Logic

Mathematical logic, a young subject, has developed over the last 30 years into an amalgam of fast-moving disciplines, each with its own sophisticated techniques. These are linked by profound common concerns, around definability, decidability, effectiveness and computability, the nature of the continuum, and foundations. Some branches are highly multidisciplinary and force the researcher to be fully conversant with other fields (e.g. algebra, computer science).

The Logic Group at the University of Leeds is one of the largest and most active worldwide, with a long uninterrupted tradition dating back to 1951, when its founder Martin Löb moved to Leeds. It has an international reputation for research in most of the main areas of mathematical logic - computability theory, model theory, set theory, proof theory, and in applications to algebra, analysis, number theory and theoretical computer science.

PhD opportunities

We host a very large and lively group of postgraduate researchers and post-doctoral fellows funded with EPSRC, EU and US support, and it has been the focus of extensive international collaboration via various research projects and networks in proof theory, computability theory and model theory.

Find out more about our opportunities for prospective postgraduate researchers.

Staff

• Dr Andrew Brooke-Taylor
• Dr Pantelis Eleftheriou
• Dr Richard Elwes
• Dr Asaf Karagila
• Professor Dugald Macpherson
• Dr Vincenzo Mantova
• Professor Michael Rathjen
• Dr Paul Shafer
• Dr Alan Slomson
• Professor John K Truss
• Professor Stan Wainer
• Dr Michael Wibmer

Postdocs

• Dr Pablo Andújar Guerrero
• Dr Christian d'Elbée (UKRI Research Fellow)
• Dr Sebastian Eterović
• Dr Emanuele Frittaion
• Dr Jonathan Schilhan
• Dr Jiachen Yuan

PhD students

See the PhD students page for all our current PGR students and links to the recent PhD thesis.

Seminar series

• Logic seminar, Wednesday 4-5pm, MALL 1
• Sets seminar, Wednesday 1-2pm, MALL 1
• Models seminar, Wednesday 2-3pm, MALL 1
• Postgraduate Logic seminar, Friday 12-1pm

The calendar of events has details for all the activities taking place in Leeds.

We are part of the Yorkshire and Midlands Category Theory Seminar and the Lancashire Yorkshire Model Theory Seminar. Since 2008, we have hosted a Löb lecture every four years.