CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WoLLIC 2018
25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
July 24th to 27th, 2018
Bogotá, Colombia
SPECIAL SESSION:
Tribute to the Memory and Legacy of Raymond Smullyan
with a screening of
"This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan"
(Directed by Tao Ruspoli, 2004, 30min)
SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP
Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL)
ORGANISATION
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
HOSTED BY
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials
as well as contributed papers. The twenty-fifth WoLLIC will be held at the
Departamento de Matemáticas of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia, from July 24th to 27th, 2018. It is sponsored by the Association
for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics
(IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI),
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), ACM Special
Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), the Sociedade
Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica
(SBL).
INVITED SPEAKERS
Katalin Bimbo (Univ of Alberta, Canada)
Xavier Caicedo (Univ de Los Andes, Colombia)
José Meseguer (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Elaine Pimentel (Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Guillermo Simari (Univ Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Renata Wassermann (Univ de São Paulo, Brazil)
SPECIAL SCREENING - A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF RAYMOND SMULLYAN
As a tribute to the memory and legacy of the late Raymond Smullyan, who
passed away in February 2017, there will be a special session with a
screening of the documentary film "This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of
Raymond Smullyan" (Dir. Tao Ruspoli, 2004, 30min), as well as short
testimonies by experts.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Siddharth Bhaskar (Haverford College, USA)
Torben Braüner (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Hazel Brickhill (University of Bristol, UK)
Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Alex Kruckman (Indiana University, USA)
Maricarmen Martinez Baldares (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Frederike Moltmann (CNRS, France)
Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA) (CHAIR)
Cláudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil)
Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK)
Sophie Pinchinat (IRISA Rennes, France)
David Pym (University College London, UK)
Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Jeremy Seligman (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China)
Fan Yang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid
Hodges, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin,
Angus Macintyre, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz,
Jouko Väänänen. (Former Member: Grigori Mints (deceased).)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Jaime A. Bohórquez (Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería, Bogotá, Colombia)
Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair)
Nicolás Cardozo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)
Maricarmen Martínez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) (Local co-chair)
Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair)
Camilo Rocha (Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.
WEB PAGE
http://wollic.org/wollic2018/
