E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions -- deadline extension

Di Mär 17 21:28:23 CET 2009

E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions 
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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. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2008. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize.

Who qualifies.
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Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 will be accepted for consideration this year, too.

Prize.
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The prize consists of:

* a certificate
* a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation.
* an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version
  of it) to 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 is available
  on the FoLLI site)

How to submit.
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Only electronic submissions are accepted. 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

   bethaward2008 at gmail.com.

Hard copy submissions are not admitted.

In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko at maths.wits.ac.za or policriti at dimi.uniud.it, with a cc to bethaward2008 at gmail.com.

Important dates:
Extended (strict) deadline for submissions: April 7, 2009. 
Notification of decision: July 1, 2009.

Committee :

 * Anne Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
 * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
 * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
 * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS)
 * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa)
 * Valentin Goranko  (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
 * Alexander Koller (Saarland University)
 * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
 * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
 * Alberto Policriti (Universita  di Udine)
 * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen)
 * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh)

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