Programme of 
the Tarski Centenary Conference

 

Monday, 28 May

Morning session

 

Mathematical Institute, 8, Sniadeckich street, 4th floor, room 403

9:00 - 9:30 Opening  
9:30 - 10:20  John W. Addison Jr., Tarski's theory of definability:  
common themes in descriptive set theory, recursive function theory, classical  
pure logic,  and finite-universe logic.
10:20 - 11:00 break  
11:00 - 11:50 Solomon Feferman, Tarski's conception of logic
 
 

Afternoon sessions

 
  Mathematical Institute   Banach Centre  
  room 403A 
(Truth and semantics)
room 403B 
(Foundations of mathematics)
room 13 
(Philosophical logic)
room 14 
(Algebra)
14:00 - 14:50 Vladimir L. Vasyukov Developing Tarski: a Brouwerian 
Topos of Theories
Angus Macintyre 
Quantifier elimination in geometrical situations, from real closed fields to rigid analytic spaces
Janusz Czelakowski, 
Abstract algebraic logic and hierarchies of deductive systems
Mai Gehrke 
Canonical extensions of bounded distributive lattice expansions
15:00 - 15:50 Mario Gomez-Torrente Reading the "Wahrheitsbegriff" Ludomir Newelski 
Small profinite structures
  Don Pigozzi 
Abstract Algebraic Logic and the Specification of Abstract Data Types 
 
 
15:50 - 16:20 break break break break
16:20 - 17:10 Arianna Betti 
Lesniewski's Early Solution to the Liar and Tarski
Lev Beklemishev Provability algebras and proof-theoretic ordinals Leo Esakia 
Recent observations  concerning Tarski's topological interpretation of the Intuitionistic Calculus
Matt Valeriote 
Decidable Equationally Defined Classes
 

18:00   Reception by the Rector of Warsaw University (at Palac Kazimierzowski)

 

Alfred Tarski memory session

 

19:30, Warsaw University, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmiescie street, Palac Kazimierzowski, Senate Hall

 

 



 
 

Tuesday, 29 May

Morning session

 

Mathematical Institute, room 403

 
 
9:00 -  9:50 Henry Hiz Reexamination of Tarski's semantics
9:50 - 10:10 break  
10:10 - 11:00 Petr Hajek  Tarski and fuzzy logic
11:00-  11:50 Jaakko Hintikka Independence-friendly logic and axiomatic set theory
 
 
 

 Afternoon sessions

  Mathematical Institute   Banach Centre  
  room 403A 
(Truth and semantics)
room 403B 
(Foundations of mathematics)
room 13 
(Philosophical logic)
room 14 
(Algebra)
13:30 - 14:20 Anita Burdman Feferman, Two clues from the Alfred Tarski Archives: A story and a journal    Melvin Fitting 
Scope issues in modal logic
Peter Jipsen 
The many descendants of Tarski's Relation Algebras
14:30 - 15:20 Ilkka Niiniluoto, 
Tarski's definition and truth-makers 
Leszek Pacholski 
Set constraints in the sense of Tarski
Rudolf Wille 
Contextual Logic: a Human-oriented Mathematization of Philosophical
Don Monk 
The spectrum of maximal independent subsets of a Boolean algebra 
 
15:20 - 15:40 break break break break
15:40 - 16:30 Artur Rojszczak 
On Philosophical Background of Semantic Definition of Truth
Paola D'Aquino 
Around quadratic reciprocity law in weak fragments of Arithmetic
Jan Mycielski (read by J. Wolenski) 
Tarski's nominalism versus his model theory
Peter Johnstone
Open/Compact Duality in Topos Theory
16:40 - 17:30 Gabriel Sandu 
Truth as a vague predicate
Juliette Kennedy 
Some Model Theoretic Results Based on Transfer Principles
Benjamin Wells 
Why Tarski was interested in the problem of pseudorecursiveness
Ivo Düntsch 
Algebraic structures for qualitative reasoning
17:40 - 18:30     Steven Givant 
How Tarski and his students revolutionized the theory of relations
 
 


Wednesday, 30 May

Morning session

 

Mathematical Institute, room 403

 
 
9:00 -  9:50 Joachim Lambek  What is the world of mathematics?
9:50 - 10:20 break  
10:20 - 11:10 Ralph McKenzie  How Difficult is Tarski's Finite Equational Basis Problem?
11:10-  12:00 Wilfrid Hodges What languages have a Tarski truth-definition? 
 
