5th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications

Call for Papers

Scope

Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent
logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations
for formal specification of systems and programming languages,
supporting tool development and reasoning.

The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together
theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results,
from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use
of such techniques and results, from the practical side. In this fifth
edition, the workshop will be in August the first, jointly with ICTAC
(http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC/ictac2010/) in Natal-Rn, Brasil.

Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to:

* Logical frameworks
* Proof theory
* Type theory
* Automated deduction
* Semantic frameworks
* Specification languages and meta-languages
* Formal semantics of languages and systems
* Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks
* Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks
* Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks

LSFA'10 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in
progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their
preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of
full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so
that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published
papers. The publication of LSFA proceedings is planned to be a volume
of ENTCS (under consideration by ENTCS editorial board). Selected
papers, will be published in a special volume by ISTE
(http://www.iste.co.uk/)



Program Committee

* Flávio Leonardo Cavalcanti de Moura (General Chair, UnB-Brasil)
* Luis Farinas del Cerro (Program co-chair, IRIT, France)
* Edward Hermann Haeusler (Program co-chair, PUC-Rio, Brasil)
* Jonathan Seldin (Univ-Lethbridge , Canada) TBC
* Maurício Ayala-Rincón (UnB, Brasil)
* Christiano de Oliveira Braga (UFF, Brasil)
* Mario Benevides (Coppe-UFRJ, Brasil)
* Eduardo Bonelli ( UNLP, Argentina)
* Marcelo Corrêa (IM-UFF, Brasil)
* Clare Dixon (Liverpool, UK)
* Gilles Dowek (Polytechnique-Paris, France)
* William Farmer (Mcmaster, Canada)
* Maribel Fernández (King's College, UK)
* Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brasil)
* Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt Univ, UK)
* Delia Kesner (Paris-Jussieu, France)
* Luis da Cunha Lamb (UFRGS, Brasil)
* Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brasil)
* Ana Teresa Martins (UFC, Brasil)
* Martin Musicante (UFRN, Brasil)
* Cláudia Nalon (UnB, Brasil)
* Luca Paolini (Universitá di Torino, Italy)
* Elaine Pimentel (UFMG, Brasil)

Important dates:

* Submission 31th May 2010
* Author's notification 1st July
* Camera-ready: 30th July
* Workshop : 31 August

Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form
full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission
should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA2010 page at
EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=lsfa10)
until the submission deadline by midnight, Central European Standard
Time (GMT+1).

The papers should be prepared in latex using Elsevier ENTCS
style. Please see the Instructions for Preparing Files for Preliminary
Versions Instructions for styles and examples. Instructions and the
Latex package used to format your submission can be found in
http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html

Organizing Committee

* Flávio Leonardo Cavalcanti de Moura (General Chair, UnB-Brasil)
* Martin Musicante (UFRN, Brasil)
* Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brasil)
* Cláudia Nalon (UnB, Brasil)
* Marcelo Corrêa (IM-UFF, Brasil)

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LaTeX: A guide for philosophers

LaTeX is a fantastic tool for philosophers of all stripes - though it excels at typesetting the complicated formulas of logicians, it has distinct advantages for all philosophers. (I discuss some of these here. ) If you are here, I assume you want to learn how to use LaTeX. You can find vast amounts of information on LaTeX online. But this is not entirely helpful. Much of it is written for scientists; most of it is written by people who are very capable technologically. While there are certainly philosophers who are technically inclined, comfortable with using the command line and/or writing code, etc., most of us are not. This is a guide to using LaTeX for those who either are not technologically inclined or who do not have the time to poke around and figure everything out on their own.

LaTeX can seem overwhelming and complex. It needn’t be. There are three basic steps to producing your first LaTeX document. If you want to stop there, you will reap (practically) all the benefits of LaTeX. If you want to go further, it seems there is no end to the amount you can learn. My objective in these pages is to get you to a workable understanding of LaTeX with a minimum effort (on your part). After reading these pages, you should know how to write all your papers using LaTeX. If you want to jump ahead, click on the next page below. If you would like to know a bit more about LaTeX before we begin, read on.

Writing a paper in LaTeX is more complicated than writing a paper in a word processor in two ways. First, you have to be more explicit using LaTeX than you would with a word processor. Second, there are a few steps between typing the words on your keyboard and producing a finished document in LaTeX, not so with a word processor.

