehensive comment as well as replies and reflections by the authors. The workshop will also host specialist talks from leading scholars in this field of research.

  • 28 - 30 September 2021, Minisymposium "Large cardinals", Virtual (Passau, Austria)

    Date: 28 - 30 September 2021
    Location: Virtual (Passau, Austria)

    This minisymposium will be devoted to recent developments in the theory of large cardinals, a central concept of contemporary set theory that allows the measurement of the consistency strength of mathematical theories and the ordering of these theories into a canonical hierarchy. Seminal results show that large cardinal assumptions themselves answer many important questions left open by the standard axiomatization of set theory and this leads many set theorists to think that these axioms should be included in the correct axiomatization of mathematics. In the last fifty years, set theorists have developed a deep and canonical theory of large cardinals and, in recent years, breakthrough results in vastly different regions of the large cardinal hierarchy were obtained. The talks in our symposium will cover this wide spectrum of research, from virtual large cardinal axioms in the lower reaches of this hierarchy all the way up to axioms of infinity that contradict the Axiom of Choice.

  • 27 September 2021, Minisymposium "Thinking about proofs" (at DMV-OeMG conference), Virtual

    Date & Time: Monday 27 September 2021, 15:00-18:00

    It is often said, that all of mathematics can be reduced to first-order logic and set theory. The derivation indicator view says that all proofs stand in some relation to a derivation, i.e. a mechanically checkable syntactical objects following fixed rules, that would not have any gaps. For a long time this was a mere hope. There may have been proofs of concepts from early logicists but derivation never played a big role in mathematical practice. The modern computer might change this. Interactive and automated theorem provers promise to make the construction of a justification without any gaps feasible for complex mathematics. This minisymposium brings together philosophers, educators and linguist to study both proofs as they can be found in real textbook as well as in the logical sense, i.e. derivations.

    This is an affiliated minisymposium to the DMV and ÖMG-annual meeting.

  • 13 - 14 September 2021, 5th International Autumn School "Proof and Computation" , Online

    Date: 13 - 14 September 2021
    Location: Online
    Target audience: Graduate or PhD students and young postdoctoral researchers

    The aim of  the autumn school "Proof and Computation" is to bring together young researchers in the field of Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy. Scope: Predicative Foundations, Constructive Mathematics and Type Theory, Computation in Higher Types, and  Extraction of Programs from Proofs. There will be an opportunity to form ad-hoc groups working on specific projects, but also to discuss in more general terms the vision of constructing correct programs from proofs.

    Unfortunately because of the present situation we had to cancel the event. More precisely, it will be held as an online workshop from 13th to 14th September 2021.

  • 8 - 10 September 2021, PhDs in Logic XII, Freie Universität Berlin and virtually

    Date & Time: 8 - 10 September 2021, 09:00-17:00
    Location: Freie Universität Berlin and virtually
    Target audience: Master students, PhDs, Post-Docs
    Costs: None

    We are happy to announce that the 12th edition of “PhDs in Logic” will finally take place in a hybrid format virtually and at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, from September 8 to 10, 2021.
    “PhDs in Logic” is an annual graduate conference organized by 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 (20-25 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research.

    Invited speakers are:
    Marianna Antonutti Marfori (LMU Munich, Germany)
    Christoph Benzmüller (FU Berlin, Germany)
    Juliana Bueno-Soler (CLE - State University of Campinas, Brasil)
    Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich, Germany)
    Alexander Steen (University of Luxembourg)
    Peter Verdée (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)

    For more information, see here or at https://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/phdsinlogic2020/index.html or contact Sara Ayhan at .
  • 8 - 10 September 2021, The 17th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2020) , Virtual

    Date: 8 - 10 September 2021
    Location: Virtual

    The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to deepen their knowledge. As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics relevant to the school (see below).

    The summer school is part of Declarative AI 2021 and is co-located with RuleML+RR 2021 and DecisionCAMP 2021. The students attending the RW school are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral Consortium of RuleML+RR. The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process.

    For more information, see https://declarativeai2021.net/reasoning-web.
  • September 2021, CL2020: Colloquium Logicum 2020, Konstanz, Germany

    Date: September 2021
    Location: Konstanz, Germany

    The Colloquium Logicum is organized every two years by the "Deutsche Vereinigung fuer Mathematische Logik und fuer Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften" (DVMLG).The conference will cover the whole range of mathematical logic and the foundations of the exact sciences. In addition to all fields of mathematical logic, this includes the philosophy of the exact sciences, logic in philosophy, and logic in computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition to the keynote talks, there will be a "PhD Colloquium" with invited presentations of excellent recent PhD graduates.

    Keynote Speakers: Laurent Bienvenu (Bordeaux), Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol), Wesley Holliday (Berkeley), Christian Ikenmeyer (Liverpool), Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki (Cambridge), Alison Pease (Dundee) and Margaret Thomas (West Lafayette).

    Postponed (due to pandemic) to September 2021.

    For more information, see https://colloquiumlogicum2020.com/ or contact .
  • 22 July 2021, Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Virtual

    Date: Thursday 22 July 2021
    Location: Virtual

    We are organising a virtual symposium on different aspects of "Intelligent Systems" at the new campus of Lancaster University in Leipzig on July 22nd 2021. The main topics covered are, among others, Machine Learning, Logic, Cognitive Systems, and Formal Methods.

     

  • 18 - 23 July 2021, Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students 2021, Online

    Date: 18 - 23 July 2021
    Location: Online
    Costs: 200€

     The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is organising the seventh edition of the Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, and invites applications until 29th March 2020. The summer school is open to women with a keen interest in mathematical philosophy. Applicants should be students of philosophy (or philosophically minded logicians or scientists) at an advanced undergraduate level, in a master program, or at an early PhD level.

    This year, the Summer School will have the following lecture streams:
    - "Suspension of Belief. Its Nature, Rationality and Logic.”, led by Alexandra Zinke (University of Tübingen)
    - "Emergence and Reduction in Science", led by Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg/MCMP)

    Because of the current situation the summer school for 2020 is cancelled, but postponed into 2021!

  • 14 - 17 July 2021, 4th international conference on Logic, Relativity, & Beyond (LRB 2020), Online

    Date & Time: 14 - 17 July 2021, 15:00-18:00
    Location: Online
    Costs: free

    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 world 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 interdisciplinary cooperation leading to joint research and publications.

    Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to delay the LRB20 conference last year. We decided to make up for it this summer.

    For more information, see https://conferences.renyi.hu/lrb20-online or contact Gergely Székely at .
  • 10 - 12 July 2021, Mathematical Cultures & Practices XI (MathCultPrac XI), Virtual

    Date: 10 - 12 July 2021
    Location: Virtual

    This meeting stands in the tradition of an informal series of meetings of scholars interested in cultural aspects of mathematical research practice, attracting a community of scholars from mathematics, philosophy, mathematics education, sociology, anthropology, automated reasoning, and history of mathematics. Participants of these gatherings were interested in developing a view of mathematics on the basis of empirical observations of the practices of mathematicians, taking into account the fact that cultures and practices of mathematics vary over time, space, and research community.

    Invite speakers:Jessica Bradford, Nina Engelhardt, Christian Greiffenhagen, Matthew Inglis, Mikkel Willum Johansen and Norbert Schappacher.

     

  • 5 - 16 July 2021, 12th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2020), Virtual

    Date: 5 - 16 July 2021
    Location: Virtual

    Rewriting is a powerful model of computation that underlies much of declarative programming and is ubiquitous in mathematics, logic, theorem proving, verification, model-checking, compilation, biology, chemistry, physics, etc. In 2021, the 12th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2021) will take place online as a virtual event hosted via zoom by the Computer Science School at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. The school is aimed at Master and PhD students, researchers and practitioners interested in the use or the study of rewriting and its applications.

    For more information, see https://dalila.sip.ucm.es/isr2021/ or contact Narciso Marti-Oliet at .
  • 7 - 11 June 2021, Logical Perspectives 2020/2021, Virtual and/or Moscow, Russia

    Date: 7 - 11 June 2021
    Location: Virtual and/or Moscow, Russia

    The Logical Perspectives conference series aims at bringing together distinguished logicians in order to present their perspectives on the future of the field, to discuss related open problems, and to foster new collaborations. The topics include, but are not limited to:
     - logical methods in mathematics;
     - logical methods in philosophy;
     - logical methods in computer science.

    In view of the developing situation with COVID-19 in Russia, Logical Perspectives 2020 has moved to June 2021 and become Logical Perspectives 2021. The LP 2021 conference is part of the Logical Perspectives 2021 thematic programme, which also comprises the following additional events:
    - LP 2021 Summer School & Workshop (June 14–19), focusing on computational proof theory, broadly understood, and providing early career scientists with an opportunity to attend advanced mini-courses and to present their own work.
    - Formal Philosophy 2021 (June 21–23), focusing on applications of methods of mathematical logic to philosophy.
    - Adian 90 Conference (July 5–8), dedicated to the 90th birthday of Sergei Adian (1931-2020). It will include talks by specialists in the area of logic, algebra and computation.

    The events of the programme will be held either online or in a mixed format — including both virtual and traditional talks.

    For more information, see http://lp2021.mi-ras.ru/ or contact .
  • 26 May 2021, First ENCODE Workshop "Let's Talk Models!", Virtual

    Date & Time: Wednesday 26 May 2021, 09:00-17:00
    Location: Virtual

    "Let's Talk Models!" is the kick-off workshop for the NWO VIDI project ENCODE: Explicating Norms of Collective Deliberation. As part of this project, we will organize workshops on a regular basis at the EIPE/ESPhil (Erasmus University of Rotterdam).

    The theme of this edition is Formal Models of Deliberative Norms. In particular, a range of different models (logical, agent-based, game-theoretic and/or argument-based) of group deliberation and its norms will be presented and discussed. The ultimate aim is to understand how these models shed light on trade-offs and tensions among such norms, and on different recipes for checking and monitoring their satisfaction.

    The conference takes place online via Zoom. Confirmed speakers are Hun Chung (Waseda University), Erica Yu (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), Olivier Roy (University of Bayreuth) and Soroush Rafiee Rad (University of Bayreuth & University of Amsterdam), and Nina Gierasimczuk (Danish Technical University). The full programme, incl. titles and abstracts of the talks can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ua61j4fg477izrc/Kickoff%20ENCODE%20programme%20and%20abstracts.docx?dl=0.

  • 24 - 28 May 2021, Numerous Numerosity: an interdisciplinary conference on mathematical cognition, fundamental science, and philosophy of mathematics, Virtual

    Date: 24 - 28 May 2021
    Location: Virtual

    Numbers: we use them every day, science relies on their precision, entire mathematical theories are built from them, they are the lifeblood of our technological ecosystem, even animals and plants show some numerical competency - but, what are numbers? Held online May 24-28, Numerous Numerosity is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at answering this seemingly naive question in the most comprehensive way possible.

    Participants from any background are welcome to attend, but we expect that this event will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of mathematical cognition, complexity science, foundations of mathematics, neuroscience, fundamental physics, computer science and philosophy of mathematics. Those wishing to attend the online conference by joining the virtual meetings must click the button 'Attend' on the event website before May 16. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.

    Following the main event there will be a small-scale three-day workshop aimed primarily at young researchers. Applications to participate in the workshop are open until May 16.

    For more information, see http://semf.org.es/numerosity/.
  • 22 - 28 May 2021, Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Virtual

    Date: 22 - 28 May 2021
    Location: Virtual

    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 tenth 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 studying and using formal techniques in their research. A prior background in formal methods is helpful but not required. Participants at the school can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions.

    For more information, see http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT21.
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    17 May - 16 June 2021, Tractatus at 100: A Series of Centennial Lectures, Online

    Date & Time: 17 May - 16 June 2021, 15:00-17:00
    Location: Online
    Costs: none

    The Tsinghua-Uva Joint Research Center in Logic organises a series of on-line lectures to commemorate that Wittgenstein's Tractatus first appeared in 1921. There will be two lectures per week between May 17 and June 16. Lectures will be given by:Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen), Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University), Dimitris Gakis (Catholic University Leuven), Hans-Johann Glock (Universität Zürich), Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia), Benjamin de Mesel (Catholic University of Leuven), Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Göran Sundholm (Leiden University), Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh), Ben Ware (King’s College London).

    For more information, see http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=2364 or contact Jian Ma at .
  • 12 - 16 April 2021, 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 21), Virtual

    Date: 12 - 16 April 2021
    Location: Virtual

    The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation.

    MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events.

    For more information, see https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html or contact Georg Struth at .
  • 6 April 2021, Opening of the Weizsäcker Centre: "Making Responsible Decisions in & about Science", Virtual

    Date & Time: Tuesday 6 April 2021, 17:00-20:00
    Location: Virtual

    The academic activity of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center (University of Tübingen) will be opened with the online event "Making Responsible Decisions in and about Science". Speakers: Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and University of California, San Diego) and Helen E. Longino (Stanford University).

  • 26 March 2021, Joint Jahrestagung FG LogInf & Deduktionstreffen, Virtual

    Date: Friday 26 March 2021
    Location: Virtual

    The annual Workshop on Logic in Computer Science (Jahrestagung) and the annual meeting Deduktionstreffen are the prime activities of the Interest Group on Logic in Computer Science (FG LogInf) and the Interest Group on Deduction Systems (FG DedSys) of the German Society of Informatics (Gesellschaft für Informatik), respectively. This year, the activities will be organized as a Joint Logic Workshop in order to foster mutual exchange and to explore potential synergies.

    The Joint Logic Workshop is a meeting with an informal and friendly atmosphere, where everyone (not only the German community) interested in the relevant topics can report on their work in an accessible setting. A special focus of the workshop 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.

  • Early 2021, Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 (CCR 2020) and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 (LCD 2020), Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

    Date: Postponed until 2021
    Location: Cambridge & Leeds (UK)

    We are pleased to announce that Computability, Complexity, and Randomness 2020 and its satellite Leeds Computability Days 2020 will take place in June and July 2020. Leeds Computability Days will be held at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK during 24-26 June 2020. Computability, Complexity, and Randomness will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK during 29 June ? 3 July 2020.

    Both conferences are sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic, and so student members of the ASL may apply for travel grants to attend.

    Due to the COVID-19 crisis the conferences have been postponed until 2022.

    For more information, see http://www.computability.org/LCD2020/.
  • 24 January - 25 February 2021, Winter Schools and Workshops 'Logic & Interactions 2022", Marseille, Frances

    Date: 24 January - 25 February 2021
    Location: Marseille, Frances

    Logic and Interactions 2022 is a five-week session at the CIRM in Luminy (Marseille, France), on logic and its interactions in mathematics and computer science, but also in the broader perspective of its transdisciplinary nature, with connections to philosophy and linguistics. Two weeks will be organized as thematic schools targeted primarily at PhD students and non-specialist researchers. The other three will be workshops presenting the state of the art in specific areas.

    We expect this event to offer a friendly venue not only for established specialists but also for students and young researchers as well as non-specialists. In addition to the thematic schools, each week will include introductory material. We encourage colleagues, and especially students and young researchers, to attend several weeks or even the full month, in order to make the most of this special occasion.

  • 16 January 2021, Formalize!(?) - A philosophical & educational perspective on formalization in mathematics

    Date & Time: Saturday 16 January 2021, 15:50-20:00
    Location: Online via Zoom

    It is often said, that all of mathematics can be reduced to first-order logic and set theory. The derivation indicator view says that all proofs stand in some relation to a derivation, i.e. a mechanically checkable syntactical objects following fixed rules, that would not have any gaps. For a long time this was a mere hope. There may have been proofs of concepts from early logicists but derivation never played a big role in mathematical practice. The modern computer might change this. Interactive and automated theorem provers promise to make the construction of a justification without any gaps feasible for complex mathematics.

    Is this promise justified? Will the future of mathematical practice shift to more formal mathematics? Should it? We are organizing a one-day online workshop to commemorate the World Logic Day, on the topic of formalization in mathematics. We hope to illuminate such questions and focus especially on what these developments mean for the future of the curriculum of university students.This event features speakers speaking about both concrete projects and reflections on such endeavours in general.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/wldzurich2021/ or contact José Antonio Pérez Escobar at .
  • 15 January 2021, "Computer Science needs Logic!" (WLD 2021 event)

    Date & Time: Friday 15 January 2021, 12:50-17:30
    Location: Virtual

    On 15th January 2021, academics, post-docs and PhD students of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, will celebrate the World Logic Day with a free and remotely delivered event, entitled "Computer Science needs Logic!". Our event intends to contribute to the UNESCO World Logic Day with a programme of presentations, by members of the Department of Computing, that will showcase advancements made in "Logic and Programming Languages" and "Logic and Artificial Intelligence".

  • 14 January 2021, "Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics in the evening"

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 18:00-20:15
    Location: Virtual

    We are organizing four evening talks to commemorate the World Logic Day. Registration is free of charge and everybody is welcome to attend.

    Speakers:
    1.Graham Priest (Graduate Center, City University of New York & University of Melbourne)
    2.Gil Sagi (University of Haifa)
    3.Silvia de Toffoli (Princeton University)
    4.Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki & University of Amsterdam)

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/logicintheeveningcet or contact Deborah Kant at .
  • 14 January 2021, Vienna World Logic Day, Virtual

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 17:00
    Location: Virtual

    UNESCO proclaimed World Logic Day in 2019, in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), to enhance public understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and innovation. The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at Vienna University of Technology (VCLA at TU Wien) represents six research groups celebrating the World Logic Day 2021 (WLD) with a Vienna World Logic Day Lecture with Prof. Georg Gottlob on the future of logic in the world shaped by Artificial intelligence.

    For more information, see https://logicday.vcla.at.
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    14 January 2021, CIPSH-UNESCO World Logic Day Cagliari

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 17:00

    The event has been organized by the A.LO.P.HIS (Applied LOgic, PHilosophy and the HIStory of SCience) research group from the University of Cagliari on the occasion of the UNESCO's World Logic Day that will take place on January 14 2021.

    For more information, see here or at http://wld.cipsh.international/contributed_documents/Flyer-EnglishTranslation.pdf or contact Prof. Francesco Paoli at .
  • 14 January 2021, Logical Journeys Webinar (WLD 2021 event)

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 15:00-17:00
    Location: Virtual

    Logical Journeys is a one day event organised by Renato Neves, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Alexandra Silva (UCL) for discussing the past use of logic in different domains and the challenges it faces from emerging paradigms, such as machine learning, probabilistic, cyber-physical, and quantum computing. The event is framed in the context of UNESCO's World Logic Day, which was proclaimed.

    Logical Journeys will consist of a keynote talk by Samson Abramsky and a discussion session on 'the many facets of logic' which will be led by a panel of researchers with different backgrounds but with logic as a central pillar in their careers.

  • 14 January 2021, World Logic Day in Hungary (WLD 2021 event)

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:55-19:00
    Location: Virtual

    The Set Theory, Logic and Topology department of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Department of Logic of Eötvös Loránd University organize an online workshop celebrating the 3rd World Logic Day at 14 January 2021.

    Mohamed Khaled (Bahçeşehir University): Algebras of concepts and their networks
    Aleksandra Samonek (UCLouvain): Modeling inductive inference on linguistic content using dictionaries and vectors
    István Juhász (Rényi Institute): Pinning Down Families of Open Sets
    Giambattista Formica (Pontifical Urbaniana University) and Michèle Friend (The George Washington University): In the Footsteps of Hilbert: The Logical Foundations of Theories in Physics.

    For more information, see https://conferences.renyi.hu/wld3.
  • 14 January 2021, Virtual Mini-Workshop "Logic and its Philosophy"

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:30-17:30
    Location: Virtual

    We are organising a virtual mini-workshop on logic and its philosophy. Talks will be given by: 1. Hitoshi Omori (Bochum) 2. Filippo Ferrari (Bonn) 3. Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & St. Andrews).

    The event is organised by Sara Ipakchi and Paul Hasselkuß (HHU Düsseldorf). Registration is free of charge and everybody is welcome to attend.

  • 14 January 2021, Logic: A world of interdisciplinary science, Celebrating World Logic Day in Nigeria

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 11:00-13:10
    Location: Virtual
    As part of the UNESCO World Logic Day 2021, you are invited to participate in a zoom meeting featuring talks on the role of logic across disciplines. This event will bring together logicians in the fields of Mathematics, Philosophy, Computer Science and other related areas. Speakers: 1. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, 2. Thomas Meyer, 3. Yurii Khomskii, and 4. T. O.William-West.

    Organizer: Funmilola Balogun, Federal University Dutsinma. Registration is free of charge and everybody is welcome to attend.

  • 14 January 2021, World Logic Day 2021

    Date & Time: Thursday 14 January 2021, 00:01-23:59

    UNESCO proclaimed 14 January to be World Logic Day, a global day of supporting the development of logic through teaching and research, as well as to public dissemination of the discipline. The Conseil International de Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH)  is coordinating the dynamic and global annual celebration of World Logic Day aiming at fostering international cooperation, promoting the development of logic, in both research and teaching, supporting the activities of associations, universities and other institutions involved with logic, and enhancing public understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and innovation.

    We invite everyone in the world interested in logic to organise events celebrating World Logic Day 2021 on 14 January 2021 (or on convenient date close to the 14th of January). WLD events
     - can be academic or non-academic,
     - can be aimed at the general public or specialists,
     - can focus on any of the many facets of logic from disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, or others, and
     - can use any format, e.g., it could be a lecture, a workshop, a panel discussion, an information bazaar, etc. etc.

