Association for Symbolic Logic


The Association for Symbolic Logic is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president was Alonzo Church. The current president of the ASL is Julia F. Knight.

Publications

The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:
In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:
The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings of Kurt Gödel.

Meetings

The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe. In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both the American Mathematical Society and the American Philosophical Association, and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.

List of Presidentshttps://aslonline.org/asl-information/governance/former-officers-council-members-and-executive-committee-members/ Former Officers – Association for Symbolic Logic

NameTerm of office
1st PresidentCurt John Ducasse1936–1937
2nd PresidentHaskell Curry1938–1940
3rd PresidentCooper Harold Langford1941–1943
4th PresidentAlfred Tarski1944–1946
5th PresidentErnest Nagel1947–1949
6th PresidentJ. Barkley Rosser1950–1952
7th PresidentWillard Van Orman Quine1953–1955
8th PresidentStephen Cole Kleene1956–1958
9th PresidentFrederic Fitch1959–1961
10th PresidentLeon Henkin1962–1964
11th PresidentWilliam Craig1965–1967
12th PresidentAbraham Robinson1968–1970
13th PresidentDana Scott1971–1973
14th PresidentJoseph R. Shoenfield1974–1976
15th PresidentHilary Putnam1977–1979
16th PresidentSolomon Feferman1980–1982
17th PresidentRuth Barcan Marcus1983–1985
18th PresidentMichael Morley1986–1988
19th PresidentCharles Parsons1989–1991
20th PresidentYiannis Moschovakis1992–1994
21st PresidentGeorge Boolos1995–1996
22nd PresidentMenachem Magidor1996–1997
23rd PresidentDonald A. Martin1998–2000
24th PresidentRichard Shore2001–2003
25th PresidentAlexander Kechris2004–2006
26th PresidentPenelope Maddy2007–2009
27th PresidentAlex Wilkie2010–2012
28th PresidentAlasdair Urquhart2013–2015
29th PresidentUlrich Kohlenbach2016–2018
30th PresidentJulia Knight2019–2021

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.
YearRecipient
2018Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique
2013Moti 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
2008Zlil Sela, Hebrew University
2003Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech
1998Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
1993Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford
1988Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley
1983Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
1978Robert Vaught, 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:
YearRecipient
2019Gabriel Goldberg
2018Danny Nguyen
2017Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey
2016William Johnson and Ludovic Patey
2015Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini
2014no prize awarded
2013Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule
2012Pierre Simon
2011Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day
2010Uri Andrews
2009Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan
2008Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan
2007Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski
2006Matteo Viale
2005Antonio Montalbán
2004Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind
2003Itay Ben Yaacov
2002no prize awarded
2001Matthias Aschenbrenner
2000Eric Jaligot
1999Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus
1998no prize awarded
1997Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon
1996Byunghan Kim
1995Slawomir Solecki
1994Gregory Hjorth

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:
YearRecipient
2016Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt ; Lou van den Dries
2013Stevo Todorčević ; Itaï Ben Yaacov, Alexander Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov
2010John T. Baldwin ; Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt, Andrew Nies, and Sebastiaan Terwijn
2007John P. Burgess ; Bohuslav Balcar and Thomas Jech