The Australasian Association for Logic will hold  its annual conference from  Monday 9 November  to Friday 13 November, 2026. The physical location will be the Victoria University of Wellington  in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference aims to bring together logicians, either based in Australasia or with the desire to connect with logicians based in Australasia, working in mathematical, computational, or philosophical logic. The conference is intended to provide a platform for presentation and exchange of ideas. Thus, we invite contributions in all areas of logic, especially if you would like to advertise your best results to logicians outside your own subfield. We welcome published or unpublished work. 

There will be  eight one-hour invited talks on different logic topics. The speakers will be Rod Downey (Victoria University of Wellington), Ed Mares (Victoria University of Wellington), Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington),  Guillermo Badia (University of Queensland), Bakh M.Khoussainov (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & The University of Auckland),  Alex Kruckman (Wesleyan University), Takayuki Kihara (Nagoya University), and  Isabella Scott (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

 Session times will be 30 minutes. The scheduling is done according to  Brisbane local time (AEDT, UTC+10). Find your local time.

To register, please email TBA. The Zoom URLs for the talks (for those attending online), as well as the abstracts, will be sent to registered participants.

We invite submission of abstracts in any area of logic, broadly construed. To submit, send a short abstract (at most 300 words, i.e. about three quarters of a page in the standard, 11pt LaTeX article style, including the title, other heading material, and references) and title to TBA with the subject “AAL 2026”.  Please use the template of the ASL (https://aslonline.org/rules-for-abstracts/) in your submission as abstracts by ASL members will be published in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. The soft deadline for submissions is  5 September. Submissions will be accepted for consideration until the hard deadline of Saturday, 20 September. Decisions will be sent out in late September. We would like to encourage submissions from members of groups that are underrepresented in logic.

The  inaugural 'M.J. Cresswell Best Talk Award' will be given out to the most remarkable  contributed (preferably student) paper at the conference. The prize committee will be formed by the organizers and the invited speakers. M.J. Cresswell (1939-2024)  was a distinguished Australasian logician and a former president of the AAL.

Organising committee: Sasha Melnikov (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; local organizer), Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; local organizer). 

Steering committee: Zach Weber (Otago),  Sasha Rubin (Sydney),  and  Shawn Standefer (North Carolina State).

The book of abstracts for the conference  will be available at a suitable date.

Schedule

Invited Speakers