    If you are organising an event and wish to be listed in the official list of WLD 2021 events on our website and use the official WLD logo in your announcements, please follow the instructions on the website to obtain the status of an official WLD 2021 event.

    For more information, see http://wld.cipsh.international/.
  • 14 January 2021, CS Oxford World Logic Day Lectures (WLD 2021 event), Virtual

    Date: Thursday 14 January 2021
    Location: Virtual

    Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford will celebrate the UNESCO World Logic Day together with a number of academic institutions all around the world! On this occasion 5 esteemed senior researchers from the department will offer a closer look at their fields of research and explain how logic and logical methods are exploited therein.

    For more information, see https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2372.html.
  • 12 - 16 January 2021, VI International Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Informatics (MFOI-2020), Virtual

    Date: 12 - 16 January 2021
    Location: Virtual

    The 2020 edition of the annual Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Informatics is intended to add synergy to the efforts of the researchers working on development of the development of mathematical foundations for computer science, also known as informatics. Round tables are planned to ensure an open debate on the state of the art and new directions of research and cooperation.

    In view of the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) the MFOI-2020 conference is postponed to January 12-16, 2021. The conference will be held in the virtual mode. During MFOI, January 14, 2021 is devoted to the World Logic Day.

     

    For more information, see http://mfoi2020.inf.ua/.

MoL and PhD defenses

  • 22 December 2021, Master of Logic defense, Pepijn Kroes

    Date & Time: Wednesday 22 December 2021, 13:00
    Title: Finiteness, Invariance, and Analogy: A Minimal Model for Adaptive Processes
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Katrin Schulz
  • 7 December 2021, Master of Logic defense, Luca van der Kamp

    Date & Time: Tuesday 7 December 2021, 16:00
    Title: The Epistemic Logic of Full Communication and Social Networks: An Analysis of Mediation and Network Formation
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets
  • 26 November 2021, PhD Defense, Sirin Botan

    Date & Time: Friday 26 November 2021, 13:00
    Title: Strategyproof Social Choice for Restricted Domains
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Ulle Endriss
    Copromotor: Ronald de Haan

    You can either follow the live stream or attend in person. The latter requires completing a registration form in advance. Please contact either the PhD candidate or the promotor to get access.

  • 29 October 2021, Master of Logic defense, Bas Kortenbach

    Date & Time: Friday 29 October 2021, 10:00
    Title: The Classicality of Epistemic Multilateral Logic
    Location: Online
    Supervisor: Luca Incurvati & Julian Schlöder
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    13 October 2021, PhD Defense, Levin Hornischer

    Date & Time: Wednesday 13 October 2021, 10:00
    Title: Dynamical Systems via Domains: Toward a Unified Foundation of Symbolic and Non-symbolic Computation
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Michiel van Lambalgen
    Copromotor: Franz Berto

    You are kindly invited to follow the defense either on-site or online via the livestream available at
    https://webcolleges.uva.nl/Mediasite/Play/37510719c45a40efa1f24a095974e2281d

    For more information, contact Levin Hornischer at .
  • 24 September 2021, Master of Logic defense, Daan Rijks

    Date & Time: Friday 24 September 2021, 10:00
    Title: Programming With Open Games
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Benno van den Berg & Jules Hedges
  • 17 September 2021, Master of Logic defense, Quentin Gougeon

    Date & Time: Friday 17 September 2021, 13:00
    Title: The Expressive Power of Derivational Modal Logic
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili
  • 30 August 2021, Master of Logic defense, Nima Motamed

    Date & Time: Monday 30 August 2021, 17:00
    Title: Multivalued Coalgebraic Modal Logic for Multiagent Systems and Multiplayer Games
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Yde Venema
  • 27 August 2021, Master of Logic defense, Anna Dmitrieva

    Date & Time: Friday 27 August 2021, 10:00
    Title: Positive modal logic beyond distributivity: duality, preservation and completeness
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili
  • 26 August 2021, Master of Logic defense, Dominik Wehr

    Date & Time: Thursday 26 August 2021, 10:00
    Title: An Abstract Framework for the Analysis of Cyclic Derivations
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: dr. B. Afshari
  • 12 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, Matteo Michelini

    Date & Time: Monday 12 July 2021, 13:00
    Title: When Being the Fifth Wheel Pays Off: Wisdom of the Crowds with Costly Information
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Davide Grossi
  • 12 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, Leyla Kibar

    Date & Time: Monday 12 July 2021, 10:00
    Title: Iterative Goal-Based Voting
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Arianna Novaro
  • 9 July 2021, PhD defense, Taichi Uemura

    Date & Time: Friday 9 July 2021, 16:00
    Title: Abstract and Concrete Type Theories
    Location: Online
    Supervisor: Benno van den Berg, Thomas Streicher
    Promotor: Sonja Smets
    For more information, contact Taichi Uemura at .
  • 5 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, Jason Tsiaxiras

    Date & Time: Monday 5 July 2021, 13:00
    Title: Strategic Voting under Incomplete Information in Approval-Based Committee Elections
    Location: Online (closed Session)
    Supervisor: Ulle Endriss and Zoi Terzopoulou
  • 5 July 2021, Master of Logic defense, Simon Vonlanthen

    Date & Time: Monday 5 July 2021, 10:00
    Title: Natural Language and Logical Consequence - An Inferentialist Account
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Luca Incurvati
  • 29 June 2021, PhD Defense, Michael Schlichtkrull

    Date & Time: Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00
    Title: Incorporating Structure into Neural Models for Language Processing
    Location: Online
    Supervisor: Ivan Titov
    Promotor: Ivan Titov
    Copromotor: Willem Zuidema
    For more information, contact Michael Schlichtkrull at .
  • 29 June 2021, Master of Logic defense, Ezra Schoen

    Date & Time: Tuesday 29 June 2021, 10:00
    Title: Coalgebraic Logic and Relation Lifting
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Yde Venema
  • 18 June 2021, PhD Defense, Anthia Solaki

    Date & Time: Friday 18 June 2021, 14:00
    Title: Logical Models for Bounded Reasoners
    Location: online
    Supervisor: Sonja Smets, Francesco Berto
    Promotor: Sonja Smets
    Copromotor: Francesco Berto
    For more information, contact Anthia Solaki at .
  • 10 June 2021, Master of Logic defense, Jacopo Guzzon

    Date & Time: Thursday 10 June 2021, 15:00
    Title: Identity Criteria and Meta-Ontology
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Bahram Assadian
  • 9 June 2021, Master of Logic defense, Sebastian Køhlert

    Date & Time: Wednesday 9 June 2021, 13:00
    Title: Measuring What Exactly? A Critique of Causal Modeling in Atheoretical Econometrics
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: dr. F. Russo
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    2 June 2021, PhD Defense, Zoi Terzopoulou

    Date & Time: Wednesday 2 June 2021, 14:00
    Title: Collective Decisions with Incomplete Individual Opinions
    Location: online
    Supervisor: Ulle Endriss
    Promotor: Ulle Endriss
    Copromotor: Krzysztof Apt
    For more information, contact Zoi Terzopoulou at .
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    30 April 2021, PhD Defense, Cian Guilfoyle Chartier

    Date & Time: Friday 30 April 2021, 10:00
    Title: A Pragmatic Defense of Logical Pluralism
    Location: Online
    Promotor: Frank Veltman
    Copromotor: Sonja Smets

    The thesis characterises logic as a formal presentation of a guide to undertaking a rational practice, a guide which is itself constituted by epistemic norms and their consequences. There in general may be more than one "good" presentation, more than one "good" practice, and more than one way to conceive of the practice. This is a pragmatic conception of logical pluralism we call thoroughgoing logical pluralism. The thesis consists in a defence of thoroughgoing logical pluralism, and a case for how such a characterisation of logic is helpful in addressing problems in logical revision, semantic paradoxes, and the incommensurability of logical theories.

    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Dissertations/DS/#DS-2021-05 or contact Cian Guilfoyle Chartier at .
  • 29 April 2021, Master of Logic defense, Giovanni Varricchione

    Date & Time: Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00
    Title: Complexity of Locally Fair Allocations on Graphs
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Ronald de Haan
  • 16 April 2021, Master of Logic defense, Damiano Fornasiere

    Date & Time: Friday 16 April 2021, 13:00
    Title: Representable forests and diamond systems.
    Location: Online (closed session)
    Supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili
  • 13 April 2021, PhD Defense, Sophie Arnoult

    Date & Time: Tuesday 13 April 2021, 15:00
    Title: Adjunction in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Promotor: Khalil Sima'an
    Copromotor: Jelle Zuidema
  • 24 February 2021, Master of Logic defense, Wijnand van Woerkom

    Date & Time: Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00
    Title: Algebraic models of type theory
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Benno van den Berg
    Mentor: Ronald de Wolf
  • 18 February 2021, Master of Logic defense, Lukas Zenger

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 February 2021, 10:00
    Title: Proof theory for fragments of the modal mu-calculus
    Location: Online (Closed Session)
    Supervisor: Bahareh Afshari
  • 27 January 2021, PhD Defense, Elbert Booij

    Date & Time: Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:00
    Title: The Things Before Us: On What it Is to Be an Object
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Robert van Rooij
    Promotor: Robert van Rooij
    Copromotor: Franz Berto
  • 15 January 2021, PhD Defense, Yfke Dulek

    Date & Time: Friday 15 January 2021, 10:00
    Title: Delegated and Distributed Quantum Computation
    Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
    Supervisor: Chris Schaffner
    Promotor: Chris Schaffner and Harry Buhrman

Projects and Awards

  • Professorship for Christian Schaffner

    The ILLC is proud to announce that Christian Schaffner, who has been at the ILLC since 2011, has been appointed to the Chair in Theoretical Computer Science at our sister institute, the Institute for Informatics. Congratulations! Christian is taking up his professorship this month, and will continue to collaborate closely with researchers at the ILLC.

    For more information, contact Chris Schaffner at .
  • Dominik Wehr awarded second prize Young Talent KNVI/KIVI Thesis Award for Informatics and Information Science

    We are very pleased to announce that Dominik Wehr received the second prize in the Young Talent KNVI/KIVI Thesis Prize for Informatics and Information Science for his thesis 'An abstract Framework for the Analysis of Cyclic Deriviation'. Dominik will continue the line of his thesis research as a PhD candidate at the Logic Group of Gothenburg University, under the supervision of Graham Leigh and Bahareh Afshari.

    The event can be followed via a livestream on 29 November 2021 from 14:00 till 18:00.

  • Sc.D. (Cantab) awarded to Benedikt Löwe

    Benedikt Löwe was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) by the University of Cambridge. He was admitted to the degree at the Congregation of the Regent House on 22 October 2021 by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Michael Proctor, Provost of King's College. The Sc.D. is a Higher Doctorate awarded for an original contribution to the advancement of science by a substantial body of work in a distiguished career.

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    ILLC's SignLab shortlisted for Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award

    ILLC's SignLab is among the 3 finalists for the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award in the category Society! The finale will take place at NEMO on the 9th of November and will also be livestreamed. Registration is required to attend either the live event or the livestream.

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/finalists/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .
  • ILLC SignLab nominated for Innovation Award, vote now!

    Deadline: Sunday 10 October 2021

    ILLC's SignLab has been nominated for the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award 2021. You can vote now!

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/cases/florisroelofsen/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .
  • Rochelle Choenni receives Google PhD Fellowship award

    We are pleased to announce that Rochelle Choenni has received a Google PhD fellowship award in the category of Natural Language Processing.

    For more information, see https://research.google/outreach/phd-fellowship/recipients/ or contact Rochelle Choenni at .
  • Dora Achourioti awarded NWO Comenius Teaching Fellowship

    Dora Achourioti was recently announced as one of the recipients of a Comenius Teaching Fellowship for her project “Building a Learning Path using Minecraft”.
    The Comenius Teaching Fellowships are an initiative of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that looks to support professionals in higher education who want to implement innovative educational methods or techniques in their classrooms.
    Dora Achourioti's project uses Minecraft: Education Edition to creatively encourage student input and ownership of the learning process throughout the AUC 1st year mandatory course "Logic, Information, Argumentation".

  • Best paper award for Jan Rooduijn

    Jan Rooduijn won the award for the Best Paper by a Junior Researcher at the 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) for his contribution Cyclic hypersequent calculi for some modal logics with the master modality.

    For more information, see https://tableaux2021.org/#best or contact Jan Rooduijn at .
  • Ilaria Canavotto wins Beth dissertation prize

    We are pleased to announce that Ilaria Canavotto has won the Beth dissertation prize.

    Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation.

    For more information, see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74.
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    Rens Bod receives the Francqui medal and a medal from Ghent University

    Rens Bod has received two academic awards: the Francqui Medal and a medal from Ghent University. He is awarded the awards as holder of the International Francqui Chair, which he held at Ghent University from February to June 2021. The chair is intended for high-level researchers who are very active in their professional field.

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    Henkjan Honing receives KNAW Science Communication prize

    Henkjan Honing will receive the KNAW science communication prize at the end of April.

    The pilot fund ‘Science communication by scientists: Appreciated!’ supports scientists who are committed to science communication. The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science has made one million euros available for this purpose. This fund is administered by the Academy.

    Henkjan Honing discusses this prize and science communication in general in Fred's Vlog.

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    Vici grant for Floris Roelofsen

    The ILLC is very pleased to announce that Floris Roelofsen has been awarded an NWO Vici for his project entitled I can't hear you|could you repeat the question in sign language please?

    The language barrier between deaf and hearing people hinders smooth communication and leads to social inequality and exclusion. Roelofsen will investigate the form and interpretation of questions in sign languages, and apply the obtained insights to develop a machine translation system and training sessions for sign language interpreters.

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    Peter van Emde Boas elected Versen Honorary Fellow

    Peter van Emde Boas is elected Versen Honorary Fellow in recognition of his service to the field of Software Engineering in The Netherlands and abroad, as the eternal "outsider", who knows more about the field than the average PhD candidate, always well-prepared, always asking a pointed, completely out-of-the-box question, always on the edge of his seat, and remaining open-minded towards both the subject and the respective students and colleagues.

    For more information, see https://www.versen.nl or contact Peter van Emde Boas at .
  • Royal decoration for Jos Baeten

    ILLC Emeritus Professor Jos Baeten received a Royal Decoration from the mayor of Eindhoven, Jos' city of residence. Jos has been appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau; he received this honour for his many achievements in computer science.

    Jos is an internationally acclaimed researcher in Theoretical Computer Science, who is probably best known for his seminal work in the area of process algebra. He served from 2011-2020 as the director of CWI, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (and ILLC's neighbour in Science Park). After being a professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven for many years, Jos held a chair in Theory of Computing at ILLC from 2015 until his retirement in 2020.

    The ILLC proudly congratulates Jos with this newly acquired dignity and honour.

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    Benedikt Löwe elected as Archivist of the "Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg"

    At their annual meeting, traditionally held on Shrove Monday, the Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg elected Benedikt Löwe to be their Archivist and serve on the board for one year.

    The Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg was founded in 1690 (under the name of Kunstrechnungsliebende Societät) and is the oldest existing mathematical society in the world and the second oldest German scientific society (after the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina). It stands in the tradition of linking mathematics, computation, and the general mathematically literate public. Current activities are mathematical lectures for a general audience and engagement of mathematically talented secondary school students under the motto "Antiqua emendo substituoque nova".

    For more information, see http://www.mathges.hamburg/ or contact Benedikt Löwe at .
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    Two Marie Curie Fellowships awarded to ILLC

    We are pleased to announce that two Marie Curie Fellowships were awarded to the following researchers:
    - Balder ten Cate for the project entitled Logic and Learning: an Algebra and Finite-Model-Theory Approach,
    - Tobias Kappé for the project entitled Verification and Language Theory.

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    Best paper award at Coling 2020 for Bryan Eikema and Wilker Aziz

    Bryan Eikema and Wilker Aziz won the best paper award at Coling 2020 for their work on the inadequacy of the mode in neural machine translation. The paper is freely available on the ACL anthology and a link to Bryan's presentation will be there soon.

    For more information, see https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.coling-main.398/ or contact Bryan Eikema at .

Funding, Grants and Competitions

  • Aspasia funding for female speakers

    Over the past years you have received a couple of messages regarding the Aspasia fund for female speakers. This resulted in sponsoring a number of female speakers at seminars. We would like to draw your attention to it once again and stimulate you to come up with ideas for female speakers at seminars, or for guest lectures for students. This would enhance the exposure of students and staff to female role models.

    The Aspasia funding available for stimulating this initiative needs to be spent by the end of May 2022, so we would like to come up with a serious number of speakers fairly soon. If you have ideas on this, please send a short message to the Diversity Committee (cc to the seminar series organisers, if applicable) with a proposal.

    For more information, see here or contact ILLC Diversity Committee at .
  • Helmut Veith Stipend

    Deadline: Tuesday 30 November 2021

    The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend. The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. It is awarded annually to motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master's programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English.

    For more information, see http://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/ or contact .
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    Kees Schouhamer Immink Prijs

    Deadline: Monday 15 November 2021

    The Kees Schouhamer Immink Prijs is organised by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). The award of € 10,000.-- is given biannually for original research in the area of computer technology and telecommunication in the broad sense. The award is intended as encouragement for a research who did her or his PhD at a Dutch institution of Higher Education or research no more than four years ago. Nominations should be sent electronically to . More information on the webpage of the KHMW.

    For more information, see https://khmw.nl/kees-schouhamer-immink-prijs/ or contact KHMW at .
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    Nederlandse Prijs voor ICT-onderzoek

    Deadline: Monday 15 November 2021

    The Nederlandse Prijs voor ICT-onderzoek is awarded to a researcher, at most fifteen (active) years past her or his doctorate, who is known for innovative research or who is responsible for a scientific breakthrough in ICT. The award consists of the sum of € 50,000.--, an award certificate, and a sculpture. The award committee will also consider whether the candidate is able to present their research to the general public. Nominations can be electronically submitted to . More information can be found on the KHMW website.

    For more information, see https://khmw.nl/nederlandse_prijs_ict-onderzoek/ or contact KHMW at .
  • ERC Synergy Grant

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 November 2021

    The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale.

  • Bridging Grant for students in cognitive science with covid-related emergencies

    Deadline: Friday 15 October 2021

    The German Society for Cognitive Science (GK) would like to support students who find themselves in a difficult (emergency) situation caused by the Corona pandemic with a bridging grant.

    The grant consists a funding for maximum of three months á 500 € per month. The GK is able to offer six to eight grants. The grant is meant as financial support allowing to finish the respective degree (Bachelor or Master) or providing some financial relief during an important PhD thesis phase (e.g. finishing a paper).The selection will be done by the members of the steering committee of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK). The committee will consider all emergency cases as long as they have been caused by the Corona pandemic within the context of the studies and/or doctoral programme and are sufficiently substantiated with proof.

  • ERC Proof of Concept Grant

    Deadline: Thursday 14 October 2021

    The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to facilitate exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research. All Principal Investigators in one of the main grants are eligible to participate and apply for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant.

  • NWO Mosaic 2.0 - 2021

    Deadline: Tuesday 28 September 2021

    Mosaic 2.0 is a PhD scholarship program aimed at the under-represented group of graduates with a migration background from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Turkey in the Netherlands. The procedure consists of a pre-proposal and a full proposal. Mosaic 2.0 is a science-wide program; any research topic can be eligible. Candidates do not submit the application themselves; this is done by an intended supervisor.

    Closing date for pre-registration
    28 September 2021

    Closing date full application
    8 March 2022

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/calls/mosaic-20-2021 or contact .
  • Membership application for Working Groups in EuroProofNet (COST Action)

    EuroProofNet is a new COST action aiming at federating all the European researchers working on proofs in order to improve the interoperability of proof systems. There are currently 6 working groups (WG):
    - WG1: Proof systems interoperability.
    - WG2: Automated theorem provers.
    - WG3: Program verification.
    - WG4: Libraries of formal proofs.
    - WG5: Machine learning on proofs.
    - WG6: Type theory.

    A COST action can fund visits to other labs, and participation to summer schools, workshops and conferences. Anyone willing to contribute to the goals of the action is eligible. If you are interested, registration to EuroProofNet working groups is now open (it's possible to register to several working groups).

    For more information, see https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA20111/.
  • ERC Advanced Grant

    Deadline: Tuesday 31 August 2021

    Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.

  • NWO Data and Intelligence

    Deadline: Thursday 26 August 2021

    Within the KIC 2020-2023, budget will be made available for research on innovations for data and intelligence, in the context of the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) Security. Interdisciplinary consortia including research institutes and public and private organisations, can submit proposals with a total budget of at least 750,000 and at most 3,000,000 euros.

    The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is 22 April 2021, before 14:00 hours CEST.The deadline for submitting full proposals is 26 August 2021, before 14:00 hours CEST.

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    NWO Vici

    Deadline: Wednesday 25 August 2021

    NWO Vici is for senior researchers who have demonstrated an ability to develop their own line of research.

    The deadline for pre-registration is 25 March 2021.

  • Call for Nominations: Ackermann Award 2021

    Deadline: Thursday 1 July 2021

    The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. Nominations are now invited for the 2021 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 January 2019 and 31 December 2020 are eligible for nomination for the award. The 2021 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2022, the annual conference of the EACSL.

    The award consists of a certificate, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and financial support to attend the conference.

