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  • (New) 22 April 2025, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Jirui Qi

    Date & Time: Tuesday 22 April 2025, 16:00
    Speaker: Jirui Qi (University of Groningen)
    Title: Are LLMs consistent across languages? An empirical and model-internal analysis of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in multilingual contexts.
    Location: Room L3.36, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam / Online
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 23 April 2025, MoL thesis presentations - Logic and Language

    Date & Time: Wednesday 23 April 2025, 17:00-19:00
    Speaker: MoL students
    Title: MoL thesis presentations - Logic and Language
    Location: Room C1.112, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://www.marialoni.org/GradTraj24_25 or contact Maria Aloni at .
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    23 April 2025, Ex Falso Night 2024/25x04: Film Night is Back!

    Date & Time: Wednesday 23 April 2025, 20:30-22:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room F1.21, floor 1, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    Our next film night, which will take place in the ILLC Common Room, on April 23 at 19:30. Snacks and drinks will be provided! As per usual, all Master of Logic, Logic Year, and ILLC PhD students are invited.

    We are collecting ideas for the film night. After hearing your film ideas, we’ll open a poll to all students so that we can make a decision.

    For more information, see https://resources.illc.uva.nl/ExFalso/p/ex-falso-night-2024/25x04-film-night-is-back/ or contact Stefano Volpe at .

  • 24 - 25 April 2025, Polar question form[s] across languages

    Date & Time: 24 - 25 April 2025, 10:00-17:00
    Location: Workshop space Humanities Labs (F0.01), Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam

    After the success of our first workshop Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages, we are launching a second POQAL meeting, this time focusing on form. How are polar questions expressed in syntax, morphology, intonation? How do components of the grammar of each language constrain and determine these ways, e.g. in the inventory of functional categories, the expression of negation, focus, polarity, intonational characteristics, pragmatic division of labor among forms? How do fine grammatical components correlate with fine components of meaning? What crosslinguistic generalizations can be made in this new level of granularity?

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-2/ or contact Beste Kamali at .

  • (Updated) 24 April 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Dominik Klein

    Date & Time: Thursday 24 April 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Dominik Klein (Utrecht University)
    Location: Online only (not hybrid)
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/01/lira-session-dominik-klein-3/.

  • 25 April 2025, FOAM Seminar, Carsten Lutz

    Date & Time: Friday 25 April 2025, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Carsten Lutz
    Title: Logical Characterizations of Recurrent GNNs
    Location: Room L1.04, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk22/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • (New) 28 April 2025, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Yde Venema

    Date & Time: Monday 28 April 2025, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Yde Venema
    Title: Propositional Dynamic Logic (re)visited
    Location: Zoom

    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.

    If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

    For more information, see https://scandinavianlogic.org/2025-04-11-NOL-Seminar-Yde-Venema.html or contact Val Goranko at .
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    1 - 2 May 2025, Symposium on the occasion of Henri Bal's retirement

    Date & Time: 1 - 2 May 2025, 10:00-17:00
    Location: VU Campus, NU building, Theater 3

    On the occasion of prof. Henri Bal's retirement, and recognition of the important role Henri played in the history of research on computing in the Netherlands, the VU Computer Science Department is organizing a (free-of-charge) symposium on the 1st and 2nd of May, 2025.


    Day 1 discusses the role of HPC in the roaring 20s, a time where computing research plays a crucial role in AI, sustainability, and many other topics of vital importance.
    Day 2 commemorates Prof. Bal's time at VU. Speakers will discuss the early days of computing research in the Netherlands, Henri's years as a PhD student, young faculty and finally research leader of world renown.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.vucompsys.net/ or contact Mojca Lovrencak at .

  • 7 May 2025, Joint LLAMA/LIRa double session, Katsuhiko Sano, Alexander Kurz

    Date & Time: Wednesday 7 May 2025, 15:00-18:00
    Speaker: Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University), Alexander Kurz (Chapman University)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107 and online.
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/01/joint-llama-lira-session-alexander-kurz/.

  • 9 May 2025, DIP Colloquium, Elio La Rosa

    Date & Time: Friday 9 May 2025, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Elio La Rosa (Munich)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35264/Elio-La-Rosa.

  • 15 May 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Maaike Venema-Los

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Maaike Venema-Los (University of Groningen)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / Online
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2025/04/lira-session-maaike-venema-los/.

