2-5 July 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Call for Participation
14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
(WoLLIC'2007)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 2-5, 2007
(a satellite event to Brazilian Computer Society Conference - CSBC'07)
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and
tutorials as well as contributed papers.
The Fourteenth WoLLIC will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from
July 2 to July 5, 2007, in conjunction with the 27th Brazilian
Computer Society Conference. It is sponsored by the Association for
Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics
(IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the
Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL).
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of WoLLIC'2007, including both invited and contributed
papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. In addition,
abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of
the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will
be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC'2007 special issue
of the journal Information and Computation.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Alex Borgida (Rutgers)
Alessandra Carbone (Paris)
Martin Escardo (Birmingham)
Philippa Gardner (Imperial Coll)
Achim Jung (Birmingham)
Louis Kauffman (U Illinois Chicago)
Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Paulo Oliva (London/QM)
John Reif (Duke)
Yde Venema (Amsterdam)
TUTORIAL LECTURES
Stone duality, by A. Jung
Quantum topology and quantum computation, by L. Kauffman
Biological computing, by J. Reif
INVITED TALKS
Description Logics: formal foundations and applications, by A. Borgida
Group Theory and Classical Proofs, by A. Carbone
Algorithmic Topology of Program Types, by M. Escardo
Contex Logic and Tree Update, by Ph. Gardner
On the interplay of logic and information: A topological analysis,
by A. Jung
Spin networks in quantum computation, by L. Kauffman
Symmetries in natural language syntax and semantics:
the Lambek-Grishin calculus, by M. Moortgat
Computational Interpretations of Classical Linear Logic, by P. Oliva
Autonomous programmable biomolecular devices using self-assembled DNA
nanostructures specifying properties of data DNA Nanostructures,
by J. Reif
A modal distributive law, by Y. Venema
BOOK EXHIBITION
The following publishers are expected to be exhibiting various books
from their catalogue, prospectuses, journal samples, etc., and there
will be a chance to order items at promotional prices:
The MIT Press
Springer-Verlag
A K Peters
Cambridge Univ Press
CSLI Publications (Stanford Univ)
Oxford Univ Press
World Scientific
It is likely that a few other international publishers will also take
part in the book exhibit.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Samson Abramsky (U Oxford)
Michael Benedikt (Bell Labs)
Lars Birkedal (ITU Copenhagen)
Andreas Blass (U Michigan)
Thierry Coquand (Chalmers U, Goteborg)
Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam)
Marcelo Finger (U Sao Paulo)
Rob Goldblatt (Victoria U, Wellington)
Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Redmond)
Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio)
Masami Hagiya (Tokyo U)
Joseph Halpern (Cornell U)
John Harrison (Intel UK)
Wilfrid Hodges (U London/QM)
Phokion Kolaitis (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Marta Kwiatkowska (U Birmingham)
Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Chair)
Maurizio Lenzerini (U Rome)
Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy)
Dale Miller (Polytechnique Paris)
John Mitchell (Stanford U)
Lawrence Moss (Indiana U)
Peter O'Hearn (U London/QM)
Prakash Panangaden (McGill, Montreal)
Christine Paulin-Mohring (Paris-Sud, Orsay)
Alexander Razborov (Steklov, Moscow)
Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich U)
Jouko Vaananen (U Helsinki)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Marcelo da Silva Correa (U Fed Fluminense)
Renata P. de Freitas (U Fed Fluminense)
Ana Teresa Martins (U Fed Ceara')
Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, co-chair)
Petrucio Viana (U Fed Fluminense, co-chair)
WEB PAGE
www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007