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   Conference Announcement,  Programme  and  Registration Form
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On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Kurt Goedel,
an international conference entitled


   LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHYSICS
             -- Kurt Goedel's Legacy (GOEDEL'96)


will take place on August 25-29, 1996, in Brno, Czech Republic
(the birthplace of Kurt Goedel).


Aims and topics:

 The aim of the conference is to pay tribute to Kurt Goedel
 by arranging a scientific event presenting a forum for papers
 relevant to foundational aspects of Logic in Mathematics, Computer
 Science, Philosophy and Physics -- areas influenced by Kurt Goedel's
 work.
   A session is planned to honour Professor Hao Wang, one of Goedel's
 closest collaborators, who died on May 13, 1995. The
 proceedings volume will be published by Springer-Verlag in
 the series Lecture Notes in Logic and distributed at the
 conference. (The deadline for contributions has already expired.)

Organizers:

 The conference is organized by Masaryk University (Organizing Committee
 chaired by J.Zlatuska) in co-operation with the Institute of Computer
 Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and with
 the international Kurt Goedel Society (based in Vienna).

Sponsors:

 ASL -- Association for Symbolic Logic
 EACSL -- European Association for Computer Science Logic
 IUHPS/DLMPS -- International Union of History and Philosophy of Science --
                Division Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
 ZPA-CZ Trutnov, Czech Republic

Programme Committee:

 Z. Adamowicz, Warsaw
 J. Bicak, Prague
 L. Bukovsky, Kosice
 D. de Jongh, Amsterdam
 J. Grygar, Prague
 E. Koehler, Vienna
 J. Krajicek, Prague
 P. Hajek (chair), Prague
 A. Leitsch, Vienna
 D. Mundici, Milano
 G. Mueller, Heidelberg
 J. Paris, Manchester
 C. Parsons, Harvard

Preliminary Conference Programme
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Sunday, August 25
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10,00 - 20,00 - Registration
17,00 - 20,00 - Welcome Reception

Monday, August 26
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7,30 -  8,30 - Breakfast
8,30 - 18,00 - Registration
9,00 - 10,30 - Opening Ceremony and Session 1
    Opening
    Solomon Feferman (invited talk):
        Goedel's Program For New Axioms: Why, Where,
        How and What? (Opening lecture.)
    Andrzej M. Zarach:
        Replacement -/-> Collection
10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break
11,00 - 12,30 - Session 2
    G. Takeuti and M. Yasumoto (invited talk):
        Forcing on Bounded Arithmetic
    Jan Johannsen:
        A Bounded Arithmetic Theory for Constant Depth Threshold Circuits
    Paul Taylor:
        Towards a Unified Treatment of Induction I:
        The General Recursion Theorem
12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch

14,00 - 15,30 - Session 3
    Matthias Baaz (invited talk):
        First-Order Goedel Logics
    Leonard Paulik:
        Best Possible Answer is Computable for Fuzzy SLD-Resolution
    Ladislav J. Kohout and Wyllis Bandler:
        Universality of BK-relational Products Based on Goedel-Heyting
        Implication
15,30 - 16,00 - Tea break
16,00 - 18,00 - Session 4
    M. Magidor (invited talk):
        (title to be announced)
    Satoko Titani:
        A Lattice-Valued Set Theory
    Anton Setzer:
        A Model for a Type Theory with Mahlo Universe

Tuesday, August 27
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7,30 -  8,30 - Breakfast
8,30 - 14,00 - Registration
9,00 - 10,30 - Session 5
    Albert Visser (invited talk):
        Layered Bisimulation and Uniform Interpolation
    Dorella Belle and Franco Parlamento:
        Decidability of the  EA-class in the Membership Theory NWL*
    Robert F. Staerk:
        The Finite Stages of Inductive Definitions
10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break
11,00 - 12,30 - Session 6
    Pavel Pudlak (invited talk):
        A Bottom-Up Approach to Foundations of Mathematics
    Marcin Benke:
        A Logical Approach to Complexity Bounds for Subtype Inequalities
    Tadashi Araragi:
        A Uniform Theorem Proving Tableau Method for Modal Logic
12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch
14,00 - Excursion to Kurdejov (concert), Milotice (chateau) and
        Cejkovice (wine Cellar-including dinner)

