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Conferences

JPI Oceans "Strategic Navigation Forum"

• Brussels, 11 June 2024, under the auspices of the 2024 Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union
• Member of the Programme Committee

LRR12: Logic, Reasoning and Rationality 2024 "Transforming Science"

• Ghent, 24-26 April 2024
• Presentation:
  • "Belgian Marine Science Policy: an Interdisciplinary Approach in an International Context"
  • Abstract (PDF, on page 11)
  • Slides (PDF)

JPI Oceans & JPI Climate "Knowledge Hub Sea Level Rise" Conference

• Venice, 17 October - 18 October 2022
• Member of the Governance Council



LRB4: Logic, Relativity and Beyond 2021

• Online, 14 July - 17 July 2021
• Member of the Organizing Committee & session chair
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Inelastic Collisions: beginning a comparison of classical and relativistic dynamics in First-Order-Logic ...and being sidetracked into variable independence of concepts"
  • Abstract (PDF)
  • Slides (PDF)



LRB4: Logic, Relativity and Beyond 2020

• Simontornya, 17 June - 21 June 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
• Member of the Organizing Committee



Makkai80: Logic, categories and philosophy of mathematics

• Budapest, 20 June - 21 June 2019
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Distances between Formal Theories"
  • Slides (PDF)



YRD6: Sixth Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science

• Brussels, 20-21 September 2018
• Session chair
• Presentation:
  • "Distances between Formal Theories"
  • Abstract (PDF, on page 8)
  • Slides (PDF)

UniLog 2018: 6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic

• Vichy, 16-26 June 2018
• Presentations with Gergely Székely:
  • "Comparing Classical And Relativistic Kinematics In First-Order Logic"
  • "Logic & Physics" session, June 23rd: Slides (PDF)
  • "Tools & Results" session, June 25th: Slides (PDF)
  • Abstract (PDF, on page 477)

DSH - Arts and Philosophy PhD day 2018

• Brussels, 28 May 2018
• Member of the jury for the Best Presentation Award



LRB3: Logic, Relativity and Beyond 2017

• Budapest, 23-27 August 2017
• Member of the Organizing Committee & session chair
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Comparing classical mechanics and relativity theories in first order logic"
  • Abstract
  • Slides (PDF)

DSH - Arts and Philosophy PhD day 2017

• Brussels, 29 May 2017
• Presentation:
  • "Comparing classical kinematics and special relativity theory in first order logic"
  • Abstract (PDF, on page 4)

YRD5: Fifth Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science

• Brussels, 25-26 November 2016
• Presentation:
  • "Using Logical Interpretation and Definitional Equivalence to Compare Classical Kinematics and Special Relativity Theory"
  • Abstract (PDF)
  • Slides (PDF)

LRB2: Logic, Relativity and Beyond 2015

• Budapest, 9-13 August 2015
• Member of the Organizing Committee
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Interpretation of Special Relativity in the Language of Newtonian Kinematics"
  • Abstract
  • Slides (PDF)
  • Cited in How many varieties of cylindric algebras are there by Hajnál Andréka and István Németi (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 369 (2017), 8903-8937)

LRB1: First International Conference on Logic and Relativity

• Budapest, 8-12 September 2012
• Presentation:
  • "A century of axiomatic systems for ordinal approaches to Special Relativity Theory"
  • Abstract
  • Slides (PDF)

Panel discussions

Equinox Summit: The first European climate science summit

• Brussels, 21-22 March 2023, organized by JPI Climate
• Panel discussion about Linking National Research Programmes: Joint Programming Initiatives

Think Tank North Sea 2019 Working Groups Report Presentation

• Ostend, 19 December 2019
• Panel discussion about the results of the Working Groups "Working with Nature" (Synthesis report in Dutch) and "Living with Climate Change" (Synthesis report in English)

From the North Sea Lowlands to the Celtic Shelf Edge Conference

• Utrecht, 18-20 November 2019
• Panel discussion about the future of North Sea Palaeolandscape research

De Waarde van Wiskundige Modellen in de Wetenschappen

• Brussels, 18 February 1992, organized with Jongerenvereniging Voor Sterrenkunde VUB and UPV VUB
• Moderator and organizer of a panel discussion on the value of mathematical models in the sciences



Talks

CLPS Ghent-Brussels Seminar

• Brussels, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, 25 May 2023
• Presentation:
  • "Comparing Theories in First Order Logic"
  • Slides (PDF)

FELNET studiedag "Tussen Bubbel en Silo: sporen naar adequate informatie"

• Brussels, 24 November 2022
• Invited talk:
  • "Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans)"
  • Slides (PDF in Dutch)

CLPS Kick-Off Event

• Brussels, 4-5 October 2018
• Presentation:
  • "Using methods from definability theory to compare scientific theories"
  • Slides (PDF)

CLPS Talk

• Brussels, 5 March 2018
• Presentation:
  • "On the generalization of definitional equivalence to languages with non-disjoint signatures"
  • Slides (PDF)

CLPS Talk

• Brussels, 27 November 2017
• Presentation:
  • "Conceptual distances between scientific theories"
  • Slides (PDF)

TPF: Theoretical Philosophy Forum

• Budapest, 25 October 2017
• Invited talk with Gergely Székely:
  • "Comparing Classical And Relativistic Kinematics In First-Order Logic, and introducing work-in-progress: Conceptual Distances between Theories"
  • Abstract
  • Slides (PDF)

CLPS Kick-Off Event

• Ostend, 1-2 October 2016
• Presentation:
  • "Progress on PhD research: Comparing Classical Kinematics and Special Relativity using Definitional Equivalence"
  • Slides (PDF)

CLPS Kick-Off Event

• Brussels, 1 October 2015
• Presentation:
  • "Single-slide presentation on PhD research progress"
  • Slide (PDF)

CLPS PhD Day

• Brussels, 12 January 2015
• Presentation:
  • "An interpretation of axioms for Special Relativity as theorems of Newtonian Kinematics"

CLPS Talk

• Brussels, 24 September 2014
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Interpretation of the axioms of special relativity as theorems of Newtonian mechanics"
  • Slides (PDF)

Talk at Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

• Budapest, 26 June 2014
• Presentation with Gergely Székely:
  • "Interpretation of the axioms of special relativity as theorems of Newtonian mechanics"

CLPS Talk

• Brussels, 12 January 2012
• Presentation:
  • "A generic framework for many-valued logics with a finite number of truth values by means of ordered functional complete truth tables"
  • Slides (PDF)

Public PhD Defense

Using Logical Interpretation and Definitional Equivalence to Compare Classical Kinematics and Special Relativity Theory

• Brussels, 26 May 2017
• Dissertation (PDF)
• Jury:
  • Prof. dr. Steffen Ducheyne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), chair
  • Prof. dr. Jean Paul Van Bendegem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), supervisor
  • Dr. Gergely Székely (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics), co-supervisor
  • Prof. dr. Michele Friend (George Washington University)
  • Prof. dr. Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam)
  • Dr. ir. Marcoen Cabbolet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Prof. dr. Bart Van Kerkhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)