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We will hold the 3rd 「論数哲」(PhilLogMath) workshop. Our aim is to
provide opportunities of detailed discussions among philosophers,
logicians, mathematicians and linguists. We focus on theoretical and
computational linguistics this time. Everyone is welcome.
website url: http://researchmap.jp/jopmokbbr-21098/#_21098
Date : May 17 (Thu)
Place: Seiryo Kaikan (Nagata-cho, Tokyo)
http://metropolis.co.jp/listings/venues/type/stage-venue/seiryo-kaikan/
Time table
10:00-13:00 "Author meets Critics" meeting on Takuro Onishi's Doctor thesis
14:30-16:00 Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University) and Hiroko Ozaki
(Ochanomizu University)
"Sub-directional Combinatory Logic (SDCL) and Categorial Grammar"
16:15-17:45 Chung-chieh Shan (Cornell Unversity/ Tsukuba University)
"Interpreting generic statements in topological spaces"
Two afternoon slots consists of 60 minutes talk and 30 minutes
discussion basically.
Author meets Critics meeting is in Japanese, and two afternoon
talks are in English.
Abstracts:
*Daisuke Bekki and Hiroko Ozaki "Sub-directional Combinatory Logic
(SDCL) and Categorial Grammar"
Sub-directional Combinatory Logic (SDCL) is a class of substructural
combinatory logic that distinguishes two types of implications (/ and
¥) as in Lambek calculus, which is intended to establish a
correspondence between combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) and logic.
In this talk, we will introduce some of our recent developments
concerning SDCL, including the relation between extraction and the
deduction theorem (Ozaki and Bekki (2012)), and the application of
SDCL to normal form parsing (Ozaki(2012)).
*Chung-chieh Shan "Interpreting generic statements in topological
spaces" (joint work with Adam Bjorndahl and Will Starr at Cornell
University)
Generic statements, such as "lions have manes and give birth to live
young", are statements about kinds. But what are kinds, and what does
it take for a kind to satisfy a property that applies to members of
the kind? We claim that a kind is a topological space, a property is a
set of points in the space, and a property holds of a kind generically
iff the set of points is "large" in a topological (and qualitative)
sense. This "large" modality accounts for several inference patterns
of generic statements. However, it leaves open the issue of how the
space is constituted by cognition and updated in dialogue.
Workshop organizer (please replace [at] to @):
Yuko Murakami
Shunsuke Yatabe ( shunsuke.yatabe[at]aist.go.jp )
Takuro Onishi ( takuro.onishi[at]gmail.com )
8th SCANDINAVIAN LOGIC SYMPOSIUM 20-21 August 2012 at Roskilde University,
DENMARK
Third Announcement and Call for Papers
The 8th Scandinavian Logic Symposium will be held at Roskilde University, Trekroner,
Denmark, 20-21 August 2012.
After a gap of fifteen years, the Scandinavian Logic Symposium is back. The
Symposium is the first major initiative of the newly revived Scandinavian Logic Society (SLS,
http://scandinavianlogic.org/) and will be held at Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark.
As with previous editions of this conference, the aim of the programme is to reflect current
activity in logic in our part of the world. So we hope that participants from Scandinavia, the Baltic
countries and Northwestern Russia will take the opportunity to contribute a talk and to meet
with fellow logicians from the area. But needless to say, we also extend a warm welcome to
logicians from further afield and plan to present a varied and interesting collection of invited and
contributed talks.
TOPICS
The scope of SLS 2012 is broad, ranging over the whole area of mathematical and philosophical logic, and logical methods in computer science. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to):
* Proof Theory and Constructivism
* Model Theory (including Finite Model Theory)
* Set Theory
* Computability Theory
* Categorical Logic
* Logic and Provability
* Logic and Computer Science
* Logic and Linguistics
* Modal, Hybrid, Temporal, and Description Logic
* Logics of Games, Dynamics and Interaction
* Philosophy of Mathematics
* Philosophy of Computation
* Philosophy of Logic
* Philosophical Logic
PREVIOUS SCANDINAVIAN LOGIC SYMPOSIA:
7th Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Uppsala in 1996
6th Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Telemark in 1982
5th Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Aalborg in 1979
4th Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Jyväskylä in 1976
3rd Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Uppsala in 1973
2nd Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Oslo in 1971
1st Scandinavian Logic Symposium: Åbo in 1968
The proceedings of several of these meetings have been published in book form.
INVITED SPEAKERS
The Program Committee is delighted to announce the names of the four invited speakers:
* Nikolaj Bjorner<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/nbjorner/>
* Rosalie Iemhoff<http://www.phil.uu.nl/%7Eiemhoff/> (sponsored by The Danish Network for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics)
* Per Martin-Löf<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Martin-L%C3%B6f>
* Boban Velickovic<http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/%7Eboban/>
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/nbjorner/>
SLS TUTORIALS
On August 22nd, the day after the symposium finishes, a number of tutorials for PhD-students (or anyone else who is interested) will be given. These are intended to start from a relatively elementary level and lead on to current research problems.
The following tutorial lectures have been confirmed so far:
* Lars Kristiansen<http://folk.uio.no/larsk/> - "Honest subrecursive degree theory"
* Sara Negri <http://www.helsinki.fi/%7Enegri/> - "Labelled proof systems for modal logic"
* M. H. Sørensen<http://www.formalit.dk/> - "Curry-Howard Isomorphism"
RELATED EVENTS:
Also note that Advances in Modal Logic (AiML) will be held on 22-25
August 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark. URL:http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012/
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-chairs: Neil Jones (Copenhagen) and Erik Palmgren (Stockholm)
Members:
Torben Brauner (Roskilde)
Peter Dybjer (Chalmers)
Lars Kristiansen (Oslo)
Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck)
Sara Negri (Helsinki)
Dag Normann (Oslo)
Asger Törnquist, (Vienna)
Jouko Väänänen (Helsinki)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Patrick Blackburn (RUC), Klaus Frovin Jørgensen (RUC), Stig Andur Petersen (RUC)
SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts of talks should be submitted by May 1, 2012** using the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sls2012
The abstracts may not exceed 3 pages (including bibliography) and should be in PDF format.
**UPDATE:
SUBMISSION DATE has been extended: 1 June
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 15 June
STUDENT GRANTS
We are happy to announce that the ASL is sponsoring SLS2012. Among other things, this means that student ASL members may apply for ASL travel funds that are available for sponsored meetings.
(see http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html).
LOCATION
Roskilde University (RUC) is situated at Trekroner, a small town 20 minutes by train from
Central Copenhagen, and five minutes by train from Roskilde.
ACCOMMODATION
Most people who work at RUC and almost all the RUC students live in Copenhagen. Getting
to RUC is an easy train journey from the centre of Copenhagen. We anticipate that most
conference attendees will book hotels in central Copenhagen, where there are many hotels
in many price ranges. Hotel accommodation can also be found in Roskilde, though there the
options are more limited.
REGISTRATION
The conference website will be found at:
http://scandinavianlogic.weebly.com/
Details concerning registration will be posted there in due course.
