12-14 September 2012
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Second Call for Abstracts:
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WORKSHOP ON LATTICES AND RELATIONS (L&R 2012)
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12-14 September 2012
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/LR2012/
!!!!! 30 June Extended deadline !!!!!!!
Scope
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Relation algebra in its modern form has been developed in fruitful
exchange with neighbouring disciplines such as lattice and order
theory, universal algebra, category theory, topology and model
theory. Relational and lattice-theoretic methods are important to the
semantic study of many nonclassical logics, as well as in the
foundations of computer science, where they are widely applied. This
has led to a research area with a quite liberal attitude in which
results, tools and techniques from neighbouring fields are freely
transported and combined. The area thus serves as an interface between
fields and application domains. The workshop aims to bring together
researchers from various countries who are active in different facets
of this area.
It is the second workshop in a series: the first installment has been
organized at the University College in London (2010)
(http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~szabolcs/workshop/workshop.html).
While lattices and relations are the main thread of this workshop, the
second installment particularly welcomes contributions about
connections with topics such as semigroups, semirings, quantales,
Kleene algebras, fixpoint calculi.
Invited Speakers
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* Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged (confirmed)
* Marcel Jackson, La Trobe University (confirmed)
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Featured topics
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We invite to submit proposals for contributed talks dealing with
topics within the scope of the workshop. This includes, but is
not limited to, the following areas:
* (finite) axiomatisability of classes of algebras;
* computational aspects e.g. decidability and complexity of the
equational theory, representation problem for abstract algebras,
finite representation property;
* Kleene algebras, quantales, and other algebras of relations;
* duality theory, completions and canonical extensions;
* applications to logics and program semantics, computability.
Important dates
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June 30, 2012: Extended deadline forTitle and Abstract submission of contributed talks (see below)
July 7, 2012: Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2012: Deadline for communication of attendance (see below)
September 12-14, 2012: Workshop
Organizers
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* Robin Hirsh (University College London)
* Georg Struth (University of Sheffield)
* Szabolcs Mikulas (Birkbeck, University of London)
* Alessandra Palmigiano (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
* Giuseppe Greco (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
* Sumit Sourabh (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
More Information
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Please send your communications of
attendance and queries to a.palmigiano@uva.nl
Please submit titles and extended abstracts (max 1 page) of your
proposed contributed talks to Szabolcs Mikulas
<szabolcs@dcs.bbk.ac.uk>.
Information on the venue, hotels, maps, and social dinner will be made
available at the following url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/LR2012/