# Association for Symbolic Logic

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president was Curt John Ducasse. The current president of the ASL is Phokion Kolaitis.

## Publications

The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:
* Journal of Symbolic Logic – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936, ISSN 0022-4812.
* Bulletin of Symbolic Logic – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995, ISSN 1079-8986.
* Review of Symbolic Logic – publishes research relating to logic, philosophy, science, and their interactions. Founded in 2008, ISSN 1755-0203.
In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:
* Journal of Logic and Analysis publishes research on the interactions between mathematical logic and pure and applied analysis. Founded in 2009 as an open-access successor to the Springer journal Logic and Analysis. ISSN 1759-9008.
The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings of Kurt Gödel.

### Books Series

Lectures Notes in Logic
Perspective in Logic

### Books

Mathematical Logic by Joseph R. Shoenfield

## Gödel Lecture Series

The Gödel Lecture Series is series of annual ASL lectures that trace back to 1990.
The Thirty-Fifth Gödel Lecture 2024
Thomas Scanlon, (Un)decidability in fields
The Thirty-Fourth Gödel Lecture 2023
Carl Jockusch, From algorithms which succeed on a large set of inputs to the Turing degrees as a metric space
The Thirty-Third Gödel Lecture 2022
Patricia Blanchette, Formalism in Logic
The Thirty-Second Gödel Lecture 2021
Matthew Foreman, Gödel Diffeomorphisms
The Thirty-First Gödel Lecture 2020
Elisabeth Bouscaren, The ubiquity of configurations in Model Theory
The Thirtieth Gödel Lecture 2019
Sam Buss, Totality, Provability and Feasibility
The Twenty-Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 2018
Rod Downey, Algorithmic randomness
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 2017
Charles Parsons, Gödel and the universe of sets
The Twenty-Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2016
Stevo Todorcevic, Basis problems in set theory
The Twenty-Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 2015
Alex Wilkie, Complex continuations of functions definable in $\mathbb {R} _{an,exp}$ with a diophantine application
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 2014
Julia F. Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms
The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013
Kit Fine, Truthmaker sematics
The Twenty-Third Annual Gödel Lecture 2012
John Steel, The hereditarily ordinal definable sets in models of determinacy
The Twenty-Second Annual Gödel Lecture 2011
Anand Pillay, First order theories
The Twenty-First Annual Gödel Lecture 2010
Alexander Razborov, Complexity of propositional proofs
The Twentieth Annual Gödel Lecture 2009
Richard Shore, Reverse Mathematics: the Playground of Logic
The Nineteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2008
W. Hugh Woodin, The Continuum Hypothesis, the $\Omega$ Conjecture, and the inner model problem of one supercompact cardinal
The Eighteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2007
Ehud Hrushovski (a lecture on his work delivered in his absence by Thomas Scanlon)
The Seventeenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2006
Per Martin-Löf, The two layers of logic
The Sixteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2005
Menachem Magidor, Skolem-Lowenheim theorems for generalized logics
The Fifteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2004
Michael O. Rabin, Proofs persuasions and randomness in mathematics
The Fourteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2003
Boris Zilber, Categoricity
The Thirteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2002
Harvey Friedman, Issues in the foundations of mathematics
The Twelfth Annual Gödel Lecture 2001
Theodore A. Slaman, Recursion Theory
The Eleventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2000
Jon Barwise (Cancelled due to death of speaker)
The Tenth Annual Gödel Lecture 1999
Stephen A. Cook, Logic and computatonal complexity
The Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 1998
Alexander S. Kechris, Current Trends in Descriptive Set Theory
The Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 1997
1997 Solomon Feferman, Occupations and Preoccupations with Gödel: His*Works* and the Work
The Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 1996
1996 Saharon Shelah, Categoricity without compactness
The Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 1995
1995 Leo Harrington, Goedel, Heidegger, and Direct Perception (or, Why I am a Recursion Theorist)
The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994
1994 Donald A. Martin, L(R): A Survey
The Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 1993
1993 Angus Macintyre, Logic of Real and p-adic Analysis: Achievements and Challenges
The Third Annual Gödel Lecture 1992
1992 Joseph R. Shoenfield, The Priority Method
The Second Annual Gödel Lecture 1991
1991 Dana Scott, Will Logicians be Replaced by Machines?
The First Annual Gödel Lecture 1990
1990 Ronald Jensen, Inner Models and Large Cardinals

## Meetings

The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe (the latter known as the Logic Colloquium). In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both the American Mathematical Society ("AMS") and the American Philosophical Association ("APA"), and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.

