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| Abbreviation | ASL |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1936 |
| Type | Scholarly society |
| Purpose | Research,Inquiry |
| Headquarters | Storrs, Connecticut |
President | Natasha Dobrinen |
| Website | aslonline |
TheAssociation for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is aninternational organization of specialists inmathematical logic andphilosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president wasCurt John Ducasse. The current president of the ASL isNatasha Dobrinen.[1]
The ASL publishesbooks andacademic journals. Its three official journals are:
In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:
The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings ofKurt Gödel.[2]
Lectures Notes in Logic[3]
Perspectives in Logic[4]
Mathematical Logic byJoseph R. Shoenfield[5]
TheGödel 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 theTuring degrees as ametric space
The Thirty-Third Gödel Lecture 2022
Patricia Blanchette, Formalism in Logic
The Thirty-Second Gödel Lecture 2021
Matthew Foreman, GödelDiffeomorphisms
The Thirty-First Gödel Lecture 2020
Elisabeth Bouscaren, The ubiquity of configurations inModel 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 semantics
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, theΩ Conjecture, and the inner model problem of onesupercompact 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
The Thirteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2002
Harvey Friedman, Issues in thefoundations 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 inDescriptive Set Theory
The Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 1997
1997Solomon Feferman, Occupations and Preoccupations with Gödel: His*Works* and the Work
The Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 1996
1996Saharon Shelah, Categoricity without compactness
The Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 1995
1995Leo Harrington, Goedel,Heidegger, and Direct Perception (or, Why I am a Recursion Theorist)
The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994
1994Donald A. Martin, L(R): A Survey
The Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 1993
1993Angus Macintyre, Logic of Real andp-adic Analysis: Achievements and Challenges
The Third Annual Gödel Lecture 1992
1992Joseph R. Shoenfield, The Priority Method
The Second Annual Gödel Lecture 1991
1991Dana Scott, Will Logicians be Replaced by Machines?
The First Annual Gödel Lecture 1990
1990Ronald Jensen, Inner Models and Large Cardinals
The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe (the latter known as theLogic Colloquium). In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both theAmerican Mathematical Society ("AMS") and theAmerican Philosophical Association ("APA"), and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.
| 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 |
| 32nd President | Natasha Dobrinen | 2025–2028 |
The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.[8]
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 ProfessorCarol 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 andAlex Wilkie, Oxford |
| 1998 | Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University |
| 2003 | Gregory Hjorth, UCLA andAlexander 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 |
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 ProfessorGerald 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 andRene Schipperus |
| 2000 | Eric Jaligot |
| 2001 | Matthias Aschenbrenner |
| 2002 | no prize awarded |
| 2003 | Itay Ben Yaacov |
| 2004 | Joseph Mileti andNathan Segerlind |
| 2005 | Antonio Montalbán |
| 2006 | Matteo Viale |
| 2007 | Adrien Deloro andWojciech Moczydlowski |
| 2008 | Inessa Epstein andDilip Raghavan |
| 2009 | Isaac Goldbring andGrigor Sargsyan |
| 2010 | Uri Andrews |
| 2011 | Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day |
| 2012 | Pierre Simon |
| 2013 | Artem Chernikov andNathanaël Mariaule |
| 2014 | no prize awarded |
| 2015 | Omer Ben-Neria andMartino 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 |
| 2024 | Nicholas Pischke and Erfan Khaniki |
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 ofJoseph R. Shoenfield.[11]
Recipients include:
| Year | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|
| 2007 | John P. Burgess (book);Bohuslav Balcar andThomas 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, andRichard Zach (book); Vasco Brattka (article) |
Inaugurated in 1990, the Gödel Lecture is the honor of being the speaker at the association's annual meeting. The award is named afterKurt Gödel.
For the complete list of speakers, please seeGödel Lecture Series above.
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