Other Professional Activities

Invited lectures: Some current and recent events

  • Collective decisions. DYCODE colloquium, University of Bayreuth, February 2019.

  • Reasoning about strategies and surprises in turn-taking games. Workshop Rational Agency and Logic, Stockholm, November 2018.

  • Tense logics of discrete linear time. Workshop on Prior: past, present and future, Copenhagen, November 2018.

  • From epistemic logic to social cognition. Featured course of 5 lectures at the North American Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, June 21-28, 2018.

  • It takes one to know one: Reasoning about knowledge in the context of a hidden protocol. Academy colloquium Reasoning in a Social Context, KNAW, Amsterdam, May 31-June 2, 2018.

  • Recursive theory of mind: Between logic and cognition. Keynote lecture at the 29th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 2017, Groningen, November 8-9, 2017.

  • Hidden protocols: Knowing how to inform your friends while leaving all others in the dark. Workshop Knowing What to Do, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, September 21, 2017.

  • Recursive theory of mind and causal reasoning: Models and evidence. Workshop Asymmetry in Causal Inference and Conditional Reasoning, , ILLC, University of Amsterdam, March 27-28, 2017.

  • Children's development of second-order theory of mind. CLCG Colloquium, Department of Cognitive Linguistics, Groningen, 23 March 2017.

  • From epistemic logic to social cognition. Invited series of six lectures and two tutorials at Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students 2016, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), München, July 24-30, 2016.

  • Functionality of higher-order social cognition in competitive, cooperative and mixed-motive games. 8th Groningen Symposium on Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, June 14, 2016 .

  • Second-order theory of mind in children: Models and evidence. Keynote lecture at Workshop Cognitive, Linguistic and Logical Aspects of Perspective-taking, Roskilde, Denmark, May 26, 2016.

  • Thinking about thinking about thinking: The better you are at higher-order social cognition, the more successful you will be. Public lecture in the Series Science and Cocktails, for around 700 people, Christiania, Copenhagen, May 24, 2016. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7a6smaQks

  • Higher-order theory of mind: Why did it evolve and how can we support its use? Seminar on Social Cognition at the Motivation, Brain Behavior Lab, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris, October 7, 2015.

  • Higher-order theory of mind: From theory to evidence and back again. Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück, July 1, 2015.

  • Social cognition: The facts matter. Keynote lecture at Workshop Communication and Agency. Learning Social and Communicative Meanings, SMART Cognitive Science International Conference, Amsterdam, March 25-28, 2015.

  • Learning to apply theory of mind: From logic to the lab. SMART Cognitive Science lecture, University of Amsterdam, November 28, 2014.

  • Taking the perspective of the other: From children’s stories to negotiations. Keynote lecture at the Fifth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Pitlochry, Scotland, September 9-12, 2014.

  • Between epistemic logic and social cognition. Keynote lecture at Summer School on Epistemology and Cognition, University of Groningen, August 25-29, 2014.

  • Artificial Intelligence: From problem solving to resource bounds. Dagstuhl seminar ‘Resource-bounded Problem Solving’, Schloss Dagstuhl, August 18-22, 2014.

Dagstuhl

  • Reaching your goals without spilling the beans: Boolean secrecy games and Hidden protocols. Seminar in Logic, Probability and Games, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, May 23, 2014.

  • Thinking about thinking about thinking: From food caching to games. Special session on Philosophical Aspects of Games and Social Algorithms, North American Annual Meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic, Boulder, Colorado, May 19-22, 2014.

  • Modelling social cognition. Guest lecture at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, April 4, 2014.

  • Reasoning about other minds: From logic and computational models to the lab. Social Dynamics of Information, LogiCIC Workshop, Amsterdam, December 2-4, 2013.

  • Strategische studenten en struikgaaien: Denken over denken bij mensen en kraaiachtigen.Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap, Groningen, January 15, 2013.

  • Logic in the lab. Fourteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Chennai, January 7-9, 2013.

  • Cognitive Systems in Interaction. Turing in Context II, Brussels, October 10-12, 2012.

  • The Evolution of Higher-order Theory of Mind. International Conference Social Understanding: Evolution, Culture and Development. Ruhr-Universtität Bochum, September 27-29, 2012.

  • Computational Cognitive Models for Social Cognition. Symposium Theories of Minds: the Theoretical Bases of Comparative Cognition, The Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, January 18-19, 2012.

  • A Bird's Eye View on the Logic of Provability. Annual Meet on Logic and its Applications, Calcutta Logic Circle, Kolkata, September 3, 2011. Download pdf

Kolkata

  • Reaching your goals without spilling the beans: Boolean secrecy games and Hidden protocols. Seminar in Logic, Probability and Games, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, May 23, 2014.

  • Reaching your goals without spilling the beans: Boolean secrecy games and Hidden protocols. Seminar in Logic, Probability and Games, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, May 23, 2014.

  • Thinking about thinking about thinking: From food caching to games. Special session on Philosophical Aspects of Games and Social Algorithms, North American Annual Meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic, Boulder, Colorado, May 19-22, 2014.

  • Modelling social cognition. Guest lecture at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, April 4, 2014.

  • Reasoning about other minds: From logic and computational models to the lab. Social Dynamics of Information, LogiCIC Workshop, Amsterdam, December 2-4, 2013.

  • Strategische studenten en struikgaaien: Denken over denken bij mensen en kraaiachtigen.Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap, Groningen, January 15, 2013.

  • Logic in the lab. Fourteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Chennai, January 7-9, 2013.

  • Cognitive Systems in Interaction. Turing in Context II, Brussels, October 10-12, 2012.

  • The Evolution of Higher-order Theory of Mind. International Conference Social Understanding: Evolution, Culture and Development. Ruhr-Universtität Bochum, September 27-29, 2012.

  • Computational Cognitive Models for Social Cognition. Symposium Theories of Minds: the Theoretical Bases of Comparative Cognition, The Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, January 18-19, 2012.

  • A Bird's Eye View on the Logic of Provability. Annual Meet on Logic and its Applications, Calcutta Logic Circle, Kolkata, September 3, 2011. Download pdf

  • He Knows that she Knows that he Knows: Logic and Social Cognition. Faculty Spotlight, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, 14 February 2011.

  • Trying to Facilitate Second-Order Social Reasoning in Games. Workshop Games, Logic, Language and Computation (GLLC 19): Learning and Knowledge Change, Amsterdam, December 16th, 2010.

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Prove about Provability. Johann Bernoulli Colloquium, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, June 23, 2010.

  • Higher-order Social Cognition. Workshop Logical Methods for Social Concepts at ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, July 2009.

  • Higher-order Theory of Mind: Building Bridges Between Logic and Cognitive Science. Third Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications,Workshop Logic and Social Interaction, Chennai, January 2009.

  • Adjusting a Knowledge-based Algorithm for Teamwork. Workshop Logic and Information Security, Lorentz Center, Leiden, September 2008.

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