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TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND CATEGORIES IN LOGIC (TACL 2011)
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26-30 July 2011
Universités Aix-Marseille I-II-III, France
http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/tacl2011/
Scope
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Studying logics via semantics is a well-established and very active
branch of mathematical logic, with many applications, in computer
science and elsewhere. The area is characterized by results, tools
and techniques stemming from various fields, including universal
algebra, topology, category theory, order, and model theory. The
program of the conference TACL 2011 will focus on three
interconnecting mathematical themes central to the semantical study
of logics and their applications: algebraic, categorical, and
topological methods. This is the fifth conference in the series
Topology, Algebra and Categories in Logic (TACL, formerly TANCL).
Earlier installments of this conference have been organized in
Tbilisi (2003), Barcelona (2005), Oxford (2007), Amsterdam (2009).
Featured topics
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Contributed talks can deal with any topic dealing with the use of
algebraic, categorical or topological methods in either logic or
computer science. This includes, but is not limited to, the following
areas:
* Algebraic structures in CS
* Algebraic logic
* Coalgebra
* Categorical methods in logic
* Domain theory
* Fuzzy and many-valued logics
* Lattice theory
* Lattices with operators
* Modal logics
* Non-classical logics
* Ordered topological spaces
* Ordered algebraic structures
* Pointfree topology
* Proofs and Types
* Residuated structures
* Semantics
* Stone-type dualities
* Substructural logics
* Topological semantics of modal logic
Submissions
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Contributed presentations will be of two types: 20 minutes long
presentations in parallel sessions and featured, 30 minutes long,
plenary presentations. The submission of an abstract of 1-4 pages is
required to be selected for a contributed presentation of either
kind. While preference will be given to new work, results that have
already been published or presented elsewhere will also be
considered. More information on the submission procedure is
available on the conference website.
Important dates
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April 18, 2011: Abstract submission deadline
May 20, 2011: Notification to authors
July 26-30, 2011: Conference
Program Committee
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Guram Bezhanishvili, New Mexico State University
Petr Cintula, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Thierry Coquand, University of Gothenburg
Mai Gehrke, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano
Rob Goldblatt, Victoria University, Wellington
Martin Hyland, King's College, Cambridge
Ramon Jansana, Universitat de Barcelona
Achim Jung (PC co-chair), University of Birmingham
Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester
Yves Lafont, Université Aix-Marseille II
Tadeusz Litak, University of Leicester
Paul-André Melliès, CNRS Paris Diderot
George Metcalfe, Universität Bern
Nicola Olivetti, Université Aix-Marseille III
Hiroakira Ono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Luigi Santocanale, Université Aix-Marseille I
Kazushige Terui, Kyoto University
Costantine Tsinakis, Vanderbilt University
Yde Venema (PC co-chair), University of Amsterdam
Friedrich Wehrung, Université de Caen
Michael Zakharyaschev, University of London
More Information
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If you have any queries please send them to the conference email
address:
tacl2011(a)lif.univ-mrs.fr
Luigi Santocanale, Yves Lafont, Nicola Olivetti,
TACL 2011 local organisers
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Prof. Olivier Danvy Lecture at NII Logic Seminar
Date: December 16, 2010, 14:00--16:00
Place: National Institute of Informatics, Room 2005 (20th floor)
場所: 国立情報学研究所 20階 2005室
(半蔵門線,都営地下鉄三田線・新宿線 神保町駅または東西線 竹橋駅より徒歩5分)
(地図 http://www.nii.ac.jp/introduce/access1-j.shtml)
Speaker: Prof. Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus)
Title: Small-step and Big-step Aspects of Computation
(A Walk in the Semantic Park)
Abstract:
On the one hand, there are the De Morgan laws: it is clear how to
repeatedly apply them to put a proposition in, say, negational normal
form, with many small computational steps. On the other hand, such a
normal form can be obtained with one big computational step by
recursive descent.
On the second hand, there is the lambda-calculus: it is clear how to
repeatedly apply its contraction rules to put a lambda-term in, say,
weak-head normal form, if one exists, with many small computational
steps. On the other hand, such a normal form can be obtained with one
big computational step by recursive descent.
