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Benedikt Löwe

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) Office: C3.137
Universiteit van Amsterdam e-mail: b.loewe@uva.nl
P.O. Box 94242 Telephone: +31 20 525 6071
1090 GE Amsterdam Fax: +31 20 525 5206
The Netherlands

Affiliations (January to July 2012:) Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (Principal Organizer of the programme Semantics & Syntax and at the College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary of the University of Cambridge.
 
Universitair Docent (UD) at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
Professor at the Fachbereich Mathematik of the Universität Hamburg

Research Publications
Research Projects
ESF EuroCoRes Project DiFoS (Dialogical Foundations of Semantics; 2008-2012)
Member of the Steering Committee of the ESF Research Networking Programme INFTY (New frontiers of infinity: mathematical, philosophical, and computational prospects; 2009-2014)
John Templeton Foundation Project What makes stories similar? (2011-2013)
Editorial Activities
Editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI)
Editor of the Tbilisi Mathematical Journal (TMJ)
Member of the Editorial Committee (Redaktion) of the Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg
Managing Editor of Mathematical Logic Quarterly (MLQ)
Managing Editor of Computability
Completed Research Projects
NWO Project Verzamelingstheoretische Modelvorming voor Oneindige Spelen van Imperfecte Informatie (2003)
NWO/DFG-Projekt Determiniertheitsaxiome, Infinitäre Kombinatorik und ihre Wechselwirkungen (2003-2006)
Marie Curie Research Training Site GLoRiClass (Games in Logic Reaching Out for Classical Game Theory; 2006-2010)
DFG Scientific Network PhiMSAMP (Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice; 2006-2010)
NWO/DFG-Projekt ICWAC (Infinitary Combinatorics without the Axiom of Choice; 2007-2011): Workshop, June 2009

Teaching
2nd Semester 2009/10: Seminar on Mathematical Logic (with Dr George Barmpalias)
1st Semester 2010/11: During the first semester of 2010/11, I was a Fellow-in-Residence of the Vlaams Academisch Centrum of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie von België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten in Brussels.
2nd Semester 2010/11: Set Theory (with Dr Klaas-Pieter Hart)
Reasoning and formal modelling for Forensic Science
1st Semester 2011/12: Capita Selecta: Set Theory
Seminar on Mathematical Logic
2nd Semester 2011/12: On leave as Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, England
Doctoral Students. Sanchit Saraf (MSc IIT Kanpur 2010)
Sourav Tarafder (MSc U Calcutta 2008)
Zhenhao Li (MSc U Amsterdam 2011)
Former Doctoral Students. Dr. Brian Semmes (MSc U Amsterdam 1997, PhD U Amsterdam 2009)
Dr. Sara Uckelman (MA U Wisconsin 2004, PhD U Amsterdam 2009)
Dr. Stefan Bold (Dipl.-Math. U Bonn 2002, Dr.rer.nat. U Bonn 2009)
Dr. Daisuke Ikegami (MSc U Nagoya 2006, PhD U Amsterdam 2010)
Dr. Eva Müller-Hill (née Wilhelmus) (Dipl.-Math. U Köln 2005, Dr.phil. U Bonn 2011)
Dr. Yurii Khomskii (MSc U Amsterdam 2007, PhD U Amsterdam 2012)
Teaching of Past Semesters/Trimesters

Events Foundations of the Formal Sciences Conference Series (FotFS): FotFS I [Berlin 1999], FotFS II [Bonn 2000], FotFS III [Vienna 2001], FotFS IV [Bonn 2003], FotFS V [Bonn 2004], FotFS VI [Amsterdam 2007], FotFS VII [Brussels 2008]
CiE Conference Series (CiE-CS): CiE 2005 [Amsterdam 2005], CiE 2006 [Swansea 2006], CiE 2007 [Siena 2007], CiE 2008 [Athens 2008], CiE 2009 [Heidelberg 2009], CiE 2010 [Ponta Delgada (Açores) 2010], CiE 2011 [Sofia 2011], CiE 2012 [Cambridge 2012]
Informal Meeting of Set Theorists (IMST): IMST 2001, IMST 2002; GLLC 12: Games and Sets [Amsterdam 2006]; continued as Set Theory in Amsterdam: Set Theory 2009, Set Theory 2010
Amsterdam/Bonn Cooperation: LiB-Day in Amsterdam (June 30th, 2003), ILLC-Day in Bonn (November 30th, 2003), ILLC-Day 2 in Bonn "Language" (June 7th, 2004)
Special Session on Set Theory at the AMS-DMV-ÖMG Joint Meeting [Mainz 2005]
7th Augustus de Morgan Workshop: "Interactive Logic: Games and Social Software" [London 2005]
LOFT: LOFT06 [Liverpool 2006], LOFT08 [Amsterdam 2008]
PhiMSAMP workshops: PhiMSAMP-0 [Bonn 2005], Towards a new epistemology of mathematics [PhiMSAMP-1, GAP.6, Berlin 2006], PMP 2007 [Brussels 2007], PhiMSAMP-2 [Utrecht 2007], 18th Novembertagung [Bonn 2007], PhiMSAMP-3 [Vienna 2008], PhiMSAMP-4 [Brussels 2008], PhiMSAMP-5 [Hatfield 2009], PhiMSAMP-6 [Amsterdam/Utrecht 2010].
ALI events (Association for Logic in India): International Conference on Logic, Navya-Nyaya & Applications [Calcutta 2007]; ISLA 2008 [Kanpur 2008]; ICLA 2009 [Chennai 2009]; ISLA 2010, ISLA 2010 [Hyderabad 2010]; Workshop on Set Theory @ ISLA 2010; Conference on Mathematical Logic and Set Theory [Chennai 2010; satellite to the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad]; ICLA 2011 [Delhi 2011].
KNAW Academie-Colloquium New perspectives on Games and Interaction (Amsterdam, February 2007)
CSL: CSL 2007 [Lausanne], CSL 2009 [Coimbra]
GPMR Workshop on Logic and Semantics: GPMR-LS1 (Bonn, June 2007)
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: FAInt-07 (Osnabrück, September 2007)
Seventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation: Tbilisi (October 2007)
Infinity in Logic and Computation: Cape Town (November 2007)
ESSLLI: ESSLLI 2008 [Hamburg]
WoLLIC: WoLLIC 2011 [Philadelphia PA]

Department, University and Community Service Scientific Editor of the ILLC Publications
Vice President (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und für Grundlagen der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG)
Member of the Board (Vorstand) of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
Member of the Board of the Association Computability in Europe (ACiE)
UvA Scientific Coordinator for Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Lot 15 (EMECW15, 2009-2012), Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Lot 13 (EMECW13, 2010-2013), Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia 11 (EMEA11, 2011-2014), Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa (EMA2SA, 2011-2014).

Last update: 15 February 2012