Summer School "Proof, Truth, Computation" (PTC 2014)
20-25 July 2014, Chiemsee, Germany
Call for applications by young researchers. Deadline: 17 March 2014.
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This is to invite young researchers (PhD students and post-docs) to apply for the upcoming summer school
"Proof, Truth, Computation. Modern Foundations of Mathematics and Contemporary Philosophy".
Application by female scientists is particularly encouraged.
The event will take place from 21st to 25th July 2014 (arrival 20th July afternoon, departure 25th July after noon) in the Benedictine nunnery Frauenwoerth on the Fraueninsel in Chiemsee between Munich and Salzburg:
http://www.frauenwoerth.de/english/
The Volkswagen Foundation will kindly sponsor this event:
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/foundation.html
To get an idea of this summer school, especially of its interdisciplinary character, please see the material provided at end of this message. Junior participants will be particularly expected to contribute to the questions and answers sessions and to the round table discussions.
Important dates:
Deadline for application: 17th March 2014 Notification of acceptance: 24st March 2014 Communication of precise air fare (if applicable): 31st March 2014
Applications are to be sent, in a single PDF document, by email, to
ptc14@math.lmu.de
PhD students need to send a CV of at most 2 pages, a brief letter of motivation and one letter of reference. Postdocs only need to send a CV of at most 2 pages. All applicants need to tell whether they also apply for funding and, if so, to which extent. Only a limited amount of funding is available. Applicants for funding are expected to stay for the whole week, and to tell the extent to which they can be funded by other sources.
If your application for funding is successful, then you will be offered reimbursement of the travel and lodging expenses that you cannot cover from other sources. This will require that you choose the cheapest travel option, and that you book your trip by 31st March 2014 in case of flights and by the earliest possible date in case of long-distance trains. We hope to be able to contribute partially to your subsistence expenses (meals).
Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner - the latter two excluding drinks) for four and a half days will be EUR 180. PhD students and postdocs are expected to share double rooms, for EUR 125 each person for the whole week (5 nights).
Organising committee:
Hannes Leitgeb hannes.leitgeb@lmu.de Iosif Petrakis petrakis@math.lmu.de Peter Schuster pschust@maths.leeds.ac.uk Helmut Schwichtenberg schwicht@math.lmu.de
Enquiries are to be directed to:
ptc14@math.lmu.de
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Main Topics
Truth Theories Predicativity Constructivity Proof Theory Formal Epistemology Set-theoretic Truth
Further topics will include:
Homotopy, Types and Univalence Program Extraction from Proofs Coalgebraic and Categorical Semantics Minimal Type Theory
Speakers and disputants (preliminary list)
Tatiana Arrigoni Steve Awodey Marco Benini Ulrich Berger Andrea Cantini Thierry Coquand (to be confirmed) Laura Crosilla Branden Fitelson Sy Friedman (to be confirmed) Volker Halbach Hajime Ishihara Peter Koellner Hannes Leitgeb Maria Emilia Maietti David Makinson Yiannis Moschovakis Sara Negri Erik Palmgren Dirk Pattinson Dieter Probst Joan Rand-Moschovakis Michael Rathjen Giuseppe Rosolini (to be confirmed) Giovanni Sambin Monika Seisenberger Philip Welch Andreas Weiermann
Aims and Scope
Mathematical methods are about to shape some branches of contemporary philosophy just as they have formed most of the natural and many of the social sciences. The thread of the school we propose is to mirror this development, known as mathematical philosophy or formal epistemology; to highlight the challenges that arise from it; and to display its repercussions in mathematics. As for theoretical computer science, a quite comparable spin-off of mathematics, the principal counterpart within mathematics is mathematical logic.
Since many of the objects of study lie beyond the typical commitment of contemporary mathematics, it is decisive to include non-classical issues such as predicativity and constructivity. Proof theory does indeed play a pivotal role: as the area of mathematical logic that is closest to the understanding of logic as the science of formal languages and reasoning, it is predestined for interaction both with philosophical and computer science logic.
A hot topic that crosses over wide ranges of the school, and is most prominently represented within, is whether axiomatic theories of truth and of related notions, such as provability and knowledge, are possible at all in the stress field between syntax and semantics. Rational belief and rational choice, epistemic issues of principal philosophical relevance, are put under mathematical scrutiny by applying probabilism: that is, the thesis that a rational agent's degrees of belief should conform to the axioms of probability theory.
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