    For more information, see https://www.eacsl.org/?page_id=65 or contact Thomas Schwentick at .
  • PDI-SSH: 2021 Call Digital Infrastructure

    Deadline: Wednesday 30 June 2021

    There is a strong desire in the SSH field to assign part of the resources intended for the SSH Sector Plan of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to a domain wide digital SSH plan. For this purpose, the SSH Council – which represents the SSH field – initiated the Platform for Digital Infrastructure for SSH (PDI-SSH). The platform is responsible for allocating resources to digital infrastructure facilities within the SSH domain, for coordinating digital infrastructures in the SSH domain and for strategy within that domain.

    PDI-SSH launches this second Call for proposals as part of the SSH Sector Plan. Professors,university associate and assistant professors can submit an application as main or co-applicant if they are employed (i.e. have a paid position) at a social sciences or humanities faculty at universities in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Proposals should fit within (at least) one of the four PDI-SSH pillars: (1) Data collection, (2) Access to materials, (3) Data connectivity or (4) Expertise hub for data management and stewardship.

    For more information, see https://pdi-ssh.nl/en/2021/04/2021-call-digital-infrastructure/ or contact dr. Kasia Karpinska at .
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    Eureka Clusters AI Call 2021

    Deadline: Monday 28 June 2021

    Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly developing technology with the potential to influence or transform almost every aspect of the economy and society. In-depth knowledge and leadership in developing and applying this powerful capability is an essential requirement, if industry is to maintain its leadership in multiple application areas, or take advantage of new opportunities.

    This Eureka Clusters AI Call 2021 is specifically designed to stimulate activity in this important
    area, through the creation of trans-national collaborative projects in applications that will support economic growth and benefit society as a whole.

    For more information, see https://eureka-clusters-ai.eu/.
  • FGW RIS Fund 2021

    Deadline: Friday 4 June 2021

    The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund that aims at supporting staff with research time in their career development and expanding their opportunities to conduct research. Through the RIS Fund staff can apply for temporary teaching release in order to have more time to write grant applications, or to finish one or more (substantial, strategic) publications so as to strengthen their track record for an upcoming grant application.

  • Call for proposals High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) Fund 2021

    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    All UvA researchers are invited to submit proposals to the High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) Fund. The deadline is 31 May 2021.

    HPCN facilities are ICT infrastructure components designed to facilitate research and education and raise them to a higher level. The Faculty of Science administers a HPCN Fund designed to provide the UvA with HPCN facilities and the research community with broad access to relevant expertise.

  • NWO Veni

    Deadline: Thursday 20 May 2021

    NWO Talent Programme Veni is a grant for researchers who have recently obtained their PhD.

    The deadline for submitting the compulsory pre-proposal within SSH is 7 January 2021.The deadline for submitting the full proposal for all domains is 20 May 2021.

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    VCLA International Student Award 2021 in Logic and Computer Science

    Deadline: Friday 7 May 2021

    The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding bachelor and master theses in the field of Logic and Computer Science, whose degrees were conferred between November 15th, 2019 and December 31st, 2020 (inclusive). The awardees will receive cash prizes from the award fund of 2000 EUR and an invitation to present their theses in Vienna, if the situation allows. The main areas of interest are: Computational Logic, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Databases and Artificial Intelligence, Verification.

    For more information, see https://logic-cs.at/vcla-international-student-awards-2021/ or contact Alexandra Traxler at .
  • UvA 3MT® Competition for PhD students

    Deadline: Friday 7 May 2021

    UvA PhD students from the Amsterdam Law School, Economics & Business, Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science are invited to take part in the 2021 UvA ‘Three Minute Thesis’ Competition.

    Developed by The University of Queensland, the Three Minute Thesis competition or 3MT, is an annual competition held at over 900 universities across more than 85 countries worldwide. Participants are challenged to present their PhD research in just three minutes to a non-specialist audience. The 3MT is also a video competition: presentations are recorded on video and can be shared with others, even after the competition.

    UvA PhD students who have not defended their PhD dissertation before 16 September 2021 are eligible.

  • E W Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation. Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2020.

    In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited of excellent dissertations on topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, including current topics in philosophical and mathematical logic, computer science logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and scientific philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and foundational developments in information and computation, language, and cognition. Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research areas in their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited. Self-nominations are not possible.

    The deadline for the Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2022 has been extended to 30th of April 2022. Nomination link on Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bodp2022

    For more information, see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74 or contact Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh at .
  • ERC Consolidator Grant

    Deadline: Tuesday 20 April 2021

    Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence
    by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success
    career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can
    also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent
    research team and want to strengthen it.

  • ERC Starting Grant

    Deadline: Thursday 8 April 2021

    Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could be for you.

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    Amsterdam Science Innovation Award 2021

    Deadline: Monday 5 April 2021

    Do you have an innovative idea and would you like to develop it further?
    The Innovation Award is the Amsterdam competition for research based
    innovative ideas that contribute to a better world.

    Sign up your idea and have a chance to win € 10.000!

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/innovation-award-2021/.
  • Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing & Philosophy

    Deadline: Monday 5 April 2021

    The executive board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy seeks nominations for the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award. The Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career who are likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy by their original research.

    In lieu of travel and lodging expenses to CEPE/IACAP Hamburg-2021, which is fully online this year, IACAP will provide a modest honorarium and award plaque to the recipient. Please send your nomination(s) to Steve McKinlay by April 5th for full consideration. Nominations must include current affiliation, if any, and either a copy of, or a link to, the nominee's Curriculum Vitae. Please also include a brief paragraph explaining the nominee's research agenda and the potential contribution their research is likely to make to the field of computing and philosophy, broadly conceived.

    For more information, see https://www.iacap.org/awards/ or contact Steve McKinlay at .
  • Call for Nominations: IACAP Covey Award 2021 for innovative research in computing and philosophy

    Deadline: Monday 22 March 2021

    The Executive Board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy seeks nominations for the 2021 Covey Award. The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived.

    In lieu of travel and lodging expenses to CEPE/IACAP Hamburg-2021, which is fully online this year, IACAP will provide a modest honorarium and award plaque to the recipient.

    Please send your nomination(s) to Steve McKinlay. Nominations must include current affiliation, if any, and either a copy of, or a link to, the nominee's Curriculum Vitae. A brief explanatory paragraph in favor of the nomination would also be most helpful.

    For more information, see http://www.iacap.org/awards/ or contact Steve McKinlay at .
  • NWO Demand-Driven Partnerships for Consortia

    Deadline: Tuesday 16 March 2021

    Within Demand-Driven Partnerships for Consortia NWO provides an opportunity for new or existing consortia to organise, develop and grow to a size from which societal (including economic) impact may be expected. The development of a coherent project proposal requires close cooperation within the consortium and the central knowledge and development question fits within one or more Knowledge and Innovation Agendas (KIAs).

  • Call for Nominations: 2021 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic & Computation

    Deadline: Monday 1 March 2021

    An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015. 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 2021 award are now being solicited. The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2021 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1996. 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. While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Self- nominations are excluded. The 2021 award will be presented at the ACM SIGLOG/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2021, which is scheduled to take place in Rome in June/ July 2021.

  • Humane AI Seed Funding – Call 2021

    Deadline: Monday 1 March 2021

    For over three decades, the University of Amsterdam has featured world-class research and education programmes on Artificial Intelligence (AI). To create a distinct societal take on AI, the UvA launched a new Research Priority Area, Human(e) AI, which aims to synthesise ongoing work and stimulate new research on the societal, ethical and legal implications of AI. More information can be found here.

    An important part of the RPA Human(e) AI is a ‘seed grant’ program. This program is aimed at fostering collaboration to investigate the societal implications of AI. The program offers faculties at the UvA the opportunity to conduct collaborative, interdisciplinary research. The grants are typically carried out in interdisciplinary teams. In addition to the research, the grant can be used as a seed grant for preparing an AI-related grant application.

    For more information, see https://humane-ai.nl/humane-ai-seed-funding-call-2021/ or contact Saskia Plandsoen at .
  • Call for Nominations: 2021 Goedel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and  the Association for  Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT).
    The award is presented annually and includes an award of USD 5000.
    The Prize is named in honor of Kurt Gödel in recognition of his major contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von Neumann’s death, in what has become the famous "P versus NP" question.

    Any research paper or series of papers  by a single author or by a team of authors is deemed eligible if:
    - The main results were not published (in either preliminary or final form) in a journal or  conference proceedings before January 1st, 2008.
    - The paper was published in a recognized refereed journal no later than December 31, 2020.
    The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of theoretical computer science.
    Nominations are encouraged from the broadest spectrum of the theoretical computer science community so as to ensure that potential award winning papers are not overlooked.

    For more information, see https://sigact.org/prizes/gödel.html.
  • Call for proposals HPC in a cloud 2020

    Deadline: Sunday 31 January 2021

    All UvA researchers are invited to submit proposals to the HPCN Fund. Proposals may be submitted between 1 January 2021 and 31 January 2021. Responses to proposals will be given shortly after closure.

  • Netherlands L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Rising Talent Prizes 2021

    Deadline: Wednesday 20 January 2021

     

    The For Women in Science Rising Talent Prizes are a recent addition to the national For Women in Science programme, which was founded in 2012 as part of the international partnership between L’Oréal and Unesco - For Women in Science (FWIS).

    The aim of the Netherlands L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Rising Talent Prizes is to advance the academic careers of young women researchers in the Netherlands holding a position as PhD candidate or postdoctoral fellow, with a maximum of three years post-PhD academic experience.

  • NWO Key Technologies

    Deadline: Tuesday 19 January 2021

    Within the KIC 2020-2023, budget will be made available for research, in the context of the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) Key Technologies.

  • 2021 IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science

    Deadline: Friday 15 January 2021

    The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST) invites submissions for the 2021 IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science. This biennial prize competition seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science and related areas.

    Entries in the form of an essay of 5,000-10,000 words in English are invited, addressing this year's prize question: "What can history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine contribute to our current global challenges?" What constitutes a current global challenge is left to the judgment of the authors, but examples include the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, socioeconomic inequality, racism, the refugee crisis, and science denialism.Entries are invited from anyone, without restriction of age, nationality or academic status. All entries should consist of original work that has not previously been published.  Co-authored work will be considered; if the winning entry is a co-authored work the cash prize will be shared out among the authors.

Open Positions at ILLC

  • Student-assistent voor het ontwikkelen van online luisterspel (6 mnd; 8 uur p/w)

    Deadline: Wednesday 22 December 2021

    Ben je student en op zoek naar een interessante bijbaan binnen de universiteit? De muziekcognitiegroep (MCG) is op zoek naar een student-assistent voor een wetenschapscommunicatieproject waarin een kennis- en luisterspel wordt ontwikkeld.

    For more information, see https://www.mcg.uva.nl/index.html?vacancies/SA.html&target or contact Prof. Henkjan Honing at .
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Sign Language Linguistics

    Deadline: Thursday 2 December 2021

    Do you have a PhD in Sign Language Linguistics? Do you have good knowledge of Sign Language of the Netherlands? Are you well-versed in experimental methods in linguistic research as well as formal semantic modeling? We are seeking a Postdoctoral researcher to investigate the syntax and semantics of questions in Sign Language of the Netherlands through a number of production and comprehension studies.

  • Assistant Professor in Model-Based AI

    Deadline: Monday 22 November 2021

    We are looking for a specialist in an area of model-based AI such as, for example, SAT solving, constraint programming, planning and scheduling, answer set programming, description logics, ontology engineering, or computer-aided verification. We hope that you will be able to connect with the long and proud research tradition in logic at the ILLC, while also reaching out to the broader AI research community in Amsterdam.

    For more information, see here or at https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assistant-Professor-in-Model-Based-AI/735674202/ or contact Prof dr. Ulle Endriss at .
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Unravelling our Capacity for Music

    Deadline: Monday 1 November 2021
    Are you looking for a postdoctoral position where you can combine insights from music cognition with psychometrics and cognitive science? If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us.
  • PhD Researcher Unravelling our Capacity for Music

    Deadline: Monday 1 November 2021
    Are you looking for a PhD position where you can combine insights from music cognition, cognitive behavioural ecology, and cognitive science? If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us.
  • PhD Position in Computational Linguistics / NLP

    Deadline: Thursday 14 October 2021

    We are looking for a PhD candidate with knowledge of Natural Language Processing to join the Dialogue Modelling Group led by Raquel Fernández at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam (UvA). These are some of the topics we work on: computational semantics and pragmatics, computational psycholinguistics, visually grounded language, language generation, language learning from interaction, and conversational agents. If you are passionate about any of these research areas and have an interest in theoretically motivated research or in developing AI systems that are useful for society, we would be happy to have you on board.

  • Assistant Professor in Experimental Methods for AI in Logic and Language

    Deadline: Thursday 16 September 2021

    Do you combine a knowledge of natural language semantics with that of experimental methods and their statistical analysis? Are you an expert in the use of causality and/or bias in Artificial Intelligence?  Do you have a track record of publishing in leading journals in Logic, language and/or Artificial Intelligence? Are you an inspiring teacher who is competent to teach a wide variety of courses in the areas of logic and natural language analysis, as well as Human(e) AI? Do you have an excellent command of both English and Dutch?

    If so, we hope you will apply for our vacancy for an assistant professor in the area of Logic and Language with a focus on experimental methods in Artificial Intelligence. This position has a significant teaching component (research:teaching ratio is 50:50)

  • Postdoc in Logic and Language, with Teaching Component

    Deadline: Sunday 15 August 2021

    Are you an expert in philosophical Logic, and familiar with formal and/or probabilistic approaches to meaning? Do you have a track record of publishing in leading journals in Logic and language? Are you an inspiring teacher who is competent to teach in the area Philosophy of AI? If so, we hope you will apply for our vacancy for a four-year postdoctoral researcher in the area of Logic and Language. This position also has a significant teaching component (research:teaching ratio is 70:30).

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics of Quantum Algorithms

    Deadline: Sunday 8 August 2021

    Are you an ambitious researcher with a PhD degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Physics, strong mathematical background, and expertise in quantum computing and quantum algorithms?

    QuSoft is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for developing and analyzing new quantum algorithms. This position is part of Maris Ozols VIDI project “Mathematics of Quantum Algorithms”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The goal of this project is to develop quantum algorithms for algebraic problems, as well as for problems where both the input and output are quantum states as opposed to classical bit strings. More specifically, we will focus on designing new quantum transforms and subroutines. We will look for new ways to attack algebraic problems using ideas from Hadamard matrix theory, and use tools from representation theory to extend the quantum Schur transform and apply it to problems with permutational and/or unitary symmetries. You will also have an opportunity to collaborate with other members of QuSoft.

  • PhD in Logic, Language and Computation

    Deadline: Sunday 13 June 2021

    Are you interested in interdisciplinary research and would you like to work in an interdisciplinary research institute? The ILLC is looking for an excellent PhD candidate who is interested in conducting research in an area within the ILLC that fits naturally in the Faculty of Science.

    What are you going to do

    You are expected:

    to complete and defend a PhD thesis within the official appointment duration of four years; to give regular presentations of intermediate research results at international workshops and conferences, and publish them in proceedings and journals; to collaborate with researchers in other relevant sections of ILLC; to participate in the organization of research activities and events at ILLC, such as conferences, workshops and joint publications.

  • PhD in Proof Systems for Modal Fixpoint Logics

    Deadline: Monday 7 June 2021

    Do you have the technical skills and the scientific interest to conduct cutting-edge research in logic? We are looking for a PhD candidate for a research project Derivation Systems for Modal Fixpoint Logics.

    Many applications of modal logic, in particular in computer science, require the formalism to deal with various kinds of recursion. Modal fixpoint logics are extensions of basic modal logic that deal with the concept of recursion in an elegant and fundamental way by adding operators or connectives that can express recursive statements. Whereas semantic and computational aspects of these logics are by now reasonably well understood, the theory of proof systems for modal fixpoint logics has remained relatively underdeveloped.

    The aim of the Derivation Systems for Modal Fixpoint Logics project is to develop a general and uniform theory of proof systems for modal fixpoint logics. Such a theory will extend that of basic modal logics with proof systems that allow for derivations that are circular or feature other mechanisms for dealing with the recursive nature of fixpoints. The envisaged methodology for designing and studying such proof systems will integrate insights from proof theory with ideas from the theories of automata, infinite games, and (co-)algebra.

  • PhD in Computational Models of Human Language Processing

    Deadline: Monday 7 June 2021

    The PhD position is part of the NWO-Gravitation research project Language In Interaction, with additional funding provided by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.

  • Tenure Track Assistant professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence

    Deadline: Sunday 6 June 2021

    The field of Artificial Intelligence is blossoming, with many technical advances in natural language processing, music processing, automated reasoning and other fields, often based on big data and machine learning. Increasingly, these techniques are also finding their way to applications used by companies, institutions and citizens, and hence they are having a direct impact on society. With increased power and frequent usage comes extra responsibility: are technical advances sufficiently informed by real needs in society? Are they accompanied by safeguards regarding malicious use? Are they offering the transparency needed to inform stakeholders about decisions based on these systems?

    We are looking for an ambitious researcher, deeply familiar with the technical details of current AI systems but also seriously committed to improving their responsible use, for instance by improving transparency and explainability and/or by addressing undesirable biases and irresponsible use. You will work together with the strong group of Artificial Intelligence researchers at the ILLC, and more broadly at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), including through the University’s Research Priority Area Human(e) AI.

  • Vacature Instituutsmanager

    Deadline: Friday 4 June 2021

    Ben je op zoek naar een afwisselende en verantwoordelijke functie in een dynamische en internationale werkomgeving? Ben je procesmatig sterk en heb jij ervaring met financieel management en acquisitie en beheer van (wetenschappelijke) onderzoeksprojecten? Heb jij affiniteit met personele aangelegenheden? Sta je stevig in je schoenen en heb je goed ontwikkelde communicatieve vaardigheden? Voor het interfacultaire Institute for Logic, Language and Computation zoeken wij een instituutsmanager.

    Wat ga je doen

    Het betreft een brede functie waarin je de wetenschappelijk directeur adviseert en proactief meedenkt bij het strategisch en operationeel instituutsbeleid. Je maakt een vertaalslag van beleid naar uitvoering en draagt zorg voor een efficiënte en effectieve organisatie van de bedrijfsvoering binnen het instituut op o.a. financieel, personeel en facilitair gebied. De instituutsmanager is tevens lid van het managementteam en de rechterhand van de directeur en vormt daarmee een spil van het instituut.

  • Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Language and Cognition

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021
    The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities is looking for an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Language and Cognition. You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. You have a proven track record of teaching in theoretical philosophy in particular in philosophy of cognition, philosophy of language and logic. You have demonstrable experience with teaching at both BA and MA level, including teaching to diverse student groups from different disciplines.
  • Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    The University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy are seeking to hire an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science.

  • Assistant Professor Computational Humanities

    Deadline: Sunday 9 May 2021

    The field of Computational Humanities (CH) is blossoming, with progress being made in all humanities and social science disciplines. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital data and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the humanities are rapidly transforming. On the one hand, computational approaches are being applied to both long-standing as well as novel questions in the humanities; on the other hand, CH contributions are finding their way to society at large. Areas of interest include understanding human activities on social and online media, including (fake) news and other information flows; explainable and interpretable AI; digital archiving; fairness, accountability and transparency in online communication and other societal processes. The focus of this position will be on Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications related to CH, with a methodological scope spanning text mining, information retrieval and machine learning.

  • Assistant Professor in New Media & Information

    Deadline: Sunday 9 May 2021

    The Department of Media Studies is looking for an Assistant Professor in New Media & Information.

    You are an active researcher and have a strong research expertise in the use of computational and digital methods for Media Studies, focusing on social media and digital culture including e.g. the spread of (mis)information and social media manipulation/influence. Your research will be part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), which together with the different research schools of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research represents UvA’s research in the Humanities. The position will be embedded within the Department of Media Studies.

  • PhD in natural language processing: modelling implicit bias and stereotype

    Deadline: Tuesday 20 April 2021

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) has a PhD position in natural language processing: modelling implicit bias and stereotype.

    The PhD position is part of Robert van Rooij’s research project From Learning to Meaning: A new approach to generic sentences and implicit biases, which is funded by NWO, and also involves a postdoctoral position. This PhD position will be jointly supervised by Robert van Rooij and Ekaterina Shutova.

    The project overall: generic sentences ('Birds fly’, ‘Sharks are dangerous’) are omnipresent in language and express characterising properties of groups and individual objects. As they communicate (stereo)typical (‘Lawyers are greedy’) and normative (‘Winners never quit’) information, these sentences give voice to and transmit socially prejudiced generalisations and thus can have a high societal impact. Despite their importance, no uniform and empirically adequate account of their meaning yet exists. The goal of the whole project is to develop such an account, by linking their meaning to how we learn to associate characteristic properties of groups or individuals. This is an interdisciplinary project, which is a collaboration between researchers in semantics, natural language processing (NLP) and experimental psychology.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Computational Modelling of Abductive Reasoning for Natural Language

    Deadline: Monday 5 April 2021

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) has a postdoctoral position in Computational Modelling of Abductive Reasoning for Natural Language.

    This postdoctoral position is part of the NWO Open Competition project 'A Sentence Uttered Makes a World Appear---Natural Language Interpretation as Abductive Model Generation'. The successful applicant will join the group of Reinhard Muskens. The aim of the project is to explore how semantic values are assigned to natural language expressions in a compositional way and how the resulting values, represented as logical expressions, are subsequently enriched by means of abductive reasoning. The latter is studied in a tableaux setting.

