CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WoLLIC 2015 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation July 20-23, 2015 Bloomington, IN, USA
CO-LOCATED WITH Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning (CoCoNat'15 http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic/coconat.htm) July 19-20, 2015
SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL)
ORGANISATION Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA Program in Pure and Applied Logic, Indiana University, USA Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
HOSTED BY Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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-second WoLLIC will be held at the Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, from July 20th to 23rd, 2015. It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).
PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2015, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as volume 9160 in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2015 issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, CUP (tbc).
INVITED TALKS . Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute, USA) Modeling Language Design for Complex Systems Simulation . Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam) Learning in the Limit, General Topology and Modal Logic . John Harrison (Intel, USA) Formalization of Mathematics for Fun and Profit . Peter Jipsen (Chapman U, USA) From Residuated Lattices via GBI-algebras to BAOs . André Joyal (U du Québec Montreal, Canada) Categories of Games . Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary, UK) Multi-Linear Algebraic Semantics for Natural Language . Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana U, USA) (tba) . Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Towards a Nominal Chomsky Hierarchy.
TUTORIALS Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam) John Harrison (Intel, USA) André Joyal (U du Québec Montreal, Canada) Alexandra Silva (Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS In remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the passing away of Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (December 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985), an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem, the program of the meeting will include a screening of George Csicsery's documentary "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" (2008). As a tribute to a recent breakthrough in mathematics, there will also be a screening of Csicsery's "Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture" (2015) which centers on a very exciting string of mathematical discoveries that occurred during 2013, started when Yitang Zhang, a virtually unknown mathematician working as adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire, submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics in April 2013.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Juliana Küster Filipe Bowles (U St Andrews, Scotland) Robin Cooper (U Gothenburg, Sweden) Martín Escardó (U Birmingham, UK) Nikos Galatos (U Denver, USA) Achim Jung (U Birmingham, UK) Sara Kalvala (U Warwick, UK) Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh U, Scotland) Peter Lefanu Lumsdaine (Institute for Advanced Study, USA) Ian Mackie (U Sussex, UK) Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua U, China) Vivek Nigam (Federal U of Paraíba, Brazil) Catarina Dutilh Novaes (U Groningen, The Netherlands) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comm, USA) (CHAIR) Luiz Carlos Pereira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Elaine Pimentel (Federal U of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Alexandra Silva (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA) Josef Urban (Radboud Nijmegen U, The Netherlands) Laure Vieu (IRIT-Toulouse, France) Renata Wasserman (U São Paulo, Brazil) Anna Zamansky (U Haifa, Israel)
STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Larry Moss (Indiana U) (Local co-chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair)
REGISTRATION Now open at http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic/registration.html http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic/registration.html
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FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.
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