LaTeX is, in the first instance, a markup language. So when you ‘write a paper in LaTeX’, what you are really doing is creating a plain text file (with a .tex extension–so paper.tex, for example) filled with your content and some explicit instructions. The basic instructions are not that complicated, and your text editor will help you write them, but you do have to be explicit about inserting them.

The instructions you write in that plain text file are used in the steps between typing the paper and producing a finished product. Once you have a file, you run it through LaTeX. This is the step of compiling your paper, turning it from a plain text file into a PDF. (Note, there is the option to turn your paper into a .dvi file. I am certain there is some reason to want to do this. But I know that I have never had such a reason, and I bet you will be like me in this regard, so I will ignore that here.) All the little bits of code you explicitly insert into your paper are instructions that LaTeX uses to translate the .tex file into a .pdf file.

Writing a paper in a word processor is kind of like a packaged cupcake. All the formatting work is done for you. Writing a paper in LaTeX is kind of like baking a cake: you mix up raw ingredients and you don’t have anything very special–you have a sort of ugly plain text file full of code that, were you to print, would be confusing to someone who didn’t know LaTeX. But just as you have to put a cake in the oven to produce delicious goodness, so too must you put your .tex file through a process to get out the typesetting-goodness that is a LaTeX document.

If you do not already have a TeX distribution on your system, click here to continue; if you do have a TeX distribution, click here. (If you don’t know if you have a TeX distribution, look at the applications or programs on your computer. If you have a Mac and see TeXShop, or if you have a PC and see TeXworks or TeXnicCenter, then you have a TeX distribution installed.)

Fontes: http://www.charlietanksley.net/latex/

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O Pensamento Matemático e as Ciências

palestra ( do Prof. Hersh) que está no ciclo de Conferências *O
Pensamento Matemático e as Ciências*, organizada pelo IMECC.

Esta palestra, em particular, será no Auditório 2 do *IFCH*, no dia 6 de
maio às 16h00 e seu título é o mesmo que o deste livro dele: *What is
Mathematics, really?*

http://www.amazon.com/What-Mathematics-Really-Reuben-Hersh/dp/0195130871

A graduação do Prof. Hersh foi em Literatura em Harvard e depois ele foi
para o Courant na NYU para o PhD em Matemática com Peter Lax.

Talvez vocês se lembrem do Prof. Hersh pelos seus artigos expositórios
(inclusive no Scientific American, e no Mathematical Intelligencer).

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John Venn

Lógico e matemático britânico nascido em Hull, Inglaterra, criador dos diagramas de Venn adotados pela matemática modena. Procedente da Low Church Evangelical, estudou e graduou-se no Gonville and Caius College, parte da Universidade de Cambridge (1853-1857), foi eleito fellow e, dois anos depois, ordenado padre (1859). Cura em Mortlake, voltou para a Universidade de Cambridge (1862) como um lecturer em Ciência Moral, estudando e ensinando lógica pedagógica e teoria de probabilidade, e nesta cidade permaneceu até sua morte. Desenvolveu e ampliou a lógica matemática de George Boole, tornando-se conhecido pelos seus diagramas para representar uniões e interseções entre conjuntos. Escreveu Logic of Chance (1866) que Keynes descreveu como notavelmente original e que influenciou o desenvolvimento da teoria de estatísticas. Na teoria de probabilidade, ficou mais conhecido pelos diagramas esquemáticos, conhecidos como diagramas de Venn que são usados para ilustrar operações com conjuntos. Deixou a Igreja (1870) e depois publicou Symbolic Logic (1881), seu mais duradouro trabalho em lógica, e The Principles of Empirical Logic (1889). Eleito fellow da Royal Society (1883), aproximadamente nesta época sua carreira mudou direção, passando a demonstrar interesse por história. Escreveu uma história sobre sua faculdade e publicou The Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897 (1897). Empreendeu, então, a imensa tarefa de compilar uma história da Universidade de Cambridge na qual foi ajudado pelo filho e, em vida só conseguiu publicar o primeiro volume deste monumental empreendimento (1922). Também teve outras habilidades e interesses, inclusive uma habilidade rara para inventar máquinas, como a que criou para fazer rolar bolas de cricket que fez grande sucesso quando o time de cricket australiano visitou Cambridge (1909). Morreu em Cambridge e entre outros livros matemáticos publicados por ele incluem-se Logic of Chance (1866), Symbolic Logic (1881) e The Principles of Empirical Logic (1889). Particularmente também se interessou apaixonadamente pela história da Universidade de Cambridge e escreveu The Biographical History of Gronville and Caius College 1349-1897 (1897) e também começou um projeto muito mais ambicioso para escrever a história da universidade inteira.