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Abductive Inference for Natural Language Interpretation

    Deadline: Monday 5 April 2021

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) has a postdoctoral position in Abductive Inference for Natural Language Interpretation.

    This postdoctoral position is part of the NWO Open Competition project 'A Sentence Uttered Makes a World Appear---Natural Language Interpretation as Abductive Model Generation'. The successful applicant will join the group of Reinhard Muskens. The aim of the project is to explore how semantic values are assigned to natural language expressions in a compositional way and how the resulting values, represented as logical expressions, are subsequently enriched by means of abductive reasoning. The latter is studied in a tableaux setting.

  • PhD position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 March 2021

    The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for a PhD position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), tenable from 1 September 2021.

    What are you going to do?

    Tasks will include:

    completion and defence of a PhD thesis within the contract period; regular presentation of intermediate research results at workshops and conferences; publication of results in journals and/or conference proceedings; participation in the Faculty of Humanities PhD training programme / the soft skills courses offered by the ILLC PhD Programme;; participation in the organisation of research activities and events at ILLC, such as conferences, workshops and joint publications; teaching courses at BA-level and/or teaching assistant in Master courses in the 2nd and 3rd year of the contract (0,2 FTE per year).

  • PhD position in Natural Language Processing

    Deadline: Monday 15 March 2021

    Are you looking for a PhD position where you can combine insights from machine learning and cognitive science? Are you interested in improving and better understanding artificial intelligence systems for natural language processing? If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC).

  • Postdoctoral researchers in University Research Priority Area Humane AI

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    The University of Amsterdam’s interdisciplinary Research Priority Area Humane AI is looking for 3 postdoctoral researchers in the areas of law, social sciences and humanities. The overarching goal of these positions is to develop insights and principles for responsible and human-centric AI from a Social Science-Humanities (SSH) perspective: How can SSH research contribute to responsible AI, e.g. in sectors like media, culture/language or justice; what are the contextual socio-economic circumstances that need to be fulfilled for really responsible AI?; what is irresponsible AI? What is the role of human behaviour, law and ethics in creating the framework conditions for responsible AI?

  • PhD position in Culturally and Socially Responsible AI

    Deadline: Friday 29 January 2021

    At the University of Amsterdam, the Research Priority AreaHuman(e) AI synthesises ongoing work and stimulates new research on the societal consequences of the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) in a wide variety of societal areas. These include news aggregation, cultural heritage, surveillance, and automated justice and cover fundamental research questions in history, sociology, law, ethics, communication, economics, medicine and psychology. The goal of the RPA is to enable Humane AI: AI and digital technologies contributing to new forms of knowledge production, understanding new forms of agency and intersubjectivity, enhancing cultural and socio-economic equality, improving fairness and respect for fundamental rights in decision-making both in the public and commercial sector, and realizing opportunities for digital citizenship.

  • Assistant professor Theoretical Computer Science

    Deadline: Wednesday 6 January 2021

    Do you have the ambition to carry out top academic research in Theoretical Computer Science at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation? Are you interested to work in our thriving interdisciplinary environment where you can establish connections to research lines in neighboring disciplines? Do you have the drive to teach theoretical computer science in our bachelor/master programmes?

    We offer a position as assistant professor in Theoretical Computer Science at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Amsterdam. The area of theoretical computer science comprises a broad variety of topics or subfields, including (but not restricted to) algorithms and computational complexity, program semantics and verification, logic and computation, machine models and automata, information theory, machine learning, and the foundations of artificial intelligence. You are a leading researcher in one of these areas, with a good knowledge of the wider area of theoretical computer science, and experienced in academic teaching.

Open Positions, General

  • Twenty PhD student positions in Logics for CS, Vienna (Austria)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 December 2021

    The novel interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral training programme "LogiCS@TUWien - Logics for Computer Science", co-funded by the European Commission, will offer 20 full-time PhD positions. The program is hosted by TU Wien, one of the most successful technical universities in Europe and the largest one in Austria. The doctoral positions are open to international high-potential early-stage researchers, working on Logical Methods in Computer Science and their applications, including: Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Verification, Algorithms, Security, and Cyber-Physical Systems.

    The programme provides a 4-year long doctoral training for international PhD candidates within an English-language curriculum. LogiCS@TUWien will run for 60 months and foresees the recruitment of 20 PhD candidates. The PhD candidates will be supervised by Ezio Bartocci, Pavol Cerny. Agata Ciabattoni. Thomas Eiter, Robert Ganian, Laura Kovács, Matteo Maffei, Magdalena Ortiz, Stefan Szeider, Georg Weissenbacher, Stefan Woltran and Florian Zuleger.

    For more information, see http://www.vcla.at/msca or contact .
  • Postdoctoral position on reasoning about interfacing & communication (2y), London (England)

    Deadline: Sunday 19 December 2021

    We are advertising an approximately two-year position for a postdoctoral researcher based in London on the IRIS project (interfacereasoning.com) at Queen Mary.

    IRIS is an EPSRC programme grant led by UCL and with academic partners Imperial and LSE as well as Queen Mary, and whose industrial partners are Amazon AWS, BT, Facebook, GridPP, HP Labs, and Methods Group.

    This position is at the theoretical end of the project. If appointed your role on the project would be to work on the logical and mathematical framework of the techniques being used. The job would suit someone well-versed in logic and possibly category theory.

    For more information, see https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=5719 or contact Prof Edmund Robinson at .
  • Visiting and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh PA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Sunday 12 December 2021

    The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for Fellowship supported visits in the Center for a term or an academic year during the academic year 2022 - 2023. We particularly welcome submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy of science. We also would like to remind you that instead of being limited to two semesters during your entire career, Visiting Fellows can now visit the Center for at most two semesters every ten years.

    The Center has invited Eleanor Knox to be the Senior Visiting Fellow for the academic year September 2022 - April 2023. We encourage applications for Visiting Fellowships from scholars whose research intersects with Professor Knox.

    For more information, see https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/ or contact Kathleen Labuda at .
  • PhD student position in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

    Deadline: Friday 10 December 2021

    The Individual and Collective Reasoning Group (ICR, Department of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg), led by Prof. Leon van der Torre, is looking for a 1 PhD student (doctoral candidate) in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning within the DigitaLisation, Law, And Innovation (DILLAN) training program. We are looking for someone with a special interest or background in one or several of the following areas:
    - Knowledge representation and reasoning with applications to law
    - Applied formal argumentation
    - Explainable AI for trustworthy systems
    - Experimental studies on explanation in legal reasoning- Integration of non-symbolic and symbolic techniques

    Starting date, January/February 2022 (somewhat flexible), Basic duration: 3 years, extendable by 1 year. Reference: UOL03643.

  • PhD student grant in argumentation and rhetoric, Warsaw (Poland)

    Deadline: Friday 10 December 2021

     The Laboratory of The New Ethos is looking for a PhD student in the project '[AMoRe] An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach'. AMoRe will run for 48 months and will be led by a Swiss-Polish team.The goal of AMoRe is to elaborate an argumentative model of rephrase, a discursive phenomenon in which the speaker presents a contribution as compatible with an original statement, while altering its wording and meaning for rhetorical gain by increasing the emotional load of the message, clarifying or summarising the content of the message, or establishing their own ethos along the dimensions of expertise or eloquence, for instance. To that end, we will capture illocutionary intentions of rephrasing in argumentation and their persuasive effects on the audience.

    The New Ethos lab is looking for a candidate who has excellent analytical skills (such as an experience in discourse and argument analysis) along with the understanding of the basics of relevant disciplines (such as argumentation theory, rhetoric, pragmatics, and philosophy of language with a special focus on speech act theory) and is interested in studying natural communication.

    For more information, see here or at https://newethos.org/projects/ or contact .
  • Postdoctoral position in database theory & knowledge representation, Warsaw (Poland)

    Deadline: Friday 3 December 2021

    The University of Warsaw is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position in database theory and knowledge representation. The position is for 36 months, starting on March 1, 2022 at the earliest. The funding is provided by a 5-year grant from Poland's National Science Center on the project "Infinity in reasoning about data and knowledge".

    For more information, see https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/702294 or contact Filip Murlak at .
  • Full Professorship in Formal Methods, Linz (Austria)

    Deadline: Wednesday 1 December 2021

    The Johannes Kepler University has an opening for a full professorship in Formal Methods. The successful candidate is expected to represent and further develop the field of Formal Methods in research and teaching of computer science. Applicants for the position must have a venia docendi (habilitation degree) or a comparable post-doctorate qualification in the academic field

  • Three PhD positions in Logic, Proof Theory and Coalgebra (Groningen)

    Deadline: Tuesday 30 November 2021

    We invite excellent PhD candidates to join us at the Fundamental Computing group, Bernoulli Institute for Maths, CS and AI, University of Groningen.

    Three fully-funded 4-year PhD positions in logic, proof theory, and coalgebra are available supervised by Revantha Ramanayake and/or Helle Hvid Hansen.

    For more information, see here or contact Helle Hvid Hansen at , or Revantha Ramanayake at .
  • Assistant/Associate Professorship in Logic or Philosophy of Science, Irvine CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Tuesday 30 November 2021

    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 or Associate Professor. AOS/AOC in alphabetical order: Formal Epistemology; Game and Decision Theory; History of Logic, or of Mathematics, or of Philosophy of Science; Logic, including Philosophical Logic and Computability Theory; Philosophy of Science. The department also prefers scholars who can make a strong contribution to teaching courses in the MA program in Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics and especially encourages applicants from underrepresented groups in philosophy to apply.

    For more information, see https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07104.
  • Glasstone Fellowship in Computer Science (3y), Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Monday 29 November 2021

    The Department of Computer Science is pleased to invite applications for the Glasstone Fellowship in Computer Science. This prestigious post, is a three-year postdoctoral fellowship and is supported by the Glasstone Bequest, which was set up to encourage scientists at an early stage of their career to follow their research interests at Oxford, one of the world?s leading science universities. Preference will be given to candidates who are at an early stage in their research career and who have not already held an independent fellowship. Candidates should be completing or have recently (i.e. normally within the past 3 years) completed a doctorate in Computer Science or a closely related discipline.

    For more information, see https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1984-full.html.
  • Postdoc positions in combinatorial optimization

    Deadline: Sunday 28 November 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for postdoc positions in combinatorial optimization.

    We are looking for outstanding junior researchers with an innovative mind-set and intellectual curiosity to strengthen and complement the research profile of the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordstrom, which is active at both the University of Copenhagen and Lund University on either side of the Oresund Bridge. The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory. While the focus in on foundational research, we do have a track record of surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

    For more information, see http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/Postdoc-UCPH-211128.html or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • PhD positions in theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization in Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 November 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.

    The PhD students will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordstrom, which is active at both the University of Copenhagen and Lund University on either side of the Oresund Bridge. The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. We currently have openings for both theoretically and practically inclined PhD students. There is a lot of flexibility as to what kind of research the PhD students will pursue, and all candidates are welcome, both those who want to go deep into either theory or practice and those who are inspired by the challenge of bridging the gap between the two.

    These positions are available for period of 3-5 years, depending on the current education level of the applicant. All PhD positions in the research group are fully funded, employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally competitive salary. The starting date is negotiable but should ideally be in mid-spring 2022.

    For more information, see http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/PhD-UCPH-211128.html or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Postdoctoral position in computational complexity, London (England)

    Deadline: Friday 26 November 2021

    A postdoctoral research position is available at Birkbeck, University of London. The successful candidate will be hosted by Hubie Chen and will work on the computational complexity of database query evaluation and related topics. The position, which is funded by a grant from UK's EPSRC, is offered for 1 year, with the possibility of a 1-year extension. The starting date is flexible.

     

  • University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Universiteit Leiden

    The Institute of Philosophy is seeking further to strengthen its research and teaching activities in theoretical philosophy, which includes logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language, science, and mind. We are especially seeking to strengthen our research capacity in philosophical logic and/or philosophy of artificial intelligence. The Leiden theoretical philosophy group is a research-intensive, internationally oriented, and collegial unit with good links to other units in the university.
  • Master in Pure and Applied Logic, Barcelona (Spain)

    The 2022--2024 edition of the two-year Master in Pure and Applied Logic jointly organized by the University of Barcelona (UB) and Polytechnical University of Catalunya (UPC) will soon open for pre-registration. Students are welcome to express their interest by sending their background, motivation, and CV. The Master in Pure and Applied Logic caters in the most central aspects of advanced logic, including Computability Theory, Model Theory, Non-Classical Logics, Proof Theory and Set Theory.

    For more information, see http://www.ub.edu/masterlogic/ or contact .
  • Postdoctoral position in higher-order complexity theory, Victoria BC (Canada)

    Deadline: Saturday 20 November 2021

    Bruce Kapron invites applications for a Postdoctoral Position in the Computer Science Department at the University of Victoria. Applicants with a background or interest in higher-order complexity theory, including models and techniques related to theory of programming languages, feasible analysis, bounded arithmetic, cryptography, and ordinary complexity theory are encouraged. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or be close to completion, in CS, Mathematics, Logic or a related field, with a strong publication record.

    Successful applicants will be funded in part by the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Applicants who are French, or have completed their Ph.D. at an institution in France, are eligible to be funded as a CNRS/PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, and are particularly encouraged.

    For more information, see https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/18864.
  • Postdoc in Game and Decision Theory for AI, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

    Deadline: Saturday 20 November 2021

    The Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Fellow in a new lab being set up by Prof. Vincent Conitzer. Research for this position (and in this lab) focuses on rethinking the foundations of game theory and decision theory for advanced AI agents. A key goal is to enable such agents to achieve desirable cooperative outcomes in non-zero-sum strategic interactions.

    The ideal candidate has a strong background in fields including game theory, formal epistemology, AI and multiagent systems, and theory broadly construed. (It is not required to have a background in every one of these fields.)

    For more information, see https://apply.interfolio.com/98450.
  • Assistant Professorship in Artificial Intelligence, Heerlen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Friday 19 November 2021

    A vacancy for Assistant Professor Artificial Intelligence is available at Open Universiteit in Heerlen.

    Candidates must meet the following criteria:

    • (extensive) (international) research experience in one of the areas of artificial intelligence;
    • proven experience in raising external funds;
    • affinity with artificial intelligence education (and possibly computer science education)
    • good interpersonal and communication skills and a team-player;
    • in possession of the Basic qualification for academic teaching (BKO) from a Dutch university, an equivalent teaching qualification, or a willingness to obtain it;
    • a command of the Dutch language or willingness to learn it.
  • Lecturer position in Theoretical Computer Science (Logic and Algorithms), Sheffield (UK)

    Deadline: Tuesday 16 November 2021

    As part of an ambitious plan for growth, the Department of Computer Science of The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in the broad field of Theoretical Computer Science, including the design and analysis of algorithms, the logical and semantic foundations of programming and hardware/software verification. Researchers in the area of computational complexity, where the interests of the Algorithms and Verification groups in the Department overlap, are particularly encouraged to apply.

  • Executive Directorship of the PSA

    Location: Cincinnati OH, U.S.A.
    Deadline: Monday 15 November 2021

    The University of Cincinnati (UC) seeks to fill a full-time staff position to serve as Executive Director of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) and Program Director for the UC Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS). We invite applications from candidates with an interest in nonprofit leadership in the academic sector. Approximately 75% FTE is dedicated to serving as Executive Director (ED) of the PSA. The ED is the executive leader of the PSA, responsible for overseeing the organization's administration, programs, and activities. The ED works closely with the President, Governing Board, and PSA committees to develop and implement initiatives that further the mission of the organization, such as public outreach, expanding and diversifying the membership, and fundraising. The remaining 25% FTE is dedicated to serving as Program Director of PEWS. The Program Director serves on the PEWS leadership team, managing organizational matters, budget and fundraising, website, and communications.

  • Postdoctoral position (3y) and PhD student position in symbolic algorithms, Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Sunday 14 November 2021

    Symbolic algorithms are algorithms where the input data is represented implicitly. Such algorithms are particularly relevant in contexts where the data to be processed is too large to be specified in an explicit form. The Algorithms Group at the University of Bergen (Norway) has currently two open positions in the field of symbolic algorithms. These positions are financed by the project "Symbolic Algorithms: A Parameterized Approach", a 12 Million NOK research project funded by the Research Council of Norway under the Ground Breaking Research framework.

    Postdoc Position - 3-year position with an initial salary of 535,500 NOK per year (approx 52,500 EUR per year) before taxes. Ph.D. Position - 3-year position, with the possibility of a fourth year, if teaching is involved. Initial salary: 491,200 NOK per year (approx 48,000 EUR per year) before taxes. Applicants for the Ph.D. student position should have a master's degree (or obtain a master's degree before 31/01/2022) and a strong background in a related subfield of theoretical computer science. Applicants for the Postdoc position should have in addition, a Ph.D. degree (or obtain a Ph.D. degree before 31/01/2022) and a strong publication record in some related subfield of theoretical computer science.

  • PhD student position in knowledge graphs & description logics, Ulm (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 11 November 2021

    We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral student to work in the area of knowledge graphs, ontologies, description logics, and automated reasoning at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Ulm University, in the context of the 2LIKE project "Artificial Intelligence for Individualized Learning Paths and Processes".

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    Post-doc position in "Logico-philosophical foundations of geometry and topology", Toruń (Poland)

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 November 2021

    Dr. Rafał Gruszczyńskihas a job offer for a young post-doc (up to 7 years after Ph.D.) within the scientific project "Logico-philosophical foundations of geometry and topology" at NCU Toruń, Poland. The position is for 36 months, starting on the 1st January 2022. Good conditions, full support for conferences and research stays.

    For more information, see https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/683672 or contact Rafał Gruszczyński at .
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships & Senior Research Fellowships in Philosophy (Global Priorities), Oxford (England)

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 November 2021

    The Global Priorities Institute <https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/> (GPI) at the University of Oxford - part of the Faculty of Philosophy - is currently advertising four-year postdoc positions (Postdoctoral Fellowships and Senior Research Fellowships) in Philosophy.

    The central focus of GPI is what we call 'global priorities research', which centres on the question 'What should we do with a given unit of resources if our aim is to do the most good?' We are particularly interested in hiring specialists in moral philosophy and/or decision theory. For current graduate students, postdocs at GPI are a great way to launch an academic career. Team-based and individual research on global priorities topics is combined with substantial freedom to pursue one's own unrelated projects, there is plenty of funding for infrastructure and travel, and the Institute takes support for career development very seriously. GPI is as yet too young to have an established placement record, but we confidently expect GPI postdocs to go on to tenure-track positions in the very best research universities.

  • PhD student position in the philosophy of mathematical practice, Aarhus (Denmark)

    Deadline: Monday 1 November 2021

    We are looking for a PhD student in the philosophy of mathematical practice. The position is devoted to philosophical and/or historical analyses of the practice of mathematics. Projects that focus on topics related to the contemporary mathematical practice are especially encouraged. Projects within the topics of visual thinking in mathematics, applications of mathematics, and mathematical structuralism will be preferred. We ask that candidates submit a project description (three pages) together with the formal application.

    We look for candidates that hold a Master's degree and have a strong background in mathematics. Some experience in the history or philosophy (of mathematics) is desirable but not a strict requirement.

  • Fellowships for PhD students in the intersection between humanities and sciences, Haifa (Israel)

    The Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, is offering several fellowships for promising Ph.D. students. We are looking for students with background in the sciences and research proposals at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences, but a research proposal in any of the humanities fields will be considered. A Master's degree with a thesis (minimum grade of 85) is required for admission to the Technion.

    For more information, see https://graduate.technion.ac.il/en/research_proposal/ or contact Prof. Ohad Nachtomy at .
  • Four research fellowships at the Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna (Austria)

    Deadline: Wednesday 20 October 2021

    The Institute Vienna Circle offers fellowships for visitors who wish to do research at the Institute. The maximum length of a fellowship is six months. Normally a fellowship pays 1800 brutto per month (approx. 1500 netto). We expect the fellows to be present in Vienna during the fellowship period, give a talk (if possible), and write a short written report about the research done at the IVC.

  • Two postdoctoral research positions in formal verification, Manchester (England)

    Deadline: Monday 18 October 2021

    We have vacancies for two fixed term postdoctoral researchers in the Autonomy and Verification group, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. The roles relate to formal verification applied to sensor networks working on the UKRI/EPSRC funded project Science of Sensor Systems Software with the Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews, Imperial College London and Manchester.

  • Scientific coordinator position for CIPSH Chair on "Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures & Practices", Hamburg (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 15 October 2021

    The main responsibilities of the appointee are research and teaching, in particular, the scientific coordination of the CIPSH Chair Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices (DMRCP), a cooperation between the Faculty for Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences at the Universität Hamburg and International de Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH). DMRCP is a global research network of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., philosophy, sociology, mathematics education, history of mathematics, cognitive psychology) working on mathematical research cultures and practices using multidisciplinary approaches.

    The tasks of the appointee include
    (1) active participation in the research activities of the network,
    (2) the coordination of the network, including application for external funding, activity reports, and organisation of scientific events such as lecture series, workshops, summer schools or conferences,
    (3) teaching three hours per week during term time (30 weeks per year)

    For more information, see https://bit.ly/2XmE6hF or contact Professor Benedikt Loewe at .
  • Research Fellowship in Logic, London (England)

    Deadline: Friday 15 October 2021

    UCL's Professor David J. Pym is looking for Research Fellows in Logic to join him in UCL's PPLV (Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification) group in London.

