Kurt Gödel Research Center

Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic (KGRC), Vienna

The KGRC is named after Kurt Gödel, who proved the completeness and the incompleteness theorems in Vienna in the years 1929–1931, arguably the most groundbreaking work in mathematical logic of modern times. The KGRC was a research platform of the University of Vienna until the group was merged into the institute of mathematics of the University of Vienna effective January 1, 2019.

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News

• June 2023: Vera Fischer successfully passes the evaluation of her qualification agreement and is promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations Vera on this achievement!
• July 2022: Ömer Bag defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Ömer!
• July 2022: Sandra Müller is awarded the "Förderungspreis" of the Austrian Mathematical Society. Congratulations Sandra!
• June 2022: We have an opening for a tenure track position in mathematical logic.
• June 2022: Sandra Müller is awarded a START prize. The START prize is one of the most recognized prizes for young scientists in Austria and includes prize money up to 1.2 million Euro. Congratulations Sandra!
• October 2021: We are happy to announce that Jeffrey Bergfalk has been awarded the 2021 Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award, an annual award which “aims to celebrate Mary Ellen Rudin’s achievements and her legacy by encouraging the development of young talent in topology.” He receives the award for “his exceptional work on the interactions between algebraic topology and set theory.” Congratulations, Jeffrey!
• February 2021: Vera Fischer accepts a tenure-track professorship in mathematical logic.
• December 2020: Jonathan Schilhan defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Jonathan!
• December 2020: Sandra Müller is awarded a L'Oreal Austria fellowship and Elise Richter fellowship. Congratulations Sandra!
• July 2020: Matthias Aschenbrenner joins the KGRC as director of the group.
• July 2018: Vera Fischer wins this year's Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society. It is awarded at the "Day of Mathematics" at the Faculty of Mathematics on November 9.
• May 2018: Zoltán Vidnyánszky receives the 2018 Paul Turán award. The prize is awarded for Hungarian mathematicians under 40 for internationally recognized excellence in research related to Paul Turán's work and its applications. (Short note in Hungarian language.)
• December 2017: Daniel Soukup receives the Grünwald Géza Prize from the Bolyai Society at the Rényi Institute. The prize is awarded since 1951 to Hungarian mathematicians under 30 for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics research.
• September 2017: Ben Miller is promoted to full professor.
• June 2017: Vera Fischer is awarded a START prize. The START prize is one of the most recognized prizes for young scientists in Austria and includes prize money up to 1.2 million Euro. (All prize winners of 2017 and their projects, introduction in German; photos of the prize giving ceremony.)
• June 2017: Diana Montoya successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations Diana!
• June 2017: The Austrian Academy of Sciences awards the 128 most promising PhD thesis proposals from all of Austria with a DOC stipend. Marlene Koelbing receives one of them. (Press release in German, photos © ÖAW/Elia Zilberberg, Marlene in 0086_0086.jpg and 0087_0087.jpg.)
• May 2017: Sy-David Friedman is interviewed (in German) for the Audimax podcast.
• April 2017: The KGRC was recently ranked as the second-best institute for logic in the world (after Paris 7); see http://derstandard.at/2000055309772/Erstmals-erhoben-Zahl-der-Top-10-Platzierungen-nach-Disziplinen.

