[EDLING:547] Fwd: Fwd: Beth Dissertation Prize

[Tamara Warhol]

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> From: Carlos Areces <carlos at science.uva.nl>
> Date: 19 January, 2005 7:10:58 AM EST
> To: areces at loria.fr
> Subject: Beth Dissertation Prize
> Reply-To: policriti at dimi.uniud.it
>
> E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions.
>
> Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and
> Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to
> outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and
> Information. Submissions are invited for 2004. The prize will be
> awarded
> to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004.
> The
> dissertations will be judged on the impact they made in their
> respective
> fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on the
> interdisciplinarity of the work. Ideally the winning dissertation will
> be
> of interest to researchers in all three fields.
>
> Who qualifies: Those who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of
> Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December
> 31st, 2004. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate
> or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful
> consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written
> in
> English.
>
> Prize: The prize consists of
>
> · a certificate
> · an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05
> · a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation.
> · fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance
> · the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it)
>   in the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be
>   published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further
>   information on this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.)
>
> How to submit: We only accept electronic submissions. The following
> documents are required:
>
>    1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted);
>    2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format;
>    3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor.
> Self-nominations
>       are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis
>       supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe
> the
>       scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the
>       degree was officially awarded;
>    4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter
>       from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that
>       awarded the Ph.D. degree.
>
> All documents must be submitted electronically to
> beth_award at dimi.uniud.it. Hard copy submissions are not admitted.
>
> If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not
> receive
> a notification from us within three working days, please write to
> policriti at dimi.uniud.it or folli at inf.unibz.it
>
>     * Important dates:
>       Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005.
>       Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005.
>
> The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05
> (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School
> in
> Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland,
> August 9-19, 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony
> and to give a presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05.
>
> Committee
>
> · Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7)
> · Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam)
> · Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University)
> · Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa)
> · Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg)
> · Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
> · Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland)
> · Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
> · Alberto Policriti (chair) (Università di Udine)
> · Christian Retoré (Université Bordeaux 1 )
> · Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen)
> · Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen)
>
>

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Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu