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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.
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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. (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.
Books series
Lectures Notes in Logic
Perspectives in Logic
Books
Mathematical Logic by Joseph R. Shoenfield
Gödel Lecture Series
The Gödel Lecture Series is series of annual ASL lectures that trace back to 1990.
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
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.
Awards
The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.
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.
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:
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.
Recipients include:
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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.
