14-18 Aug 2017
Nashville TN, U.S.A.
BLAST 2017 (In Memoriam Bjarni Jónsson) Preliminary Announcement August 14-18, 2017 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN This year?s installment of the BLAST conference series will take place on the campus of Vanderbilt University from August 14 to August 18, 2017. It honors the life and memory of Bjarni Jónsson. The BLAST Conference Series circulates among different universities and focuses on Boolean Algebras, Lattices, Algebraic Logic, Quantum Logic, Universal Algebra, Set Theory, Set-theoretic Topology and Point-free Topology. The central BLAST web page can be found here. <http://math.colorado.edu/blast/> BLAST 2017 is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Shanks Endowment at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, and the Consortium for Order in Algebra and Logic. The scientific program will include nine invited lectures, three tutorials and contributed talks. It is worth mentioning that there will be a spectacular solar eclipse in Nashville on August 21st, so perhaps some participants may elect to stay on for a few days after the conference. The organizing committee consists of Jose Gil-Férez (Vanderbilt University), Peter Jipsen (Chapman University), Keith Kearnes (University of Colorado at Boulder), Ralph McKenzie (Vanderbilt University; Chair), Stephen Simpson (Vanderbilt University), Constantine Tsinakis (Vanderbilt University), and Matt Valeriote (McMaster University). This is a preliminary announcement and its sole purpose is to alert members of the BLAST community about the dates of the conference. Additional information ? including invited and tutorial speakers, registration, submission deadlines of abstracts, details of applying for financial support, and important dates, will be provided in the forthcoming second announcement in the first week of April. The conference organizers can be reached at blast2017@vanderbilt.edu <mailto:blast2017@vanderbilt.edu>. The conference web site is currently under construction and will be accessible at the beginning of April. Organizing Committee of BLAST 2017 -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam