I’ve been rather busy for the last little while, as the absence from the website might indicate. Here is a list of what’s been happening, which involves not a little bit of trumpet-blowing, because a lot of the news has been good and it’s time for me to share.
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Last week I spent an enjoyable (if rather wet) week in Canberra, touring the sights with Zachary in the mornings, and teaching at Logic Summer School in the afternoons. Going through a rapid-fire course covering Turing machines, register machines, recursive functions, the halting problem, diagonalisation, formal arithmetic, representability, and Gödel’s incompleteness results in 5 hours flat was a challenge. I learned something setting it up and I hope the students learned something in the listening. (They laughed at my jokes, which was very polite.)
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While I was looking after Z, C was at a conference, at which her most recent book had its Australian launch. Z and I crashed the launch party at University House, which was great fun.
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Immediately upon our return to Melbourne, we went to some friends’ wedding up near Marysville. The drive through Black Spur would have been nice in and of itself. The touching wedding ceremony and socialising with friends out in attractive country was almost an excellent bonus.
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Before going away I heard three bits of good news. First, I’m now on the editorial board of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. (My membership doesn’t seem to be on their website as yet, but it should be sometime soon.) This was the site of my first academic publication, so I’m chuffed to be on the editorial board now. Send good papers to the journal. It’s a great print journal with an enlightened open access policy for its archive (you get free access to papers older than five years). The online archive goes back to 1960, which is seriously impressive.
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The last round of ARC research grants was announced a little while ago and my last application with Graham Priest and Allen Hazen received funding in the current round. So, we’re receiving support for our projects, which is nice.
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Lastly, I have been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The citation says exaggeratedly flattering things about me. Thanks to everyone who put my name forward. I’m chuffed.
