The winter school will be delivered by experts in diagrammatic reasoning (subject to change and confirmation).
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 Professor of Philosophy, and was Director of the School of Cognitive Science from 2010 to 2014, 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 Stapleton is 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 over 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 2016 Diagrams and Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS). 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, including 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.
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 the School of Cognitive Science, 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.