Association for Symbolic Logic

Association for Symbolic Logic
AbbreviationASL
Formation1936
TypeScholarly society
PurposeResearch, Inquiry
HeadquartersStorrs, Connecticut
President
Phokion Kolaitis
Vice President
Natasha Dobrinen
Co-Secretary-Treasurer
Russell G. Miller
Co-Secretary-Treasurer
Reed Solomon
Websiteaslonline.org

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president was Curt John Ducasse. The current president of the ASL is Phokion Kolaitis.[1]

Publications

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The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:

  • Journal of Symbolic Logic – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936, ISSN 0022-4812.
  • Bulletin of Symbolic Logic – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995, ISSN 1079-8986.
  • Review of Symbolic Logic – publishes research relating to logic, philosophy, science, and their interactions. Founded in 2008, ISSN 1755-0203.

In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:

  • Journal of Logic and Analysis publishes research on the interactions between mathematical logic and pure and applied analysis. Founded in 2009 as an open-access successor to the Springer journal Logic and Analysis. ISSN 1759-9008.

The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings of Kurt Gödel.[2]

Books Series

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Lectures Notes in Logic[3]

Perspective in Logic[4]

Books

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Mathematical Logic by Joseph R. Shoenfield[5]

Gödel Lecture Series

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The Gödel Lecture Series is series of annual ASL lectures that trace back to 1990.[6]

The Thirty-Fifth Gödel Lecture 2024

Thomas Scanlon, (Un)decidability in fields

The Thirty-Fourth Gödel Lecture 2023

Carl Jockusch, From algorithms which succeed on a large set of inputs to the Turing degrees as a metric space

The Thirty-Third Gödel Lecture 2022

Patricia Blanchette, Formalism in Logic

The Thirty-Second Gödel Lecture 2021

Matthew Foreman, Gödel Diffeomorphisms

The Thirty-First Gödel Lecture 2020

Elisabeth Bouscaren, The ubiquity of configurations in Model Theory

The Thirtieth Gödel Lecture 2019

Sam Buss, Totality, Provability and Feasibility

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 2018

Rod Downey, Algorithmic randomness

The Twenty-Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 2017

Charles Parsons, Gödel and the universe of sets

The Twenty-Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2016

Stevo Todorcevic, Basis problems in set theory

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 2015

Alex Wilkie, Complex continuations of functions definable in with a diophantine application

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 2014

Julia F. Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013

Kit Fine, Truthmaker sematics

The Twenty-Third Annual Gödel Lecture 2012

John Steel, The hereditarily ordinal definable sets in models of determinacy

The Twenty-Second Annual Gödel Lecture 2011

Anand Pillay, First order theories

The Twenty-First Annual Gödel Lecture 2010

Alexander Razborov, Complexity of propositional proofs

The Twentieth Annual Gödel Lecture 2009

Richard Shore, Reverse Mathematics: the Playground of Logic

The Nineteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2008

W. Hugh Woodin, The Continuum Hypothesis, the $\Omega$ Conjecture, and the inner model problem of one supercompact cardinal

The Eighteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2007

Ehud Hrushovski (a lecture on his work delivered in his absence by Thomas Scanlon)

The Seventeenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2006

Per Martin-Löf, The two layers of logic

The Sixteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2005

Menachem Magidor, Skolem-Lowenheim theorems for generalized logics

The Fifteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2004

Michael O. Rabin, Proofs persuasions and randomness in mathematics

The Fourteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2003

Boris Zilber, Categoricity

The Thirteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2002

Harvey Friedman, Issues in the foundations of mathematics

The Twelfth Annual Gödel Lecture 2001

Theodore A. Slaman, Recursion Theory

The Eleventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2000

Jon Barwise (Cancelled due to death of speaker)

The Tenth Annual Gödel Lecture 1999

Stephen A. Cook, Logic and computatonal complexity

The Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 1998

Alexander S. Kechris, Current Trends in Descriptive Set Theory

The Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 1997

1997 Solomon Feferman, Occupations and Preoccupations with Gödel: His*Works* and the Work

The Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 1996

1996 Saharon Shelah, Categoricity without compactness

The Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 1995

1995 Leo Harrington, Goedel, Heidegger, and Direct Perception (or, Why I am a Recursion Theorist)

The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994

1994 Donald A. Martin, L(R): A Survey

The Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 1993

1993 Angus Macintyre, Logic of Real and p-adic Analysis: Achievements and Challenges

The Third Annual Gödel Lecture 1992

1992 Joseph R. Shoenfield, The Priority Method

The Second Annual Gödel Lecture 1991

1991 Dana Scott, Will Logicians be Replaced by Machines?

The First Annual Gödel Lecture 1990

1990 Ronald Jensen, Inner Models and Large Cardinals

Meetings

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The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe (the latter known as the Logic Colloquium). In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both the American Mathematical Society ("AMS") and the American Philosophical Association ("APA"), and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.

