[Corpora-List] CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Wed Sep 25 16:32:35 UTC 2002

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                      Second North American Summer School
                                      in
                        Logic, Language and Information
                                 NASSLLI-2003
                     June 17-21, 2003, Bloomington, Indiana

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                 CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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The main focus of the North American Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and
computation, broadly conceived, and on related fields. The school is the
second NASSLLI, following the successful first school at Stanford in June,
2002. Our sister school, the European Summer School in Logic, Language,
and Information, has been highly successful, becoming an important meeting
place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in
the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.  We intend
for NASSLLI to similarly become an important setting. The NASSLLI Steering
Committee invites proposals for introductory and advanced courses, and for
workshops on a wide range of topics.

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student
Session.   A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be
distributed separately.

A NOTE ON THE DATES OF NASSLLI   The Summer School comes at a time of year
when many conferences take place.  NASSLLI comes just after the
Federated Computing Research Conference (June 7Ð14) in San Diego:
see     http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/
and just before
the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (June 22 - 25) in Ottawa, Canada:
        http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/  .
NASSLLI also comes somewhat before the LSA Summer Institute (June 30-August 8)
in East Lansing:
        http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted
by email to nasslli at indiana.edu by October 15, 2002.
Proposers
should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions;
proposals that deviate might not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or
organizing a workshop during NASSLLI'03 should read the
following information carefully.

ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or 2 lecturers.
They consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each.

Timetable for Course Proposal Submission:

   Oct 15, 2002: Proposal Submission Deadline
   Nov 15, 2002: Notification
   Jan 1, 2003: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract,
                 lecturer(s) information, course description
                 and prerequisites
   Apr 2, 2003: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course
                 material

INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to
the activities of the Summer School.  They are intended to
equip students and young researchers with a good
understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques.
Introductory courses should build on some knowledge of
relevant fields; that is, instructors should assume that
students will have some background in logic, language,
or computation.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level
of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if
available).

ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an
audience of advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for
advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some
detail.

WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum
for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present
and discuss their work.  A workshop has a theme.  At most
one organizer is paid.  The organizers should be specialists
in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in
the first session.  They are also responsible for the
program of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a
Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2002.  The
call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all
members of the LLI community.  It should also note that all
workshop contributors must register for the Summer School.
A workshop consists of five sessions, 90 minutes each.

PROPOSALS: Please include the following information:

   * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer)

   * Address (contact addresses of proposed
lecturer(s)/organizer;
     where possible, please include phone and fax numbers)

   * Title (title of proposed course/workshop)

   * Type (is this a workshop,  an
introductory course, or an advanced course?)

   * Description: in at most 300 words, describe the
proposed contents and substantiate timeliness and relevance to
NASSLLI.

   * Teaching Experience: in at most 150 words, describe
your experience as a teacher.  When applicable, describe your
experience teaching the material of your proposed course, and
also your experience teaching in interdisciplinary settings.
The committee wants to insure that all courses are well-taught,
and so anything you can say in this regard will be helpful
in evaluating your proposal.

   * External funding (will you be able to find external
funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if
so, how?)

   * Further particulars (any further information that is
required by the above guidelines should be included here)

RELATED EVENTS: NASSLLI'03 will be co-located with TARK'03, the 9th
Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge and Rationality
(see www.tark.org). We especially solicit courses on the subjects of
knowledge and rationality.  In addition, NASSLLI'03 will be co-located
with MoL'03, the 8th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language  (see
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol.html).  We especially solicit courses
on the subjects of formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
and phonology; mathematical properties of linguistic formalisms;
statistical and quantitative models of language, etc.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop
organizes should be aware that all teaching and organizing
at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order
to keep the participants fees as low as possible.  Lecturers
and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation.  Please note the
following: In case a course is to be taught by two
lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and
accommodation expenses.  The splitting of the sum is up to
the lecturers.  However, please note that the organizers
highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and
workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel
and accommodation expenses.

Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer
School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register
at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organizing
Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all
over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in
general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel
from destinations within North America to Bloomington.
Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation.

RELEVANT WEB SITES

ESSLLI'02, held in Trento, Italy in August 2002:
http://www.esslli2002.it/

ESSLLI'03, to be held in Vienna, Austria in August 2003:
http://www.folli.uva.nl/2003/esslli-2003.html

NASSLLI'02, held at Stanford University in June 2002:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/

NASSLLI'03, to be held at Indiana University in June 2003:
http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/

NASSLLI STEERING COMMITTEE (list in formation)

David Beaver
Phokion Kolaitis
Larry Moss
Stuart Shieber
Moshe Vardi

Please send proposals and inquiries to  nasslli at indiana.edu