fonte: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/JohnVenn.html

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Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society

in Honor of John Nash, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Nash Equilibrium


General Information

ORGANIZER

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY, the 1st São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences on Game Theory of FAPESP - The State of São Paulo Research Foundation. It will be held at the University of São Paulo, from July 29 to August 4, 2010. The event will honor JOHN NASH, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Nash equilibrium.

The workshop will offer the participants the opportunity to interact with some of the most productive researchers in Game Theory. The week-long event will consist of conferences, contributed papers sessions and mini-courses which will start at the introductory level and will reach the frontiers of current research. All graduate students should send a recommendation letter from their supervisors to bwgt2010@usp.br.



Undergraduate students may register. A letter of recommendation is also required. The recommendation letter must be written by a professor from the student´s institution. Acceptance results will be announced by April 15. We recommend all graduate and undergraduate students to pay the registration fee after the acceptance decisions are announced.

Limited funds are available. See the application rules for financial support.


DEADLINES
Early Registration: 03/30/2010

Extended abstract: 03/30/2010
Acceptance: 04/30/2010

Registration fee payment: 05/15/2010


DEAR APPLICANTS, DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS WE ARE UNABLE TO TAKE NEW REGISTRATIONS.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZER
Marilda Sotomayor, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil.
LOCAL ORGANIZER COMMITTEE
Marilda Sotomayor, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil.
Maurício Bugarin, Insper/SP, Brazil.
Adhemar Villani Junior, Insper/SP, Brazil.
Gustavo Andrey, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil.
Joe Yoshino, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Marilda Sotomayor, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil
M. Bugarim, Insper/SP, Brazil

M. Nunez, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
S. Brams, New York University, USA

A. Sandroni, University of Pennsylvania, USA
G. De Clippel, Brown University, USA

A. Urbano, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
O. Gossner, Paris School of Economics, FR and London School of Economics, UK

F. Valenciano, Universidad Del País Vasco, Spain
W. Maldonado, Universidade Católica de Brasília/DF, Brazil

B. Von Stengel, London School of Economics, UK
P. Milgrom, Stanford University, USA - www.milgrom.net

J. Wooders, University of Arizona, USA
H. Moulin, Rice University, USA

M. Wooders, Vanderbilt University, USA


INVITED SPEAKERS:

John Nash (Nobel Prize in Economics of 1994)
Robert Aumann (Nobel Prize in Economics of 2005)
Roger Myerson (Nobel Prize in Economics of 2007)
Eric Maskin (Nobel Prize in Economics of 2007)
A. Araujo, IMPA e FGV/RJ,BR

G. De Clippel, Brown Univ., USA
G. Demange, Paris School of Econ., FR

J. Duggan, Univ. of Rochester, USA
P. Dubey, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA

O. Gossner, PSE, FR and LSE, UK
S. Hart, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, IL

O. Hudry, ENS des Télécon., FR
A. Neyman, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, IL

H. Moreira, FGV - EPGE
M. Perry, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, IL and Univ. of Warwick, UK

M. Nunez, Univ. Barcelona, Spain
P. Reny, Univ. of Chicago, USA

F. Page, Univ. of Alabama, USA
W. Thomson, Univ. of Rochester, USA

H. Sabourian, Univ. of Cambridge, USA
M. Wooders, Vanderbilt Univ., USA

W. Sandholm, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA

A. Sandroni, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

A. Urbano, Univ. de Valencia, Spain

F. Valenciano, Univ. Del País Vasco, Spain


MINI-COURSES
Non-Cooperative Games, Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem,Israel.
Auction Theory, Paul Milgrom, Stanford Univ., USA.
Experimental Economics, John Wooders, Univ. of Arizona, USA.
Game Theory and Democracy, Steven Brams, New York Univ., USA.
Networks, Matthew Jackson, Stanford Univ., USA.
Stochastic Games: Algorithms and Existence Theorems, T.E.S. Raghavan, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Fonte: http://aplicativos.fipe.org.br/bwgt2010/index.htm

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