Wednesday, August 28
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7,30 -  8,30 - Breakfast
8,30 - 18,00 - Registration
9,00 - 10,30 - Session 7
    Charles Parsons (invited talk):
        Hao Wang as Philosopher and Interpreter of Goedel
    Xing Taotao:
        Some Remarks on Hao Wang's Philosophy of Mathematics
    Burton Voorhees:
        Philosophical Issues Raised by Strong AI and the
        Incompleteness Theorem
10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break
11,00 - 12,30 - Session 8
    George Ellis (invited talk):
        Contributions of K. Goedel to Relativity and Cosmology
    Giora Hon:
        Completeness Has to Be Restricted: Goedel's Interpretation of the
        Parameter t
    Michael Stoeltzner:
        Goedel and the Theory of Everything
12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch
14,00 - 15,30 - Session 9
    Wilfried Sieg and John Byrnes (invited talk):
        K-Graph Machines:
        Generalizing Turing's Machines and Arguments
    C. Anthony Anderson and Michael Gettings:
        Goedel's Ontological Proof Revisited
    Piergiorgio Odifreddi:
        Goedel's Mathematics of Philosophy
15,30 - 16,00 - Tea break
16,00 - 18,00 - Session 10
    D. Isaacson (invited talk):
        (title to be announced)
    Ralf Naumann:
        The Problem of Objectivity: Goedel and Carnap
        Realism versus Conventionalism?
    Jari Palomaki:
        From Concept Theory to Set Theory

19,30 - Final dinner (Wine Cellar of Queen Elisabeth)

Thursday, August 29
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7,30 -  8,30 - Breakfast
8,30 - 13,00 - Registration
9,00 - 10,30 - Session 11
    Boris A. Kushner (invited talk):
        Kurt Goedel and the Constructive Mathematics
        of A. A. Markov
Alexander D. Yashin:
        A New Intuitionistic Logical Constant and Novikov Completeness
Benjamin Blankertz and Andreas Weiermann:
        How to Characterize Provably Total Functions by
        the Buchholz' Operator Method
10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break
11,00 - 12,00 - Session 12 and conclusion
    Lars Kristiansen:
        Information Content and Computational Complexity of Recursive Sets
    Robert K. Meyer:
        Kurt Goedel and the Consistency of R##
    Closing of the conference
12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch


Contact addresses:

Programme committee chairman:
 Petr Hajek
 Institute of Computer Science
 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
 Pod vodarenskou vezi 2
 CZ-182 07 Prague
 Czech Republic

 e-mail: goedel96-program@uivt.cas.cz
 telephone: +42-2-66053760, +42-2-6884244
 fax: +42-2-8585789

Organization:

 Jiri Zlatuska
 Faculty of Informatics
 Masaryk University
 Botanicka 68a
 CZ-602 00 Brno
 Czech Republic

 e-mail: goedel96@informatics.muni.cz
 telephone: +42-5-41213125, +42-5-41211646, +42-5-41213219
 fax: +42-5-41212747

WWW: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~zlatuska/goedel96.html

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Please note that in the registration form below, a misleading formulation
found within the original form was clarified. Basic accommodation was
INCLUDED in the registration fee.
Unless shared accomodation has been requested, the accomodation provided
is single person in a double-bed room. No extra accomodation cost is
therefore required for one accompanying person. If more rooms are needed,
please add the accomodation cost for each double room requested.
The registration fee includes breakfast and lunch for participants of the
conference. Additional breakfasts and/or lunches for accompanying persons
can be ordered at the conference registration desk during the
conference.
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                        REGISTRATION FORM
                           GOEDEL'96
     LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHYSICS
             August 25-29, 1996, Brno, Czech Republic


                            IMPORTANT
        * Completed registration forms should NOT be e-mailed.  Paper
          copies should be sent to the correspondence address (at the
          bottom of this form).
        * The registration form can only be accepted if accompanied by
          full payment.
        * One participant per registration form.

