Association for Symbolic Logic
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 Alonzo Church. The current president of the ASL is Phokion Kolaitis.[1]
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| Abbreviation | ASL |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1936 |
| Type | Scholarly society |
| Purpose | Research, Inquiry |
| Headquarters | Storrs, Connecticut |
President | Phokion Kolaitis |
Vice President | Natasha Dobrinen |
Co-Secretary-Treasurer | Russell G. Miller |
Co-Secretary-Treasurer | Reed Solomon |
| Website | aslonline |
Publications
The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:
- Journal of Symbolic Logic (website) – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936, ISSN 0022-4812.
- Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (website) – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995, ISSN 1079-8986.
- Review of Symbolic Logic (website) – 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 (website) – 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]
Meetings
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
| 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 |
Awards
The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.[4]
Karp Prize
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.[5]
| 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 |
Sacks Prize
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:[6]
| 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 |
Shoenfield Prize
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.[7]
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) |
References
- "Council Members, Committees, and Representatives – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association for Symbolic Logic. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
- "Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- "Former Officers – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- "Prizes and Awards – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association of Symbolic Logic. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- "Karp Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- "Sacks Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- "Shoenfield Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic". Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.