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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 Curt John Ducasse. The current president of the ASL is Natasha Dobrinen.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Association for Symbolic Logic|journal=The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic|volume=31|issue=1|date=March 2025|pages=188–193|jstor=27379752}}</ref>
== Publications ==
The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are: * ''Journal of Symbolic Logic'' – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936, {{issn|0022-4812}}. * ''Bulletin of Symbolic Logic'' – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995, ISSN 1079-8986. ([https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-symbolic-logic Cambridge Core]) * ''Review of Symbolic Logic'' – 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'' 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/godel-lecturers/ |title=Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=22 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222154857/http://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/godel-lecturers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Books Series === Lectures Notes in Logic<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lecture Notes in Logic – Association for Symbolic Logic |url=https://aslonline.org/books/lecture-notes-in-logic/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229201708/https://aslonline.org/books/lecture-notes-in-logic/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Perspectives in Logic<ref>{{Cite web |title=Perspectives in Logic – Association for Symbolic Logic |url=https://aslonline.org/books/perspectives-in-logic/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229201709/https://aslonline.org/books/perspectives-in-logic/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Books === Mathematical Logic by Joseph R. Shoenfield<ref>{{Cite web |title=Other Books – Association for Symbolic Logic |url=https://aslonline.org/books/other-books/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229201710/https://aslonline.org/books/other-books/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Gödel Lecture Series == The Gödel Lecture Series is series of annual ASL lectures that trace back to 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic |url=https://aslonline.org/prizes-and-awards/godel-lecturers/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212001921/https://aslonline.org/prizes-and-awards/godel-lecturers/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
'''The Thirty-Fifth Gödel Lecture 2024'''
Thomas Scanlon, (Un)decidability in fields
'''The Thirty-Fourth Gödel Lecture 2023'''
Carl Jockusch, From algorithms which succeed on a large set of inputs to the Turing degrees as a metric space
'''The Thirty-Third Gödel Lecture 2022'''
Patricia Blanchette, Formalism in Logic
'''The Thirty-Second Gödel Lecture 2021'''
Matthew Foreman, Gödel Diffeomorphisms
'''The Thirty-First Gödel Lecture 2020'''
Elisabeth Bouscaren, The ubiquity of configurations in Model Theory
'''The Thirtieth Gödel Lecture 2019'''
Sam Buss, Totality, Provability and Feasibility
'''The Twenty-Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 2018'''
Rod Downey, Algorithmic randomness
'''The Twenty-Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 2017'''
Charles Parsons, Gödel and the universe of sets
'''The Twenty-Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2016'''
Stevo Todorcevic, Basis problems in set theory
'''The Twenty-Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 2015'''
Alex Wilkie, Complex continuations of functions definable in <math>\mathbb{R}_{an, exp}</math> with a diophantine application
'''The Twenty-Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 2014'''
Julia F. Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms
'''The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013'''
Kit Fine, Truthmaker semantics
'''The Twenty-Third Annual Gödel Lecture 2012'''
John Steel, The hereditarily ordinal definable sets in models of determinacy
'''The Twenty-Second Annual Gödel Lecture 2011'''
Anand Pillay, First order theories
'''The Twenty-First Annual Gödel Lecture 2010'''
Alexander Razborov, Complexity of propositional proofs
'''The Twentieth Annual Gödel Lecture 2009'''
Richard Shore, Reverse Mathematics: the Playground of Logic
'''The Nineteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2008'''
W. Hugh Woodin, The Continuum Hypothesis, the Ω Conjecture, and the inner model problem of one supercompact cardinal
'''The Eighteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2007'''
Ehud Hrushovski (a lecture on his work delivered in his absence by Thomas Scanlon)
'''The Seventeenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2006'''
Per Martin-Löf, The two layers of logic
'''The Sixteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2005'''
Menachem Magidor, Skolem-Lowenheim theorems for generalized logics
'''The Fifteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2004'''
Michael O. Rabin, Proofs persuasions and randomness in mathematics
'''The Fourteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2003'''
'''The Thirteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2002'''
Harvey Friedman, Issues in the foundations of mathematics
'''The Twelfth Annual Gödel Lecture 2001'''
Theodore A. Slaman, Recursion Theory
'''The Eleventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2000'''
Jon Barwise (Cancelled due to death of speaker)
'''The Tenth Annual Gödel Lecture 1999'''
Stephen A. Cook, Logic and computatonal complexity
'''The Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 1998'''
Alexander S. Kechris, Current Trends in Descriptive Set Theory
'''The Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 1997'''
1997 Solomon Feferman, Occupations and Preoccupations with Gödel: His*Works* and the Work
'''The Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 1996'''
1996 Saharon Shelah, Categoricity without compactness
'''The Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 1995'''
1995 Leo Harrington, Goedel, Heidegger, and Direct Perception (or, Why I am a Recursion Theorist)
'''The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994'''
1994 Donald A. Martin, L(R): A Survey
'''The Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 1993'''
1993 Angus Macintyre, Logic of Real and p-adic Analysis: Achievements and Challenges
'''The Third Annual Gödel Lecture 1992'''
1992 Joseph R. Shoenfield, The Priority Method
'''The Second Annual Gödel Lecture 1991'''
