Rohit Parikh

Rohit Parikh was born in India but all his degrees are from Harvard. He is three times winner in the Putnam Mathematical Competition. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Brooklyn College and also affiliated with the doctoral programs in Philosophy, Mathematics and Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate center. He has published in journals in various fields including the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Philosophical Forum, Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of the Asscociation for Computing Machinery. He is former Chief editor of International Journal for Foundations of Computer Science and is the current managing editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. Apart from CUNY he has taught at Stanford University, Boston University, Panjab University, New York University, Bristol University and SUNY at Buffalo. His current primary interest is in the interaction between the Logic of Knowledge and Game Theory with a view to understanding societal structures.

How Logic Can Help The World

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In the last three decades Logic has emerged from the ivory tower and started to address problems of human concern, like how we think, how we vote and how we act. We will give a sampling of some recent insights.

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