REGISTRATION DETAILS:
  Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss: _______________________________________

  Surname:   ____________________________________________________

  Given Name:  __________________________________________________

  Position/Title: _______________________________________________

  Department:  __________________________________________________

  Organisation: _________________________________________________

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  State:  _______________________________________________________

  Postcode:  ____________________________________________________

  Country:  _____________________________________________________

  E-mail: _______________________________________________________

  Business Telephone: (_____) ______________

  Fax: (____) ____________

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SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

  Special Diet: ________________________________________________

  Other: _______________________________________________________


ACCOMMODATION:  Please indicate if required (tick):
( ) University guest hotel
    Accomodation Type:
     ( ) Single Person in Double Room - $20 for one night
         $20 per night; five nights INCLUDED in registration fee
         From: __________ To: ___________  # of nights: ________
         Insert only ADDITIONAL cost for extra nights:  TOTAL : $  ________

     ( ) Double (2 sharing one room)
         $50 for one person sharing a room for 5 nights
         From 25.8. to 29.8. (5 nights) : $50
         Room sharing prefered with: ___________________
         Sorry -- no additional nights can be guaranteed.

     ( ) Reduced full-time student conference fee  --
         accomodation for four night included in the
         reduced fee package, see below.

( ) Hotel *** "Continental"
    Reservation required:
         From: __________ To: ___________  # of nights: ________
         Price approx. $70 per night.
         Reservation required before June 1, 1995.
         Payment details will be sent separately.
         DEDUCT $100 from your registration fee when choosing this.


Arrival:                Departure:                 Arrival time:



REGISTRATION FEES               Received        Received        TOTAL
                                by              after
                                21/3/1996      21/3/1996

Members of ( ) KGS, ( ) ASL, ( ) EACSL, ( ) IUHPS/DLPMS, ( ) CSIS (tick one)
       indicate membership number: _________________
  Conference Fee                $350.00         $380.00         $ _______
  Conference Fee shared room    $300.00         $330.00         $ _______
  Conference Fee without accom. $250.00         $280.00         $ _______
Others:
  Conference Fee                $380.00         $400.00         $ _______
  Conference Fee shared room    $330.00         $350.00         $ _______
  Conference Fee without accom. $280.00         $300.00         $ _______
Full-time student package:
  Reduced conference fee covering
  conference attendance and five
  nights in shared room:        $140.00         $190.00         $ _______
   Reduced student fee does not include conference
   proceedings copy.
   Attach written statement your university certifying
   your full-time student status.


Excursion: $30 per person;   # of persons: _________    TOTAL:  $ ________


TOTAL TO BE PAYED.......................................... USD $ ________


METHOD OF PAYMENT (All payments in US dollars)

( ) A       Credit Card
            Tick Card Type:    ( ) VISA
                               ( ) MC/EC

    Card no. ________________    Expiration   ____/____


    Cardholder's Name: ________________________________

    Cardholder's Signature ______________________________


( ) B   Bank Cheque/Eurocheque payable in US dollars to "Faculty
        of Informatics, Masaryk University" (enclosed)

( ) C   Bank transfer to:
           Bank: Komercni banka Praha, branch Brno
           Account holder: Masaryk University
           Account Number: 85 636-621/0100
        Date of transfer:
        (copy of bank transfer confirmation enclosed)

Send completed form with you payment to the following address:

        Dr Jiri Zlatuska
        GOEDEL'96
        Faculty of Informatics
        Masaryk University
        Botanicka 68a
        CZ-602 00 Brno
        Czech Republic

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A limited number participants from economically severely handicapped
countried can be supported by the organizers by allowing registration
for student fee. Send your application for financial assistance
electronically to <zlatuska@muni.cz>, or to the above address, if
electronic connection cannot be used.

.
Milan Daniel
Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep.
Pod  vodarenskou vezi 2, 182 07 Prague 8, Czech Republic
e-mail: milan@uivt.cas.cz
phone: (+ 42 2) 66053921
fax:   (+ 42 2) 8585789