• June–September 2023: David Schrittesser (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC.
• June 2023: Monroe Eskew gives a talk.
• June 2023: Lukas Schembecker gives a talk.
• June 2023: Kevin Beanland gives a talk.
• June 2023: Diego Mejía gives a talk.
• June 2023: Jaroslav Šupina (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• June 2023: Sebastian Jachimek gives a talk.
• June 2023: Jindřich Zapletal (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• June 2023: Ido Feldman (host: Miguel Moreno) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• June 2023: Nigel Pynn-Coates (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• May 2023: Two short talks are given by Fabian Kaak (talk) and Nick Chapman (talk).
• May 2023: Fabian Kaak (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC.
• May 2023: Aaron Anderson (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• May 2023: Sergei Starchenko (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• May 2023: Thilo Weinert (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• May 2023: Heike Mildenberger (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• April 2023: Tomasz Żuchowski (host: Damian Sobota) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• April 2023: Zoltán Vidnyánszky (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• April 2023: Sergei Starchenko (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• April 2023: Lyubomyr Zdomskyy gives three talks (talk 1: slides, talk 2, talk 3).
• March 2023: Michael Pinsker gives a talk (slides, use pass code ?yG8 followed by 74^^ to watch the video recording).
• March 2023: Sandra Müller gives a talk at the Mathematical Colloquium.
• March 2023: José Nicolás Nájar Salinas (host: Miguel Moreno) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• March 2023: Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• March 2023: Chieu-Minh Tran (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• March 2023: Miguel Moreno gives a three-part talk (part I: use passcode W^9E followed by j.h3 to watch the video recording, part II: use passcode d3P& followed by V1g$ to watch the video recording, part III), notes for all parts.
• March 2023: Silvain Rideau-Kikuchi (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• March 2023: Lou van den Dries (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• March 2023: Juris Steprāns (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk (slides, use passcode jTi% followed by 8uqf to watch the video recording).
• March 2023: Martin Hils gives a talk.
• March 2023: Katrin Tent (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• February/March 2023: Manuel López-Pellicer (host: Damian Sobota) visits the KGRC.
• February/March 2023: Jerzy Kąkol (host: Damian Sobota) visits the KGRC.
• January 2023: Jonathan Schilhan (host: Thilo Weinert) visits the KGRC.
• January 2023: Martin Hils gives a talk.
• January 2023: Benjamin Siskind gives a talk.
• January 2023: Peter Holy gives a two-part talk (part 1, part 2: use passcode gS3% followed by +Hy2 to watch the video recording).
• January 2023: Tomasz Żuchowski (host: Damian Sobota) visits the KGRC.
• December 2022–August 2023: Clifton Ealy (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• December 2022: Ralf Schindler gives a talk (slides).
• December 2022: Wiesław Kubiś (host: Damian Sobota) visits the KGRC and gives two talks (talk 1: use passcode +MkI followed by 4HUc to watch the video recording, talk 2).
• December 2022: Stefan Ludwig (hosts: Martin Hils and Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• December 2022: Jan Hubička (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• December 2022: David Chodounský (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk (slides, use passcode @&61 followed by nNnR to watch the video recording).
• November 2022: Corey Switzer gives a two-part talk (part 1, part 2).
• November 2022: Farmer Schlutzenberg gives a talk: read the slides, use passcode wR^8 followed by 1nq7 to watch the video recording.
• November–December 2022: Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann gives a five-part series of talks (part 1: slides, part 2: slides, part 3: slides, part 4: slides, part 5: slides)
• November 2022–January 2023: Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC and gives a talk (slides).
• November 2022: Monroe Eskew gives a two-part talk (part 1: no video recording, part 2: use passcode f9xD followed by pS&& to watch the video recording).
• November 2022: Simone Ramello (hosts: Martin Hils and Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.
• November 2022: Will Brian (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC gives a talk and a special talk.
• November 2022: Jonathan Schilhan (host: Thilo Weinert) visits the KGRC and gives a talk: use passcode t0z4 followed by ?muN to watch the video recording.
• October 2022: Diana Montoya gives a two-part talk (part 1: use passcode d@0@ followed by 4?DE to watch the video recording, part 2: use passcode 3dXz followed by K6&h to watch the video recording).
• October 2022: Lukas Schembecker gives a two-part talk (part 1: no video recording, part 2: use passcode AJ3r followed by *WcP to watch the video recording).
• October 2022: Andrew Brooke-Taylor (host: Vera Fischer) visits the KGRC and gives a talk.
• October 2022–March 2023: Martin Hils (host: Matthias Aschenbrenner) visits the KGRC.

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• Vienna University: Faculty of Mathematics
• The following groups at Vienna University of Technology: Algebra, Computational Logic, Theory and Logic, Database and Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems and Formal Methods in Systems Engineering.
• Kurt Gödel Society

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