  • 15 May 2025, Spinoza lectures, Jennifer Lackey

    Date & Time: Thursday 15 May 2025, 18:30-21:30
    Speaker: Jennifer Lackey
    Title: Stories that Wrong and Stories that Repair
    Location: Aula Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411, Amsterdam

    Since 1995, the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam has annually appointed a foreign philosopher to the Spinoza chair. As part of the appointment, the Spinoza professor gives a number of lectures intended for a broad audience that wants to stay informed about contemporary developments in philosophy. This is the second of two lectures by the current Spinoza Chair holder, Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/events/2025/05/spinoza-lecture-2-stories-that-wrong-and-stories-that-repair.html or contact Prof. Mari Mikkola at .

  • 16 May 2025, FOAM Seminar, Jan-Willem van de Meent

    Date & Time: Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Jan-Willem van de Meent
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk23/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 21 May 2025, LLAMA seminar, Victoria Barrett

    Date & Time: Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Victoria Barrett (Inria Saclay)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / Online
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/#talk-barrett-2025 or contact Marianna Girlando at .

  • 22 May 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Franz Berto

    Date & Time: Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Franz Berto (University of St Andrews)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/11/lira-session-franz-berto-2/.

  • 2 June 2025, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting & Midsummer Colloquium 2025

    Date & Time: Monday 2 June 2025, 15:30-16:30
    Location: Room F1.15, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

    The ILLC Colloquium happens three times per year (as the Autumn Colloquium, the Midwinter Colloquium, or the Midsummer Colloquium), usually directly after the Current Affairs meeting. The Colloquium brings together the six research units at the ILLC and each event consists of at least two talks by representatives from different units. The colloquium is concluded by a get together of the entire ILLC community.

    All staff members, PhD candidates, MoL students and any guests of the ILLC are welcome to attend the colloquium.

    Please note that this event was announced before to occur on the 20th of June.

    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/ or contact Aybüke Özgün at .

  • 11 June 2025, LLAMA seminar, Jed Forman

    Date & Time: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:00-17:00
    Speaker: Jed Forman (Simpson College)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / Online
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/llama/#talk-forman-2025 or contact Marianna Girlando at .

  • (New) 18 June 2025, Book launch of the Springer volume “Dick de Jongh on Intuitionistic and Provability Logics” in the series Outstanding Contributions to Logic

    Date & Time: Wednesday 18 June 2025, 15:00
    Location: ILLC common room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / Online

    The event will take place on Wednesday 18 June 2025, at 15:00 at Science Park 107 (Amsterdam) in the ILLC Common Room (1st floor)

    Programme:
    15:00-15:15 Opening and a presentation of the book
    15:15-16:00 Dick de Jongh: Notes on my scientific life
    16:00-16:15 Break
    16:15-17:00 Personal words by colleagues
    17:00-18:30 Drinks

    Attendance is free, but we kindly ask you to register, so that we know how many participants to expect. Registration can be done soon online. It will also be possible to follow the event online via Zoom.

    The online version of the book can be found at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-47921-2.

    Organized by the editors of the volume:
    Nick Bezhanishvili, Rosalie Iemhoff and Fan Yang

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/dick-de-jongh-book-launch or contact Nick Bezhanishvili at .

  • 26 June 2025, Dutch Formal Methods Day, Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

    Date & Time: Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00-18:00
    Location: Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    Costs: None
    Deadline: Friday 9 May 2025

    The Dutch Formal Methods Day is a full-day event dedicated to formal methods in the Netherlands. This event is an opportunity for people in academia, industry, and education who are interested in formal methods, in the broadest sense, to come together, learn, and network. There will be numerous talks, giving a broad overview formal methods in the Netherlands. Upon registering, you will have the opportunity to offer a talk.

    Coffee and lunch will be provided; there will be ample opportunity for networking with your colleagues and meeting new people. Experts and newcomers to the field are equally welcome.

    All the talks will be given in English.

    For more information, see here or at https://conf.researchr.org/home/dfdm-2025 or contact Benno van den Berg at .

  • 28 July - 8 August 2025, 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025), Bochum (Germany)

    Date: 28 July - 8 August 2025
    Location: Bochum (Germany)
    Deadline: Saturday 31 May 2025

    Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world.

    The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures.

    Registration for attendees is now open. The early-registration deadline is Saturday, 31st May.

    For more information, see here or at https://2025.esslli.eu/ or contact Søren Brinck Knudstorp (on behalf of ESSLLI 2025) at .