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 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,.
  • 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, 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 sematics
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 $\Omega$ Conjecture, and the inner model problem of one supercompact cardinal
The Eighteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2007
Ehud Hrushovski
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
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
The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994
1994 Donald A. Martin, L: 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. 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 presidents

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
31st PresidentPhokion Kolaitis2022–2024
32nd PresidentNatasha Dobrinen2025–2028

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.
YearRecipient
1978Robert Vaught, University of California, Berkeley
1983Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
1988Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley
1993Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford
1998Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
2003Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech
2008Zlil Sela, Hebrew University
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
2018Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique
2023John 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:
YearRecipient
1994Gregory Hjorth
1995Slawomir Solecki
1996Byunghan Kim
1997Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon
1998no prize awarded
1999Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus
2000Eric Jaligot
2001Matthias Aschenbrenner
2002no prize awarded
2003Itay Ben Yaacov
2004Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind
2005Antonio Montalbán
2006Matteo Viale
2007Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski
2008Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan
2009Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan
2010Uri Andrews
2011Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day
2012Pierre Simon
2013Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule
2014no prize awarded
2015Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini
2016William Johnson and Ludovic Patey
2017Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey
2018Danny Nguyen
2019Gabriel Goldberg
2020James Walsh
2021Marcos Mazari Armida
2022Francesco Gallinaro and Patrick Lutz
2023Andreas Lietz and Scott Mutchnik
2024Nicholas Pischke and Erfan Khaniki