24.2579, FYI: NASSLLI 2014: Call for Proposals

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Subject: 24.2579, FYI: NASSLLI 2014: Call for Proposals

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:43:31
From: Mandy Simons [simons at andrew.cmu.edu]
Subject: NASSLLI 2014: Call for Proposals

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NASSLLI 2014
North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2014
http://nasslli2014.com/

June 23-27 2014, University of Maryland, College Park

1st Call for Course and Workshop Proposals

The sixth NASSLLI (after previous editions at UT Austin, Stanford University,
Indiana University and UCLA) will be hosted at the University of Maryland,
College Park, June 23-27 2014.
The summer school, aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in a
wide variety of fields, is loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series
in Europe. It will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on
the basis of proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes
on each of five days.

Proposals are invited for courses or workshops 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 would include e.g. logics for communication,
computational semantics, modal logics, game theory and decision theory,
dynamic semantics, machine learning, Bayesian cognitive modeling,
probabilistic models of language and communication, and automated theorem
proving. We encourage potential course or workshop contributors to check out
previous programs at:

* http://nasslli2012.com/
* http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/program.html
* http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/
* http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/2003/program.html
* http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/

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, NASSLLI 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 20-22 and June 28-30 2014.
Previous such associated meetings have included the Dynamic Epistemic Logic
Workshop, the Mathematics of Language conference, and the Theoretical Aspects
of Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK) conference.

Submission Details:
Submissions should be submitted using EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasslli2014), and should indicate

1) person(s) in charge of the course/workshop and affiliation(s)
2) type of event (one week course or workshop, 90 min a day)
3) course/workshop title
4) an outline of the course/workshop up to 500 words
5) Special equipment (if any) needed to teach the course (beamer, computer
...)
6) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching in
interdisciplinary settings
7) 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 can only guarantee paid accommodation for one
instructor per course. Where need arises, we hope to be able to reimburse
instructors for reasonable travel expenses. However, 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. We must also stress
that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School
can in general expect only to reimburse travel costs for travel from
destinations within North America to Maryland, although exceptions can be made
depending on the financial situation.

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.

Schedule:
September 1 2013 - Review of course proposals will begin; we will continue to
accept proposals until the schedule is filled;
October 1 2013 - Course/workshop proposers notified of p.c. decisions;
May 15, 2014 - Material for courses available for printing;

Local Organizers and Program Committee:
The local organizer for NASSLI 2014 is Eric Pacuit. The Program Committee is
co-chaired by Thomas Icard (Stanford) and Mandy Simons (CMU). The full
committee will be announced soon on the NASSLI 2014 website.

Contact Information:
For questions relating to proposals and proposal submission, send email to
pc at nasslli2014.com
For questions relating to local organization, send email to oc at nasslli2014.com

Standing NASSLLI Steering Committee:
David Beaver,  University of Texas, Austin
Phokion Kolaitis,  UC Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden Research Center
Lawrence S. Moss,  Indiana University
Valeria de Paiva , Rearden Commerce, Inc.
Stuart Shieber,  Harvard University
Moshe Vardi,  Rice University

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics

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