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- From: rz@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Richard Zach)
- Subject: Kurt Goedel Society: Membership
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- KURT GOEDEL SOCIETY
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- Invitation to Membership
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- History and Organization
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- The Kurt Goedel Society is an international organization for the
- promotion of research in all areas of logic, in philosophy and the
- history of mathematics, above all in connection with the biography of
- Kurt Goedel, and in other areas to which Goedel made tributions,
- especially mathematics, physics, theology, philosophy and Leibnitz
- studies. It was founded in 1987 and is chartered in Vienna. Its
- founding president was Prof. Hao Wang.
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- Its activities are coordinated by the executive board consisting of
- the president, the vice president, the secretary, the treasurer, and
- their deputies, as well as the archivist of the Goedel archive, the
- editor of the Yearbook, and the chairperson of the organizing
- committee of the Collegium Logicum lecture series.
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- Activities of the Society
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- * The Society undertakes and supports research in the areas mentioned
- above through the activities of its members and through granting
- financial support.
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- * The Society maintains the Kurt Goedel Archive, collecting primarily
- material on the life and work of Kurt Goedel and his relations to the
- Vienna Circle. The Archive is connected with the recently founded
- Vienna Circle Archives of the Institut "Wiener Kreis".
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- * The Society hosts the biannually held Kurt Goedel Colloquia. The
- first colloquium was held in Salzburg in 1989, the second in
- Kirchberg/Wechsel in 1991. The third Kurt Goedel Colloquium will take
- place in Goedel's hometown, Brno, in 1993. Invited speakers at the
- previous Colloquia have included R. Gandy, J. Hintikka, R. Jensen,
- and H. Wang. The Society also held a section on logic at the
- symposium "Wien-Berlin-Prag" in Vienna in 1991.
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- * The Society organizes a continuing lecture series, the Collegium
- Logicum in Vienna. Among the distinguished speakers have been
- H. Barendregt, E. Boerger, D. van Dalen, J. Hintikka, W. Hodges,
- T. Jech, M. Magidor, V. Marek, G. Mints, D. Mundici and R. Reiter.
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- * The Society publishes the annual Yearbook of the Kurt Goedel
- Society, which contains papers presented at the Collegium Logicum and
- at the Goedel Colloquia.
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- * The Society is preparing a book series on logic and the life and
- work of Kurt Goedel. Members of the society have also been involved
- in the making of a TV program on Kurt Goedel and have assisted in the
- publication of Goedel's collected works.
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- * The Society promotes, through its members, education in logic,
- especially at the Viennese universities.
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- Membership
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- Everyone interested in the activities of the society is invited to
- become a member. Benefits of membership includes the Yearbook,
- invitations to the lecture series Collegium Logicum, and reduced
- registration fees at the Goedel Colloquia.
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- Current membership dues are AS 300.00 for individual members,
- AS 100.00 for students, AS 3,000.00 for life membership. Additional
- copies of the Yearbook are availaible for AS 150.00 to members and
- AS 350.00 to nonmembers.
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- Executive Board
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- President: Daniele Mundici
- Vice President: Georg Gottlob
- Secretary: Karin Hoerwein
- Deputy Secretary: Klaus Dethloff
- Treasurer: Christian Fermueller
- Deputy Treasurer: Alexander Leitsch
- Archivist: Hans-Dominik Schwabl
- Collegium Logicum Chair: Richard Zach
- Scientific Advisor: Eckehart Koehler
- Members-at-Large: Matthias Baaz
- Maurice Boffa
- Franz Krieger
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- Past Presidents: Hao Wang (1987-89)
- Ronald Bjoern Jensen (1989-92)
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- Further Information
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- For further information, and to apply for membership, please write to
- the secretary of the Society:
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- Karin Hoerwein
- Technische Universitaet Wien
- Institut fuer Computersprachen E185.2
- Resselgasse 3/1, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Telephone: +43 1 588 01-4088
- Telefax: +43 1 504 15 89
- email: kgs@csdec2.tuwien.ac.at
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- Membership Application
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- [ ] I would like to become a member of the Kurt Goedel Society
- [ ] I would like to become a student member of the Kurt Goedel Society
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