List of presidents

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Name Term of office
1st President Curt John Ducasse 1936–1937
2nd President Haskell Curry 1938–1940
3rd President Cooper Harold Langford 1941–1943
4th President Alfred Tarski 1944–1946
5th President Ernest Nagel 1947–1949
6th President J. Barkley Rosser 1950–1952
7th President Willard Van Orman Quine 1953–1955
8th President Stephen Cole Kleene 1956–1958
9th President Frederic Fitch 1959–1961
10th President Leon Henkin 1962–1964
11th President William Craig 1965–1967
12th President Abraham Robinson 1968–1970
13th President Dana Scott 1971–1973
14th President Joseph R. Shoenfield 1974–1976
15th President Hilary Putnam 1977–1979
16th President Solomon Feferman 1980–1982
17th President Ruth Barcan Marcus 1983–1985
18th President Michael Morley 1986–1988
19th President Charles Parsons 1989–1991
20th President Yiannis Moschovakis 1992–1994
21st President George Boolos 1995–1996
22nd President Menachem Magidor 1996–1997
23rd President Donald A. Martin 1998–2000
24th President Richard Shore 2001–2003
25th President Alexander Kechris 2004–2006
26th President Penelope Maddy 2007–2009
27th President Alex Wilkie 2010–2012
28th President Alasdair Urquhart 2013–2015
29th President Ulrich Kohlenbach 2016–2018
30th President Julia Knight 2019–2021
31st President Phokion Kolaitis 2022–2024

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Awards

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The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.[8]

Karp Prize

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The Karp Prize is awarded by the association every five years for an outstanding paper or book in the field of symbolic logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1973 in memory of Professor Carol Karp.[9]

Year Recipient(s)
1978 Robert Vaught, University of California, Berkeley
1983 Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
1988 Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley
1993 Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford
1998 Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
2003 Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech
2008 Zlil Sela, Hebrew University
2013 Moti Gitik, Tel Aviv University; Ya'acov Peterzil, University of Haifa; Jonathan Pila, University of Oxford; Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame; Alex Wilkie, University of Manchester
2018 Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique
2023 John Steel, University of California, Berkeley

Sacks Prize

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The Sacks Prize is awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1999 to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard.

Recipients include:[10]

Year Recipient(s)
1994 Gregory Hjorth
1995 Slawomir Solecki
1996 Byunghan Kim
1997 Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon
1998 no prize awarded
1999 Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus
2000 Eric Jaligot
2001 Matthias Aschenbrenner
2002 no prize awarded
2003 Itay Ben Yaacov
2004 Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind
2005 Antonio Montalbán
2006 Matteo Viale
2007 Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski
2008 Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan
2009 Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan
2010 Uri Andrews
2011 Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day
2012 Pierre Simon
2013 Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule
2014 no prize awarded
2015 Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini
2016 William Johnson and Ludovic Patey
2017 Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey
2018 Danny Nguyen
2019 Gabriel Goldberg
2020 James Walsh
2021 Marcos Mazari Armida
2022 Francesco Gallinaro and Patrick Lutz
2023 Andreas Lietz and Scott Mutchnik

Shoenfield Prize

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Inaugurated in 2007, the Shoenfield Prize is awarded every three years in two categories, book and article, recognizing outstanding expository writing in the field of logic and honoring the name of Joseph R. Shoenfield.[11]

Recipients include:

Year Recipient(s)
2007 John P. Burgess (book); Bohuslav Balcar and Thomas Jech (article)
2010 John T. Baldwin (book); Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt, André Nies, and Sebastiaan Terwijn (article)
2013 Stevo Todorcevic (book); Itaï Ben Yaacov, Alexander Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov (article)
2016 Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt (book); Lou van den Dries (article)
2019 Pierre Simon (book); John Steel (article)
2022 Paolo Mancosu, Sergio Galvan, and Richard Zach (book); Vasco Brattka (article)

Gödel Lecture

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Inaugurated in 1990, the Gödel Lecture is the honor of being the speaker at the association's annual meeting. The award is named after Kurt Gödel.

For the complete list of speakers, please see Gödel Lecture Series above.

References

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  1. ^ "Council Members, Committees, and Representatives – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association for Symbolic Logic. Archived from the original on 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Lecture Notes in Logic – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Perspectives in Logic – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Other Books – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Former Officers – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Prizes and Awards – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association of Symbolic Logic. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Karp Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Sacks Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Shoenfield Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
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