The EUROCORES programme “Modelling intelligent interaction - Logic in the humanities, social and computational sciences (LogICCC)” is proud to announce its Final Conference on 15-18 September 2011, in Berlin, Germany.
Background and Objective
Recent decades have seen major changes in the field of logic. Moving far beyond the traditional emphasis on philosophical argument, formal grammar or mathematical proof, modern logic has become a much richer inter-discipline which transcends the usual borderlines between academic 'cultures'.
Within the framework of logic, ideas from one discipline can effectively cross into another. E.g., it has been suggested that conversation can be modeled as computation, thus taking a paradigm from the physical sciences into the humanities. But by the same token, modern computation can be understood as conversation between different processors, in which case ideas from the humanities enter the computational sciences.
A full analysis of these issues requires a common language and a framework which makes major structures visible across the humanities, social, computational and cognitive sciences and integrates them into comprehensive systems. Logic has played this role in the past for the foundations of the sciences, computation, and the semantics of natural languages. In 2008, the EUROCORES programme LogICCC was launched on the basis of the firm conviction that present-day logic will continue to play this role in the much broader setting described here.
The LogICCC programme – with a research budget of over 6 Million Euros – brings together 49 research teams from 17 countries. Some members of the LogICCC programme are logicians, others are not. But what all participants in LogICCC projects have in common is their interest in understanding interaction, pursued with the common language and models provided by logic in its modern, pluriform, and outward-looking guise. The LogICCC Final Conference brings all programme members together for the final time, presenting the outcomes of the programme to the LogICCC community.
Structure of the conference programme
Throughout the running time of the programme, the LogICCC members have been actively engaged in creating synergy among the various LogICCC Collaborative Research Projects (CRP)s. An important outcome of the LogICCC programme is indeed that the programme as a whole has proven to be more than the sum of its parts. To present this added value, the second day of the LogICCC Final Conference will be structured around 4 sessions that each address an issue that lies on the interface of various LogICCC CRPs and that have emerged during the running time of the programme as holding particular promise. In each session speakers from at least two different CRPs will present their views. Apart from presenting the outcome of the programme, this structure also allows the conference to point towards new directions of research.
By way of introduction, during the first day of the conference all CRPs will be given the floor to present themselves. Rather than providing an overview of all the work that they have carried out in the past three years (which participants can find described in the accompanying Final Brochure), the CRP presentations will focus on a particular result or research line that they wish to highlight.
The conference will end again in the plenary with a session that will be of interest to many CRPs, concerning the general theme of “Logic & Games”.
Programme and abstracts
The programme and abstracts can be downloaded here. (update: 29 September 2011).
When
The conference will take place on 16th-18th September 2011, with a welcome dinner scheduled upon the participants' arrival on Thursday 15th September. It will finish on Sunday 18th September around lunch time.
Before or after the event, your CRP may organise an internal meeting. If so, your project leader will contact you about this in due time.
Where
Location is the pleasant Hotel NH Berlin/Alexanderplatz situated in the centre of the dynamic city of Berlin.
How to get to the conference site
The location of the hotel is very central and well served by public transport. A useful route description can be found here.
Registration
Participation in the LogICCC Final Conference is by invitation only. Online pre-registration is now closed. In the late afternoon of Thursday the 15th of September pre-registered participants should register onsite with the ESF LogICCC Administrator, sign the attendance list and collect their name badges. The conference registration desk, where supplementary information will be provided, is situated near the hotel reception.
Important information for invitees
For invitees, travel costs will be reimbursed up to a maximum of € 300 in accordance with the ESF rules of reimbursement that can be found on the back of the ESF Travel Claim Form, . Accommodation (pre-paid by the ESF) will be arranged for a maximum of three nights from Thursday 15 September until Sunday 18 September.
Contact
For further information about the conference, please contact the ESF office at logic[at]esf.org.
