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Logic, Relativity, and Beyond

9-13 Aug 2015
Budapest, Hungary

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT:

Logic, Relativity and Beyond
2nd international conference
http://www.renyi.hu/conferences/lrb15/

August 9-13 2015, Budapest, Hungary

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for abstract/paper submission: 20 March, 2015
Notifying the authors: 20 May, 2015
Early registration: 31 May, 2015
Conference: 9-13 August, 2015

There are several new and rapidly evolving research areas blossoming out
from the interaction of logic and relativity theory. The aim of this
conference series, which take place once every 2 or 3 years, is to attract
and bring together mathematicians, physicists, philosophers of science, and
logicians from all over the word interested in these and related areas to
exchange new ideas, problems and results.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):
*  Special and general relativity
*  Axiomatizing physical theories
*  Logical foundations of spacetime
*  Computability and physics
*  Logic of causality
*  Relativistic computation
*  Knowledge acquisition in science
*  Branching spacetime
*  Concept algebras and algebraic logic
*  Logic of time and space
*  Cylindric and relation algebras
*  Relativity theory and philosophy of science

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Invited speakers:
- S. Barry Cooper (University of Leeds)
- Alexander K. Guts (Omsk State University)
- Mark Hogarth (University of Cambridge)
- Thomas Müller (Universität Konstanz)
- Istvan Racz (Wigner Institute)
- Laszlo E. Szabo (Eotvos University)

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Program Committee:
- Istvan Nemeti (Chair, Renyi Institute)
- Thomas Benda (Yang Ming University)
- Miklos Ferenczi (Budapest University of Technology)
- Michele Friend (The George Washington University)
- Judit X. Madarasz (Renyi Institute)
- John Byron Manchak (University of Washington)
- Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University)
- Ildiko Sain (Renyi Institute)
- Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield)
- Gergely Szekely (Renyi Institute)
- Christian Wuthrich (University of California)

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Organizing Committee:
- Gergely Szekely (Chair, Renyi Institute)
- Hajnal Andreka (Renyi Institute)
- Koen Lefever (Vesalius College)
- Attila Molnar (Eotvos University)
- Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield)

We invite you to submit your abstract via the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lrb15

Looking forward to seeing you in Budapest.

If you know anyone who may be interested in this conference, please notify
them.

Contact: Gergely Szekely - lrb15@renyi.mta.hu