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31 January - 2 February 2024, Nihil workshop
The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists who share an interest in the interfaces between (non-classical) logic, language and cognition.
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1 February 2024, Joint NihiL/LIRa session, Hannes Leitgeb
As part of the NihiL workshop, there will be a special joint NihiL-LIRa session featuring a talk by Hannes Leitgeb.
1 February 2024, Memorial Jeroen Groenendijk
31 January - 2 February 2024, Nihil workshop
The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists who share an interest in the interfaces between (non-classical) logic, language and cognition.
2 February 2024, Joint NiHil-DIP Session, Larry Moss
As part of the NihiL workshop, there will be a special joint NihiL-DIP session featuring a talk by Larry Moss from Indiana University.
2 February 2024, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Clara List
7 February 2024, PhD-in-DaDriH Seminar Series, Maria Chiara Parisi
On the 7th of February at 14:30, Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam) presents her work on mathematics and explanation in Antiquity in Concepts in Motion's PhD-in-DaDriH seminar series. Maria Chiara combines conceptual analysis with quantitative and computational techniques on a 'big-data' ancient Greek corpus. She will present her research questions, conceptual models, expert term lists, and paragraph annotation techniques. If you wish to attend this seminar series, please register here.
NB, this event is specifically tailored for PhD students. For our DaDriH seminar series featuring later-career researchers see here. This meeting was previously scheduled for the 30th of January.
7 February 2024, LLAMA seminar, Margarete Ketelsen
8 - 9 February 2024, Workshop on Formal Models of Social Networks and Democracy, Groningen, The Netherlands
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the impact of (online) social networks on democratic decision making from different backgrounds and perspectives, among which logic, graph theory, social choice theory, philosophy, social network analysis, and economics. The event is funded by Zoé Christoff's NWO VENI (2020) research project "Democracy on Social Networks".
A preliminary program is available on the workshop webpage. Attendance of the workshop is free of costs but registration is necessary, as we have a limited number of seats.
8 - 9 February 2024, Workshop on Formal Models of Social Networks and Democracy, Groningen, The Netherlands
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the impact of (online) social networks on democratic decision making from different backgrounds and perspectives, among which logic, graph theory, social choice theory, philosophy, social network analysis, and economics. The event is funded by Zoé Christoff's NWO VENI (2020) research project "Democracy on Social Networks".
A preliminary program is available on the workshop webpage. Attendance of the workshop is free of costs but registration is necessary, as we have a limited number of seats.
9 February 2024, Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar, Fausto Carcassi
12 February 2024, Responsible Digital Transformations (RDT) Monthly Meeting, FemData. Identifying bias in data
Data have a very powerful influence: they can sustain prevailing societal inequalities, but they also have the potential to transform them. To stimulate discussion about bias in data and to connect stakeholders, FemData was started in August 2023. FemData focuses on the ways that gender biases can distort the model outcomes by influences the collection, labeling, and interpretation of data, leadin to skewed insights, and perpetuating inequality. In this talk, Paulina and Myrthe will introduce their initiative and provide some examples from previous research on the topic of gender bias in data applications.
14 February 2024, LLAMA seminar, Larry Moss
15 February 2024, DaDriH Seminar Series, Daniele Morrone
On the 15th of February at 15:00, Daniele Morrone (KU Leuven) will discuss his 'TheSu XML' project in the Concepts in Motion's DaDriH seminar series. TheSu ('Thesis Support') XML is an XML annotation schema designed for digitally analyzing, indexing, and mapping ideas and their contexts of expression in various sources, specifically tailored to aid research in the history of ideas, philosophy, science, and technology. If you wish to attend this seminar, please register here.
NB, speakers in this series are established researchers in the field of data-driven humanities reseach. For our PhD seminar series see here.
15 February 2024, The Utrecht Logic in Progress Series (TULIPS), Federico Pailos
This is a hybrid talk, please contact the organizer for a link.
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15 February 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Larry Moss
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16 February 2024, Philosophy of Mathematics (Φ-Math) Reading Group
For our final meeting on structuralism, we cover the modal set-theoretic structuralism from Parsons and Linnebø. This rounds out the book we have been following and also our time with structuralism (for now).
16 February 2024, EDEV Online Seminar, Saùl Pérez González
The EDEV Online Seminars are part of the PRO3 project "Understanding Public Data: Experts, Decisions, Epistemic Values" promoted by SNS Pisa, IMT Lucca and IUSS Pavia. The project aims to explore the scaffoldings of the epistemological framework, which underlies public decision-making when confronted with complex scientific data. The methodological assumption underlying the project is that the tools provided by logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, and critical reasoning can make a substantial contribution to a number of pressing issues.
16 February 2024, Formalisation, Optimisation, Algorithms, Mechanisms (FOAM), Matthijs Spaan
In this talk I discuss how estimating and propagating epistemic uncertainty benefits generalization and deep exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) by focusing on two recent contributions. First, I consider model-free distributional RL, which aims to learn the distribution of returns rather than their expected value. Second, I discuss how propagating epistemic uncertainty estimates can be leveraged in a model-based RL setting, by embedding them in Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS).
16 February 2024, DIP Colloquium, Federico Pailos
16 February 2024, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Clara List
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22 February 2024, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa), Chenwei Shi
23 February 2024, DIP Colloquium, Judith Tonhauser
23 February 2024, STiHAC Joint Meeting, Yurii Khomskii
26 February 2024, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Lauri Hella
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 .
27 February 2024, Launch of SSH Concept and SSH Impact Fund
Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) requires its own approach and facilities to increase the impact of research results. To support this, two funds have been set up: the SSH Impact Fund and the SSH Concept Fund. The funds, aimed at all researchers in the alpha and gamma disciplines, will be festively launched for Faculty of Humanities academics at Humanities Labs.
27 February 2024, CLS Mini-workshop: Evaluation of Dutch Language Models
16h00-16h45: Wietse de Vries (GroningenNLP): DUMB: A Benchmark for Smart Evaluation of Dutch Models (joint work with Martijn Wieling, Malvina Nissim)
16h45-17h15: Zoë Prins (ILLC, UvA), Blimp-NL: Building a large Dutch corpus to measure knowledge of grammar and grammaticality judgments in language models and humans (joint work with Michelle Suijkerbuijk, Marianne de Heer Kloots, Jelle Zuidema & Stefan Frank -- CLS Radboud & ILLC UvA)