BRITISH LOGIC COLLOQUIUM Registered Charity No 275541 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/blc President Professor J B Paris FBA [Manchester] Vice-President Professor J M E Hyland [Cambridge] Treasurer Dr R Dyckhoff [St Andrews] Secretary Dr M Dzamonja [East Anglia] Professor D Macpherson [Leeds] Dr E Ritter [Birmingham] Professor T Williamson FBA FRSE [Oxford] --------------------------------------------------------- Dear members, Please find attached the minutes of the BLC Committee Meeting that was held in Leeds on March 20th. Connected to the discussion of the committee are several items I am commenting upon in this paragraph. Firstly, I am sending for your information in a separate message a complete list of members' email addresses, and here below you can find the postal addresses of those members that are not reachable by email. Secondly, may I remind the members of the existence of a Ph.D. database for logic theses at BLC- please make sure that the database is up to date by sending the relevant information to our webmaster Eike Ritter. I have a great pleasure in informing you that one of our members, Professor Boris Zilber of the Oxford University, was awarded the senior Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his paper 'Exponential sums equations and the Schanuel conjecture', J. London Math. Soc. (2) 65 (2002). Congratulations Boris! BLC members have a discount on a large range of Oxford University Press books, and I am enclosing an announcement below. The new simplified procedure to obtain this discount is to access a web page whose login and password will only be known to our membiers. I am sending you the necessary information in a separate message. Finally, let me recall again that our Annual Meeting will be held in Leeds from 6-8 of September. Watch the web site http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/blc/blc-meetings.html for further announcements and please note the enclosed more detailed announcement. Table of contents: (1) Oxford Univeristy Press books announcement (2) New monograph by David Pym and Eike Ritter (3) BLC Annual Meeting (4) Postal addresses of members not reachable by email (5) New Journal: Logical Methods in Computer Science Best wishes to all, Mirna. -------------------------------------------------- (1) We're pleased to offer BLC members 20% discount on a large range of Logic books from Oxford University Press, including the authoritative Oxford Logic Guides series, and our recently established Oxford Texts in Logic. The Oxford Logic Guides is an outstanding series for logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists and philosophers which fosters in-depth knowledge and interdisciplinary studies alike. It includes texts and monographs, providing material for the study of logic at an intermediate level, along with authoritative reference works. Our latest book in this series is Reductive Logic and Proof-search - Proof Theory, Semantics, and Control by David J. Pym, and Eike Ritter. This book is available to BLC members for #52.00 (RRP #65.00). [see below for a more detailed announcement of this book] In July we also published the first title in our new Oxford Texts in Logic series, A First Course in Logic - An Introduction to Model Theory, Proof Theory, Computability, and Complexity by Shawn Hedman, is an introduction to the basics of classical logic and is available in to BLC members for #23.99 (RRP #29.99). Get more information on all our logic books, and purchase with your 20% discount, online at: http://www.oup.co.uk/sale/Science/blc/ (Please note: this offer is only available when books are ordered online direct from OUP) (2) New monograph by David Pym and Eike Ritter in the Oxford Logic Guide Series published by OUP Reductive Logic and Proof-search: Proof Theory, Semantics, and Control by David Pym and Eike Ritter. This book is a specialized monograph on the development of the mathematical and computational metatheory of reductive logic and proof-search, including proof-theoretic, semantic/model-theoretic and algorithmic aspects. The scope ranges from the conceptual background to reductive logic, through its mathematical metatheory, to its modern applications in the computational sciences. Contents: Preface Foreword by Lincoln Wallen 1 Deductive Logic, Reductive Logic, and Proof-search 2 Lambda-calculi for Intuitionistic and Classical Proofs 3 The Semantics of Intuitionistic and Classical Proofs 4 Proof Theory for Reductive Logic 5 Semantics for Reductive Logic 6 Intuitionistic and Classical Proof-search and Their Semantics References Index For more information see http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852633-4 also linked from http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr. (3) British Logic Colloquium 2004, University of Leeds, September 6--8. Registrations for this event are open, and there is an online registration form on the website, http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Pure/logic/blc04.html General enquiries should be addressed to Dugald Macpherson (h.d.macpherson@leeds.ac.uk). The meeting is supported by the London Mathematical Society annd the British Logic Colloquium (4) Prof P Geach 3 Richmond Road CAMBRIDGE CB4 3DP Dr Z Georgis 22 St Mark's Crescent Primrose Hill LONDON NW1 7TU Dr H Parkin Turing House 1 Southbridge Grove Kents Hill MILTON KEYNES, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6HW (5) L O G I C A L M E T H O D S I N C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E > > >Dear Colleague: > >We are writing to inform you about a new open-access, online, refereed >journal: "Logical Methods in Computer Science". As an open-access >publication, the journal will be freely available on the web. This new >journal will be devoted to all theoretical and practical topics in >computer science related to logic in a broad sense. You can find the homepage at > > http://www.lmcs-online.org > >The journal will open to submissions on September 1, 2004. > >It will be published under the auspices of The International Federation >for Computational Logic: http://www.colognet.org/IFCoLog/. >The journal will technically be published as an overlay of the Computing >Research Repository (CoRR), see http://arxiv.org/archive/cs/intro.html. > >On the homepage you find a flier and a leaflet containing the basic >information about the new journal. We would appreciate your posting >and distributing the information, and encouraging potential authors to >submit to Logical Methods in Computer Science. > >You may have heard about the various developments in the past couple of >years in regard to the Open Access movement, see, e.g.,: > > http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html > http://www.plos.org/ > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm > >and the link > > "Landscape..." > >at the jornal website. The open-access idea is that knowledge, >including scientific knowledge, should be widely and readily available >to society, in a stable and long-term form. The Internet and electronic >publishing provides an evident means to that end. Not unrelated are >concerns arising from the increasingly high prices charged commercially. > >There are already a few open-access journals in Computer Science, e.g.: > > http://www.theoryofcomputing.org/ > http://www.jair.org/ and > http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/jmlr/. > > >We are convinced that now is the time to start one in our area of logic >and computer science. > >Yours Sincerely, > >Jiri Adamek, >Gordon D. Plotkin, >Dana S. Scott >and >Moshe Y. Vardi -------------------- Dr Mirna Dzamonja Reader School of Mathematics University of East Anglia Norwich, NR47TJ UK phone: +44-1603-592981 fax: +44-1603-593868The minutes of the committee meeting on 30 March 2004 are here.
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