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9 January 2018, Workshop on the occasion of the honorary doctorate of Barbara Partee

Date & Time: Tuesday 9 January 2018, 09:30-15:30
Location: VOC-zaal, Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

During the 386th Dies Natalis (birthday) of the University of Amsterdam Prof. Barbara Partee will receive an honorary doctorate for the crucial role she played in the development of the formal semantics of natural language. The Honorary Supervisors are Prof. Sonja Smets, professor of Logic and Epistemology, and Prof. Martin Stokhof, professor of Philosophy of Language.

The day after the the honorary doctorate is awarded, on the 9th of January 2018, the ILLC will organise a workshop to mark this special occassion. Among the speakers will be Barbara Partee.

For more information, see http://events.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/Barbara-Partee/ or contact Peter van Ormondt at .

12 January 2018, ILLC New Year's Colloquium 2018

Date & Time: Friday 12 January 2018, 16:00-17:15
Location: Room F1.21, ILLC, Common Room, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

The ILLC Colloquium is a half-yearly festive event (either the New Year's Colloquium, the Midsummernight Colloquium or the Midwinter Colloquium) that brings together the three research groups at the ILLC. Each colloquium consists of three main talks by representatives from the Logic and Language group, the Language and Computation group and the Logic and Computation group, which are occasionally followed by Wild Idea Talks. The colloquium is concluded by a get together of the entire ILLC community.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/ or contact Peter van Ormondt at .

18 January 2018, Concepts in Motion Meeting

Date & Time: Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-15:00
Location: ILLC, Room F2.40, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

The Concepts in Motion Meeting is a meeting by invitation for prospective students and contributors to the Concepts in Motion Group.This group hosts the NWO VICI project e-ideas (PI Arianna Betti), which aims to provide a sound methodological foundation for computational research in the history of philosophical ideas. In addition, the group hosts a number of other projects that concern computational research in (history of) philosophy. During the meeting we will get to know all people that are involved within our projects, explain our research plans for the future, and discuss ongoing projects.

For more information, see https://conceptsinmotion.org/ or contact Yvette Oortwijn at .

18 January 2018, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Dominik Klein

Date & Time: Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Dominik Klein (Bayreuth)
Title: In the Long Run we’re all Dead: On Kripke Models, Iterated Updates and Dynamic Systems
Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

25 January 2018, DIP Colloquium, Gerhard Jäger

Date & Time: Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Gerhard Jäger (University of Tübingen)
Title: A Bayesian test of the lineage-specificity of word-order correlations
Location: KdVI Seminar Room F3.20, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

26 January 2018, LoLa day

Date & Time: Friday 26 January 2018, 10:00-15:00
Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

This is a meeting for all LoLa members (as well as interested people from other groups and MOL students). The programme consists of presentations of (relatively) new group members, and a joint lunch.

For more information, see http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .

31 January 2018, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Thijs Benjamins, Chase Ford, Kristoffer Kalavainen, Kyah Smaal, and Tatevik Yolyan

Date & Time: Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:30-16:30
Speaker: Thijs Benjamins, Chase Ford, Kristoffer Kalavainen, Kyah Smaal, and Tatevik Yolyan (ILLC)
Title: Duality in Logic and Computer Science
Location: Room F2.19, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

This special session of the A|C seminar will consist of five 25-minute presentations by the participants of the MoL January project taught by Sam van Gool. Each participant studied one recent article on duality theory and its applications in logic and computer science, and will give a presentation in which they summarize the main results of the paper and highlight points of particular interest.

For more information, see here or at http://events.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg or contact Sam van Gool at .

31 January 2018, Amsterdam Metaphysics Seminar, Tom Schoonen

Date & Time: Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00-16:00
Speaker: Tom Schoonen
Title: Beliefs and 'Believes'; the semantics and objects of belief
Location: Faculteitskamer (1.17), Oude Turfmarkt 145-147, Amsterdam