At this year’s Dies Natalis of the University of Amsterdam, Professor dr. Vikram Patel (Harvard University) and Prof. dr. Chris Manning (Stanford University) will be awarded Honorary Doctorates. During this symposium, a panel of expert speakers will join our honorees to discuss pertinent topics within the fields of mental health and the use of artificial intelligence on a global scale.

This session of the DSCC is organised jointly with the ENCODE project. Speakers will include Richard Pettigrew (Bristol), Marcus Pivato (Cergy) and Peter Wakker (Rotterdam).

Reasoning about causal relationships is an important theme throughout science. The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded last year to Guido Imbens and Joshua Angrist, for their role in the development of methods to investigate how researchers understand and analyze causal relationships. This webinar, which the Academy organizes together with the Association for Logic (VvL), brings together various experts in the field of reasoning about causality from different disciplines.

Speakers: Guido Imbens, Sara Magliacane, Thomas Icard and Katrin Schulz. The evening will be chaired by Rineke Verbrugge, professor of logic and cognition at the University of Groningen, and Balder ten Cate, associate professor of logic and theoretical computer science at the University of Amsterdam. The language will be English.

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, and many predict that it and similar ‘large language models’ will have a major impact on education, learning, science and publishing. The ILLC – home to Amsterdam’s largest research group studying language models – invites lecturers, students and collaborators to an afternoon on ChatGPT & the university.

How does it work? What can it do, and what can it not do? What are some of the ehtical and legal dilemma’s when using this technology? We’ll have some short talks and demonstrations, and plenty of time to answer your questions.With: Prof Raquel Fernández (dialogue systems), Prof Robert van Rooij (semantics), Dr Jelle Zuidema (explainable AI), Dr Jelke Bloem (digital humanities), Dr. Sandro Pezelle (responsible AI), Ece Takmaz (vision-language models), Mario Guilianelli (language generation), and others.

This is a hybrid seminar, please contact the organizer if you would like to lister to the seminar online.

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.