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Book and Journal Discounts for ASL Members

Several publishers now offer discounts on books and journals to ASL members. For a detailed description of these discounts, visit http://www.aslonline.org/members-discounts.html on the ASL website, or write to the ASL Business Office.

Access to Current JSL and BSL for ASL Members via Project Euclid

Access to the full-text of current issues of The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic and The Journal of Symbolic Logic is available to all ASL members electronically via Project Euclid. Individual members who wish to gain access should follow these instructions: (1) go to http://projecteuclid.org; (2) click on `Log in' in the top right-hand corner of the screen; (3) click on "create a profile here'' in the center of the login page; (4) fill in at least the required fields in the top half of the form, setting Euclid ID and Password to anything you wish, but remember these for future logins; (5) go to the bottom half of the form ("Personal Subscription Registration''); (6) select the Association for Symbolic Logic Journals and in the subscriber code box enter your individual membership ID number (you will find this number on your journal mailing label); (7) at the bottom of the form, click the `Create Profile' button, at which point users should then see a confirmation screen and should have access to full-content of the BSL and JSL. If you need help obtaining your membership ID number, contact our membership fulfillment agent at the American Mathematical Society at asl-service@ams.org. If you have any trouble using the Personal Subscription Registration form, please contact Euclid-L@cornell.edu.

Reduced Dues for Individuals and Institutions in Developing Economies

The ASL offers reduced dues for individual and institutional members in developing economies. For 2010, the reduced dues are US$18 for individuals and US$130 for institutional basic membership, US$180 for full membership. These dues apply to individuals and institutions residing in countries whose economies are classified as 'lower middle income' or below on the World Bank's annual list. For further information, visit the website below or contact the ASL Business Office: ASL, Box 742, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA; Tel: 1-845-437-7080; Fax: 1-845-437-7830; email: asl@vassar.edu.
https://www.aslonline.org/membership_outreach.html

Reduced Dues for Unemployed Members

The ASL now offers reduced dues for individual members who are unemployed. For 2010, the reduced dues are US$41. For further information, visit the webiste below or contact the ASL Business Office: ASL, Box 742, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA; Tel: 1-845-437-7080; Fax: 1-845-437-7830; email: asl@vassar.edu.
http://www.aslonline.org/membership-individual.html

Special Sale of ASL Books

The ASL is making available the following volumes from its book series at an additional discount.

Lecture Notes in Logic (each volume $12 for ASL members, $16 for non-members): LNL vol. 11, Logic Colloquium '95; Proceedings of the Annual European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held in Haifa, Israel, August 9-18, 1995; LNL vol. 12, Logic Colloquium '96; Proceedings of the Colloquium held in San Sebastian, Spain, July 9-15, 1996.

Perspectives in Logic (each volume -$18 for ASL members, -$24 for non-members): Essential Stability Theory by S. Buechler; Metamathematics of First Order Arithmetic by P. Hajek and P. Pudlak.

To order these specially discounted volumes, visit http://www.aslonline.org/books.html or contact the ASL Business Office: ASL, Box 742, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA; Tel: 1-845-437-7080; Fax: 1-845-437-7830; email: asl@vassar.edu.

Discount Offer for ASL Members: History and Philsophy of Logic

The publisher Taylor & Francis is offering ASL members a discounted rate on personal print-only subscriptions to the journal History and Philosophy of Logic. The discounted price for a 2010 subscription is $72US /44 Pounds Sterling. ASL members can order online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/thpl-so.asp. Alternatively, ASL members can write to the following address, stating that they are members of the ASL and that the subscription is for their personal use only: Zoe Sternberg, Taylor & Francis, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxford, OX14 4RN England; Email: zoe.sternberg@tandf.co.uk. For more information about the journal, visit the website below.
http://www.informaworld.com/hpl

Rules for Abstracts

The rules for abstracts of contributed talks at ASL meetings (including those submitted "by title'') may be found at http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html. Please note that abstracts must follow the rules as set forth there; those which do not conform to the requirements will be returned immediately to the authors submitting them. Revised abstracts that follow the rules will be considered if they are received by the announced deadline.