 
 

 Afternoon sessions

  Mathematical Institute   Banach Centre  
  room 403A 
(Truth and semantics)
room 403B 
(Foundations of mathematics)
room 13 
(Philosophical logic)
room 14 
(Algebra and Applied Logic)
14:00 - 14:50 Peter Simons 
Nominalism, Truth, and Languages that Grow 
Roman Kossak Undefinability of truth and nonstandard models Jerzy Perzanowski 
Alfred Tarski and Modal Logic
Hilary Priestley 
Duality theory, canonical extensions and Kripke semantics
15:00 - 15:50 Göran Sundholm Concepts of Truth and Proof: Frege, Hilbert, Tarski Sam Buss 
Extracting feasible algorithms from intuitionistic proofs
Robert K. Meyer 
Ternary relations relevant semantics
Willem Blok 
On equivalence of deductive systems 
 
15:50 - 16:20 break break break break
16:20 - 17:10 Jens Erik Fenstad 
Tarski, Truth and Natural Languages
Ryszard Komorowski 
On stable isotropic Banach spaces (joint work with  T. Figiel, R. Frankiewicz, and Cz. Ryll-Nardzewski)
Roger D. Maddux 
A brief history of relation algebras
Victor Marek 
Tarski and semantical considerations in Logic Programming and Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
17:20 - 18:10 Roman Murawski Philosophical reflexion on mathematics in Poland between the wars Magdalena Grzech 
Set theoretical aspects of l_infty/c_0,  
(joint work with R. Frankiewicz and Cz. Ryll-Nardzewski) 
Leslaw W. Szczerba Natural Geometry Radko Mesiar 
Triangular norms: from probabilistic metric spaces to many-valued logics
 
 
 

19:00   Banquet (at the Banach Center)


Thursday, 31 May

Morning session

 

Mathematical Institute, room 403

 
 
9:00 -  9:50 Alex Wilkie  O-minimality
9:50 - 10:20 break  
10:20 - 11:10 Anil Nerode  Logics of Hybrid Systems
11:10-  12:00 Jouko Väänänen  Some Results in Infinitary Logic 
 
 
 

 Afternoon sessions

  Mathematical Institute   Banach Centre  
  room 403A 
(Truth and semantics)
room 403B 
(Foundations of mathematics)
room 13 
(Philosophical logic)
room 14 
(Logic of Computation)
14:00 - 14:50 Jan Wolenski 
Aletheia, veritas and truth from Pre-Socratics to Tarski 
Andreas Blass 
Some cardinal characteristics of the continuum
Andrzej Salwicki 
Tarski's semantics in software verification(joint work with  G. Mirkowska, M. Srebrny, and A. Tarlecki)
Andrzej Grzegorczyk Computability without Mathematics
15:00 - 15:50 Paul Horwich 
A Minimalist Critique of Tarski on Truth
Zofia Adamowicz Consistency, incompleteness and non-conservativeness in arithmetic Dimiter Vakarelov Dynamic Extensions of Arrow Logic (joint work with Philippe Balbiani) Dexter Kozen 
A Computer Scientist's View of Admissible Sets 
 
15:50 - 16:20 break break break break
16:20 - 17:10 Arnon Avron Non-deterministic Matrices Arnold Beckmann 
Models and separations of bounded arithmetic
Krister Segerberg Revision and contraction in full dynamic doxastic logic Johann Makowsky Algorithmic aspects of  the Feferman-Vaught Theorem
17:20 - 18:10 Wandy MacCaull Relational proof systems  
(joint work with Ivo Düntsch and Ewa Orlowska)
Henryk Kotlarski 
The incompleteness theorems after 70 years
Piotr Wojtylak Cn-definitions of propositional connectives (joint work  with W. A. Pogorzelski) Igor Walukiewicz 
Adding fixpoints to modal and first-order logics
 



 
 

Friday, 1 June

Mathematical Institute, room 403
 
9:00 -  9:50 Roman Duda On the Warsaw interactions of logic and 
mathematics in the years 1919-1939
9:50 - 10:20  break  
 

 
 
 
  Mathematical Institute   Banach Center  
  room 403 A room 403 B 
(Foundations of mathematics) 
room 13 room 14
10:20 - 11:10 Harrie de Swart
Axiomatizations of the plurality ranking rule
Lou van den Dries Gromov-Hausdorff limits in euclidean and non-euclidean space Ivo Rosenberg 
The role of relations in universal algebra  
and related fields 
Silvio Ghilardi  Unification in propositional logic
11:20 - 12:30 Marcin Mostowski
Henkin quantifiers in finite models, A survey  
(joint work with M. Krynicki and K. Zdanowski)
Aleksander Blaszczyk Free Boolean Algebras and Nowhere Dense Ultrafilters   Constantine Tsinakis Residuated Lattices
         
 
 

 
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