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: In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal: 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 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: HisWorks 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

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.

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:

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:

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.