## List of presidents

| | Name | Term of office |
| 1st President | Curt John Ducasse | 1936–1937 |
| 2nd President | Haskell Curry | 1938–1940 |
| 3rd President | Cooper Harold Langford | 1941–1943 |
| 4th President | Alfred Tarski | 1944–1946 |
| 5th President | Ernest Nagel | 1947–1949 |
| 6th President | J. Barkley Rosser | 1950–1952 |
| 7th President | Willard Van Orman Quine | 1953–1955 |
| 8th President | Stephen Cole Kleene | 1956–1958 |
| 9th President | Frederic Fitch | 1959–1961 |
| 10th President | Leon Henkin | 1962–1964 |
| 11th President | William Craig | 1965–1967 |
| 12th President | Abraham Robinson | 1968–1970 |
| 13th President | Dana Scott | 1971–1973 |
| 14th President | Joseph R. Shoenfield | 1974–1976 |
| 15th President | Hilary Putnam | 1977–1979 |
| 16th President | Solomon Feferman | 1980–1982 |
| 17th President | Ruth Barcan Marcus | 1983–1985 |
| 18th President | Michael Morley | 1986–1988 |
| 19th President | Charles Parsons | 1989–1991 |
| 20th President | Yiannis Moschovakis | 1992–1994 |
| 21st President | George Boolos | 1995–1996 |
| 22nd President | Menachem Magidor | 1996–1997 |
| 23rd President | Donald A. Martin | 1998–2000 |
| 24th President | Richard Shore | 2001–2003 |
| 25th President | Alexander Kechris | 2004–2006 |
| 26th President | Penelope Maddy | 2007–2009 |
| 27th President | Alex Wilkie | 2010–2012 |
| 28th President | Alasdair Urquhart | 2013–2015 |
| 29th President | Ulrich Kohlenbach | 2016–2018 |
| 30th President | Julia Knight | 2019–2021 |
| 31st President | Phokion Kolaitis | 2022–2024 |

## Awards

The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.

### Karp Prize

The Karp Prize is awarded by the association every five years for an outstanding paper or book in the field of symbolic logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1973 in memory of Professor Carol Karp.
| Year | Recipient(s) |
| 1978 | Robert Vaught, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1983 | Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University |
| 1988 | Donald A. Martin, UCLA; John R. Steel, UCLA; W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | Ehud Hrushovski, MIT and Alex Wilkie, Oxford |
| 1998 | Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University |
| 2003 | Gregory Hjorth, UCLA and Alexander Kechris, Caltech |
| 2008 | Zlil Sela, Hebrew University |
| 2013 | Moti Gitik, Tel Aviv University; Ya'acov Peterzil, University of Haifa; Jonathan Pila, University of Oxford; Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame; Alex Wilkie, University of Manchester |
| 2018 | Matthias Aschenbrenner, UCLA; Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Joris van der Hoeven, École Polytechnique |
| 2023 | John Steel, University of California, Berkeley |

### Sacks Prize

The Sacks Prize is awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1999 to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard.
Recipients include:
| Year | Recipient(s) |
| 1994 | Gregory Hjorth |
| 1995 | Slawomir Solecki |
| 1996 | Byunghan Kim |
| 1997 | Ilijas Farah and Thomas Scanlon |
| 1998 | no prize awarded |
| 1999 | Denis Hirschfeldt and Rene Schipperus |
| 2000 | Eric Jaligot |
| 2001 | Matthias Aschenbrenner |
| 2002 | no prize awarded |
| 2003 | Itay Ben Yaacov |
| 2004 | Joseph Mileti and Nathan Segerlind |
| 2005 | Antonio Montalbán |
| 2006 | Matteo Viale |
| 2007 | Adrien Deloro and Wojciech Moczydlowski |
| 2008 | Inessa Epstein and Dilip Raghavan |
| 2009 | Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan |
| 2010 | Uri Andrews |
| 2011 | Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day |
| 2012 | Pierre Simon |
| 2013 | Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule |
| 2014 | no prize awarded |
| 2015 | Omer Ben-Neria and Martino Lupini |
| 2016 | William Johnson and Ludovic Patey |
| 2017 | Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Sebastien Vasey |
| 2018 | Danny Nguyen |
| 2019 | Gabriel Goldberg |
| 2020 | James Walsh |
| 2021 | Marcos Mazari Armida |
| 2022 | Francesco Gallinaro and Patrick Lutz |
| 2023 | Andreas Lietz and Scott Mutchnik |
| 2024 | Nicholas Pischke and Erfan Khaniki |

### Shoenfield Prize

Inaugurated in 2007, the Shoenfield Prize is awarded every three years in two categories, book and article, recognizing outstanding expository writing in the field of logic and honoring the name of Joseph R. Shoenfield.
Recipients include:
| Year | Recipient(s) |
| 2007 | John P. Burgess (book); Bohuslav Balcar and Thomas Jech (article) |
| 2010 | John T. Baldwin (book); Rod Downey, Denis Hirschfeldt, André Nies, and Sebastiaan Terwijn (article) |
| 2013 | Stevo Todorcevic (book); Itaï Ben Yaacov, Alexander Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov (article) |
| 2016 | Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt (book); Lou van den Dries (article) |
| 2019 | Pierre Simon (book); John Steel (article) |
| 2022 | Paolo Mancosu, Sergio Galvan, and Richard Zach (book); Vasco Brattka (article) |

## Gödel Lecture

Inaugurated in 1990, the Gödel Lecture is the honor of being the speaker at the association's annual meeting. The award is named after Kurt Gödel.
For the complete list of speakers, please see Gödel Lecture Series above.