    He is interested in the following topics:
    - Foundational work in classical, intuitionistic, modal, and substructural logic, with a particular interests in
    - proof-theoretic semantics, including primary and categorical approaches, and - foundational work in reductive logic and proof-search.
    - Applications of logical ideas to systems modelling.
    - The development of logical tools for systems modelling, including dynamic, epistemic, deontic, and doxastic approaches, with case studies in security and policy modelling.

    Posts are 12 months in the first instance with possible extensions subject to agreement. The posts are funded by UK EPSRC grants.

  • PhD position on coalgebra at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Monday 11 October 2021

    As a PhD candidate on this project, you will conduct research at the intersection of semantics, category theory and coalgebra. Specifically, the project is about distributive laws, which capture the interaction between coalgebra and algebra, and have shown to be very useful as a general way of modelling programming language semantics, as well as automata constructions and powerful co-inductive proof techniques.

    The aim of the project is to investigate distributive laws in their own right, and build a toolkit for constructing, combining and analysing them. You can build on several existing approaches, but will have plenty of freedom to define your own direction and focus. Starting date: preferably before January but a couple months later is possible.

    For more information, see http://jurriaan.me/phd-coalgebra/ or contact Jurriaan Rot at .
  • Postdoctoral position in diagrams in mathematical reasoning, Pisa (Italy)

    Deadline: Friday 8 October 2021

    Selection for a research contract (post-doc position) named "Quod erat videndum: heuristic, logical and cognitive aspects of diagrams in mathematical reasoning" as part of the research project MIUR - "Dipartimenti di Eccellenza", call 2017 - Faculty of Humanities at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

  • Two PhD student positions in continuous-time models, Aalborg (Denmark)

    Deadline: Wednesday 6 October 2021

    We are looking for two highly motivated PhD candidates with interests in continuous-time models, verification and machine learning. The ideal candidates will have a strong MSc degree in computer science, mathematics or control engineering. The PhD scholarships are for three years and come with a competitive salary and light teaching load. The envisaged starting date is October 2021, application deadline is the 6th of August.

    Topic and qualifications: The envisaged research will focus on efficient analysis of continuous-time models by means of model/dimensionality reduction. The candidates are therefore required to demonstrate a strong background and understanding in at least one of the following areas: - Continuous-time models such as Markov chains or differential equations - Optimization, verification or dimensionality/model reduction - Scientific computing and software development. Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English are required. Knowledge of Danish is not compulsory. Applicants must have obtained a Master degree before the appointment day.

  • PhD student position in Argumentation for XAI, Warsaw (Poland)

    Deadline: Friday 1 October 2021

    The Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) is looking for a PhD student in the EU funded project "Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence" (NL4XAI). The goal of NL4XAI is to develop innovative technologies which involve NLP and XAI. The PhD at WUT is dedicated to "Customized interactive argumentation schemes for XAI" (ESR8), and is supervised by Katarzyna Budzynska (WUT) and co-supervised by Jose M. Alonso (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

    While the project as a whole focusses on the computational aspects of AI and NLP, ESR8 aims at the theoretical foundations for implementations of XAI. We are looking for a candidate who has excellent analytical skills (such as an experience in analytic philosophy, logic, programming) and is interested in natural communication. The student will join the Laboratory of The New Ethos which combines argumentation theory and argument technology with studies on strategies of appealing to speakers' character, i.e. ethos, in natural communication. The project budgets for PhD students to participate in several training workshops organised by the NL4XAI partners, and in secondments at partner institutions: the WUT student will spend two three-month visits in Santiago de Compostela, and one three-month visit in Barcelona's area with the industry partner Accenture Technology.

  • Postdoctoral position (2y) on formal models of group deliberation, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2021

    We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher who has experience in analytic philosophy and a background in formal modelling and/or agent-based simulations, to study norms of collective deliberation and group decision-making. This is a full-time, 2-year position at the world-known Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics.

    The NWO VIDI project ENCODE: Explicating Norms for Collective Deliberation seeks to study existing formal models of deliberation and develop new ones, in order to get a better understanding of the complex interactions that take place when people exchange their arguments and revise their position. The emphasis will be on philosophical logic, but we will also consider agent-based models of deliberation and decision-theoretic accounts. The postdoc's primary responsibility will be to conduct research and publish in peer reviewed journals and books. The researcher should also contribute to the ENCODE Project in other ways, such as by giving scholarly presentations and co-organizing reading groups and workshops.

  • Two PhD positions in TCS/NLP, Linkoeping & Umea (Sweden)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2021

    The Natural Language Processing Group at Linköping University and the Foundations of Language Processing Group at Umeå University are announcing two (2) PhD Positions in Computer Science, in the project "A Practical Theory of Computation for Modern Neural Network Architectures", headed by Marco Kuhlmann (Linköping) and Frank Drewes (Umeå). The aim of this project is to develop a practical theory of computation for modern neural network architectures by combining methods from theoretical computer science with empirical validation in natural language processing (NLP).

    For more information, see https://liu-nlp.github.io/wasp-2021/.
  • Short-term fellowships on "Limits of Variability in Language", Potsdam (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2021

    The Collaborative Research Center SFB 1287 'Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects' in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for short-term fellowships available in 2022

    We are offering several three- to four-month fellowships to external PhD candidates who would like to carry out a collaborative research project within one of the projects of the CRC. The monthly fellowship is tax exempt and covers a basic amount (1365 EUR) plus direct costs (103 EUR) plus 400 EUR per child, if applicable. The fellowships require completed academic studies at an institute of higher learning (Master's degree or equivalent) and enrolment in a PhD programme. Applicants are also required to establish contact with the principal investigators of the project of interest well before submitting the application in order to discuss the possibility of collaboration and the details of the proposed research project.

    For more information, see https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/sfb1287/vacancies or contact Dr. Anastasiya Dockhorn-Romanova at .
  • Funding for 7 PhD positions at UvA's Data Science Centre

    Deadline: Thursday 23 September 2021

    The DSC seeks to accelerate data driven research within the University of Amsterdam. Part of that mission is to foster interdisciplinary research. Specifically, in this call, we aim to foster research into new data science methods that help to tackle hard challenging problems in a given domain. The DSC provides funding for a PhD student to perform the research at this interaction. Such interaction is realized through joint supervision: one supervisor with core expertise in data science methods, the other with core expertise in the domain problem.

  • Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track W2) in Logic, Jena (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 23 September 2021

    The Faculty of Arts at Friedrich Schiller University Jena seeks to fill a Professorship (W 1 with Tenure Track to W 2) in Philosophy with a specialisation in logic from the next possible date.

    The successful candidate will be expected to teach at undergraduate and graduate level, especially by directing the obligatory course "Introduction into Logic and the theory of argumentation", as well as in courses in neighbouring areas of philosophy and in the Curricula BA Philosophy, MA Philosophy and Teacher Training Philosophy/Ethics. Course language is German. Furthermore, the successful candidate is expected to engage in the interdisciplinary research projects of the Institute for Philosophy and of the University.

    The professorship is initially limited to four years. After a positive interim evaluation, it will be extendable by a further two years. Subject to a further positive evaluation, the appointment to a permanent W2-professorship will take place after six years without the vacancy being readvertised.

  • PhD student position in enabling reactive synthesis, Goeteborg (Sweden)

    Deadline: Sunday 19 September 2021

    There is an open PhD position (5 years) in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg/Chalmers, Sweden. The student will work on the project "Enabling Reactive Synthesis through Runtime Verification? with Professor Nir Piterman. The student will join a team supported by an ERC Consolidator grant and the Swedish research council (VR).

    Research scope: formal methods, reactive synthesis, runtime verification, automata, games, temporal logics.

    For more information, see https://tiny.cc/gbgphd.
  • Ten PhD student positions or postdoctoral positions on limits of variability in languages, Potsdam (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 19 September 2021

    The Collaborative Research Center SFB 1287 'Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects' in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for 10 positions for PhD candidates and Postdocs available from July 2021 for a duration of four years (subject to funding commitment).

    The CRC provides a fantastic research infrastructure including a large interdisciplinary network of researchers (21 PIs in 13 scientific projects, one transfer project, and three service projects), its own graduate school and funding opportunities for conference visits, summer schools, hosting international experts etc. By modelling the factors influencing linguistic behaviours, the CRC contributes to a better understanding of the underlying mental representations and processing architectures in individual language users, as well as of the grammatical options available in individual languages and specific linguistic varieties, and options shared by particular subgroups of languages users.

  • PhD student position on formalisation of logical calculi, Saarbruecken (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 16 September 2021

    A PhD position is open at the MPI for Informatics in  Saarbrücken, supervised by Christoph Weidenbach, Jasmin Blanchette and Sophie Tourret. The project is about using Isabelle/HOL to formalize logical calculi.

    For more information, see https://www.cs.vu.nl/~jbe248/sb_job.html or contact Jennifer Müller at .
  • Assistant Professor in Computational Finance and Economics, University of Essex (UK)

    Deadline: Monday 13 September 2021

    The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (University of Essex, UK) is seeking an excellent individual for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) position. Areas of expertise include Computational Finance, Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Theoretical Computer Science.

  • PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization, Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Monday 13 September 2021

    The CS department at Lund University invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

    The PhD students will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordstrom, which is active at both Lund University and the University of Copenhagen on either side of the Oresund Bridge. The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

    We currently have one opening for a theoretically oriented PhD student, funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Research Council, and one more applied opening financed by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). There is a lot of flexibility as to what kind of research the PhD students will pursue, though, and all candidates are welcome, both those who want to go deep into either theory or practice and those who are inspired by the challenge of bridging the gap between the two.

    These are four-year full-time employed positions, but PhD positions usually (though not necessarily) include 20% teaching, in which case they are prolonged for one more year. The starting date is negotiable but should ideally be as early as possible during the autumn of 2021. All positions in the research group are fully funded, employed positions (including travel money) that come with an internationally competitive salary.

    For more information, see http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/PhD-Lund-210913.html or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • Professorship (tenure-track, associate, or full) in ML (including TCS), Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 12 September 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for professorships (tenure-track, associate, or full) in machine learning, including theoretical computer science aspects. The position is to be filled by 1 March 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter, subject to negotiation.

  • PhD student positions (nine funded, two non-funded) in formal models, Urbino (Italy)

    Deadline: Tuesday 24 August 2021

    The University of Urbino is now accepting applications for the Doctoral Program "Research Methods In Science And Technology". 9 fully funded positions and 2 non-funded positions are available. Notice that 2 positions are reserved for students holding a foreign degree.

    The Program fulfills the requirements for innovative international doctoral programs, and one of its subject areas is "Formal Models, Data Analysis and Scientific Computing". Research projects in Logic and Philosophy of Science are welcome within this subject area.

    For more information, see https://www.uniurb.it/academic-programs/1755966 or contact Prof. Vincenzo Fano at .
  • PhD position, Bergen (Norway), 3 or 4 years, 100%

    Deadline: Sunday 15 August 2021

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen is inviting applications for a PhD fellowship connected to the interdisciplinary FRIPRO project “Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis” (AdCNA) led by Prof. Michael Baumgartner. The applicant must hold a Master’s degree in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics, Statistics, or Informatics, and is expected to write a PhD thesis in the field of causation, causal reasoning, or causal data analysis, broadly construed. The salary is at pay grade 54, currently NOK gross 490.800 p.a.

  • Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science , Roskilde, Denmark

    Deadline: Sunday 1 August 2021

    Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. The successful candidate is expected to become affiliated with the research group Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems.

    For more information, see http://bit.ly/roskilde-cs-assistant-prof or contact Andreas de Neergaard at .
  • PhD position in Algorithmic Game Theory, Aarhus University (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 1 August 2021

    Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship at Aarhus University, Denmark in the Computer Science programme. The position is available from November 2021 or later.

    The group of Ioannis Caragiannis is looking for a talented PhD student who is interested in conducting research in the general research area of Algorithmic Game Theory. This is a very active research trend at the interface of Computer Science (in particular, theoretical computer science, algorithms and complexity) and Economics (microeconomics, game theory, and social choice).

  • PhD studentships in programming languages, Glasgow (Scotland)

    Deadline: Saturday 31 July 2021

    The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering studentships to support PhD research for students starting in autumn 2021. Types of Scholarships being offered include Minerva Scholarships (Research and Teaching Scholarships( and Excellence Bursaries (Research Scholarships). Whilst the above funding is open to students in all areas of computing science, applications in the area of programming languages are most welcomed.

    Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time, but to be considered for the studentships we are offering at this round, we must receive your application by 31 July 2021. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a potential supervisor and discuss an application before the submission deadline.

  • Postdoctoral and PhD student position in mathematical logic, Gent (Belgium)

    Deadline: Saturday 31 July 2021

    One Postdoc position and one PhD position in Mathematical Logic.
    Project: Recursion, reflection, and second-order arithmetic
    Supervisors: Fedor Pakhomov, and Andreas Weiermann
    Host institutions: Ghent University
    Funding bodies: FWO

     

     

    For more information, see here or contact .
  • Postdoctoral position (4y) on semantics of non-trivial contradictory logics, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Saturday 31 July 2021

    Within the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant "Contradictory Logics: A Radical Challenge to Logical Orthodoxy" (Prof. Heinrich Wansing), the following position is available at the Ruhr University Bochum, subject to the approval of the third party funding body: Post-doctoral position (4 years, 1.0. FTE).

    For the sub-project on the semantics of non-trivial contradictory logics, a postdoctoral researcher with excellent knowledge of non-classical logic is sought. The project will study certain contra-classical logics, namely non-trivial inconsistent connexive logics, bi- and tri-lattice logics, logics with double negation as negation, and Abelian logics. The aim of the sub-project is to obtain a deep understanding of the inconsistency of these logics from the point of view of certain semantics, in particular from the area of constructive logic and conditional logic, and to semantically characterize the provable contradictions of these systems. We offer a productive internationally oriented research environment; the working language is English. This is a research position. In addition, support of project-related activities (workshops, hosting guests, etc.) is expected.

  • PhD student position in proof-theoretic and algebraic aspects of fixed points, Birmingham (England) & Melbourne (Australia)

    Deadline: Friday 16 July 2021

    There is a PhD opportunity available, co-supervised by Daniel Murfet, at the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK, and the University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia. A successful student would conduct research on proof theoretic and algebraic aspects of fixed points, in particular taking advantage of recent advances in cyclic proofs and coalgebra. That said, the project is intentionally broad to accommodate the interests/expertise of the student.

    Funding for this position is open to students worldwide for a duration of 3.5 years, beginning October 2021. A successful student would take up the position initially at one of the institutions UoB or UoM, at which they would spend the first 18 and final 12 months of the PhD. The intermediate 12 months should be spent at the other institution, for which extra funds are available.

  • Postdoctoral position on polymorphism algebras, Vienna (Austria)

    Deadline: Thursday 15 July 2021

    A postdoc position is now available at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria) within the project "Identities in polymorphism algebras" of the Austrian Science Fund, held by Michael Pinsker.

    The starting date is flexible, but should be somewhen this year. The duration of the position is one year, with possible prolongation should further funding become available. 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.

    For more information, see here or at https://dmg.tuwien.ac.at/fg1/FG1.html or contact Michael Pinsker at .
  • PhD student position & postdoctoral position on foundations of knowledge graphs, Stuttgart (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 15 July 2021

    The Analytic Computing research group at University of Stuttgart invites applications for two positions related to research about foundations of knowledge graphs:
     - 1 PostDoc/Project leader (TV-L E14) researching foundations of knowledge graphs, especially querying and reasoning, possibly also machine learning. Doctoral degree required. Candidates close to finishing their doctorate are encouraged to apply.
     - 1 Ph.D. student position (TV-L E13) researching querying and reasoning on knowledge graphs. No machine learning, but formal method approaches only!
    Late applications will be considered until the position is filled.

  • PhD Scholarship in Computer Science, Brussels (Belgium)

    The VUB AI Lab has an open call for a phd scholarship, preferrably filled by a student with mastery of the Dutch language.

    The topic of the phd research is expected to be aligned with one of the Principal Investigators of the lab.
    Anyone interested in doing a phd in logic, knowledge representation, constraint solving/optimization, can find more info at the link below.

    For more information, see https://www.bartbogaerts.eu/jobs/2107-BAAP.php or contact Bart Bogaerts at .
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    PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization, Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Monday 5 July 2021

    The CS department at Lund University invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

    The PhD student will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordstrom, which is active at both Lund University and the University of Copenhagen on either side of the Oresund Bridge. We have a fairly unusual profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the theoretical, mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art applied algorithms for real-world problems. Much of the activities of the group revolve around powerful algorithmic paradigms such as Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, Groebner basis computations, integer linear programming, constraint programming, and semidefinite programming. This leads to classic questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, interesting twists—but also involves work on devising new algorithmic approaches that can exploit the power of such paradigms 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 expected starting date is in the autumn of 2021, but is to some extent negotiable. The position is fully funded and comes with a competitive salary.

    For more information, see http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/PhD-TCS-Lund-210705.html or contact Jakob Nordstrom at .
  • PhD position in Logic in Multi-agent Systems, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Thursday 1 July 2021

    The Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University is looking for a PhD student who will work on temporal logic for intention revision. The PhD student will be part of the Intelligent Systems group, led by Professor Mehdi Dastani, who will also be your supervisor along with Dr. Natasha Alechina and Dr. Dragan Doder.

  • Thirteen PhD student grants in Computer Science, Bolzano (Italy)

    Deadline: Wednesday 30 June 2021

    13 four-year 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 17,000 euro per year; for research visits abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Additional substantial extra funding is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. The language of the PhD programme is English.

    The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. Among the various available PhD topics (fully described in the call), the KRDB Research Centre is looking for PhD students interested in: Logic-based languages for knowledge representation; Intelligent data access and integration; Semantic technologies; Conceptual and cognitive modelling; Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis; Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance; Temporal aspects of data and knowledge; Extending database technologies; Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration; Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge.

    For more information, see http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science or contact prof. Alessandro Artale at .
  • Three Postdoc Positions in Argumentation-based XAI, Imperial College London (UK)

    Deadline: Wednesday 30 June 2021

    We are looking for 3 PostDoctoral Researchers to join the Computational Logic and Argumentation group at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. The researchers are expected to conduct world-leading research on argumentation-based XAI, under the direction of Prof Francesca Toni, within the ERC Advanced Project ADIX (Argumentation-based Deep Interactive eXplanations).

    For more details on the three positions see:
    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01715/research-assistant-research-associate-argumentation-based-explainable-machine-learning

    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01716/research-assistant-associate-argument-mining-based-explainable-ai

    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01717/research-assistant-associate-argumentation-based-explainable-ai

  • Postdoctoral position (2y) in logical foundations of AI, Milano (Italy)

    Deadline: Wednesday 30 June 2021

    The Logic Group at the University of Milan is thrilled to advertise a postdoc position (two years, renewable) within the project "Logical Foundations of AI". The project will be developed within a research line contributing to bridging the gap between statistical methodologies at the basis of (supervised, unsupervised) Machine Learning and Logic in the development of AI. We aim to develop Logics for Reasoning under Uncertainty and with limited resources to analyse and check transparency and trustworthiness of AI systems. Properties of interest include but are not limited to: Causality, Safety and Fairness.

    The selected candidate will join a thriving research group based at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, and will be working under the joint supervision of Marcello D'Agostino and Giuseppe Primiero. The ideal applicant will hold a Ph.D. in Logic, obtained either within a philosophy, mathematics or computer science programme. The candidate is also required to have good basic knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Foundations of Resource-Bounded Logics; Epistemic and Non-Monotonic Logics; Logics of Uncertainty and Probabilistic Logics; Temporal Logics; Proof Theory; Verification (both model-checking and automated theorem proving).

    For more information, see http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/logic/open-positions/ or contact Giuseppe Primiero at .
  • PhD and postdoc positions in emergent deep net communication, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

    ALiEN (Autonomous Linguistic Emergence in Neural Networks) is a 5-year project starting on January 1st, 2022, lead by Marco Baroni. ALiEN is funded within the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through an European Research Council 2020 Advanced Grant (grant nr. 101019291; PE6: Computer Science and Informatics panel). The aim of ALiEN is to let deep neural networks develop a shared communication protocol from the ground up, so that they can solve joint problems more flexibly.

    The project is offering three 4-year PhD positions as well as two postdoc positions for up to 5 years.

    For more information, see https://marcobaroni.org/alien/ or contact Marco Baroni at .
  • PhD programme in Mathematical & Physical Sciences (logic represented)

    Location: Udine, Italy
    Deadline: Wednesday 16 June 2021

    The University of Udine (NE Italy) is starting a new PhD program in Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Three members of the board (Vincenzo Dimonte, Giovanni Panti and myself) are logicians, so we look for talented young people interested in various aspects of logic, including set theory, reverse mathematics, Weihrauch reducibility, and connections with dynamical system.

  • Two PhD and Two Postdoc Positions at Fundamental Computing group, Groningen (the Netherlands)

    We are looking for excellent PhD candidates and Postdocs to join us at the Fundamental Computing group, Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen.

