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.