Gold Medal posthumously awarded to Petr Hájek

On June 27 2017 (in the framework of the conference in the series Topology, Algebra and Categories in Logic, TACL 2017) the Kurt Gödel Society has presented the gold medal posthumously to the son and the daughter of Professor Petr Hájek, which was awarded for his eminent contribution to the field of logic and to the development of the Kurt Gödel Society, whose president Professor Petr Hájek has been for many years.

Call for Applications

Applications are being invited for outstanding early-career scientists (2-8 years post PhD), interested in establishing their first independent research group in an interdisciplinary field, connecting Logic with Mathematics and Computer Science. In this context, the Logic and Theory group at TU Wien is looking for candidates working on the analysis on mathematical proofs.

We are seeking for outstanding candidates, who are interested to submit an application to the open call for young investigators of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF): https://www.wwtf.at/upload/VRG17_web.pdf.

In the case of a successful application, the research group will be funded for 6-8 years, with up to 1.6 million EUR by the WWTF, supplemented by an additional contribution from the University. After a successful interim evaluation, TU Wien will offer a tenure-track position to the group leader.

Requirements: Applicants should have an excellent track record demonstrating the innovative application of mathematical methods in Theoretical Computer Science. Application procedure: For a first step, informal inquiries, including a short CV with publication list, list of research projects and potential topics for a WWTF grant application should be sent to Agata Ciabattoni agata@logic.at as soon as possible but no later than June 28, 2017.

Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply!

Vienna, May 15 2017

Dana Scott eleceted President of KGS

On June 29, 2015 Professor Dana Scott was elected President of the KGS. Photos from the ceremony and his talk Can Modalities Save Naive Set Theory? given at VCLA can be viewed at Photos (photos copyright B Afshari).

ScienceWeek 2001

The ScienceWeek@Austria is dedicated to public relation work for science and research. All universities and other research/scientific institutes are invited to present their work, developments and interests in a way easy to grasp for the non-scientist.

In cooperation with the Institut Wiener Kreis we will organize a series of events in a viennese coffeehouse under the title Cafehaus-Wissenschaft - Der Wiener Kreis Logic, Medicine, Jurisprudence and Philosophy: four sciences which were prominent in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. We will present these four disciplines with interesting, funny, strange and famous results. There will be lectures to each of these sciences and two special courses are held on the incompleteness theorem of Gödel and on Kelsens jurisdiction.

For more informations please visit the ScienceWeek Homepage

ScienceWeek 2000

In 2000 the KGS screened the movie "Kurt Gödel - ein mathematischer Mythos" by Werner De Pauli-Schimanovich and Peter Weibel in a Viennese cinema together with a introduction by Mr. Schimanovich and a long discussion after the screening.