New Emeritus ASL Individual Membership

The ASL now offers retired individual members two membership options. Emeritus membership includes all the privileges of regular individual membership and is available to retired individuals who have been members of the ASL for 15 years. The dues for Emeritus membership for 2010 are US$41. The privileges attached to Retired membership (previously called emeritus membership) include the ASL Newsletter and the right to vote in ASL elections, but do not include subscriptions to the ASL journals. Retired membership is offered to retired individuals who have been members of the Association for 20 years and is free. For more information about both options, visit the website below.
http://www.aslonline.org/membership-individual.html

Older ASL Books Available Online at Project Euclid

The ASL has made available online via Project Euclid those older volumes of Lecture Notes in Logic and Perspectives in Logic owned by the ASL and published in collaboration with Springer-Verlag. The available Lecture Notes in Logic books (volumes 1-12) can be found at http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.lnl, and the available Perspectives volumes (those owned by the ASL) can be found at http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.pl. The ASL continues to sell original hard copies of those Lecture Notes and Perspective volumes of which there is sufficient stock; information about purchasing these volumes can be found at the website below.
http://www.aslonline.org/books.html

ASL April 2010 Newsletter

For the current ASL Newsletter, click on the link below.
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In Memoriam: Frederick Rowbottom

Fred Rowbottom died unexpectedly of heart failure on October 12, 2009 at the age of 71 in Hadfield, England. After being an undergraduate at Cambridge, he studied under H.J. Keisler at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earning his Ph.D. in 1964. With a recommendation from Georg Kreisel, he came to Bristol in September 1965, where he spent the rest of his professional mathematical career.

His best, and best known, work was early on, in two cardinal properties and partition cardinals; this work appeared as "Some strong axioms of infinity incompatible with the axiom of constructibility'' in the Annals of Mathematical Logic 3 1971). His thesis, and this paper, was the first work to realize that large cardinal properties could limit the size of definable sets in the constructible universe $L$. He thus showed that Ramsey cardinals were weaker than measurable cardinals, and that their existence implied the constructible real continuum was countable; he further proved that this followed also from weaker partition and two cardinal properties. One such, the Rowbottom cardinal, again implies that $\omega_1$ is an inaccessible cardinal in $L$.

Rowbottom had one student in set theory, Keith Devlin, but later moved into category theory, although always claiming to be still a set theorist, but of an intuitionistic bent. He published little and deplored what he called as the "publish or perish mentality of the US,'' which he later, aghast, saw transferred to the UK. He refused to allow even collaborators to publish joint papers with him, claiming the results "were not good enough.'' He took early retirement at the age of 55 in 1993. However, the year before doing so, he and a student, John Chapman, did write Relative Catgeory Theory and Geometric morphisms: A logical approach (Oxford Logic Guides No.16). This volume appeared in 1992, a gap of twenty-one years since the Annals of Mathematical Logic paper above. By then he had already earned the respect and esteem of the other members of the department as a fine mathematician.

Call for Proposals: 2013 North American Annual Meeting

The ASL Committee on Logic in North America requests proposals for the 2013 ASL North American Annual meeting, to be held some time in the first five months of 2013. The committee seeks a university somewhere in North America and a local committee to host the meeting and handle the local arrangements. The ASL meetings ordinarily cycle geographically in the pattern: east (George Washington 2010), west (Berkeley 2011), midwest (Madison 2012, pending final Council approval). Thus, for 2013 the committee seeks a location in the east. Any reasonable proposal, however, will be considered. For more information, interested parties should contact the Committee Chair, Scott Weinstein (email: weinstein@cis.upenn.edu) no later than November 1, 2010.

Call for Proposals: 2012 AMS-ASL Joint Special Session

The ASL Committee on Logic in North America requests proposals for an AMS-ASL Joint Special Session to be held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, January 4--7, 2012. Proposals or requests for further information should be sent to the Committee Chair, Scott Weinstein (email: weinstein@cis.upenn.edu). The deadline for receipt of proposals is January 15, 2011.

2010 Sacks Prize

The ASL invites nominations for the 2010 Sacks Prize for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic. Nominations must be received by September 30, 2010. The Sacks Prize was established to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard for his unique contribution to mathematical logic, particularly as adviser to a large number of excellent Ph.D. students. The Prize was first awarded in 1994 and became an ASL Prize in 1999. The Fund on which the Prize is based is now administered by the ASL and the selection of the recipient is made by the ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards. The Sacks Prize will consist of a cash award plus five years free membership in the ASL. For general information about the Prize, visit http://www.aslonline.org/info-prizes.html.

