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Headlines ILLC Events this week
- 16 April 2024, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Anouck Braggaar
- 17 April 2024, LLAMA seminar, Chase Ford
- (New) 18 April 2024, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Federico Fioravanti
- 18 April 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hans van Ditmarsch
- 19 April 2024, Formalisation, Optimisation, Algorithms, Mechanisms (FOAM), Tim van Erven
- (Updated) 19 April 2024, DIP Colloquium, Rick Nouwen
ILLC News
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(New) Four PhD Positions in AI, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage
Deadline: Wednesday 15 May 2024Do you want to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage?
Our experts from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM) are looking for four talented and ambitious PhD candidates. Your research will be part of the Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities unit of the ILLC (Projects 1-3) or the Digital Heritage research group of the AHM (Project 4).
For more information, see here or at https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Four-PhD-Positions-in-AI%2C-Digital-Humanities%2C-and-Cultural-Heritage/792167402/ or contact Dr.ir. Jaap Kamps at kamps at uva.nl. -
(New) PhD on Benchmarking Scientific Explanation in Psychological Practice
Deadline: Monday 6 May 2024Are you looking for a PhD position in a dynamic setting? Do you want to execute philosophy of science research informed by and engaging scientific practices? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) currently has a vacant PhD position for a talented student as part of the project Benchmarking scientific explanation in psychological practice, led by principal investigator Dr. Dingmar van Eck. The ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
For more information, see here or at https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-Benchmarking-Scientific-Explanation-in-Psychological-Practice/792180302/ or contact Dr. Dingmar van Eck at d.vaneck at uva.nl.
ILLC Events this week
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16 April 2024, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Anouck Braggaar
Date & Time: Tuesday 16 April 2024, 16:00
Speaker: Anouck Braggaar (Tilburg University)Title: Evaluating Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: A Systematic Review of Measures, Constructs and their OperationalisationsLocation: Room L3.36 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park, plus live streaming on Zoom.For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/. -
17 April 2024, LLAMA seminar, Chase Ford
Date & Time: Wednesday 17 April 2024, 16:00-17:00
Speaker: Chase Ford (Leiden University)Title: Graded Monads and Behavioural Equivalence GamesLocation: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / online via ZoomFor more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/ or contact Tobias Kappé at t.kappe at uva.nl. -
(New) 18 April 2024, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Federico Fioravanti
Date & Time: Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00
Speaker: Federico FioravantiTitle: Voting with Partial Orders: The Plurality and Anti-Plurality ClassesLocation: Room L1.13, Lab42, Science Park 900, AmsterdamFor more information, see here or at https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/seminar/ or contact Ulle Endriss at ulle.endriss at uva.nl. -
18 April 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hans van Ditmarsch
Date & Time: Thursday 18 April 2024, 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT)Title: Distributed Knowledge RevisitedLocation: ILLC seminar room F1.15 in Science Park 107 and onlineFor more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/02/lira-session-hans-van-ditmarsch-4/. -
19 April 2024, Formalisation, Optimisation, Algorithms, Mechanisms (FOAM), Tim van Erven
Date & Time: Friday 19 April 2024, 15:00-16:25
Speaker: Tim van ErvenTitle: How Fast Can We Compute (Approximate) Nash Equilibria in Zero-sum Matrix Games?Location: Room L3.33, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, AmsterdamFor more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk13/ or contact Gregor Behnke at g.behnke at uva.nl, or Ronald de Haan at r.dehaan at uva.nl. -
(Updated) 19 April 2024, DIP Colloquium, Rick Nouwen
Date & Time: Friday 19 April 2024, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Rick Nouwen (Utrecht)Title: Asserting untrue alternativesLocation: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, AmsterdamFor more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35240/Rick-Nouwen-Utrecht.