[Event at CIG] Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2022

[Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh]

Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2022


Since 1998, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation (https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation).


In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited of outstanding dissertations on topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, in logic, language, information and computation. Interdisciplinary dissertations with results impacting various of these research areas in their investigations are especially solicited. Nominations are now invited for outstanding dissertations in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2021.


The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2022.


Qualifications:

 - A Ph.D. dissertation on a related topic is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2022, if the degree was awarded  between January 1st and December 31st, 2021.

 - There are no restrictions on the nationality, ethnicity, age, gender or employment status of the author of the nominated dissertation, nor on the university, academic department or scientific institution formally conferring the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has originally been written.

-  If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language other than English, its file should still contain the required 10 page English abstract, see below. If the committee decides that a nominated dissertation in a language other than English requires translation to English for proper evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to the competition in 2023. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2023. The committee may recommend the Beth Foundation to consider supporting such nominated dissertations for English translation, upon request by the author of the dissertation.



The prize consists of:


 - a certificate

 - a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation, divided among the winners, should there be more than one winner

 - an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer).



Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy submissions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in a single nomination file in zip format:


 - The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable).

 - A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter.

 - A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when the degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D. committee. Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of the nominator.

 - Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree, nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers, supervisors, co-authors, publishers or relatives) or the dissertation.

 - Self-nominations are not possible.


All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bodp2022. In case of any problems or questions please contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk).


The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 33rd ESSLLI summer school, in Galway, August 8-19, 2021.


Beth dissertation prize committee 2022:


Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)

Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University)

Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)

Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)

Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)

Christoph Haase (University of Oxford)

Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)

Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS, IHPST, University of Paris 1)

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)

Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg)

Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)

Carla Umbach (University of Koeln)

Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam)


FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we welcome dissertations from all under-represented groups.