1991 Dana Scott, Will Logicians be Replaced by Machines?
'''The First Annual Gödel Lecture 1990'''
1990 Ronald Jensen, Inner Models and Large Cardinals
== 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 ==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! !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 |- | '''31st President''' | Phokion Kolaitis | 2022–2024 |- | '''32nd President''' | Natasha Dobrinen | 2025–2028
|} <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aslonline.org/asl-information/governance/former-officers-council-members-and-executive-committee-members/ |title=Former Officers – Association for Symbolic Logic |access-date=26 September 2019 |archive-date=22 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222154852/http://aslonline.org/asl-information/governance/former-officers-council-members-and-executive-committee-members/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Awards== The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/|title = Prizes and Awards – Association for Symbolic Logic|publisher = Association of Symbolic Logic|access-date = 24 January 2019|archive-date = 24 January 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190124203319/https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/|url-status = live}}</ref>
===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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/karp-prize-recipients/ |title=Karp Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic |access-date=24 January 2019 |archive-date=22 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722150030/https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/karp-prize-recipients/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Recipient(s) |- | 1978 || Robert Vaught, University of California, Berkeley |- | 1983 || Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University |- | 1988 || Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley |- | 1993 || Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford |- |1998 || Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University |- | 2003 || Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech |- | 2008 || Zlil Sela, Hebrew University |- | 2013 || Moti 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 |- | 2018 || Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique |- |2023 |John Steel, 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:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/sacks-prize-recipients/ |title=Sacks Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic |access-date=24 January 2019 |archive-date=22 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722150030/https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/sacks-prize-recipients/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Recipient(s) |- | 1994 || Gregory Hjorth |- | 1995 || Slawomir Solecki |- | 1996 || Byunghan Kim |- | 1997 || Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon |- | 1998 || no prize awarded |- | 1999 || Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus |- | 2000 || Eric Jaligot |- | 2001 || Matthias Aschenbrenner |- | 2002 || no prize awarded |- | 2003 || Itay Ben Yaacov |- | 2004 || Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind |- | 2005 || Antonio Montalbán |- | 2006 || Matteo Viale |- | 2007 || Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski |- | 2008 || Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan |- | 2009 || Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan |- | 2010 || Uri Andrews |- | 2011 || Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day |- | 2012 || Pierre Simon |- | 2013 || Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule |- | 2014 || no prize awarded |- | 2015 || Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini |- | 2016 || William Johnson and Ludovic Patey |- | 2017 || Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey |- | 2018 || Danny Nguyen |- | 2019 || Gabriel Goldberg |- | 2020 || James Walsh |- | 2021 || Marcos Mazari Armida |- | 2022 || Francesco Gallinaro and Patrick Lutz |- | 2023 || Andreas Lietz and Scott Mutchnik |- | 2024 || Nicholas Pischke and Erfan Khaniki |- |}
===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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/shoenfield-prize-recipients/ |title=Shoenfield Prize Recipients – Association for Symbolic Logic |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=22 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722150030/https://aslonline.org/asl-information/prizes-and-awards/shoenfield-prize-recipients/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Recipients include:
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Recipient(s) |- | 2007 || John P. Burgess (book); Bohuslav Balcar and Thomas Jech (article) |- | 2010 || John T. Baldwin (book); Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt, André Nies, and Sebastiaan Terwijn (article) |- | 2013 || Stevo Todorcevic (book); Itaï Ben Yaacov, Alexander Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov (article) |- | 2016 || Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt (book); Lou van den Dries (article) |- | 2019 || Pierre Simon (book); John Steel (article) |- | 2022 || Paolo Mancosu, Sergio Galvan, and Richard Zach (book); Vasco Brattka (article) |}
== Gödel Lecture == Inaugurated in 1990, the Gödel Lecture is the honor of being the speaker at the association's annual meeting. The award is named after Kurt Gödel.
For the complete list of speakers, please see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_for_Symbolic_Logic&wvprov=sticky-header#G%C3%B6del_Lecture_Series Gödel Lecture Series] above.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://aslonline.org/ ASL website] * [https://aslonline.org/journals/the-journal-of-symbolic-logic/ Journal of Symbolic Logic] *[https://aslonline.org/journals/the-review-of-symbolic/ The Review of Symbolic Logic] *[http://logicandanalysis.org/index.php/jla The Journal of Logic and Analysis]
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