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  • 10 January 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Catalina Torres Perres

    Date & Time: Friday 10 January 2025, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Catalina Torres Perres (Barcelona)
    Title: Iterated stationary reflection on ℘κ(λ)
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/spag/ml/MLSeminar/ML%20Seminar.html.

  • (New) 14 January 2025, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Ana Lucic

    Date & Time: Tuesday 14 January 2025, 16:00
    Speaker: Ana Lucic (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
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    (New) 16 January 2025, N&O seminar, Marco Scarsini

    Date & Time: Thursday 16 January 2025, 11:00-12:00
    Speaker: Marco Scarsini
    Title: Approximation and Convergence of Large Atomic Congestion Games
    Location: CWI room L016, Science Park 123, Amsterdam

    Marco Scarsini (Luiss University, Rome) will be visiting us from January 16-17, 2025 and give a talk at CWI on Thursday, January 16, 11:00-12:00, room L016.

    For more information, see here or at https://www.cwi.nl/en/groups/networks-and-optimization/more-networks-and-optimization/aco-seminar/seminars-2021-2025/ or contact Guido Schäfer at .

  • 17 January 2025, FOAM Seminar, Marianna Girlando

    Date & Time: Friday 17 January 2025, 15:00-16:15
    Speaker: Marianna Girlando
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/FOAM/posts/talk20/ or contact Gregor Behnke at , or Ronald de Haan at .

  • 17 January 2025, DIP Colloquium, Mora Maldonado

    Date & Time: Friday 17 January 2025, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Mora Maldonado (Nantes)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35246/Mora-Maldonado-Nantes.

  • (Updated) 31 January 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Juan Aguilera

    Date & Time: Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Juan Aguilera (Vienna)
    Title: Local Hanf-Tarski numbers
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/spag/ml/MLSeminar/ML%20Seminar.html.

  • 31 January 2025, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Pablo Rivas-Robledo

    Date & Time: Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Pablo Rivas-Robledo
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/MLC-Seminar/event/35255/Pablo-Rivas-Robledo-TBA.

  • 6 February 2025, Joint CLS-DIP-Nihil-LIRa session, Raffaella Bernardi

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 February 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
    Title: The interplay between language and reasoning.
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/11/joint-cls-dip-nihil-lira-session-raffaella-bernardi/.

  • 10 - 14 February 2025, Computer Science Logic 2025 (CSL 2025), Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Date: 10 - 14 February 2025
    Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    CSL is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL 2025 will be held on the 10th–14th of February 2025 and is organised jointly by the TCS group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the ILLC.

    Two workshops are co-located with CSL, and will take place on Monday, February 10: the 12th Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW@CSL 2025) and the Workshop on Learning and Logic (LeaLog@CSL 2025).

    For more information, see https://csl2025.github.io/ or contact Balder ten Cate at .

  • (New) 11 February 2025, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Martha Lewis

    Date & Time: Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00
    Speaker: Martha Lewis (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
    Title: Compositional Approaches to Modelling Language and Concepts
    Location: Room L3.36, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam

    Recent neural approaches to modelling language and concepts have proven quite effective, with a proliferation of large models trained on correspondingly massive datasets. However, these models still fail on some tasks that humans, and symbolic approaches, can easily solve. Large neural models are also, to a certain extent, black boxes - particularly those that are proprietary. There is therefore a need to integrate compositional and neural approaches, firstly to potentially improve the performance of large neural models, and secondly to analyze and explain the representations that these systems are using. In this talk I will present results showing that large neural models can fail at tasks that humans are able to do, and discuss alternative, theory-based approaches that have the potential to perform more strongly. I will give applications in language, reasoning, and vision. Finally, I will present some future directions in understanding the types of reasoning or symbol manipulation that large neural models may be performing.

    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 13 February 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Maria Aloni

    Date & Time: Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Maria Aloni (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/08/lira-session-maria-aloni-2/.

  • 14 February 2025, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Peter Holy

    Date & Time: Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-18:00
    Speaker: Peter Holy (Vienna)
    Title: Linear orders and dependent choice (without the axiom of choice), and global linear orders without global choice
    Location: Online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/spag/ml/MLSeminar/ML%20Seminar.html.

  • (New) 20 February 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Timo Eckhardt and David J. Pym

    Date & Time: Thursday 20 February 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Timo Eckhardt (University College London) and David J. Pym (University College London & Institute of Philosophy, University of London)
    Location: Online
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/12/lira-session-timo-eckhardt-and-david-j-pym/.

  • 21 February 2025, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Valentin D. Richard

    Date & Time: Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Valentin D. Richard
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/MLC-Seminar/event/35254/Valentin-D-Richard-TBA.

  • (New) 25 February 2025, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Laura Ruis

    Date & Time: Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00
    Speaker: Laura Ruis (University College London)
    Location: Room TBA, ILLC Lab42, Science Park 900, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 27 February 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Michael Cohen

    Date & Time: Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Michael Cohen (Tilburg University)
    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-michael-cohen/.

  • 6 March 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Bartosz Więckowski

    Date & Time: Thursday 6 March 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Bartosz Więckowski (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/10/lira-session-bartosz-wieckowski/.

  • (New) 14 March 2025, Heyting Day 2025 - Models of intuitionism and computability: symposium in honour of Jaap van Oosten

    Date & Time: Friday 14 March 2025, 10:00-17:00
    Location: KNAW Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam

    Can we imagine a world in which computability is built-in into the very fabric of reality? The answer is a resounding yes. However, it took us almost 40 years to get the first detailed picture of such a world. Our speakers will give you a scenic tour around worlds of computability. They will introduce the relevant concepts and discuss the many amazing properties of such worlds. The symposium marks the retirement of Jaap van Oosten and will be conducted in English.

    Invited speakers: Andy Pitts (University of Cambridge), Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana), Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University) and Jaap van Oosten (Utrecht University),

    For more information, see https://www.knaw.nl/en/events/heyting-day-2025-models-intuitionism-and-computability or contact Benno van den Berg at .

  • 20 March 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Tai-Wei Hu

    Date & Time: Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Tai-Wei Hu (University of Bristol)
    Location: ILLC seminar room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam / online via Zoom
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/2024/08/lira-session-tai-wei-hu/.
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    (New) 3 - 4 April 2025, 3rd Amsterdam / Saint-Etienne Workshop on Social Choice

    Date & Time: 3 - 4 April 2025, 09:00-17:00
    Location: SustainaLab, MatrixOne, Science Park 301, Amsterdam
    Costs: Free
    Deadline: Friday 14 March 2025

    Join us for the 3rd Amsterdam/Saint-Etienne Workshop on Social Choice on at Science Park in Amsterdam! We will be discussing questions of social choice in all of its many facets, including in particular the perspectives provided by computer science, economics, and political science. Registration is free but required.

    For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/amsterdam-saint-etienne-2025/ or contact Ulle Endriss at .

  • 3 April 2025, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Hein Duijf

    Date & Time: Thursday 3 April 2025, 16:30-18:00
    Speaker: Hein Duijf (Utrecht University)
    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-hein-duijf-4/.

  • 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/.

  • 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: Wednesday 10 July 2024

    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.

    For more information, see here or at https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2025/Summer_School_Proposals#tab-recent-activity.