[Corpora-List] NASSLLI 2010 call for course and workshop proposals

[Sandra Kuebler]

  NASSLLI 2010
  North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010
  June 21-26, Indiana University

  CALL for COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The fourth NASSLLI (after previous editions at Stanford University,  
Indiana University, and UCLA) will return to  Bloomington, Indiana,  
June 21 - 25, 2010. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long- 
running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses  
and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. By default,  
courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days.

Proposals are invited that present interdisciplinary work between the  
areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science,  
philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area  
is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in  
other fields. Examples of possible topics (adapting from previous  
NASSLLI courses) would include e.g. logics for communication,  
computational semantics, game theory (for logic, language and/or  
computation), dynamic semantics, modal logics, linear logic, machine  
learning techniques, statistical language models, and automated  
theorem proving. We encourage potential course or workshop  
contributors to check out previous programs at:
  http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/program.html
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/
  http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/2003/program.html

Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an  
interdisciplinary, graduate level audience.  Courses may certainly  
focus on a single area, but lecturers should then include  
introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that  
cannot be applied more widely, and spend time on the question of how  
the topic is relevant to other fields.  A workshop can be more  
accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that  
introduce and summarize the week's presentations.

  Associated Workshops/Conferences:
In addition to courses and workshops taking place during the main  
NASSLLI five day session, Indiana University welcomes proposals for  
1-3 day workshops or conferences hosted on campus immediately before  
or after the summer school, thus on the weekends of June 18-20 and  
June 27-29 2010. Previous such associated meetings have included a  
Mathematics of Language conference and Theoretical Aspects of  
Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK).

  Submission Details:
Submissions should be by email, and should indicate
1) person(s) and affiliation
2) type of event (one week course or workshop, 2 hours a day)
3) an outline of the course up to 500 words
4) an indication of whether special equipment is needed to teach that
	course (beamer, computer ...)
5) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching in
	interdisciplinary settings
6) expected costs (whether you want to be paid hotel and/or travel, and
	descriptions of funding in hand or for which you will apply)

  Financial Details:
A course may be taught by one or two persons. Conference fees are  
waived for all instructors. However, we are only able to pay for the  
full travel and expenses of one instructor per course. If two persons  
are lecturing, they may share a lump sum paid for both. We must also  
stress that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the  
Summer School can in general guarantee only toreimburse travel costs  
for travel from destinations within North America to Bloomington,  
although exceptions can be made depending on the financial situation.  
Furthermore, we encourage all lecturers to fund their own travel if  
this is feasible, since this will allow us to use our available  
funding for student scholarships.

Workshops are more complicated financially than courses, and a  
proposal for a workshop should include a plan to obtain some outside  
funding for the speakers.

  Notifications of Interest:
To give us an idea about the number of submissions, we would like you  
to email us, ideally within two weeks, in case you are interested in  
submitting a proposal. This will not commit you to actually submit  
one (and not emailing in advance does not preclude you from  
submitting a full proposal).

  Schedule:
Jun 18 on, 2009 - unofficial notifications of intention to submit;
Sep 15,    2009 - Deadline for submissions;
Nov 1,     2009 - Course/workshop proposers notified of p.c. decisions;
Nov 15,    2009 - Official announcement of program;
May 15,    2009 - Material for courses available for printing;
Jun 21,    2010 - Start of NASSLLI 2010 courses.

  Program Committee:
David Beaver (committee chair), UT Austin
Thony Gillies, Rutgers University
John Horty, University of Maryland
Sandra Kuebler, Indiana University
Eric Pacuit, Stanford University
Chris Potts, Stanford University
Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Chung-Chieh Shan, Rutgers University
Matthias Scheutz, Indiana University

  Standing NASSLLI Steering Committee:
David Beaver, UT Austin
Larry Moss (committee chair), Indiana University
Phokion Kolaitis, UC Santa Cruz / IBM Almaden Research Center
Valeria de Paiva, Cuill Inc.
Stuart Shieber, Harvard University
Moshe Vardi, Rice University

  Website:
News will be posted at:
  http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli,

  Inquiries:
General inquiries regarding NASSLLI 2010, notifications of interest  
in course or workshop proposal submission, and final submissions of  
proposals should be directed to:  nasslli AT indiana.edu

Informal inquiries regarding potential courses or workshops may also  
be directed to:
  David Beaver, dib AT mail.utexas.edu (with "NASSLLI" in the subject  
line).

Principal local organizers at Indiana University are Markus  
Dickinson, Sandra Kuebler, and Larry Moss, and they can be contacted  
via the main alias: nasslli AT indiana.edu


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