Posts categorized under: 2016-Fall

Fall 2016 Final Meeting

Hi all!

Tomorrow we'll meet for our final meeting of the semester. It will be a short organizational meeting, mostly focused on brainstorming topic ideas for next semester, and maybe how we think this past semester approach worked.

See you all tomorrow!

Next Meeting Cancelled

Hi all!

This week we will have no meeting, due to end-of-semester scheduling conflicts. We will meet one last time before the Winter Break, on Friday 9th - to discuss topics/organizational issues for next semester.

Have a great week.

Schedule Change and Future Meetings

Hi all!

As we discussed last time, the schedule for the last part of the semester has been slightly changed.

Next Friday, Adam will lead a discussion with the title "Randomness in Algorithmic and Quantum Information Theory". We'll probably send a reminder later this week, but the meeting time and …

Gary Mar on Chaos Theory

Hi all!

This week (usual time, usual place) Gary will introduce us to the complexities of Chaos Theory - it'll be a lot of fun!

In the Google Drive Folder, you can now find a simple and playful introduction about Gary's research on "Chaos, Fractals and the Dynamical Semantics of Paradox …

Friday Meeting on Network Theory

Hi all!

After last week's hiatus, we'll be meeting on Friday (usual time, usual place) to chat about Network Theory. Jon will lead the discussion, and you can find a review paper by Newman in the Google Drive Folder.

See you on Friday!

Second Meeting on Categorial Grammars

Hi all!

We'll be meeting tomorrow (usual time, usual place) for our second session on Categorial Grammars. In case you want to read something, in our shared Google Drive you can find a paper by Steedman and Baldrige.

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

Model Theoretic Syntax meeting

Hi all!

As per schedule, we'll be meeting tomorrow at 1.15 PM in the Computational Linguistics Lab to chat about Model Theoretic Syntax. As usual, there is nothing in particular you need to read but, if you are interested, there is now a MTS folder in the reading group's …

Fall 2016 Meeting time

Hi all!

We'll be having our organizational meeting for the Math Reading Group this Friday from 1:15 to 2:15 in the Comp Ling lab (for those of you who don't know where this is, directions are given below). This will be the normal meeting time/location for the …

Two Logic Classes This Coming Fall

Gary Mar will be teaching two logic classes this semester that should be of interest to MLRG attendees. One is his Introduction to Symbolic Logic (PHI 220, MWF 10-11), the other his Gödel seminar (M 4--7). An outline of the seminar is given at the end of this message.

This …