Association for Symbolic Logic

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic. The ASL was founded in 1936, and its first president was Curt John Ducasse. The current president of the ASL is Phokion Kolaitis.

Publications
The ASL publishes books and academic journals. Its three official journals are:
 * Journal of Symbolic Logic – publishes research in all areas of mathematical logic. Founded in 1936,.
 * Bulletin of Symbolic Logic – publishes primarily expository articles and reviews. Founded in 1995,.
 * Review of Symbolic Logic – publishes research relating to logic, philosophy, science, and their interactions. Founded in 2008,.

In addition, the ASL has a sponsored journal:
 * Journal of Logic and Analysis publishes research on the interactions between mathematical logic and pure and applied analysis.  Founded in 2009 as an open-access successor to the Springer journal Logic and Analysis..

The organization played a part in publishing the collected writings of Kurt Gödel.

Books Series
Lectures Notes in Logic

Perspective in Logic

Books
Mathematical Logic by Joseph R. Shoenfield

Gödel Lecture Series
The Gödel Lecture Series is series of annual ASL lectures that trace back to 1990.

The Thirty-Fourth Gödel Lecture 2023

Carl Jockusch, From algorithms which succeed on a large set of inputs to the Turing degrees as a metric space

The Thirty-Third Gödel Lecture 2022

Patricia Blanchette, Formalism in Logic

The Thirty-Second Gödel Lecture 2021

Matthew Foreman, Gödel Diffeomorphisms

The Thirty-First Gödel Lecture 2020

Elisabeth Bouscaren, The ubiquity of configurations in Model Theory

The Thirtieth Gödel Lecture 2019

Sam Buss, Totality, Provability and Feasibility

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 2018

Rod Downey, Algorithmic randomness

The Twenty-Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 2017

Charles Parsons, Gödel and the universe of sets

The Twenty-Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2016

Stevo Todorcevic, Basis problems in set theory

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 2015

Alex Wilkie, Complex continuations of functions definable in $$\mathbb{R}_{an, exp}$$ with a diophantine application

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 2014

Julia F. Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013

Kit Fine, Truthmaker sematics

The Twenty-Third Annual Gödel Lecture 2012

John Steel, The hereditarily ordinal definable sets in models of determinacy

The Twenty-Second Annual Gödel Lecture 2011

Anand Pillay, First order theories

The Twenty-First Annual Gödel Lecture 2010

Alexander Razborov, Complexity of propositional proofs

The Twentieth Annual Gödel Lecture 2009

Richard Shore, Reverse Mathematics: the Playground of Logic

The Nineteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2008

W. Hugh Woodin, The Continuum Hypothesis, the $\Omega$ Conjecture, and the inner model problem of one supercompact cardinal

The Eighteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2007

Ehud Hrushovski (a lecture on his work delivered in his absence by Thomas Scanlon)

The Seventeenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2006

Per Martin-Löf, The two layers of logic

The Sixteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2005

Menachem Magidor, Skolem-Lowenheim theorems for generalized logics

The Fifteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2004

Michael O. Rabin, Proofs persuasions and randomness in mathematics

The Fourteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2003

Boris Zilber, Categoricity

The Thirteenth Annual Gödel Lecture 2002

Harvey Friedman, Issues in the foundations of mathematics

The Twelfth Annual Gödel Lecture 2001

Theodore A. Slaman, Recursion Theory

The Eleventh Annual Gödel Lecture 2000

Jon Barwise (Cancelled due to death of speaker)

The Tenth Annual Gödel Lecture 1999

Stephen A. Cook, Logic and computatonal complexity

The Ninth Annual Gödel Lecture 1998

Alexander S. Kechris, Current Trends in Descriptive Set Theory

The Eighth Annual Gödel Lecture 1997

1997 Solomon Feferman, Occupations and Preoccupations with Gödel: His*Works* and the Work

The Seventh Annual Gödel Lecture 1996

1996 Saharon Shelah, Categoricity without compactness

The Sixth Annual Gödel Lecture 1995

1995 Leo Harrington, Goedel, Heidegger, and Direct Perception (or, Why I am a Recursion Theorist)

The Fifth Annual Gödel Lecture 1994

1994 Donald A. Martin, L(R): A Survey

The Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 1993

1993 Angus Macintyre, Logic of Real and p-adic Analysis: Achievements and Challenges

The Third Annual Gödel Lecture 1992

1992 Joseph R. Shoenfield, The Priority Method

The Second Annual Gödel Lecture 1991

1991 Dana Scott, Will Logicians be Replaced by Machines?

The First Annual Gödel Lecture 1990

1990 Ronald Jensen, Inner Models and Large Cardinals

Meetings
The ASL holds two main meetings every year, one in North America and one in Europe (the latter known as the Logic Colloquium). In addition, the ASL regularly holds joint meetings with both the American Mathematical Society ("AMS") and the American Philosophical Association ("APA"), and sponsors meetings in many different countries every year.

Awards
The association periodically presents a number of prizes and awards.

Karp Prize
The Karp Prize is awarded by the association every five years for an outstanding paper or book in the field of symbolic logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1973 in memory of Professor Carol Karp.

Sacks Prize
The Sacks Prize is awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic. It consists of a cash award and was established in 1999 to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard.

Recipients include:

Shoenfield Prize
Inaugurated in 2007, the Shoenfield Prize is awarded every three years in two categories, book and article, recognizing outstanding expository writing in the field of logic and honoring the name of Joseph R. Shoenfield.

Recipients include:

Gödel Lecture
Inaugurated in 1990, the Gödel Lecture is the honor of being the speaker at the association's annual meeting. The award is named after Kurt Gödel.

For the complete list of speakers, please see Gödel Lecture Series above.