In the summer of 1997 we ran the PRAGMATIC summer school in Catania. After many different thoughts about the format, we decided to try an experiment: We made a list of 18 research problems (reproduced below) and handed it out on the first day of class. Early in the first week we went through the list briefly explaining the background of the problems, and asked each student to choose a problem t...

During the 1970s, Barwise and Seligman took the situation-theoretic approach to information and took away much of the technical machinery for handling situations, relations and types, to produce an abstract mathematical account of information flow. Their motivating idea is that information flow is made possible by regularities in systems. Rather than develop machinery for analyzing those regula...

Summer bridge programs are designed to improve retention and academic success among at-risk populations in postsecondary education by focusing on successful skills, behaviors, and high impact practices that promote academic performance. Recent research on these programs has focused primarily on how students’ incoming demographics and prior academic performance predict academic performance at th...

One of the hardest but also most exciting experiences ever for a capacity planner and performance specialist is having the possibility of working in the middle of a financial crisis. In the summer of 2002 I was in charge of the capacity planning and performance office of a major American bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I was in the eye of the storm during the entire crisis. This session is...

We outline and summarize the work completed in Cundiff Group during the summer of 2011 in the process of developing an aparatus to test the symmetry properties of the cuprate family of high temperature superconductors. We describe the theory this experiment is based in, purposed experimental setup, and progress toward its completion as well as future work on the project.

the aim of this study was investigation the energy flow and global warming potential (gwp) of corn farm in gorgan city. for this purpose, data were collected from three conventional planting methods (spring planting, summer planting in wheat residue and summer planting without wheat residue) by using a face-to-face questionnaire performed with farmers in summer 2012. after the required data in ...

0

The explanatory power of logic is vast and therefore it has proved a valuable tool for many disciplines, including the building-blocks of cognitive science, such as philosophy, computer science, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Logic has a great track record in providing interesting insights by means of formalization, and as such it is very useful in disambiguating psychol...