ESSLLI-2000 Call for Proposals: 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

[Enrico Franconi]

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   Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               ESSLLI-2000
              August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

                           CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly
successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere.
The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for
discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.  ESSLLI-2000
is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information (FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2000 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 12th
annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields:

  Logic                Language                Computation
  Language and Logic   Logic and Computation   Language and Computation

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

The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals (subject: ESSLLI-2000) should be submitted by electronic
mail to the program chair, Enrico Franconi at <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>,
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than July 4,
1999.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than September 15, 1999.  Proposers should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that
deviate substantially will not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during
ESSLLI-2000, please read the following information carefully.


FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming
any background knowledge.  The number of foundational courses will be
4-6.

Foundational courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

 Timetable for Foundational Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: 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, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to
acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus
encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research
community.  The introductory courses in the three basic disciplines
should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an
introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and
computer scientists, not logicians).  Introductory courses in the
interdisciplinary fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of
the respective fields (an introductory course in computational
linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics
of linguistics and computation).

Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the
course as compared to standard texts in the area.  For ease of reference
a list of standard texts will be made available electronically.

 Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


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.

Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

  Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


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 organiser is paid.  The organisers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session.  They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for
Papers for the workshop by November 15, 1999.  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 (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop).  Sessions are normally 90 min.

  Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
    Dec  1, 1999: Send out Call for Papers
    Mar 15, 2000: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
    May  1, 2000: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
    May 15, 2000: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of ws notes
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme


FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:

Name:         ---  Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.

Address:      ---  Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
                   Where possible, please include phone and fax
                   numbers.

Title:        ---  Title of proposed course/workshop.

Type:         ---  State whether this is a workshop, an foundational
                   course, an introductory course, or an advanced
                   course.

Section:      ---  Which of the  six sections (Language, Logic,
                   Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
                   & Computation or Language & Logic) does the
                   proposal belong to? Please just name one.

Description:  ---  A description of the proposed contents.
                   Not more than 150 words.

External      ---  State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to
funding:           find external funding to subsidise your travel and
                   accommodation expenses.

Further       ---  Any further information that is required by the
particulars:       above guidelines should be included here.


FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all
teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary
basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation.  In case of two lecturers, a
lump sum is paid to cover travel expenses.  The splitting of the sum is
up to the lecturers.  (However, please note that the organisers
appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers/organisers 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 Organising Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford to reimburse
travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Birmingham.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Enrico Franconi (chair)
  Attn: ESSLLI-2000
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Manchester
  Oxford Rd.
  Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  Tel: +44 (161) 275 6170
  Fax: +44 (161) 275 6204
  Email: franconi at cs.man.ac.uk

    Mary Dalrymple (Language)
     Matthias Baaz (Logic)
       Nada Lavrac (Computation and Logic)
       Mark Hepple (Language and Computation)
        Achim Jung (Computation)
  Reinhard Muskens (Logic and Language)


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
  Achim Jung (chair)
  Email: A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk


FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for
ESSLLI-2000 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.