Dear Colleagues We are organizing the 6th edition of UNILOG in Vichy, France in June 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 We will have a school of 5 days with 30 tutorials on all aspects of logic followed by a congress of 6 days including 20 workshops on many topics with a impressive list of keynote speakers. Moreover for this edition of UNILOG we will have a "logic prizes" session with prize winners from at least 10 different countries.
For Peirce aficionados the tutorial at the school C.S. Peirce’s Logic of Relations: Graph-theoretical and Surface-theoretical Models by William James McCurdy, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA http://www.uni-log.org/ULS6-peirce.html may be of special interest as well as the workshop at the congress Around Peirce organized by Jean-Marie Chevalier and Benoit Gaultier (Collège de France) with Danielle Macbeth as kenyote speaker http://www.uni-log.org/wk6-peirce.html It is still possible to submit an asbtract for presentation of a talk. Registration is open. In the registration page we have indicated that "These fees include a 20% VAT tax that applies in France to registration fees" I don't think it is good to have expensive registration fees at scientific events. At the previous UNILOGs in Switzerland, China, Portugal, Brazil and Turkey we didn't face this tax. Organizing the 6th UNILOG in France we had to raise the registration fees in particular due to this 20% VAT tax. I have recently launched a petition directed to Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in France, again this tax: https://www.change.org/p/fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9rique-vidal- minister-of-higher-education-research-and-innovation-in- france-tax-free-scientific-congresses-in-france I encourage you to sign this petition adding some comments and specifying who you are / where you come from, and also to circulate it among colleagues, students and friends. Petitions on some popular topics may easily reach more than 10.000 signatures or even more than 100.000 signatures. In the case of the present petition it is much more difficult, because researchers are a very small part of the population, and people outside of the academic world don't feel much concerned. It will therefore be difficult to impress the Minister only by the number of signatures. But on the one hand it is important to have a reasonable number, on the other hand we count on the quality (famous researchers) and variety (form all over the world) of those who are signing the petition. We are also counting on the signature/support of associations and organizations within and outside of France, like SMF (Société Mathématique de France), ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic), etc. Best Wishes Jean-Yves Beziau ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I L O G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 http://www.uni-log.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------------
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