Annual VvL Seminar 2025

The fourth edition of the (in-person) Annual VvL Seminar will be organized by Leiden University. The event will also host the award ceremony of the VvL MSc Thesis Prize. The winners will give short presentations of their theses.

The preliminary details of the event can be found below — more details and potential small changes will follow in the coming weeks.

MSc Thesis Prize winners: Lingyuan Ye (Amsterdam, Master of Logic). Supervisor: Benno van den Berg. Thesis title: "Algebraic Monoidal Model Categories and Path Category Structures for Effective Kan Fibrations". Andreea Minculescu (Groningen, Masters in AI). Supervisors: Rineke Verbrugge, Harmen de Weerd and Jakob Dirk Top. Thesis title: "Cutting Cheryl's Birthday cake: Modeling theory of mind orders in public announcement logic".

Main speakers: Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University) and David Mestel (Maastricht University).

Date & Time: 15 December, 2025, 13:00-18:00.

Location: The Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES Leiden, room A0.08. 

Program:
13:00 - 13:30: Coffee
13:30 - 13:35: Opening & welcome
13:35 - 13:40: Brief Presentation on the work of the VvL
13:40 - 14:00: VvL Meeting
14:00 - 14:15: Coffee break
14:15 - 15:15: Lecture by Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University)
15:15 - 15:30: Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30: Lecture by David Mestel (Maastricht University) 
16:30 - 16:45: Coffee break
16:45 - 17:00: Remarks by the VvL Master thesis awards committee
17:00 - 17:30: MSc Thesis Prize presentations (Lingyuan Ye and Andreea Minculescu)
17:30 - 17:45: Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks
18:30: Dinner

The optional dinner will take place at Restaurant Van der Werff.

If you intend to attend the seminar please fill the following registration form.

Local organizers: Henning Basold and Tobias Kappé

Previous editions

Annual VvL Seminar 2024

Main speaker: Alexandru Baltag (ILLC)

MSc Thesis Prize winners: Aude Corbeel (supervisors: Sebastian de Haro Ollé and Erik Verlinde), Sterre Lutz (supervisors: Nima Motamed and Dragan Doder), Ruben Mud (supervisor: Oliver Lorscheid), Valentin Müller (supervisors: Marianna Girlando and Benno van den Berg)

Date & Time: December 13, 2024, 13:30-18:00

Location: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, room Atlas 4.225.

Annual VvL Seminar 2023

Main speaker: Dragan Doder (Utrecht University)

MSc Thesis Prize winners: Rodrigo Almeida (supervisors: Nick Bezhanishvili and Tommaso Moraschini), Søren Brinck Knudstorp (supervisors: Johan van Benthem and Nick Bezhanishvili), Raoul Koudijs (supervisor: Balder ten Cate)

Date & Time: December 8, 2023, 14:30-17:30

Location: The Sweelinckzaal at Drift 21, room 0.05, Utrecht.

Annual VvL Seminar 2022

Main speaker: Sonja Smets

MSc Thesis Prize winners: Anna Dmitrieva (supervisor: Nick Bezhanishvili & Tommaso Moraschini), Maximilian Siemers (supervisor: Aybüke Özgün), Dominik Wehr (supervisor: Bahareh Afshari)

Date & time: December 8, 2022, 15:00-17:30

Location: Jantina Tammes Zaal, 4th floor of the University Library in the centre, Broerstraat 4, 9712 CP Groningen.