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EASLLC 2012, International Conference and Second East-Asian School on Logic, Language and Computation, is to be held at the Southwest University in Chongqing, China, August 25-31, 2012.
Dag Westerstahl reports on the preceding ESSLLI-like event in China: the Sino-European Winter School in Logic,
Language and
Computation (SELLC-2010) which was held at the Sun Yat-Sen University,
Guangzhou,
China, December 3-18, 2010. There was an initial workshop on
December 4-5, and
then two weeks of the Winter School, with a Student Session (the
majority of
students were Chinese, but there were also students from Europe
and the US),
and the following courses:
Samson
Abramsky (Categories, Proofs and Processes)
Robin Cooper (Formal and Computational Semantics)
Kees van Deemter (Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural
Language)
Juliette Kennedy (Elementary Set Theory)
Phokion Kolaitis (Relational Databases, Logic, and Complexity)
Jeff Paris (Inductive Logic)
Greg Restall (Structures for Proofs)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Logical Computations in Multi-Agent
Systems)
Dag Westerståhl (Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language)
There
was also a Set Theory Workshop in connection with the School,
December 7-8. For
further information, see
http://www.math.helsinki.fi/logic/sellc-2010/index.html.
The
idea of initiating ESSLLI style schools in China was discussed
by Jouko
Väänänen and Dag Westerståhl together with members of the
Institute for Logic
and Cognition at Sun Yat-Sen University, during the ‘LogICCC
meets China’ day
(October 7, 2009, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; see
http://www.golori.org/lori2009/logiccc.html), an event sponsored
by the Eurocores
LogICCC program at ESF, and initiated by Väänänen, Westerståhl,
and Johan van
Benthem, all from the Logic for Interaction (LINT) project of
LogICCC. ESF also
sponsored the initial workshop at SELLC-2010 (and thereby some
of the
lecturers).
Reactions
to the Winter School were overwhelmingly positive (a student
questionnaire was
sent to the participating students, and lecturers also gave
written impressions
afterwards), and there was a general hope that these events
should continue.
Ideally, a Chinese (or Asian) organization committee should plan
such schools
to be held at regular intervals and in different places.
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