Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017: Second announcement and call for papers

[Erik Palmgren]

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Third Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) 2017
Stockholm, August 7 - 11, 2017
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The third Nordic Logic Summer School is arranged under the auspices of
the Scandinavian Logic Society (http://scandinavianlogic.org/). The two
previous schools were organized in Nordfjordeid, Norway (2013) and
Helsinki (2015). The intended audience is advanced master students,
PhD-students, postdocs and experienced researchers wishing to learn the
state of the art in a particular subject. The school is co-located with
Logic Colloquium 2017 (August 14-20) and Computer Science Logic 2017
(August 21-24).

The school will consist of 10 five-hour courses, running in two parallel
streams. In addition, there will be short student presentations and
poster sessions.

The lectures start on:

** Monday August 7, 9:00, and end Friday August 11, 16:15 **


LECTURERS AND COURSES
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The following lecturers and course topics are confirmed.

* Mirna Dzamonja (University of East Anglia)
-- Set Theory

* Martin Escardo (Birmingham)
-- Topological and Constructive Aspects of Higher-Order Computation

* Henrik Forssell (Oslo)
-- Categorical Logic

* Volker Halbach (Oxford)
-- Truth & Paradox

* Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington)
-- Natural Logic

* Anca Muscholl (LaBRI, Université Bordeaux)
-- Logic in Computer Science - Control and Synthesis, from a Distributed
Perspective

* Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)
-- Logic and Rationality

* Peter Pagin and Dag Westerståhl (Stockholm University)
-- Compositionality

* Sara L. Uckelman (Durham)
-- Medieval Logic

* Andreas Weiermann (Ghent)
-- Proof Theory

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Certificates for participation will be provided. There will be
possibilities to take official credits for some of the courses.
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VENUE
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Department of Mathematics, Kräftriket Campus, Stockholm University.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Registration:
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Registration opens: March 6, 2017
Early registration ends: ** May 15, 2017 **
Late registration ends: ** August 4, 2017 **
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Submission of abstracts for presentations and posters:
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Opening: March 6, 2017
Closing: May 2, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2017
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The early registration fee will be 1900 SEK including VAT (approx. 190
Euros) per participant, and includes coffee breaks and conference
materials. Late registration fee is 2600 SEK including VAT.

Some participation-fee grants may be available.

ACCOMMODATION
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The registration fee does not cover accommodation, but there will be
special offers at hostels and hotels (in the range 700 -1200 SEK/night
for single rooms) available when the registration opens.

SPECIAL OFFER FOR ACCOMMODATION
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There will be offers of inexpensive accommodation via the Stockholm
University Housing Office. The cost will be around 300 SEK per person
per night, in studio apartments shared by two people. To be able to take
part in this offer, participants need to register at the latest May 15.
Enquiries may be directed to:

logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se

FURTHER INFORMATION
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Further information about submissions, registration and accommodation
possibilities will (in due time) be available on the NLS webpage:

https://www.sls17.conf.kth.se

General enquiries: nls2017 [at] philosophy.su.se
Accommodation enquiries: logic2017-accommodation [at] math.su.se

COMMITTEES
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Program Committee of NLS 2017:

Thierry Coquand (Göteborg), Ali Enayat (Göteborg)
Mai Gehrke (IRIF, Paris), Nina Gierasimczuk (Copenhagen)
Valentin Goranko (Stockholm U), Lauri Hella (Tampere)
Lars Kristiansen (Oslo), Juha Kontinen (Helsinki)
Øystein Linnebo (Oslo), Sara Negri (Helsinki)
Erik Palmgren (chair, Stockholm U)

Local Organizing Committee of NLS 2017:

Valentin Goranko (co-chair), Dilian Gurov, Roussanka Loukanova,
Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Anders Lundstedt, Erik Palmgren (co-chair)
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