Anyone who wishes to make a nomination for the 2010 Sacks Prize should consult the webpage http://www.aslonline.org/Sacks_nominations.html for the precise details of the application process. A brief summary of the procedure is provided below.

Students who defend their dissertations (equivalent to the American doctoral dissertation) between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010, are eligible for the Prize this year. This is an international prize, with no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the doctorate is granted. Nominations should be made by the thesis adviser, and consist of: name of student, title and 1--2 page description of dissertation, date and location where the doctorate was awarded, letter of recommendation from the adviser, and an electronic copy of the thesis in .pdf or .ps form, or the address of a web site from which an electronic copy in .pdf or .ps form can be downloaded. An independent second letter of recommendation is strongly encouraged. Nominations should be sent to the Committee Chair, Julia Knight; .pdf or .ps files sent as attachments by email to Julia.F.Knight.1@nd.edu are preferred. The form of such letters and other pertinent details can be found at the web site above, and need to be read prior to submitting a nomination. Correspondence should be addressed to Julia Knight, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 255 Hurley Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618, USA.

Those wishing to contribute to the Sacks Prize Fund may send contributions to the ASL office (ASL, Box 742, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604). All such contributions are tax-deductible within the USA.

First ASL Sponsored Journal: Journal of Logic and Analysis

In 2009, the ASL Council authorized the new category of ASL Sponsored Journals. This rubric is intended to promote the visibility of and access to new, perhaps specialized, journals in logic and/or its applications that are not-for-profit and available at a cost far less than that typically found at the major commercial publishers.

The Journal of Logic and Analysis is the first publication sponsored by the ASL under this framework. The Journal, an open access, online publication, examines the interaction between ideas or techniques from mathematical logic and other areas of mathematics, especially, but not limited to, pure and applied analysis. The Journal publishes papers in nonstandard analysis and related areas of applied model theory; papers involving interplay between mathematics and logic (including foundational aspects of such interplay); and mathematical papers using or developing analytical methods having connections to any area of mathematical logic.

For further information about ASL sponsored journals, visit http://aslonline.org/journals-sponsored_journals.html; for more information about the Journal of Logic and Analysis, visit http://logicandanalysis.org/.

New Book Discount for ASL Members

Chapman & Hall / CRC Press now offers ASL members a 20% discount on Gold-Standard Mathematics Books. For further information, visit the website below or write to the ASL Business Office.
http://www.aslonline.org/members-discounts.html

Student Travel Awards: The 2011 ASL North American Annual Meeting, and other ASL or ASL-Sponsored Meetings

The ASL will make available modest travel awards to graduate students in logic so that they may attend the 2011 ASL North American Annual Meeting in Berkeley, California; see below for information about this meeting. Student members of the ASL also may apply for travel grants to other ASL or ASL-sponsored meetings (other than the 2011 European Summer Meeting; the announcement for travel award applications for this meeting will be made by November 2010). To be considered for a Travel Award, please (1) send a letter of application, and (2) ask your thesis supervisor to send a brief recommendation letter. The application letter should be brief (preferably one page) and should include: (1) your name; (2) your home institution; (3) your thesis supervisor's name; (4) a one-paragraph description of your studies and work in logic, and a paragraph indicating why it is important to attend the meeting; (5) your estimate of the travel expenses you will incur; (6) (for citizens or residents of the USA) citizenship or visa status; and (7) (voluntary) indication of your gender and minority status. Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to funds provided by the ASL, the program of travel grants is supported by a grant from the US National Science Foundation; NSF funds may be awarded only to students at USA universities and to citizens and permanent residents of the USA. Air travel paid for using NSF funds must be on a US flag carrier. Application by email is encouraged; put "ASL travel application'' in the subject line of your message.

For the 2011 ASL North American Annual Meeting, applications and recommendations should be received before the deadline of December 20, 2010, by the Program Chair: Itay Neeman, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA; Fax: 310-206 6673; email: ineeman@math.ucla.edu. Applications by email are preferred.

For ASL student member travel grants to ASL or ASL-sponsored meetings (other than the 2011 North American Annual Meeting and the 2011 European Summer Meeting), applications and recommendations should be received at least three months prior to the meeting at the ASL Business Office: ASL, Box 742, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA; Fax: 1-845-437-7830; email: asl@vassar.edu. Decisions will be communicated at least two months prior to the meeting.