    Two fully-funded 4-year PhD positions and two Postdoc positions are available, supervised by Revantha Ramanayake and/or Helle Hvid Hansen. Applications received before 16 June 2021 (CET) will receive full consideration, but applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

    For more information, see here or contact Helle Hvid Hansen and Revantha Ramanayake at .
  • Postdoctoral position (1y) in the Geometry of Algorithms, Paris (France)

    Deadline: Tuesday 15 June 2021

    The project "GoA: The Geometry of Algorithms", based at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Technologies (IHPST) in Paris, is seeking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for 12 months. The project is led by Alberto Naibo and funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). The project investigates the epistemological and ontological foundations of the notion of algorithm. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in philosophy of formal sciences or computability theory. Advanced training in formal logic, especially proof theory, is particularly welcome.

  • Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Language, Speech and Communication, Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

    Deadline: Friday 11 June 2021

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play an ever larger role in supporting our society and human well-being in the future. To realise its full potential, the Faculty of Arts is looking for a professor of Artificial Intelligence & Language, Speech and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies (CLS).

    For more information, see https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1152936 or contact Prof. José Sanders at .
  • Tenure-track assistant professorship in algorithms and complexity theory

    Deadline: Tuesday 8 June 2021

    The CS department at Lund University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in algorithms and complexity theory.

    Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. Lund Technical College (LTH) forms the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, where research of the highest international standard is conducted. The Department of Computer Science at LTH is a partner in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), the largest individual research program in Swedish history, and also in the ELLIIT Excellence Centre focused on basic and applied research in information technologies broadly construed. Furthermore, there are extensive collaborations with the University of Copenhagen, the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) on the other side of the Oresund bridge.

    For more information, see https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:388991/ or contact Jakob Nordström at .
  • PhD student position on explaining the meaning of logical formulas, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Friday 4 June 2021

    The Natural Language Processing group at Utrecht University's Information and Computing Sciences department is looking for a junior researcher who wants to take up a PhD position to develop algorithms for explaining the meaning of logical formulas in ordinary language. This four-year position comprises 85-90% research time and 10-15% teaching time, thus presenting an excellent opportunity to develop an academic profile as a researcher and teacher.

    The idea is to investigate computational techniques for optimising logical formulas and "translating" these into NL text, and to empirically evaluate the clarity and usefulness of the resulting text. The totality of the above research programme comprises aspects of computational logic, natural language generation, and experimental psychology. Since few people master all relevant research areas, the precise focus of this PhD project will be chosen in discussion with the successful candidate. The choice of logical formalism is still open; options include First Order Predicate Logic and formalisms of Formal Argumentation. The choice of natural language is likewise still open; options include English, Dutch, and Chinese, which are all studied in the department. The supervisory team will include Kees van Deemter (of Utrecht University) and Jordi Levy (of CSIC's Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Barcelona). The PhDship will include three secondmends, two at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Barcelona, and one at ARRIA NLG Limited in Aberdeen.

    For more information, see https://nl4xai.eu/open_position/new_esr4/ or contact Kees van Deemter at .
  • PhD student position on formal models of group deliberations, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    The ENCODE project seeks to study existing formal models of deliberation and develop new ones, in order to get a better understanding of the complex interactions that take place when people exchange their arguments and revise their position. The emphasis will be on philosophical logic, but we will also consider agent-based models of deliberation and decision-theoretic accounts.

    The PhD candidate will be jointly supervised by Dr. Frederik Van De Putte and Prof. Dr. Jack Vromen. The candidate's primary responsibility will be to conduct research and write a PhD thesis. The candidate should also contribute to the ENCODE Project in other ways, such as by giving scholarly presentations and co-organizing reading groups and workshops. Furthermore, the PhD candidate will become part of a large and diverse community of PhD candidates, and is expected to contribute as a junior lecturer to the Erasmus School of Philosophy's (ESPhil) educational programme. The position preferably starts on September 1st , 2021, but the very latest on December 1st, 2021 and lasts for a maximum of four years.

  • PhD position in Logic and AI in Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Tuesday 1 June 2021

    We are looking for a PhD student to join the Logic and AI group at the University of Bergen in Norway. The research topic is determined by the student in cooperation with the future supervisor. Applicants submit a project proposal and get in touch with potential supervisor in advance. The position is fully payed for 4 yearsand comes with a separate yearly travel budget. Applicants should have finish their master degree before 15 July.

  • Tenure track position in computer science (Logic group), Prague (Czech Republic)

    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    The Institute of Computer Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ICS), Prague, Czech Republic, invites applications for a tenure-track position in areas fitting and/or expanding its current research focus. We especially encourage applicants working in fields related to the interests of the ICS Logic Group which focuses on * modal logics * coalgebraic logics * substructural logics * mathematical fuzzy logic * (abstract) algebraic logic * dynamic and non-monotonic logics * relevant and paraconsistent logics.

  • Postdoctoral fellowship in logic, Prague (Czech Republic)

    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    The Institute of Computer Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ICS), Prague, Czech Republic, offers fellowships for outstanding and enthusiastic junior researchers, PhD holders, in areas fitting its current research focus. We especially encourage applicants working in fields related to the interests of the ICS Logic Group which focuses on * modal logics * coalgebraic logics * substructural logics * mathematical fuzzy logic * (abstract) algebraic logic * dynamic and non-monotonic logics * relevant and paraconsistent logics.

    For more information, see https://logics.cs.cas.cz.
  • PhD student position in Logic, Gothenburg (Sweden)

    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science is looking to appoint one well-qualified and highly motivated doctoral student in Logic to join the research project The Logical Foundations of Circularity funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The core aim of the project is to develop novel formal techniques for the logical analysis of cyclic phenomena in mathematical, philosophical and computational contexts.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate on project 'Encyclopedic Lexical Representations for Natural Language Processing', Cardiff University (UK)

    Deadline: Monday 31 May 2021

    An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Cardiff School of Computer Science and Informatics as a Research Associate working on a new project titled ‘Encyclopedic Lexical Representations for Natural Language Processing’. This project is funded by EPSRC and is due to start on 1 August 2021. Application deadline: Monday, 31 May 2021.

  • Postdoctoral position in logic, semantics, formal verification, Lyon (France)

    Deadline: Sunday 30 May 2021

    The LIP laboratory, located at the ENS de Lyon in France, is offering a 1 year post-doc position in computer science, starting on the 1st September 2021. Candidates should have a PhD and a strong background in one of the subjects studied in the LIP. The salary will depend on the successful candidate's prior research experience with a guaranteed minimum of 2300 EUR/month before taxes.

    Inside the LIP laboratory, the Plume team could be of particular interest to the readers of the types and fom mailing lists (logic, semantics, formal verification).

  • Two PhD student scholarships in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Brussels (Belgium)

    The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering two PhD scholarships to join Prof. Bart Bogaerts' research group on knowledge representation and reasoning

    Particular topics of interest are:
    * Explainability (explaining outcomes of declarative problem solving in a human-understable way)
    * Mathematical foundations (unifying frameworks for knowledge representation)

    For more information, see https://www.bartbogaerts.eu/jobs/2101-2PhDScholarships.php or contact Bart Bogaerts at .
  • PhD position in Collective Decision Making in Social Networks, Groningen (the Netherlands)

    Deadline: Monday 24 May 2021

    The Multi-Agent Systems Group of the AI Department of the University of Groningen is offering a full-time 4 year PhD position in "Collective Decision Making in Social Networks".

    The way social networks constrain information flows is a key factor in how agents take decisions, which in turn impacts voting results. On the one hand, formal tools to capture information and social influence in multi-agent systems abound in recent logic and formal philosophy literature. On the other hand, thanks to decades of social choice theory research, properties of voting systems are very well understood. However, only little is known about the interaction between networks and voting processes so far. The goal of this PhD project is to fill this gap.

  • Deep Learning Postdoc position available, Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

    Deadline: Monday 17 May 2021

    A full-time deep learning postdoctoral position is available at the newly founded research group ‘Language Evolution and Adaptation in Diverse Situations’ (LEADS), led by Dr. Limor Raviv, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

    The successful applicant will develop a novel deep learning model that is strongly grounded in existing experimental/behavioral paradigms. Candidates should have proven experience with deep learning models (i.e., working with artificial neural networks, such as CNN, RNN/LSTM/transformer, and/or reinforcement learning).

  • PhD position in Multiagent Systems, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    The Department of Computer Science at Utrecht University has two related PhD positions on Multi-Agent Systems, one on "Causality in Multi-agent Systems: learning and verification" and the other on "Rational Verification and Synthesis in Multi-Agent Systems".

  • PhD and Postdoc positions in modeling natural language resoning, Warsaw (Poland)

    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    We are looking for a PhD student and postdoc to help us develop hybrid models (logic + machine learning) of natural language reasoning.

    The team will be based in the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Regular research visits to Amsterdam are a part of the plan.

    For more information, see:
    https://www.impan.pl/wydarzenia/konkursy/2021/phd_mmalicki-grant.pdf
    https://www.impan.pl/wydarzenia/konkursy/2021/post-doc_mmalicki-grant.pdf

    For more information, contact Maciej Malicki at .
  • Assistant or Associate Professorship in Discrete Maths, Algorithms, or Logic-Based AI, Kungens Lyngby (Denmark)

    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    At the Section for Algorithms, Logic and Graph theory (AlgoLoG) at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, we are looking for our next Assistant or Associate Professor within Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms or Logic-based Artificial Intelligence.  We do research in algorithms, logic and graph theory, and how to apply these within artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, human-robot interaction, efficient software for large data sets and more.

  • Two postdoctoral positions in responsible AI, Umea (Sweden)

    Deadline: Saturday 15 May 2021

    There are two postdoc positions open now in the Research group ResponsibleAI@UMU. Both are 2-year fulltime positions.

    Postdoc 1: research on the formal verification of Automated Decision-making systems (background on theoretical AI/CS required): https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoc-position-in-formal-verification-of-automated-decision-making-systems_387675/

    Postdoc 2: Research on Democracy, Participation and Artificial Intelligence (background on participatory design required): https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoc-position-in-democracy-participation-and-artificial-intelligence-_387613/

    For more information, contact .
  • Postdoctoral position in Set Theory (30m), Bristol (England)

    Deadline: Thursday 13 May 2021

    The University of Bristol seeks outstanding candidates for a Research Associate in Set Theory, position tenable from 31st August 2021 (fixed start date) for a duration of maximum 30 months. The successful candidate will become a member of the Institute for Pure Mathematics within the School of Mathematics in Bristol, and will work with Philip Welch.

    This research position requires the minimum expertise of a candidate with a completed PhD in Set Theory to conduct investigations in problems associated with Welch?s EPSRC funded research grant "Graphs on Generalized Baire Spaces." There has been a surge of interest in recent years on extending the descriptive set theory of Baire space to spaces of the form kappa^kappa for kappa a regular cardinal. The main focus of the project is on the interaction of descriptive set theoretic notions at this analogous level, Inner Model Theory, infinitary game theoretic methods and forcing axioms. Accordingly candidates will be expected to have particular expertise in one or more of these areas.

  • Lectureship or Associate Professorship in programming principles, logic, & verification, London (England)

    Deadline: Friday 7 May 2021

    The Department of Computer Science at University College London invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer or Associate Professor) in the area of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification (PPLV). Candidates will be expected to carry out research, teaching, and administrative duties within the Department, especially in the areas of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification.

    The PPLV group conducts world-leading research broadly in logic, semantics, and program and systems verification and their supporting mathematical and conceptual fields. The group contributes to the delivery of undergraduate and graduate programs and supports a lively and diverse community of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The group has very substantial research funding from a variety of sources and has excellent connections with the world-class tech community that is located close-by in London and elsewhere. For this position, we particularly welcome applications from candidates with interests in the theory or practice of program and systems verification.

  • Five PhD student positions in Philosophy of Science, Hannover/Bielefeld (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 6 May 2021

    Leibniz University Hannover and Bielefeld University (Germany) invite applications for positions for 5 Doctoral Candidates (all genders; salary scale E13 TV-L, 65%) in Ethics of Science and/or Philosophy of Science starting 1 October 2021, within the Graduiertenkolleg (research training group) GRK 2073 "Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research". The positions are limited to 30 September 2024. At least two of the positions are expected to be located at Leibniz University Hannover and at least two at Bielefeld University.

    For more information, see https://grk2073.org/apply/.
  • Lectureship in Theoretical Computer Science, London (England)

    Deadline: Monday 3 May 2021

    The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Computing Science to join our Theoretical Computer Science Research Group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Queen Mary University of London.

    For more information, see https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=5451 or contact Professor Steve Uhlig at .
  • PhD Research Fellowship in Natural Language Processing, Oslo (Norway)

    Deadline: Sunday 2 May 2021

    A position as PhD Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is funded by the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI).

    The PhD project will focus on sentiment analysis and entity detection, and the position presupposes an MSc degree or equivalent in Natural Language Processing, or in Computer Science with a specialization in NLP.

  • Postdoctoral position on robust argumentation machines, Muenchen (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Chair of Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion at LMU Munich seek applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position. The successful candidate has a background in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, mathematical social science, mathematical philosophy or statistics with an expertise in machine learning and big data and will work on the project "The Bayesian Approach to Robust Argumentation Machines". The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) within the interdisciplinary priority program "Robust Argumentation Machines" and conducted together with the group of Prof. Ulrike Hahn at Birkbeck College.

  • PhD student position in epistemic & semantic commitments, Warsaw (Poland)

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Faculty of Philosophy at University of Warsaw (Poland) has an open call for a fully funded PhD position (4 years) in the project "Epistemic and semantic commitments of foundational theories".

    The main objective of the project is to provide a deep conceptual and formal analysis of the notion of commitments of a foundational theory, where the latter expression stands for a theory that can develop a significant portion of mathematics (examples: Peano arithmetic, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory). The notion of a commitment is essentially involved in many discussions in contemporary formal philosophy.

    The position starts on October 1st, 2021 and lasts for a maximum of four years. Applicants should have are be about to obtain a Master's degree in a field relevant to the project preferably in mathematical or philosophical logic or set theory. In particular, familiarity with axiomatic theories of truth counts as a plus.

    For more information, see https://commitments-project.com/positions/ or contact Prof. Cezary Cieśliński at .
  • Faculty positions (assistant / associate / full professor) in Computer Science, Edinburgh (Scotland)

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, is looking to fill in several permanent academic positions at Assistant/Associate/Full Professor and Head of Department levels. We encourage applicants with research, teaching or industrial backgrounds.

  • Temporary (1y) Assistant Professorship in Computational Linguistics, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Friday 30 April 2021

    The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication of Utrecht University invites proven excellent candidates in the field of Computational Linguistics, and especially candidates who specialize in models connecting statistical NLP with formal language theories of syntax and semantics, to apply. The candidate will be expected to make a substantial contribution to both the computational linguistics research at the UiL OTS and to the AI teaching programme. Accordingly, proven expertise in both linguistic theories and in statistical NLP will be a strong advantage. A demonstrated interest in collaboration with industrial partners will be considered an advantage.

    Your teaching obligations will be in the area of natural language processing, mathematical and computational linguistics, and language technology. Additional teaching areas, depending on your expertise, may include formal linguistics, artificial grammar learning, statistics, machine learning and data mining. You will primarily teach in the AI programme (Bachelor's and Master's), but also in the Bachelor's programme of Linguistics and the Research Master's Linguistics.

  • PhD position in Theoretical Philosophy, Utrecht (the Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

    To strengthen its research capacity in newly emerging research fields in theoretical philosophy, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University is currently looking for a PhD candidate in one of the following areas:

    * Philosophical logic and philosophy of logic
    * Formal logic modelling and cognitive science
    * Neuro-symbolic AI, ethics and knowledge representation
    * Mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics
    * Social epistemology, post truth and AI
    * Game theory, norms and simulation of social interactions

    The PhD position (4 years) is independent of any overarching research project and is funded by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. We ask prospective candidates to write a brief proposal fitting in with one of these themes.

  • PhD student position in logic in philosophy & AI, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 25 April 2021

    The Group for Logic in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, at the Institute for Philosophy II at Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty for Philosophy and Educational Science, is offering a 4-year PhD position. We are interested in candidates (m/f/d) that intend to do research related to (some of) the following topics:
     - logic in artificial intelligence, in particular non-monotonic logic
     - defeasible reasoning
     - deontic logic and formal ethics
     - formal argumentation theory
     - logic and cognition.

  • Postdoctoral position (1+2y) in epistemology & ethics of risk, Milano (Italy)

    Deadline: Tuesday 20 April 2021

    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) has an opening for one Full-time Postdoc Position for 1 year, renewable for 2 additional years. Tenure-track opportunities are also envisaged at the subsequent stage. The Postdoc will conduct research at the intersection of epistemology and ethics of risk. We are especially interested in candidates who wish to investigate the outstanding notions of risk and uncertainty in an interdisciplinary framework. Knowledge of statistical techniques in risk analysis and/or (formal) methods for uncertainty representation are essential.

    As is well known, at the heart of the notion of risk are the epistemic notions of knowledge and uncertainty. Their analysis requires decision theory methodologies and may raise multiple epistemological but also ethical questions. This project has two specific objectives: 1) To develop a critical analysis of prediction models in science in relation to forms of epistemic uncertainty, in particular seismic risk prediction models; 2) To address the issue of damage and loss analysis from both an economic and ethical point of view, also considering new methods proposed in the literature to make decisions under conditions of severe uncertainty.

    The default starting date is 16 May 2021. The position does not involve teaching duties. However, teaching at the undergraduate, graduate and master level is possible and encouraged and will entitle to additional compensation.

    For more information, see https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=3971&tx_wfqbe_pi1[ID]=9532&L=1 or contact Prof. Viola Schiaffonati at .
  • Assistant Professors / Postdoctoral Researchers, Munich (Germany)

    Deadline: Monday 19 April 2021

    The positions are in relation to a newly created Chair in Philosophy and Decision Theory, held by Christian List, which is devoted to the study of foundational questions in decision and social choice theory, formal epistemology and formal ethics, the philosophy of mind and action, and the philosophy of the social sciences. The work of the chair has an interdisciplinary orientation, emphasizing the exchange of ideas with researchers from neighboring fields, including in the sciences and social sciences.

  • Research fellowship in programming principles, logic & verification, London (England)

    Deadline: Sunday 18 April 2021

    UCL, London has a Research position open for a Research Fellow in Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification: Systems Security Modelling. Applicants must hold, or be about to receive, a PhD in rigorous computer science, or a closely related area.

    The PPLV group conducts world-leading research in logical and algebraic methods and their applications to program and systems modelling and verification. This post will contribute to the EPSRC-funded IRIS project: Interface Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS). This project, led by Professor David Pym, uses logical and algebraic methods to understand the compositional structure of systems and their communications, seeking to develop analyses at all scales, from code through distributed systems to organizational structure, generically and uniformly. The purpose of this job is to develop and apply the methodology and tools required to construct models that capture the structure, dynamics, and policy of organizations. This will involve working with companies, including BT and HP Labs, to create models to help them make decisions about their real-world challenges.

  • Associate Professorship in logic, model theory or universal algebra, Prague (Czech Republic)

    Deadline: Thursday 15 April 2021

    The Department of Algebra of the Charles University, Prague, Czechia, is opening a position of associate professor in the fields of logic, model theory, universal algebra, and their computational aspects.

    Applications are invited from candidates with an excellent international reputation and publishing activity in some of the above fields. We expect a positive attitude towards pedagogical work, ability to integrate scientific activities, teaching and supervision of student theses, including training of doctoral students. A long-term foreign experience is expected.

    We offer an initial contract for three years. In case of mutual satisfaction, the second contract can be permanent. The expected starting date is September 2021, but it is negotiable. The teaching load is 6 hours per week.

  • PhD student position in theoretical computer science, Bremen (Germany)

    Deadline: Tuesday 13 April 2021

    Faculty 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Bremen is offering (conditional on the release of the position) a three-year position for a Doctoral Researcher (f/m/d) Computer Science – Pay Level 13 TVL-EG 13 (100%). The position is intended for further scientific qualification with the aim of obtaining a doctoral degree. The position is for three years, with a possible extension of additional two years.

    The position (reference number A50/21) is within the research group "Databases" of Prof. Sebastian Maneth, whose research topics include automata theory and its applications, compression of heterogeneous data (JSON, XML, RDF, etc.), databases for heterogeneous data, and (recently) machine learning for the analysis of eye tracking data. The position includes teaching 4 SWS (2 tutorials per semester). The employee is expected to support the group in teaching courses and to conduct research on some of the above topics in collaboration with other group members.

  • Postdoctoral research associateship in verification, Manchester (England)

    Deadline: Monday 12 April 2021

    A Post-Doctoral Research Associate position in Verification of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems is available in the Autonomy and Verification group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK. Employment type: Fixed Term for 30 months.

    The researcher will examine and develop new research on the formal verification of symbolic agents, particularly those concerned with implementing higher-level policies, principles, and ethics. In doing this, a range of verification techniques will be used (model-checking, runtime verification, etc) and a range of autonomy levels will be explored (full autonomy, human-autonomy teamwork, etc).

    For more information, see https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=19801 or contact Dr. Louise Dennis at , or Prof. Michael Fisher at .
  • PhD student position on interactions between spaces of argumentation, Paris (France)

    Deadline: Sunday 11 April 2021

    We are seeking applicants for a PhD position on "Analyzing the interactions between spaces of argumentation in different contexts" at LAMSADE (University Paris-Dauphine).

    The Covid19 crisis shows us that arguments can circulate between different social worlds, as they have done between scientific and academic worlds, media, and social media, in different directions. However, the way people discuss in these different environments is very different and rely on different standards to recognize proofs. How can different groups advance in a debate when sharing information, evidence on a complex issue, refer to different notions of arguments and proof standards?

