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.
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, . 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, .
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. .
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
Stevo Todorcevic, Basis problems in set theory
The Twenty-Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 2015
Alex Wilkie, Complex continuations of functions definable in 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
Boris Zilber, Categoricity
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
NameTerm 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
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.
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, Oxford1998 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 Polytechnique2023John 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:
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.
Recipients include:
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)
References
External links ASL website Journal of Symbolic Logic The Review of Symbolic Logic The Journal of Logic and Analysis