CSLI WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, RATIONALITY AND INTELLIGENT INTERACTION

CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information), at Stanford University, will host the Third CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Intelligent Interaction on Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st, 2014. The workshop draws contributions from logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and economics, with an emphasis on exploring contacts among those disciplines. Among the speakers will be Adrian Brasoveanu. Detailed information along with a preliminary program is available here.

CUSP 7 AT UCLA

CUSP 7 (California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics 7) will be held at UCLA on November 7th and 8th, 2014. A call for abstracts will be circulated in mid-August and abstracts will be due in late September. The program of scheduled talks will be posted in early October. The CUSP 7 web-site has much additional information.

The conference organizers are Jessica Rett of UCLA and UCSC alumna Lauren Winans, who is now a fourth year doctoral student in linguistics at UCLA.

SCLP EVENTS

Besides the colloquium featured in our last issue and also featured here, the SCLP group is sponsoring two additional events in the coming week.

On Wednesday, April 30, at 11am, in Engineering Two, Room 599, Professor Jouko Väänänen, of the University of Helsinki, will give a talk on (in)dependence logic (of which he is the principal creator). An abstract is available here. Refreshments will be available in E2-559 at 10:45am. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Computer Science Department.

Later that same day, Professor Michela Ippolito, from the University of Toronto, will lead a discussion of recent work on conditionals. This event will take place in the Linguistics Common Room at 4:30pm. Michela will also hold office hours on Friday May 2nd from 11am to 12pm, and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. A sign-up sheet will be posted shortly on the door of the Linguistics Visitor’s Office.

SCLP is the (Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group), an interdisciplinary research and reading group involving students and faculty from linguistics and philosophy, whose work focuses on issues in formal semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Funding for the group’s activities comes from the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC.

NORRIS DISSERTATION DEFENSE

Mark Norris will defend his dissertation in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge between 4pm and 6pm on Tuesday May 20th. The title of Mark’s dissertation is A Theory of Nominal Concord, the dissertation advisor is Jorge Hankamer, and the other members of the committee are Sandy Chung and Jim McCloskey.

THOMPSON DISSERTATION DEFENSE

Not to be outdone, Anie Thompson will defend her dissertation just two days later, on Thursday May 22nd in Humanities One, Room 202. Anie’s title is still under construction but will be revealed shortly. The dissertation advisor is also Jorge Hankamer, and the other members of the committee are Pranav Anand and Jim McCloskey.

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