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Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020
Since 2002, 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).
Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting
in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019.
The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2020.
Qualifications:
- A dissertation is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2020, if the
Ph.D. degree has been awarded in Logic, Language, or Information between
January 1st and December 31st, 2019.
- 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.
- 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
excellent dissertations on current topics in philosophical and mathematical
logic, computer science logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language,
history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and scientific
philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and foundational
developments in information and computation, language and cognition.
Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research areas in
their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited.
- If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language
other than English, its dossier 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 2021. The English translation must in such cases be submitted
before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2021. 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
- 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 the nomination
dossier:
- 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=bdp2020. In case of any problems with
the submission one should contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh
Sadrzadeh ([email protected]).
The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during
the 32nd ESSLLI summer school in University of Utrecht, August 3-14, 2020.
Beth dissertation prize committee 2020:
Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
Alexander Clark(Kings College London)
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University)
Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)
Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)
Arash Eshghi (Hariot-Watt University)
Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai)
Davide Grossi (University of Groningen and University of Amsterdam)
Chris Haase (University College London)
Aurelie Herbelot (University of Trento)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)
Laura Rimmell (Deep Mind)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki)
Noam Zeilberger (Ecole Polytechnique)
