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Final Result
1st prize: Justin Moore: The continuum and aleph-2
2nd prize: Mark Van Atten: Gödel and German Idealism
3rd prize: Eli Ben-Sasson: Searching for a conditional answer to Gödel's question
The Kurt Gödel Centenary: Horizons of Truth organizers and sponsors
have invited ten scholars to attend the conference, present their project
proposals and compete for three top prizes:
Prizes
1st prize: 20 000 EUR
2nd and 3rd prize: 5000 EUR each
The prize will facilitate the implementation of this particular project or other scientific work. Prizes will be awarded without conditions orconstraints.
Selected invitees
There have been 63 applications for the Young Scholar's Competition, from which the jury has chosen 10 applicants to be invited to the meeting and present their proposal. At the symposium, a fifteen minute time slot will be allocated to each presentation.The talks by the applicants are open to everybody who would wish to attend.
Program and place of the competition
Thursday April 27th.Josefinum
Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic
Währinger Straße 25
1090 Vienna
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break
Incompleteness
18:00 Lorenzo Carlucci: phase-transition phenomenon for old and new
independence results
18:15 Andrey Bovykin: Independence results in concrete mathematics
Proof Theory
18:30 Lutz Strassburger: The Identity of Proofs
18:45 Laurentiu Leustean: Proof mining in functional analysis,
hyperbolic geometry, and group theory
Philosphy
19:00 Mark Van Atten: Gödel and German Idealism
19:15 Hannes Leitgeb: Formal and Informal Provability
19:30-20:00 Coffee Break
Set Theory
20:00 Itay Neeman: Inner models, determinacy, and L(R)
20:15 Justin Moore: The continuum and aleph-2
Other Topics
20:30 Eli Ben-Sasson: Searching for a conditional answer
to Goedel's question
Other topics
20:45 Russell O'Connor: New Horizons of Proof: Software
Verification of Goedel's Second Incompleteness Theorem
21:00 Discussion of the jury (behind closed doors).
Award ceremony
The winners will be anounced at the Gala dinner at the Belvedere Palace, on Friday evening.
The awards will be presented by Mr. Garry Kasparov, The Kasparov Foundation. The prize ceremony will be held at the Gala dinner in Belvedere Palace, on 28 April, Kurt Gödel's 100th birthday.
Jury
An interdisciplinary, international jury will consider all proposals, and choose the three winners. The jury consists of the following members.
