Organization
The winter school will be delivered by six experts in diagrammatic reasoning, listed here as either Founding Organisers or Additional Facilitators.
Founding Organizers
Dr Jim Burton is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. His research interests include the formal and cognitive properties of visual logics, and developing software tools that bring the benefits of formal diagrams to new domains, such as ontology engineering. Jim received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Brighton for a thesis on a decision procedure for a fragment of generalized constraint diagrams, which are a second order visual logic based on Euler diagrams.
Dr Lopamudra Choudhury is, since 2010, Director of the School of Cognitive Science and Associate Professor in Philosophy at Jadavpur University. She is Chief Investigator of the National Program for Perception Engineering Project, funded by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. Her areas of research interest include cognition of the visually challenged, applied ethics and diagrammatic logics.
Dr Gem Stapletonis a Reader in Computer Science at the University of Brighton. She has considerable expertise in the development of diagrammatic logics and automated visualization techniques. To-date, she has nearly 100 publications with recent outlets including the International Semantic Web Conference, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. She has served on many Program Committees including, in 2014: Conceptual Structures, Diagrams, Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), and OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED). Dr Stapleton is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing and Chairs the Diagrams Steering Committee. She has delivered many invited talks on her research, most recently as Keynote Speaker at the 17th Brazilian Logic Conference 2014, and has worked closely with Nokia on applying concept diagrams to industrial-scale ontology engineering in the area of privacy.
Additional Facilitators
Dr Francesco Belluci has received a Ph.D. from the University of Siena (Italy) for a thesis on the history of diagrammatic thinking (2012). He is currently research fellow at the Tallinn University ofTechnology (Estonia) and the University of Bologna (Italy). His research areas include Peirce’s logic, philosophy of language, history of semiotics, and history and philosophy of logic. His recent publications are in Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society, Semiotica, Versus, Journal of the History of Ideas, and History and Philosophy of Logic.
Professor Mihir Chakraborty is a Visiting Professor at Jadavpur University, after retiring as Professor of Pure Mathematics, Calcutta University, Kolkata. He has made pioneering contributions in the field of rough set theory, fuzzy reasoning, graded consequence and paraconsistent logic which are internationally acclaimed. Logics focusing on Diagrams is one of his areas of research interest.
Dr Amirouche Moktefi is a research fellow at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 2007. He currently works within the DiaMind project directed by Prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. His research interests include visual reasoning, formal languages, history of symbolic logic and theory of opposition. He co-authored with Prof. Sun-Joo Shin an extensive “history of logic diagrams” (Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 11, 2012).
Local Oraganizers
Dr Smita Siker, Joint Director of the School of Cognitive Science and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Jadavpur University.
Dr Amrita Basu, Assistant Professor in the School of Cognitive Science at Jadavpur University.