Past Talks

Thomas Yee Associate Professor Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science University of Auckland, New Zealand Date: September 15, 2026 (Tuesday) Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A319 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract We give a whirlwind tour of four recently developed methods applicable to count responses, using negative binomial (NB) regression for illustration. Variance-Factorized

Patrick Greenough Senior Researcher Department of Philosophy University of St Andrews, UK Date: June 18, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 19:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract On the Orthodox View: (1) Identity is an equivalence relation: reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. (2) Similarity is not a transitive relation, and so not an

Special Lecture Series Graham Priest Lecture Series Speaker: Graham Priest Series Dates: June 3–29, 2026 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus About the Speaker Graham Priest is an internationally renowned philosopher. He received his doctorate from the London School of Economics and is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University

Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 3 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 29, 2026 Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A1721 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Can we really perceive absences, i.e., things that aren’t there? Sartre tells us that when he arrived

Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 2 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 28, 2026 Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Within contemporary analytic philosophy, metaphysics has evolved into one of the most vibrant and prolific fields of

Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 1 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 27, 2026 Time: 19:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus   Abstract Mereology is often described as a theory of the part-whole relation (or relations), but of course

Apostolos Tzimoulis Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Luxembourg Date: May 14, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 14:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A1618 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract The canonical extension is a fundamental construction in the algebraic theory of modal logics. It plays a key role in the proof of completeness via canonicity

Andreas Herzig CNRS Research Director Logic, Interaction, Language, and Computation Group (LILaC) IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France Date: April 30, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 14:00–17:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Dynamic Logic of Propositional Assignments (DL-PA) is a variant of PDL whose atomic programs are assignments of propositional variables. In

Andreas Herzig CNRS Research Director Logic, Interaction, Language, and Computation Group (LILaC) IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France Date: April 29, 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 15:00–17:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A1618 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract In multi-agent planning tasks, agents may have false beliefs about the world and about other agents that they may have

Yue Yang Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore Date: January 5, 2026 (Monday) Time: 15:00–17:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Gödel once attempted to establish the consistency of classical number theory by means of computable functionals of finite types. In his view, abstract concepts such as computable functionals