On the third hand, there are also abstract machines: state
transition systems that will obligingly yields normal forms as well,
if they exist.
There is no fourth hand in this talk: our goal is not to monkey with
computation, but to demonstrate a profound structural unity in the
various styles of semantic artifacts that have been proposed to
specify computation: as a calculus with a reduction strategy, as a
small-step system of proof rules, as a small-step system of reductions
in contexts, as a small-step abstract machine, as a big-step abstract
machine, as a continuation-passing big-step evaluation function, and
as a direct-style big-step evaluation function. In the course of this
talk, we will materialize this unity by using off-the-shelf program
transformations to constructively inter-derive semantic artifacts for
deterministic sequential programming languages, or, to be precise,
their representation as functional programs.
問合せ先:
龍田 真 (国立情報学研究所)
e-mail: tatsuta(a)nii.ac.jp
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~tatsuta
皆さま
静岡大学理学部数学科の鈴木信行と申します。
以下のような案内が来ましたので、お知らせします。
重複して受け取られた方には、ご寛恕をお願いいたします。
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Studia Logica International Conference
Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature
Krakow, Poland, June 3-5, 2010
http://StudiaLogica.org/TrendsIX
contact: trendsIX(a)upjp2.edu.pl
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Conference goals:
In 1935 Alonzo Church formulated a thesis called, after Kleene, the
Church's Thesis (CT). The acceptance of the CT led to a negative answer
to Hilbert's Entscheindungsproblem. Since then, many important logicians
and philosophers have ventured to solve the numerous problems connected
to the CT. The problems include attempts at a proof of the CT, analysis
of its status and its logical value, etc. These various lines of
research have shown that the CT has many incarnations and constitutes an
interdisciplinary problem. The research concerning the CT, as well as an
analogical thesis developed by Alan Turing, has resulted in important
insights regarding the concept of computability. Georg Kreisel
formulated three versions of the CT, pertaining to machine, human, and
physical computability. With respect to this, the conference's focus
will be on three areas connected to the CT: logic, mind and nature.
The main goals of the conference include the discussion over the major
results concerning the CT, as well as the presentation of contemporary
approaches to problems connected with the CT.
Call for papers: We invite contributions pertaining to issues which lie
in the fields for which the CT is an important problem. Especially, but
not exclusively, we invite contributions related to:
(A)Perspectives on Church's Thesis: history of the Church's Thesis;
Church's Thesis and Turing's Thesis; pro and contra: arguments in the
discussions concerning the CT;
(B)Church's thesis and logic: definitions of the concept of algorithm,
attempts at formalizing the CT, CT in constructivism, CT in epistemic
mathematics, modal logics and the CT, functional programming and the CT,
logical theory of concepts;
(C)Church's Thesis and the mind: cognitivist approaches to the mind;
theories of concepts; mind and computability;
(D) Church's Thesis and nature: analog computations, computations by
physical systems.
Invited speakers:
Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury),
Marie Duzi (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava),
Yuri Gurevich (University of Michigan),
Petr Hajek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic),
Pavel Materna (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic),
David McCarty (Indiana University),
Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University),
Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University),
Jan Wolenski (Jagiellonian University),
Ryszard Wojcicki (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy
of Sciences),
Konrad Zdanowski (Paris Diderot University).
Some of the invited speakers have not confirmed their participation yet.
Organizing Committee: Adam Olszewski (Chairman), Bartosz Brozek, Jacek
Malinowski, Piotr Urbanczyk, Malgorzata Drozdz.
Program Committee: Jacek Malinowski (Chairman), Heinrich Wansing, Hannes
Leitgeb, Leon Horsten, Adam Olszewski.
Organizers: Studia Logica, Copernicus Center for Interdyscyplinary
Studies, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow.
Deadline: Please send an abstract not exceeding 2 pages to
atolszad(a)cyf-kr.edu.pl not later than March 15. The authors will be
notified about the acceptance of their papers within 4 weeks after
submission.
More details will be provided in the second announcement, which is to be
distributed in the middle of February, 2011.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Adam Olszewski