WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY PROCESSING, WUPES 09

From Radim Jirousek (via the SIPTA-MEMBERS mailing list):

"WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY PROCESSING

WUPES 09will be held in castle Liblice, September 19-23. All the necessary information can be found at http://wupes.fm.vse.cz/ (some its pieces, as e.g. the amount of a conference fee, are only preliminary, however, because we are still trying to obtain a financial support to be able to keep the fee as low as possible). We want to ask you, who are considering to participate at this event, to preliminarily register as soon as possible (definitely not later then April 30) because we have to sign a contract with the castle specifying the number of participants. Looking forward to meeting you in Liblice, radim jirousek (on behalf of Organizing Committee)."

NYU-COLUMBIA Grad Conference

From Erica Shumener:

"Just a reminder that the NYU-Columbia grad conference is on this Saturday, and it will be GREAT! Here's the schedule. We hope to see you there!

Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at NYU5 Washington Place, Room 101 (Ground Floor)

Breakfast 9:30-10:00am

"Modality: Norms and Naturalism" Sean Aas, Brown University Commentator: Jeff Russell, NYU10:00-11:15am

"The Concept of Belief and Epistemic Rationality" Ivy Tsoi, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeCommentator: Brian Kim, Columbia 11:30am-12:45pm

Lunch 12:45-2:00pm

"New Dynamics for Epistemic Modality" Malte Willer, University of Texas-Austin Commentator: Katrina Przyjemski, NYU2:00-3:15pm

"Why Do the Numbers Count?" Tom Dougherty, MIT Commentator: Michael Seifried, Columbia 3:30-4:45pm

Keynote Speaker: Karen Bennett (Cornell)"Putting Things Together" 5:00-7:00pm

10:00 Party!"

Summer School in Mathematical Logic at UCLA

From Itay Neeman: The UCLA Logic Center is organizing a summer school for undergraduates this July. The goal of the school is to introduce future mathematicians to methods and central results from mathematical logic. Courses are _very_ intensive, designed to assume little if any prior experience with logic, yet reach highly advanced material within three weeks.

I'm writing to ask for your help advertising the school and attracting extra bright undergraduates. Please encourage any suitable students that you know to apply. The recently created summer school webpage (including application form) is at

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Summer-2009/

There is also a flyer at

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Summer-2009/flyer.pdf

which you may post and forward to the undergraduate counselors in your department.

Ph.D. SCHOLARSHIP IN LOGIC offered jointly by the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Philosophy

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

Call for Applications: We invite applications for a fully-funded 4 year bursary position for a Ph.D. student at the University of Groningen. The scholarship is offered jointly by the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Philosophy. Applicants must submit a research proposal for the intended PhD research covering the four-year duration of the scholarship. The application for the scholarship should be made no later than 1 May 2009.

Qualifications: Candidates should have (or obtain before 1 September 2009) a Masters degree in Logic, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Mathematics or Physics.

Job Profile: We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in Logic (especially in areas such as Modal Logic, Epistemic Logic, Dynamic Logic, Belief Revision theory, Game Logic, Quantum Logic, Linear Logic,
Conditionals or Game Semantics) and its applications to modelling information flow, learning, agency, interaction and rationality in Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Philosophy, Computer Science, Quantum Physics (including Quantum Information and Quantum Computation) or Game Theory. Fluent English is a prerequisite.

Appointment: The net monthly salary (after tax) for this position is approximately 1500 euro. The scholarship is awarded for a period of four years and should lead to a dissertation. The successful applicant is required to participate in the PhD programme at the University of Groningen (see http://www.rug.nl/prospectivestudents/degreeprogrammes/ graduateschools/phd) and will be working under the daily supervision of Dr. S. Smets.

How to apply: Applications must be sent by standard mail and should arrive by 1 May 2009. Applications must contain :

- a Curriculum Vitae
- a 3-5 page long Research Proposal
- a Letter of Motivation (at most 1 page), explaining why you are interested in this position
- a list of university courses taken (including grades).
- the name and contact details (including email address) of one referee who can provide details about your profile (e.g. the supervisor of your master thesis).

Please send the application to :

Dr. Sonja Smets
University of Groningen,
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Department of Artificial Intelligence
P.O. Box 407
9700 AK Groningen
The Netherlands

For further information, please contact Dr Sonja Smets at S.J.L.Smets@rug.nl

Shortlisted candidates will be notified within 4 weeks after the deadline.

CFP for Second Formal Epistemology Festival: Causal Decision Theory and Scoring Rules

Second Formal Epistemology Festival:
Causal Decision Theory and Scoring Rules
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
May 29-31, 2009

This is the second of three small, thematically focused events in formal epistemology, organized by Franz Huber (Konstanz), Eric Swanson (Michigan), and Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto). This year's festivities coincide with the 10th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory. Confirmed participants include John Collins, Branden Fitelson, Allan Gibbard, Chris Hitchcock, James Joyce, Sarah Moss, and the organizers.

We welcome submissions of papers on topics related to causal decision theory, scoring rules, or both. Please send a pdf prepared for blind reviewing to ericsw@umich.edu.

Some funding for travel expenses may become available. Click here for a printable call for papers. For more information, see http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ericsw/2fef .

Deadline for submissions: March 22, 2009.
Notification of acceptances: April 5, 2009.

Some upcoming conferences on uncertainty

Philosophy of Probability II: Graduate Conference,Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science,London School of Economics, 8-9 June.

Foundations of Uncertainty: Probability and Its RivalsSeptember, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, 1-4 September.

Progic: 4th Workshop on Combining Probability andLogic, special focus: new approaches to rationality indecision making, Groningen, The Netherlands, 17-18 September.

HT to The Reasoner!

Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology at CMU

Information about the 2009 program can be found here.