Logic, Language and Computation

3 EC

Semester 1, period 1, 2

5314LOLC3Y

Owner Master Logic
Coordinator Nick Bezhanishvili
Part of Master Logic,

Course manual 2025/2026

Course content

The course consists of a series of guest lectures introducing some of the areas of research that members of the ILLC are involved in. Additionally, as part of this course, each student will have an individual research meeting with a senior member of staff of the ILLC and with a PhD student working at the ILLC.

Objectives

  • The course provides an overview of different research lines within the area of Logic, Language and Information.
  • After the course students can summarise and critically evaluate contributions in different fields including mathematics, linguistics, philosophy and computer science transcending the traditional boundaries between these disciplines.

Teaching methods

    Lectures by invited guest speakers, and research meetings.

    Learning activities

    Activity

    Number of hours

    Hoorcollege

    28

    Zelfstudie

    56

    Attendance

    This programme does not have requirements concerning attendance (TER-B).

    Assessment

    Item and weight Details

    Final grade

    Fraud and plagiarism

    The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

    Course structure

    Weeknummer Onderwerpen Studiestof
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16

    Contact information

    Coordinator

    • Nick Bezhanishvili