Seminar on

Logic and Cognition

October 30 - November 1, 2013, Kolkata

Celebrating 25 years of

Calcutta Logic Circle (CLC)

Organized by CLC

in collaboration with

School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University

 

Venue:

Auditorium, Department of Chemical Engineering,

Jadavpur University,

188 Raja S.C. Mullik Road,

Kolkata- 700032.

 

Technical sessions and list of speakers: 

1. Non-classical logics and applications

Mihir Chakraborty (Jadavpur University & Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Shyamanta Hazarika (Tezpur University, Assam)

Mohua Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) (slides)

Jayanta Sen (Presidency University, Kolkata)

Pulak Samanta (Katwa College, Bardhaman)

Soma Dutta (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

Arun Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

2. Cognition and Artificial Intelligence

Amitabha Mukerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Lopamudra Choudhury (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Amit Sen (Katwa College, Bardhaman)

Smita Sirker (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) (slides)

Jayant Ganguly (Regional Science Centre, Calicut) (slides)

Rajesh Kumar Tavva (IIIT Hyderabad) (slides)

Javed Hassan (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

 

3. Set theory, logic and algebra

Kamal Lodaya (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) (slides)

H. P. Sankappanavar (State University of New York, New Paltz)

Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra-Bharati University, Kolkata) (slides)

Supratik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

N. Raja (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay)

Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai)

Yanjing Wang (Peking University and Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai) (slides)

Debirupa Basu (University of Calcutta)

Abhishek Sankaran (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) (slides)

Sourav Tarafder (University of Calcutta)

Anirban Saha (University of Calcutta)

Purbita Jana (University of Calcutta) (slides)

A. Mani (University of Calcutta) (slides)

4. Complexity and automata

S.P. Suresh (Chennai Mathematical Institute) (slides)

 

Programme Schedule:

October 30   October 31 November 1
9.30-10 Registration
10-10.15 Inauguration 10-10.45

H. P. Sankappanavar:

Interconnections between Universal Algebra and
Modern Logic: Some Highlights

(abstract)

Supratik Chakraborty:

Some results on uniform generation and model counting

(abstract)

10.15-11 Amita Chatterjee 10.45-11.05

Rajesh Kumar Tavva:

Formal Grammar of Vaisesika Ontology

Abhishek Sankaran:

Generalizations of the Los-Tarski
Preservation Theorem

(abstract)

11-11.15 Tea 11.05-11.25

Lopamudra Choudhury:

Studies in Diagram Logic

Sanjukta Basu:

Problem of Non-existence: a Free Logic Approach

11.15-11.35

Mohua Banerjee:

A logic for reasoning about incomplete knowledge

(abstract)

11.25-11.40

Tea

Tea

11.35-11.55

Arun Kumar:

Discrete duality and rough sets

(abstract)

11.40-12

Purbita Jana:

On Categorical Relationship among various
Fuzzy Topological Systems, Fuzzy Topological
Spaces and related Algebraic Structures

(abstract)

Soma Dutta:

Different perspectives of graded consequence:
from interval-valued semantics

(abstract)

11.55-12.15

Jayant Ganguly:

Representation of scientific knowledge vis-a-vis scientific progress

(abstract)

12-12.45

Kamal Lodaya:

Countifiers

(abstract)

Shyamanta Hazarika:

Defeasible Logic Programming for Firewall
Verification and Reconfiguration

(abstract)

12.15-12.30  

Tea

 

12.45-14.15

Lunch

Lunch

12.30-13.15 Amitabha Mukerjee:
Language and Logic: an impending implicit Turn?

(abstract)

14.15-15

S. P. Suresh:

 Primal infon logic: proof theory and effcient decidability

Yanjing Wang:

On Axiomatizations of Dynamic Epistemic Logic

(abstract)

13.15-14.30

 

Lunch

 

15-15.20

Excursion

A. Mani:

Dialectics of Approximation of
Semantics of Rough Sets

(abstract)

14.30-15.15

Mihir Chakraborty:

Pluralism in Mathematics

(abstract)

15.20-15.40

Debirupa Basu:

Logical Connectives of Imperative Logic:

Formulated by Peter. B. M. Vranas

(abstract)

15.15-15.35

Smita Sirker:

Cultural Independence of Mathematics:

A Fact or A Myth?

(abstract)

15.40-15.55

Tea

15.35-15.55

Amit Sen:

Philosophical Foundations of Bohr-Einstein Controversy

(abstract)

15.55-16.15

Sujata Ghosh:

Forward and backward induction reasoning in games

(abstract)

15.55-16.10  

Tea

 

16.15-16.35

Pulak Samanta:

Consistency and Inconsistency Degree based on
Generalized Rough Sets

(abstract)

16.10-16.55  

N. Raja

 

16.35-16.55

Javed Hassan:

Whether analogical reasoning gives certain conclusion or not?

(abstract)

16.55-17.15

Jayanta Sen:

Connection between Linear logic and Rough logic

(abstract)

16.55-17.15

Sourav Tarafder:

A New Three-Valued Paraconsistent Logic

(abstract)

17.10- 17.30

Anirban Saha:

On algebraic structures weaker than pre-rough
algebra and their logics

(abstract)

 

There will be a conference banquet on October 31.

 

Accommodation for outstation participants has been arranged at

1. Jadavpur University Guest House
188 Raja S. C. Mullik Road,
Kolkata- 700032
 

2. M. N. Saha Guest House

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
2A & 2B Raja S C Mullick Road,
Kolkata- 700032.

 

For google map with conference venue and guest house locations, click here

 

The CLC seminar will be preceded by the International Workshop on Diagram Logic and Cognition 2013, at the same venue, during 28-29 October, 2013.

For more information on this workshop, please visit http://www.cem.brighton.ac.uk/dlac2013/

 

Contacts for CLC meet:

Mihir K. Chakraborty  ---  mihirc4@gmail.com

Jayanta Sen  ---  jsen_01@yahoo.co.in

Sourav Tarafder  ---  souravt07@yahoo.com