Association for Symbolic Logic

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president was Alonzo Church. The current president of the ASL is Julia F. Knight.[1]

Association for Symbolic Logic
AbbreviationASL
Formation1936
TypeScholarly society
PurposeResearch, Inquiry
HeadquartersStorrs, Connecticut
President
Julia F. Knight
Vice President
Phokion Kolaitis
Co-Secretary-Treasurer
Russell G. Miller
Co-Secretary-Treasurer
Reed Solomon
Websiteaslonline.org

Publications

The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:

  • Journal of Symbolic Logic (website) – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936, ISSN 0022-4812.
  • Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (website) – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995, ISSN 1079-8986.
  • Review of Symbolic Logic (website) – publishes research relating to logic, philosophy, science, and their interactions. Founded in 2008, ISSN 1755-0203.

In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:

  • Journal of Logic and Analysis (website) – publishes research on the interactions between mathematical logic and pure and applied analysis. Founded in 2009 as an open-access successor to the Springer journal Logic and Analysis. ISSN 1759-9008.

The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings of Kurt Gödel.[2]

Meetings

The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe (the latter known as the Logic Colloquium). In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both the American Mathematical Society ("AMS") and the American Philosophical Association ("APA"), and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.

List of Presidents[3]
Name Term of office
1st President Curt John Ducasse 1936–1937
2nd President Haskell Curry 1938–1940
3rd President Cooper Harold Langford 1941–1943
4th President Alfred Tarski 1944–1946
5th President Ernest Nagel 1947–1949
6th President J. Barkley Rosser 1950–1952
7th President Willard Van Orman Quine 1953–1955
8th President Stephen Cole Kleene 1956–1958
9th President Frederic Fitch 1959–1961
10th President Leon Henkin 1962–1964
11th President William Craig 1965–1967
12th President Abraham Robinson 1968–1970
13th President Dana Scott 1971–1973
14th President Joseph R. Shoenfield 1974–1976
15th President Hilary Putnam 1977–1979
16th President Solomon Feferman 1980–1982
17th President Ruth Barcan Marcus 1983–1985
18th President Michael Morley 1986–1988
19th President Charles Parsons 1989–1991
20th President Yiannis Moschovakis 1992–1994
21st President George Boolos 1995–1996
22nd President Menachem Magidor 1996–1997
23rd President Donald A. Martin 1998–2000
24th President Richard Shore 2001–2003
25th President Alexander Kechris 2004–2006
26th President Penelope Maddy 2007–2009
27th President Alex Wilkie 2010–2012
28th President Alasdair Urquhart 2013–2015
29th President Ulrich Kohlenbach 2016–2018
30th President Julia Knight 2019–2021


Awards

The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.[4]

Karp Prize

The Karp Prize is awarded by the association every five years for an outstanding paper or book in the field of symbolic logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1973 in memory of Professor Carol Karp. [5]

YearRecipient(s)
2018Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique
2013Moti Gitik, Tel Aviv University; Ya'acov Peterzil, University of Haifa; Jonathan Pila, University of Oxford; Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame; Alex Wilkie, University of Manchester
2008Zlil Sela, Hebrew University
2003Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech
1998Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
1993Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford
1988Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley
1983Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
1978Robert Vaught, University of California, Berkeley

Sacks Prize

The Sacks Prize is awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1999 to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard.

Recipients include:[6]

YearRecipient(s)
2019Gabriel Goldberg
2018Danny Nguyen
2017Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey
2016William Johnson and Ludovic Patey
2015Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini
2014no prize awarded
2013Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule
2012Pierre Simon
2011Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day
2010Uri Andrews
2009Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan
2008Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan
2007Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski
2006Matteo Viale
2005Antonio Montalbán
2004Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind
2003Itay Ben Yaacov
2002no prize awarded
2001Matthias Aschenbrenner
2000Eric Jaligot
1999Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus
1998no prize awarded
1997Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon
1996Byunghan Kim
1995Slawomir Solecki
1994Gregory Hjorth

Shoenfield Prize

Inaugurated in 2007, the Shoenfield Prize is awarded every three years in two categories, book and article, recognizing outstanding expository writing in the field of logic and honoring the name of Joseph R. Shoenfield.[7]

Recipients include:

YearRecipient(s)
2016Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt (book); Lou van den Dries (article)
2013Stevo Todorčević (book); Itaï Ben Yaacov, Alexander Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov (article)
2010John T. Baldwin (book); Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt, Andrew Nies, and Sebastiaan Terwijn (article)
2007John P. Burgess (book); Bohuslav Balcar and Thomas Jech (article)
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References
  1. "Council Members, Committees, and Representatives – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association for Symbolic Logic. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic
  3. Former Officers – Association for Symbolic Logic
  4. "Prizes and Awards – Association for Symbolic Logic". Association of Symbolic Logic. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  5. Karp Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic
  6. Sacks Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic
  7. Shoenfield Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic
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