    Required Profile: Master degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) with a good GPA, Knowledge in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics and Logic, and Strong interest in multidisciplinary research.

  • Four W3 professorships in philosophy (one in theoretical philosophy), Heidelberg (Germany)

    Deadline: Thursday 8 April 2021

    As part of the reorganization of the Philosophy Department of the University of Heidelberg, the Department and the Philosophical Faculty invite applications for four professorships (W3) in Philosophy (f/m/d). The respective professorships have the following areas of specialization: (i) ancient (or ancient/medieval) philosophy, (ii) classical German philosophy, (iii) theoretical philosophy, and (iv) practical philosophy. Each professorship has a junior position attached and participates equally in the resources of the department.

    It is expected that future position holders will represent the field of philosophy in research and teaching. The tasks include student-needs based course offerings in the entire area of specialization covered by the position and giving examinations in existing B.A. and M.A. course of studies as well as in the Master of Education. The successful candidates should have experience in acquiring grant funding and be prepared to participate in interdisciplinary research in existing and future networks and to contribute to the development of new joint projects. Willingness to engage in department administration is also expected.

  • Lectureships and Teaching Fellowship in Computer Science, Leipzig (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 7 April 2021

    At the new campus of Lancaster University in Leipzig (Germany) we currently have two open positions for Lecturers and one open position for a Teaching Fellow, all in Computer Science.

    Details can be found here:
    Lecturer: https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=LZ2
    Teaching Fellow: https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=LZ1

     

  • University Assistantship (postdoctoral) in Philosophy of Science & Epistemology, Vienna (Austria)

    Deadline: Sunday 4 April 2021

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work in (joint) projects in the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (directed by Martin Kusch). The position is available immediately for four years. The successful candidate will join the faculty and participate in the department's research, teaching (to the extent regulated by the collective bargaining agreement), and administrative activities. In particular, the candidate is expected to conduct, and/or participate in, research projects leading to international publications and presentations. The successful candidate will write a Habilitation.

    Reference number: 11826. Duration of employment: 4 year/s. Extent of Employment: 40 hours/week.

  • PhD student position on mental representation & situated cognition, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 4 April 2021

    The interdisciplinary Research Training Group "Situated Cognition", funded by the DFG and based at the Department of Philosophy II and the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum (Speaker Prof. Dr. Albert Newen) as well as at the Institute of Cognitive Science, the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Psychology at Osnabrück University (Speaker Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan) invites applications for 1 PhD position in Philosophy, salary scale TV-L E 13, 65%; including social benefits), within a three-year structured PhD program starting at the latest as of 1st July 2021.

    Project Leader: Peter Brössel. Project Description: Mental Representations and Situated Cognition.

    Candidates applying for this theoretical project are expected to have an excellent M.A., M.Sc. (or Staatsexamen degree) in Philosophy. They should have expertise in at least one of the following areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Mind or Science, Philosophy of Language. Appreciated are experiences in formal epistemology.

  • Postdoctoral position (2y) in Logic, Beijing (China)

    Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2021

    The Tsinghua University - University of Amsterdam Joint Research Centre for Logic is looking for a postdoc in the field of logic, who can substantially contribute to research and teaching of the logic group in the department of philosophy. In research, the specific research topic will depend on the candidate's expertise. As regards teaching, the position imposes no obligation of teaching, but a broad and strong teaching competence will be very helpful.

    Applicants must fulfill the following requirements: applicants must be under 35 years old; their PhD degree must have been obtained within the last three years, and fresh graduates are given priority in consideration; they must be recommended by the interview of the department; they must undertake to work full time at Tsinghua University after entering Tsinghua University. Candidates will be reviewed in terms of their academic ability, their research plan, and the potential effect on the subject field, in addition to related overall factors.

    For more information, see here or contact Professor Fenrong Liu at .
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    PhD Research Fellow in Informatics - Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 March 2021

    We invite highly motivated applicants interested in carrying out foundational and/or applied research in knowledge representation, ontologies, and machine learning. The starting date can be in July or in December 2021.

    The Ph.D. positions are fully funded for 3 years and can be extended by one more year through 25% of teaching activities during the Ph.D. studies. Additional funding is available for travel.

  • Postdoctoral position in Mathematical Logic, Bern (Switzerland)

    Deadline: Wednesday 31 March 2021

    Applications are invited for an 18 month postdoctoral position in the Logic group of Prof. George Metcalfe at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bern, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation project "Hidden Quantifiers".

    Candidates are expected to have a PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field, and have research experience in universal algebra, proof theory, or non-classical logics. Proficiency in written and spoken English is also required.

    To apply please send a full CV and recent research paper to by 31 March, 2021.

    Informal inquiries by email are very welcome.

    For more information, contact George Metcalfe at .
  • Senior academic staff Philosophical psychology, Antwerp (Belgium)

    Deadline: Monday 29 March 2021

    The Centre for Philosophical Psychology and the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts have the following full-time vacancy: Senior academic staff in the field of philosophical psychology. You will contribute to the University of Antwerp’s three core tasks: education (40%), research (40%) and services (20%). Your role also includes organisational and managerial aspects.

  • Research Position in Mathematics / Philosophy / Economics, Konstanz (Germany)

    Deadline: Wednesday 24 March 2021

    In the Koselleck project Reflexive Decision and Game Theoy of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spohn at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Konstanz a Research Position in Philosophy / Economics / Mathematics either as Ph.D. position for 3 years (part time 65% E13) or as a Postdoc position for 2 years (full time 100% E13) is to be filled at July 1, 2021, or at the earliest convenient date. An extension of this position is possible.

    For more information, see https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/17298 or contact Prof. Wolfgang Spohn at .
  • Two tenure-track positions in Theoretical Computer Science, Santa Cruz CA (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Wednesday 24 March 2021

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for two positions at the assistant level. We seek candidates with a strong background in Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on Theoretical Computer Science. We are especially interested in candidates working in mathematical foundations of computing, analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and theoretical machine learning. We welcome researchers who apply theoretical and mathematical methods to various applied domains.

    For more information, see https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF00962.
  • Postdoctoral position on logic-based approaches to explanations in AI, Sydney (Australia)

    Deadline: Thursday 18 March 2021

    We are looking for a postdoc to work on logic-based approaches to explanations in AI with Sasha Rubin at the University of Sydney. The main eligibility criterion is that the candidate has received their PhD in the last 5 years, and be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or New Zealand Special Category Visa Holder. The postdoc is funded by the Australian Office of National Intelligence.

    For more information, see https://tinyurl.com/5frtqfvo or contact Sasha Rubin at .
  • PhD scholarship on Concurrency and Logic, Groningen (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Thursday 18 March 2021

    We seek excellent candidates for one four-year PhD scholarship on the
    topics of message-passing concurrency, modal logic, and type systems. The PhD scholarship concerns the interdisciplinary project "Knowledge is Power: Reliable Communicating Software by Epistemic Logics",
    supported by the Young Academy Groningen. Supervisors: Prof. Barteld Kooi and Prof. Jorge A. Pérez.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.rug.nl/phd-scholarships?details=00347-02S000840P or contact Prof. Barteld Kooi at , or Prof. Jorge A. Pérez at .
  • Postdoctoral position in foundations of autonomous multi-agent systems, Warsaw (Poland)

    We are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland). We offer participation in an exciting EU project assuring collaboration and potential co-authorship with six leading European ML/MAS/AI labs.

    Employment: full time, 36 months, competitive salary, flexible research environment and working hours. Requirements: PhD in Computer Science, with either a Machine Learning background and willingness to learn the foundations of Autonomous Multi-agent Systems, or the other way around. The ideal candidate will have the following skills/abilities: Autonomy, ability to self-learn, good analytical background, ability and interest to work in team projects, ability to meet deadlines, good English communication skills (written and spoken).

    For more information, see https://home.ipipan.waw.pl/w.jamroga/ or contact Stan Matwin at , or Wojtek Jamroga at .
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    Two postdoc positions in Formal Semantics in the MECORE project (Edinburgh, Konstanz, Amsterdam)

    Deadline: Monday 15 March 2021

    MECORE is a research project on formal semantics, jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It will investigate the relation between semantic properties of clause-embedding predicates and their selectional properties, by combining cross-linguistic data-collection and experimental semantics with the development of unified theoretical analyses. It will run concurrently in Edinburgh, Konstanz, and Amsterdam. We are currently looking for two postdoctoral researchers to join the team.

    For more information, see https://wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk/mecore/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .
  • Two post-doctoral positions (2y & 1y) in theoretical CS, Piscataway NJ (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Thursday 11 March 2021

    DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, based at Rutgers University, invites applications for postdoctoral positions associated with the Center.

    DIMACS solicits applications of two types:
    a) DIMACS - Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Postdoc. This is a two-year postdoctoral associateship with the first year (2021-2022) spent at DIMACS, and the second year (2022-2023) spent at IAS in Princeton. Applicants should be recent PhDs with interest in theoretical computer science and/or discrete mathematics.
    b) DIMACS Postdoc. This is a one-year position based at DIMACS at Rutgers University, mentored by a faculty member at Rutgers or a DIMACS partner institution. Applicants should be recent PhD graduates in computer science, economics, information science, operations research, or a related field, preferably with a focus in TCS or AI.

    For more information, see https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/122935.
  • PhD student positions in history & philosophy of maths, Zuerich (Switzerland)

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 March 2021

    The ETH chair for the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences in the department for Humanities, Social and Political sciences offers up to 2 PhD positions in the history, philosophy or cultural studies of mathematical sciences under the supervision of Prof. Roy Wagner. The positions are for four years starting September 1st 2021 (or thereabout).

  • Assistant Research Professorship (3y) in Philosophical Logic, Storrs CT (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Sunday 7 March 2021

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut in Storrs invites applications for an Assistant Research Professor. This is a non-tenure track, full-time faculty appointment beginning August 23, 2021, with an expected duration of three years. The teaching load is one (1) course per semester.

    The Area of Specialization for this position is Philosophical Logic, with a preferred additional Area of Specialization in Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind (in particular, AI), Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, or Philosophy of Language. The successful candidate is expected to participate in the Logic Group and to contribute to research, teaching, and modest service in the Philosophy Department.

    For more information, see https://logic.uconn.edu/vacancies/ or contact .
  • PhD student position in Explainable Intelligent Systems, Saarbruecken (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 7 March 2021

    The Department of Philosophy of Saarland University is inviting applications for an Academic research assistant (m/f/x) working at the Department of Philosophy, Project "Explainable Intelligent Systems" (EIS), commencing as soon as possible.

    You will begranted individual supervision for your PhD project. As member of the EIS team, you will be expected to engage in collaborative work with empirical researchers (e.g. from psychology, computer science, and law).You will also be responsible for supporting the junior professor for Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Systems in organization and administration.

    Employment period: until 31.03.2024, employment: 65% of standard working time.
    Reference number W1831.

  • W3 Professorship Multilingual Computational Linguistics, Passau (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 5 March 2021

    The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Passau invites applications for the tenured civil-service post of Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics (W3). This post is available to start immediately.

    We are seeking an expert of international renown to represent the subject of multilingual computational linguistics with a focus on automated language processing methods in teaching and research. Candidates must have rigorous knowledge of the core computational linguistics concepts of several sub-areas (including lexis, morphology, syntax, discourse linguistics, pragmatics, language technology and machine learning) and be familiar with various methodological approaches and their application in multilingual contexts. A willingness to develop and apply theories, methods and technologies in the service of cultural sustainability and linguistic ecology is expected. The multilingual computational linguistics chair to be established should take as its object of analysis and comparison different European national languages and variants thereof. Relevant teaching experience is required.

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    PhD position in linguistics and artificial intelligence, Leuven (Belgium)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    Looking for an exciting PhD position at the intersection of linguistics and artificial intelligence? Apply now and become a PhD student at KU Leuven!

    For more information, see https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/56144064 or contact Dr. Paul Van Eecke at .
  • Two PhD positions in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Brussels, Belgium)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    The Artificial Intelligence Lab in Brussels is hiring! There are currently two open positions for PhD students in knowledge representation and reasoning, under the supervision of Prof. Bart Bogaerts. The start date is flexible, but preferably at the latest October 1st 2021.

    In the first vacancy, we search a researcher in the domain of combinatorial search and optimization methods. More specifically, the goal is to research how to equip solvers with explainable agency. Profile: Computer scientist interested in declarative problem solving. Click for more information on the FRESCO project, or for more details on the vacancy.

    In the second vacancy, we search a researcher for algebraic foundations of knowledge representation langauges. More specifically, our goal is to extend Approximation Fixpoint Theory (a lattice-theoretic framework for studying semantics of non-monononic logics) to capture fields such as domain theory, causal reasoning, and other forms of constructive knowledge. Profile: Mathematician interested in application of mathematics in computer science. Click for more information on the AFTACK project, or for more details on the vacancy.

  • Assistant Professorship in Formal Methods, Kungens Lyngby (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    DTU Compute (Technical University of Denmark) is recruiting a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Formal Methods section. The position is available from July 1st or according to mutual agreement.

    You will be conducting high-quality scientific research at international level, publishing your results in highly-reputed venues, combining theoretical and practical aspects of formal methods, as well as leading and participating in collaborative research projects. You will take part in the development of research-based teaching at the bachelor, master, and PhD levels at DTU. Our teaching portfolio includes courses in topics tightly connected to our research expertise and activities: models of computation, programming languages, semantics, interpreters and compilers, formal methods, program analysis, model checking, security, and distributed and concurrent programming. You will be strengthening our research and research-based teaching competences within formal methods, and expanding them in new directions.

  • Postdoctoral position in philosophy of AI, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021

    In order to strengthen its research capacity in newly emerging research fields in theoretical philosophy, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University is currently looking for a PostDoc in the Philosophy of AI. We are particularly interested in research regarding issues in theoretical philosophy of AI.  The Postdoc position (0.9 FTE, four years) is embedded in the university wide focus area of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and is funded by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University.

  • Three open calls for PhD scholarships at the Department of Communication, Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Thursday 25 February 2021

    The Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for three highly competitive 3-year fully funded PhD scholarships. The candidates are expected to begin on September 1, 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter.

    At the Department, logic is studied at the Center for Information and Bubble Studies. This is an interdisciplinary center of excellence focusing on bubble phenomena as they relate to attention economics, social media, social influence, fake news, misinformation and post-factual democracy.

    The center has a prolific scientific profile, a significant public outreach and a strong commitment to scientific social responsibility, as the World Economic Forum recently declared misinformation a challenge on par with climate change, migration and other global challenges.

  • PhD position in Logics for Ethical Reasoning in Social Robotics, IRIT / Toulouse University (France)

    Deadline: Sunday 21 February 2021

    The International Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Toulouse is offering a 3-year funded PhD position to work on the topic of Logics for Ethical Reasoning in Social Robots under the supervision of Umberto Grandi and Emiliano Lorini, in close cooperation with Rachid Alami and Aurélie Clodic.

  • PhD student position in non-symbolic representation in situated cognition, Bochum (Germany)

    Deadline: Friday 19 February 2021

    The interdisciplinary Research Training Group "Situated Cognition", funded by the DFG and based at the Department of Philosophy II and the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum (Speaker Prof. Dr. Albert Newen) as well as at the Institute of Cognitive Science, the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Psychology at Osnabrück University (Speaker Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan) invites applications for 1 PhD position in Philosophy (salary scale TV-L E 13, 65%; including social benefits), within a three-year structured PhD program, starting between 1st April 2021 and 1st July 2021.

    Project Description: Non-Symbolic Representation in Situated Cognition. Describing Sensorimotor Representations via Embodied Similarity Spaces. Project Leader: Peter Brössel.

    Candidates applying for this theoretical project are expected to have an excellent M.A., M.Sc. (or Staatsexamen degree) in Philosophy. They should have expertise in at least one of the following areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Mind or Science, Philosophy of Language. Appreciated are experiences in formal epistemology.

    The deadline for the call for PhD applications has been extended until 19th February 2020.

  • Postdoctoral position and PhD student position on evolution of cognitive tools, Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Monday 15 February 2021

    The Department of Psychosocial Science at the University of Bergen (UiB) invites applications for a Postdoc and a PhD position each, associated with the project "Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification (QUANTA)", funded by the European Research Council with a Synergy Grant to Andrea Bender (UiB), Francesco d'Errico (CNRS Bordeaux), Russell Gray (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), and Rafael Núñez (UCSD). Both positions are for a period of 3 years.

  • Associate Professorship in Mathematical Logic & TCS, St Petersburg (Russia)

    Deadline: Friday 12 February 2021

    The St.Petersburg State University invites applications for a full-time position of Associate Professor (Docent) in Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science for advanced teaching within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

    Applicants are expected to have a strong research record and to be able to teach both in Russian and in English. Appointees are expected to carry out research of high level, to teach well, and to perform customary administrative duties such as advising students, participating in committees, organizing admissions, etc. The teaching load is up to 8 academic hours (= 6 astronomic hours) per week. The salary level for this position is 189,471 rub. per month. Initial contract is normally signed for a period of up to five years, and can be renewed by further 5 year terms.

  • Postdoc position in Economic Theory, St Etienne (France)

    Deadline: Wednesday 10 February 2021

    Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in Cooperative Game Theory, Social Choice Theory and Implementation at GATE (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon Saint-Etienne), at the Jean Monnet University in St Etienne (France).

  • Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in temporal logic, Ames IA (U.S.A.), Deadline: open (postdocs), 1 Feb 2021 (PhD students)

    Deadline: Tuesday 2 February 2021

    Multiple fully-funded PhD positions and Postdoc positions are available at Iowa State University in the Lab for Temporal Logic, which spans the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, and the Virtual Reality Application Center.

    The Laboratory for Temporal Logic focuses on foundational advances to formal methods that carry through to really fly. The lab has developed techniques to enable better system specification and model-checking algorithms that scale to verify large, complex systems including NASA's automated air traffic control system and industrial verification problems at IBM.  Candidate(s) will conduct world-class research in the area of formal methods, including design-time and/or runtime verification. The position is initially offered for one or two years, with opportunities for extensions. Teaching and/or research-in-education opportunities are available if the candidate desires, but not required.

    For more information, see http://laboratory.temporallogic.org/2020-position-ad/ or contact Dr. Kristin Yvonne Rozier at .
  • PhD student position on coalgebraic logics for quantitative verification, Glasgow (Scotland)

    Deadline: Tuesday 2 February 2021

    In the Mathematically Structured Programming Group at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the area of coalgebraic logics & model-checking under the supervision of Dr Clemens Kupke. The goals of the project are to work on a new mathematical framework for quantitative logics and, based on this, to create model-checking tools for verification. The research will be part of the Leverhulme project "COVER: Coalgebraic Foundations of Quantitative Verification" in collaboration with the University of Southampton and funds 2 postdoctoral researchers. This means that the new student will be embedded in an active research team with closely aligned goals.

    The successful applicant will have either at least a 2:1 degree or an MSc in Mathematics or Computer Science or a related subject with a strong Mathematics or Computer Science component. Ideally, they will also have a strong, documented interest in doing research. Strong mathematical background and problem-solving skills are essential.

    For more information, see here or contact Dr. Clemens Kupke at .
  • PhD position in Algorithmic Game Theory, Aarhus University (Denmark)

    Deadline: Monday 1 February 2021

    Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship in Algorithmic Game Theory at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the Computer Science programme. The PhD student will work under the supervision of Ioannis Caragiannis.

  • Full Professor of Philosophy, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Bayreuth

    Deadline: Monday 1 February 2021
    The successful applicant will have an outstanding research track-record including top-ranked publications at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Relevant areas in philosophy include ethics, political philosophy, logic, philosophy of mind, or philosophy of cognitive science. Relevant areas in computer science include but are not limited to artificial intelligence, recommender systems, responsible AI, algorithmic fairness, human-computer interaction, knowledge representation, and human-centred AI.
  • W3 Professorship in Philosophy, Computer Science, & AI, Bayreuth (Germany)

    Deadline: Monday 1 February 2021

    The University of Bayreuth is a research-oriented university with internationally competitive, interdisciplinary focus areas in research and teaching. The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth is currently seeking to appoint a Full Professor of Philosophy, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at pay grade W 3 (minimum gross salary per month: 7,217 euros) to commence as soon as possible. This is a permanent civil service position.

    The successful applicant will have an outstanding research track-record including top-ranked publications at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The successful applicant will be involved in the Philosophy & Economics B.A. and M.A. programmes and in the Computer Science programmes. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the development of a joint study programme at the intersection of philosophy and computer science. The ability to teach in English is required.

  • PhD position in Foundations of Knowledge and Opinion Formation in Social Networks, Groningen (the Netherlands)

    Deadline: Sunday 31 January 2021

    We are inviting applications for a PhD Position in *Foundations of Knowledge and Opinion Formation in Social Networks* at the University of Groningen.

    The PhD candidate will join the Multi-Agent Systems Group at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and work primarily under the supervision of Dr Zoé Christoff.

    The goal of this project is to provide foundational analytical results answering, for instance, some of the following questions: how do social networks constrain opinion flow? Which communication protocols and/or network structures perform better than others in terms of truth-tracking? Are there non-trivial network structures that necessarily increase/decrease specific herding effects? Are there ways to make a population of agents provably less vulnerable to disinformation campaigns?

  • Postdoctoral position on analysis techniques for deep neural networks, Houston TX (U.S.A.)

