De Nederlandse Vereniging voor Logica & Wijsbegeerte der Exacte Wetenschappen
The VvL Logic at Large Lectures are annual, public lectures organised for a general audience. Upcoming Logic at Large Lecture:
Information about the VvL Logic at Large Lecture 2025 will be published here soon.
Past Logic at Large Lectures
| June 17 2024 Larry Moss (Indiana University) A Place for Logic in the Computer Processing of Language Starting in 2018, computers have been able to carry out some tasks at human level (or better), tasks which are traditionally thought of as 'logical'. [Read more ...] |
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| 6 June 2023 Lukasz Kaiser (OpenAI): How Logic Shapes Transformers Lukasz Kaiser is a researcher at OpenAI, who works on fundamental aspects of deep learning and natural language processing. Prior to joining OpenAI, he was a Staff Research Scientist in the Google Brain team, where he co-designed state-of-the-art neural models for machine translation, parsing and other algorithmic and generative tasks and co-authored the TensorFlow system, the Tensor2Tensor and Trax libraries and the Transformer model, on which modern large language models such as ChatGPT are based. Before his position at Google, he was a tenured researcher at University Paris Diderot and worked on logic and automata theory. He received his PhD from RWTH Aachen in 2008 with a thesis on Logic and Games on Automatic Structures. Lecture by Lukasz Kaiser and Panel discussion on the role of logic in modern AI (panel includes Jan Broersen, Nina Gierasimczuk, Lukasz Kaiser) |
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| 31 May 2022 Joel David Hamkins (University of Notre Dame) Infinite games, frivolities of the gods Many familiar finite games admit natural infinitary analogues, which often highlight intriguing issues in infinite game theory. Shall we have a game of infinite chess? Or how about infinite draughts, infinite Hex, infinite Go, infinite Wordle, or infinite Sudoku? Let me introduce these games and use them to illustrate various fascinating concepts in the theory of infinite games. |
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| 28 May 2021 Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) And Logic Begat Computer Science During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous, and growing interaction between logic and computer science. In fact, logic has been called "the calculus of computer science". The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer science, similar to that played by calculus in the physical sciences and traditional engineering disciplines. [Read more ...] |
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