Soft Computing Days
From the 23d to the 25th of May the Department of Mathematics will host “Soft Computing Days“, a bilateral workshop China-Italy . We look forward to meeting you there.
PostDoc position in Logic in Salerno, Italy. (Deadline 10th of May 2016.)
The Department of Mathematics at the University of Salerno invites applications for a three-year postdoctoral position in Mathematical Logic. The position is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 project “SYSMICS” and involves a commitment of 20% of time for project assistance duties. The research focus in on: algebraic logic, many-valued logics, and substructural logics. The net salary is approximately 1450 euros per month.
Applicants are expected to have a strong background in mathematics and logic, the ability to conduct collaborative mathematical research, and the potential for excellence in research. Good written and oral English skills are required. The postdoctoral fellow will work within the logic group of the department and will be in contact with researchers in more than 20 universities participating in the project.
Applicants are required to enclose a 3-5 page research proposal (in English or Italian), a CV, their PhD thesis, publications and any other qualification which could demonstrate their scientific production as well as their aptitude to research activity.
The deadline for applications is the 10th of May.
The application form is in Italian, but an English guide can be found at the end of this page. Speaking Italian is not a requirement for the position. The interview will take place on the 20th of May at 10:30. A Skype interview is possible for non-Italian residents and must be requested in advance.
The official call for applications (in Italian) is available here. One can use google translate to have a rough idea of the call, however the important information are listed below.
The application form is in Italian, you can download it here. At this link you can find a English explanation of how to fill it in.
Your application must contain:
- The application form provided at the above link, filled in.
- A self-certification of your PhD. Here is the form and here is the explanation of how to fill it in.
- A copy of your Passport or ID.
- Research proposal.
- CV.
- Publications.
- List of the publications attached to the application.
- PhD thesis.
- Other qualifications such as research scholarships, awards, or specialisations.
- List of the other qualifications.
- List of all document presented (excluding the list itself :).
On the envelope containing all documents there must be indicated:
Full name and address of the candidate, followed by: “selezione pubblica per 1 assegno Area 01 – Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche , Settore Disciplinare MAT/01, Bando prot. 22619 del 19/04/2016”.
The envelope has to be sent (with registered priority mail) to the following address:
Università degli Studi di Salerno – Area III “Didattica e Ricerca”, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 – 84084 Fisciano (SA)
For further inquiries please contact Dr. Luca Spada (lspada@unisa.it)
Canonical formulas for k-potent commutative, integral, residuated lattices
Nick, Nick and I have finished the paper about canonical formulas for k-potent residuated lattices. A (incomplete) presentation of the paper can be found here. The paper can be downloaded here
The abstract reads as follows:
Canonical formulas are a powerful tool for studying intuitionistic and modal logics. Actually, they provide a uniform and semantic way to axiomatise all extensions of intuitionistic logic and all modal logics above K4. Although the method originally hinged on the relational semantics of those logics, recently it has been completely recast in algebraic terms. In this new perspective canonical formulas are built from a finite subdirectly irreducible algebra by describing completely the behaviour of some operations and only partially the behaviour of some others. In this paper we export the machinery of canonical formulas to substructural logics by introducing canonical formulas for k-potent, commutative, integral, residuated lattices (k-????). We show that any subvariety of k-???? is axiomatised by canonical formulas. The paper ends with some applications and examples.
Comments are welcome, as usual.
Course on Many-Valued Logic at ILLC
Starting form the 1st of September 2014, I will teach a course on Many-Valued Logics at the University of Amsterdam. The webpage with all the details can be found here.
Tutorial on Dualities
These are the slides of my tutorial on Dualities at the $16^{th}$ Latin American Symposium on Mathematical Logic. 28th July – 1st August 2014. Buenos Aires, Argentina. A shorter version can be found here.
Slides on Duality (SLALM 2014)
