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Logic in Hungary 2005, Budapest August 2005

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                           Logic in Hungary, 2005

                       Budapest,  August 5 - 11, 2005



   We take great pleasure in announcing that the Janos Bolyai Mathematical
Society is going to organize a conference on mathematical logic in
Budapest, Hungary, during the period August 5 - 11, 2005. With this
conference we would like to celebrate the unique event that two great
Hungarian logicians, L. Kalmar and R. Peter, both have their centenary of
birth in 2005.

  The date of our conference was also chosen so as to immediately follow
the 2005 European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic in
Athens, Greece.

   The main topics covered by the conference will be:

 1.  Set Theory,
 2.  Foundations of Space-Time,
 3.  Algebraic Logic,

but contributions from all other branches of symbolic logic are welcome.
The following invited speakers have already indicated their intention to
participate in our conference (we list them by subjects but there is a
considerable overlap in the three subjects -- several invited speakers
come to stress the unity of these subjects):

 1. Set Theory:

    Sy Friedman,     Institute for Logic, University of Vienna,
    M. Foreman,      University of California, Irvine,
    M. Gitik,        Tel Aviv University,
    T. Jech,         Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences,
                     Czech Republic
    P. Koepke,       Reinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaat, Bonn
    K. Kunen,        University of Wisconsin         (tentative)
    S. Todorcevic,   University of Toronto,
    B. Velickovic,   University of Paris 7,

 2. Foundations of Space-Time:

    H. Friedman,     Ohio State University,
    M. Hogarth,      Cambridge University, UK,
    V. Pambuccian,   Arizona State University West,
    P. Suppes,       Stanford University,
    C. Wutrich,      University of Pittsburgh.

(We hope that John Baez, Julian Barbour, Jeremy Butterfield, Dennis Dieks,
Michael Friedman, J. Richard Gott, Sir Roger Penrose, George Szekeres will
also come.)

 3. Algebraic Logic:

    J. van Benthem,   University of Amsterdam,       (tentative)
    J. Hintikka,      Boston University,             (tentative)
    R. Hirsch         University College, London,    (tentative)
    I. Hodkinson,     Imperial College, London,
    M. Makkai,        McGill university, Montreal,
    D. Monk,          University of Colorado, Boulder.


The organizing committee of the conference consists of the following
people: A. Hajnal and J. Suranyi (honorary chair), H. Andreka, I. Juhasz,
P.  Komjath, I. Nemeti (co-chair), G. Sagi (secretary), L. Csirmaz, M.
Ferenczi, M. Redei, I. Sain and L. Soukup (members)

Further information about the conference will be posted on our homepage:

                        http://www.renyi.hu/lh05

The e-mail address of the conference is

                                 lh05@renyi.hu

  Please preregister using the above homepage if you wish to receive
further announcements about the conference. We would be very thankful, if
you could forward this e-mail to your colleagues and students.

  We have applied for financial support for the conference from the
International Mathematical Union and from the European Mathematical
Society. We intend to provide financial support for graduate students
and/or young researchers subject to budgetary approval.

  Please accept our apologies if you received this e-mail more than once.

  On behalf of the organizing committee,


  3rd of September, 2004                        Gabor Sagi
                                  secretary of the organizing committee

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  LASZLO KALMAR (1905-1976) was a scientist of enormous influence, a
contemporary of Godel, who was among the very few present at the cradle of
Mathematical Logic. He had an unparalleled knowledge of mathematics and he
mentored many generations of Hungarian mathematicians, including Paul
Erdos. He is considered the founding father of both Logic and Theoretical
Computer Science in Hungary.

  ROZSA PETER's (1905-1977) early work, presented in her book "Recursive
Functions" made her one of the founders of Recursion Theory. Her other
book "Playing with Infinity" written more than sixty years ago, still to
be found on the shelves of some New York book stores, made her one of the
most read authors of popular mathematics. Though she always considered
herself a mere student of Kalmar she was a great scientist on her own
right. She was the first woman mathematician to become a member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. People who knew her cherish her as a brave
crusader of all right causes.