    A postdoctoral researcher is sought for a two-year position in computer science at Rice University to work with Professors Lydia Kavraki and Moshe Vardi on analysis techniques for deep neural networks (DNNs). This project aims at developing techniques for analysis of DNNs by combining methods from formal methods, cyber-physical systems, and robotics. We are seeking candidates who have demonstrated ability to lead and/or work collaboratively in teams comprised of individuals of diverse backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.

    Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field. Required skills include excellent analytical skills, excellent software engineering skills, and excellent writing skills. Candidates with current expertise at the intersection of formal methods and robotics/cyber-physical systems will be given priority. This position is particularly suited for candidates who want to follow a career in academia.

    The position is available immediately and applications will be accepted until this position is filled.

    For more information, see http://www.kavrakilab.org/openings/postdocRoboticsDNNs2021.html or contact Professor Lydia Kavraki at , or Professor Moshe Vardi at .
  • Seventeen PhD student positions in Computer Science (including logic), Glasgow (Scotland)

    Deadline: Sunday 31 January 2021

    The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering up to 17 studentships to support PhD research for students starting in 2021. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students, and in most cases to support living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate in addition.

    Whilst the above funding is open to students in all areas of computing science, applications in the area of programming languages are particularly welcomed. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a potential supervisor and discuss an application before the submission deadline.

  • Postdoctoral position in combinatorial optimization (including SAT solving), Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 24 January 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for postdoctoral positions in combinatorial optimization.

    The postdoc will be working in the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group headed by Jakob Nordstrom, which is doing research on theoretical analysis of and applied algorithm development for combinatorial optimization paradigms such as SAT solving, pseudo-Boolean optimization, constraint programming, and integer linear programming. MIAO belongs to the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU, one of the leading groups in theoretical computer science in Europe, which is part of an exciting environment including the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre (https://barc.ku.dk/), joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors. We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory, but we also have a track record of start-ups and surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

    This is a full-time employed position. The intended starting date is September 2021 but is negotiable, and the intended duration is 2 years. The University of Copenhagen is currently expanding strongly in computer science. We expect to keep having tenure-track openings in computer science in the coming years, and welcome postdoctoral researchers interested in exploring such opportunities.

    For more information, see https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153126 or contact Jakob Nordström at .
  • Postdoc positions in Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 24 January 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for postdoctoral positions in theoretical computer science.

    We are looking for outstanding junior researchers with an innovative mind-set and intellectual curiosity to strengthen and complement the research profile of the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU. This is one of the leading research groups in theoretical computer science in Europe, with a strong presence at top-tier conferences like STOC, FOCS, and SODA, and also with publications in premier AI conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS. We are part of an exciting environment including the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre (https://barc.ku.dk/), joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors. We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory, but we also have a track record of start-ups and surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

    These postdoc positions are full-time employed positions. The starting date is flexible from April to September 2021, and the intended duration is 2 years. The University of Copenhagen is currently expanding strongly in computer science. We expect to have tenure-track openings in theoretical computer science in the coming years, and welcome postdoctoral researchers interested in exploring such opportunities.

    For more information, see https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153103 or contact Jakob Nordström at , Rasmus Pagh at , Mikkel Thorup at , or Christian Wulff-Nilsen at .
  • PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization, Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 24 January 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for PhD positions in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization.

    The PhD students will be working in the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU. This is one of the leading research groups in theoretical computer science in Europe, with a strong presence at top-tier conferences like STOC, FOCS, and SODA, and also with publications in premier AI conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS. We are part of an exciting environment including the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre (https://barc.ku.dk/), joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors. We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory, but we also have a track record of start-ups and surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

    These PhD positions are full-time employed positions for a period of 3-5 years, depending on the education level of the candidate, and include an extended stay at some research institution abroad. The tentative starting date is September 2021, but this is negotiable.

    For more information, see https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153104 or contact Jakob Nordström at , Rasmus Pagh at , or Mikkel Thorup at .
  • Postdoctoral position (3+2y) in databases, Bremen (Germany)

    Deadline: Sunday 17 January 2021

    At the University of Bremen in the department of mathematics and informatics there is a full PostDoc position available, commencing at the earliest convenience. The position is at the level of "Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in Entgeltgrupppe (13 TV-L)" within the group "Databases" headed by Prof. Sebastian Maneth. The position is for a duration of 3 years, with a possible prolongation of additional 2 years. This position is research only (= no teaching obligations) within a project that is funded by the DFG. The topic of the project is "definability of tree transformations".

    We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher with an excellent track record in automata theory or formal language theory and with the will and enthusiasm to crack these hard problems.

  • Tenure-track assistant professorship in complexity theory, Copenhagen (Denmark)

    Deadline: Sunday 17 January 2021

    The Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in computational complexity theory.

    We are looking for an outstanding junior researcher with an innovative mind-set and intellectual curiosity to strengthen and complement the research profile of the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU. This is part of an exciting environment including the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre, joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and involving extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge. We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory, but we also have a track record of start-ups and surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

    For more information, see https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=152981 or contact Jakob Nordström at .
  • PhD student position in model theory, Norwich (UK)

    Deadline: Friday 15 January 2021

    The project "Model theory and quasiminimality for analytic functions (KIRBYJ_U21SCIEPO)" at the University of East Anglia,School of Mathematics is based on the recent exciting developments in the application of model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, to analytic functions such as exponentiation. In this project, you will take some functions arising in complex or p-adic analysis and attempt to show that their logical theory is quasiminimal. When this can be proved, systems of equations involving this function will have solutions which can be understood geometrically, in a similar way to algebraic geometry, which applies to polynomial functions.

    This 3.5 year PhD studentship is funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. The start date is 1st October 2021.  Methods likely to be useful arise from model theory, topology, algebraic geometry, and real, complex and p-adic analysis; candidates should have knowledge of at least one or two of these areas.

  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics, London School of Economics (UK)

    Deadline: Monday 11 January 2021

    The Department of Mathematics at LSE seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor. For this post, we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in a subject area related to the Mathematics of Game Theory.

    For more information, see https://tinyurl.com/MathJobLSE2020 or contact Professor Jan van den Heuvel at .
  • Open Associate Professor position (tenured) in AI and Logic, Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Monday 11 January 2021

    The Logic and AI group at the University of Bergen in Norway has a vacancy for an Associate Professor (permanent tenured position).
    We are looking for (but are not limited to) a colleague who does research in multi-agent systems, information aggregation, machine ethics, social network analysis, and/or formal argumentation. The position is also open for excellent applicants with other AI perspectives focussing on social interaction.

    The position is teaching/research. At our department Associate Professors typically teach one course in the semester. The new colleague will be a part of the new bachelor-program in artificial intelligence that the Department will offer in Autumn 2021.

  • Two PhD student positions in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

    Deadline: Sunday 10 January 2021

    The Individual and Collective Reasoning Group (ICR, Department of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg), led by Prof. Leon van der Torre, is looking for 2 PhD students (doctoral candidates) in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

    The first position is in the context of the DigitaLisation, Law, And Innovation (DILLAN) program, an an interdisciplinary training program for Phd students in law and in computer science.

    The second position is part of the Deontic Logic for Epistemic Rights (DELIGHT) project, an interdisciplinary project developing new formal frameworks extending deontic logic with epistemic and action notions in order to reason about epistemic rights as normative positions.

    For both positions, a Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and a strong background in knowledge representation and reasoning, and some focus areas are required.

    For more information, see http://emea3.mrted.ly/2jry4 (1st position) or http://emea3.mrted.ly/2l4zb  (2nd position) or contact Prof. Leon van der Torre at   or and Dr. Réka Markovich at

  • PHD in AI&Logic, with focus on AI Ethics, Bergen (Norway)

    Deadline: Friday 8 January 2021

    The Logic and AI group at the University of Bergen in Norway has a vacancy for a doctoral candidate.

    The appointment is for four years with 25% of the total appointment time is a duty to be performed at the department, typically as a teaching assistant. The working language is English. The topic of the thesis is proposed by the candidate when applying. We are looking for (but are not limited to) project in machine ethics, autonomous systems, explainability, fairness, automated audit of accountability, or ethical impact of automated decision-making processes.

    We are looking for applicants that hold a master's degree in information science, informatics, cognitive science, logic, or equivalent
    Required is a documented background in at least one of the areas (not in order of relevance):
    - machine learning
    - logical programming
    - formal argumentation
    - deontic / normative reasoning
    - decision theory
    - formal verification
    - moral philosophy
    - differential privacy
    A course the candidate has taken or a project the candidate has completed counts as documented background. Experience from scientific work is an advantage.

  • Postdoc position, Multi-Agent Laboratory, Kyushu University (Japan)

    Deadline: Tuesday 5 January 2021

    The multi-agent laboratory in Kyushu University, headed by Professor Makoto Yokoo, is now hiring one post-doctoral researcher in market design and optimization.

  • Tenure-track faculty position in computer science (theory included), Rochester NY (U.S.A.)

    Deadline: Friday 1 January 2021

    The Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester seeks applicants for tenure-track faculty positions. Candidates must have (or be about to receive) a doctorate in computer science or a related discipline. We are particularly eager to hire in theory, security/privacy/cryptography, quantum computing, data management, natural language processing, and machine learning, but candidates in all areas of computer science and at any level of seniority are encouraged to apply: we are always on the lookout for unique opportunities and synergies.

    For more information, see http://www.cs.rochester.edu.
  • Tenure track positions at University of Rochester

    Deadline: Friday 1 January 2021
    The Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester (http://www.cs.rochester.edu) seeks applicants for tenure-track faculty positions. We are particularly eager to hire in theory, security/privacy/cryptography, quantum computing, data management, natural language processing, and machine learning, but candidates in all areas of computer science and at any level of seniority are encouraged to apply: we are always on the lookout for unique opportunities and synergies.
    For more information, see https://www.rochester.edu/faculty-recruiting/positions/show/10942 or contact Lane A. Hemaspaandra at .

Past appointments

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    Spinoza Chair Department of Philosophy 2021: Robert Brandom

    Since 1995, the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam has annually appointed a foreign philosopher to the Spinoza chair. As part of the appointment, the Spinoza professor gives a number of lectures intended for a broad audience that wants to stay informed about contemporary developments in philosophy.

Miscellaneous

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    Can sign language tools help improve care for Deaf patients?

    Interview with Lyke Esselink (SignLab Amsterdam) with Medical Technology Magazine.

  • Launch of website "Alice & Eve: A celebration of women in computing"

    The goal of Alice & Eve Digital is to create an accessible and inclusive virtual space to learn from empowering role models and inspire the next generation of female leaders.

    For more information, see https://www.aliceandeve.nl/.
  • FIT FNWI webinar

    Last week, the third FIT FNWI took place. The theme was: dealing with stress and uncertainty. Dr. Harm Krugers (SILS) explained what stress does to your brain and how to deal with uncertainty, after which the Occupational Health and Safety Service told us more about the RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) method, which can regulate your emotions and lower your stress level. Missed the webinar, or do you want to watch it again? You can find the recording at the FIT FNWI video channel.

    For more information, see https://video.uva.nl/channel/FIT%2BFNWI/39068 or contact Francesca Vink at .
  • Dirk Dekker (1927 - 2021)

    Sadly, we have to inform you that prof. Dirk Dekker has passed away. Dirk Dekker was professor of numerical analysis at the UvA from 1971 until 1992. He was one of the founders of the Informatics Institute.

  • Herman Hendriks (1959 - 2021)

    Sadly, we have to inform you that Herman Hendriks (Nijmegen, 18 februari 1959) died in Amsterdam on the 22nd of October 2021.

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    Info session ILLC Diversity Committee for MoL students

    Dear members of the ILLC,

    On the 1st of November the ILLC Diversity Committee had the honour of introducing themselves and what they do to the Master of Logic students in LoLaCo. Please find the recording of this information session through the URL below, as well as the slides in attachment to the video.

    Kind regards,
    The ILLC Diversity Committee

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    Talk That Science podcast on Avatars for Sign Language

    The podcast Talk That Science hosted by students from the Master of Logic has published an episode on Avatars for Sign Language with Floris Roelofsen.

    There are 70 million deaf and hearing impaired people in the world, but there is so far no tool to translate a written language to a sign language. This is about to change: Floris Roelfsen - our guest this episode - is currently working on a project to develop an avatar that can speak sign language. We will talk about the importance of sign language, about how it differs from written and spoken languages and about how we can develop such an avatar. Meanwhile, we play some songs to the topic, ranging from "Express Yourself" to "Vibrations on a String" - because even though we cannot all listen to music, we can all hear its vibrations! Listen to the episode on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts or Mixcloud.

    For more information, see https://linktr.ee/talkthatscience or contact Nicolien Janssens at .
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    "Music Cognition:The Basics" by Henkjan Honing

    Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? The book Music Cognition: The Basics considers the role of our cognitive functions, such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation in perceiving, making, and appreciating music.

    In this volume, Henkjan Honing explores the active role these functions play in how music makes us feel; exhilarated, soothed, or inspired. Grounded in the latest research in areas of psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience, and with clear examples throughout, this book concentrates on underappreciated musical skills such as sense of rhythm, beat induction, and relative pitch, that make people intrinsically musical creatures—supporting the conviction that all humans have a unique, instinctive attraction to music

  • ILLC Blog post on the wisdom of the crowds

    This blog post talks about work from the computational social choice group on modelling the wisdom of the crowds: Why are groups of people better at finding the truth than individuals? And how does our hyperconnected digital world threaten this collective wisdom?

  • ILLC Blog post on meaning and ambiguity in digital communication

    This blog post talks about the research of Davide Beraldo, a scholar at the Media Studies department who joined the ILLC this summer. He combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate meaning and ambiguity in digital communication. He also explores what digital social movements such as Anonymous are all about.

    For more information, see https://resources.illc.uva.nl/illc-blog/who-is-anonymous/ or contact Iris Proff at .
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    'Talk That Science' podcast on 'Causation & Moral responsibility'

    The podcast 'Talk That Science' hosted by students from the Master of Logic has brought out an episode on Causation & Moral Responsibility with Dean McHugh, a Phd student at the ILLC.

    Dean studies how people use words like “because” and “cause” in order to determine how we understand the concept of causation. Different understandings of causation can have practical implications for society, especially in the law. In this podcast episode, we talk about how the outcome of a lawsuit depends on a specific understanding of causation. Thijmen Nuninga, the other guest, is finishing a Phd in law and gives many examples of how causation is crucial to determine responsibility. We talk about the Urgenda case and whether the Netherlands is responsible for climate change, about if we can understand discrimination because of sexual orientation as discrimination because of sex, and about how to determine whether a heavy smoker got lung cancer because there was asbestos in his work environment.

    For more information, see https://linktr.ee/talkthatscience or contact Nikki Weststeijn at .
  • This month Dick de Jongh is affiliated to the UvA for 60 years

    Dick de Jongh started 60 years ago as student assistent of Beth on the EUROTOM project. He came from Leiden University after his 'kandidaatsexamen'. The following year Hans Kamp also came to Amsterdam from Leiden. This is a conference picture of an event attended by Brouwer, De Jongh and Kamp in the course of the project.

    For more information, see http://festschriften.illc.uva.nl/D65/ or contact Dick de Jongh at .
  • Interview with Robert van Rooij on ILLC Blog

    Robert van Rooij is the new director of the ILLC. In an interview on the ILLC blog, he shares his vision for the institute and his thoughts on the societal relevance of his research.

    For more information, see https://resources.illc.uva.nl/illc-blog/robert-van-rooij or contact Iris Proff at .
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    Robert van Rooij appointed as scientific director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

    Robert van Rooij, professor of Logic and Cognition, is the new scientific director of the UvA's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation as of 1 July.

    Van Rooij works on the semantics of natural language, informed by insights of cognitive science, and using formal tools from logic, (probabilistic) causal models, and decision and (evolutionary) game theory.

  • Interview with Sonja Smets

    Sonja Smets, the director of the ILLC, is handing over the directorship to Robert van Rooij. In this interview, she shares her thoughts on the last five years at the ILLC, on gender equality in science and on recent developments in AI, logic and quantum computing.

  • Towards 100% open access: make use of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act

    As of 1 January 2021 the UvA has a 100% open access policy for scientific publications. One of the possibilities for UvA researchers to make their publications freely accessible, is the right that derives from Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act. Based on this article of the law, a short scientific work – which has not previously been published open but in a subscription journal – can after some time nonetheless be made freely accessible by the author. This also applies to e.g. conference papers and edited chapters. You can give the UvA Library permission to arrange this for you.

  • Blog post on participatory budgeting & computational social choice

    A new article on the the ILLC blog discusses the work of the Computational Social Choice group on participatory budgeting. In Amsterdam and many other cities around the world, residents can decide what their city's budget should be spent on. Participatory budgeting is way to empower the local population and enhance democratic culture - but how to make sure decisions are fair and everyone is being heard?

  • Thomas Strahm (1965-2021)

    We are sorry to have to tell you that our friend and colleague Thomas Strahm passed away peacefully in the morning of April 26 after four years of suffering. His death was, however, sudden and unexpected.

    Thomas Strahm, born in Bern, is well-known for his many contributions to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, more specifically, proof theory, explicit mathematics, higher type functionals in an applicative context, and applicative theories for computational complexity. He was one of the leading experts of explicit mathematics and made groundbreaking contributions to the metapredicativity program and the unfolding of theories. In addition to his many important research contributions, Thomas was deeply committed to the teaching of logic and theoretical computer science at all levels. The center of Thomas's research and teaching was the University of Bern, but he spent extended research stays at the Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Stanford University, the Mittag-Leffler Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, and the University of Swansea. He was president of the Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences SSLPS from 2010 to 2013. He also served as editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic for many years.

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    12 - 23 April 2021, Reading Group Tractatus

    Date & Time: 12 - 23 April 2021, 15:00-17:00
    Location: Online

    From May 17 to June 16 the Joint Research Center in Logic of Tsinghua University and the University of Amsterdam organises the on-line Centennial Lectures Series to commemorate the fact that in 2021 it is 100 years ago that Wittgenstein’s Tractatus was first published. By way of preparation, Hao Tand and Martin Stokhof organise a short, intensive reading group that is strictly focussed on reading the text of the Tractatus itself. This will allow students and interested faculty members, who have not read the Tractatus or who want to refresh their memory of it, to prepare for the lecture series so as to maximise its benefits.

    For more information, see http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=2373 or contact Martin Stokhof at .
  • Joint doctorate programme with University of St Andrews

    The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam and the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews have inaugurated a four year (full-time) Joint Doctoral Programme. The aim of the Programme is to train world-leading researchers in Philosophy, Logic, Language, and Computation.

    The PhD candidates admitted to the Joint St Andrews-Amsterdam Programme will be supervised in co-tutelle by academics from both institutions. They will conduct research for at least one year at ILLC and one year at St Andrews. They will be awarded a joint degree and a twofold diploma, with the titles of Doctor for
    Amsterdam, and Doctor of Philosophy for St Andrews.

    Specific individual student agreements can be designed to suit the needs of each PhD candidate in co-tutelle.

    The academic coordinators of the Joint Programme are for ILLC, UvA, and for St Andrews. They can be contacted for further information.

    For more information, contact Luca Incurvati at .
  • A New Platform for Chatting in Logic

    A new platform for discussions in logic and related subjects has recently been set up in Zulip. Here is the latest invite link: https://mathematical-logic.zulipchat.com/join/iuv3cqule3dh45y3rqqxyo2g/. This link will be available for 13 days.

    For more information, contact Sayantan Roy at .
  • Blog post on automatic image captioning

    A new post is now online on the ILLC blog, talking about research by the Dialogue Modelling Group led by Raquel Fernández. The researchers found that image captioning algorithms can generate more human-like descriptions when they look at an image like humans do. Their findings shed light on the interaction of language and vision in human cognition.

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    Benedikt Löwe re-elected to an Extraordinary Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge

    The Fellowship Electors of Churchill College, Cambridge have re-elected Benedikt Löwe to an Extraordinary Fellowship for five additional years (2021–2026). Benedikt has been affiliated with Churchill College since 2017, first as a By-Fellow, then as an Overseas Fellow, and since 2019 as an Extraordinary Fellow.

    For more information, see http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk or contact Benedikt Löwe at .
  • Five ILLC members elected to the VvL Board

    At the virtual General Meeting held on 28 January 2021, the members of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Logica en Wijsbegeerte der Exacte Wetenschappen (VvL) elected five members of the ILLC to the Board of the VvL for a term of six years: Nick Bezhanishvili, Davide Grossi, Benedikt Löwe, Sonja Smets, and Peter van Ormondt. Nick Bezhanishvili will serve as the new President and Peter van Ormondt as the new Treasurer of the VvL.

  • MoL students Nicolien Janssens and Nikki Westeijn part of winning project of Grassroots Science4all 2020

    In 2020, employees and students were again called upon to apply for financial support for projects to improve diversity and inclusion at the Faculty of Science. This time no fewer than six projects have received a Grassroots Science4all grant!

  • Blog post on logic and how group beliefs form in social networks

    For the World Logic Day on January 14, we published a blog post about the work of Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets. They use logical models to investigate how group beliefs form in online social networks.

  • Mike Yates (1939-2020)

    Professor C.E.M. Yates, Mike to all who knew him, died on the 21st of December 2020 in Bangor, North Wales, at the age of 81. Mike will be remembered with affection by all who knew him: caring, generous and greatly supportive of his students and colleagues and the discipline.

    For more information, see here .