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E W Beth Dissertation Prize: Call for nominations

E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2008 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 2007. 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, 2007 and
 
December 31st, 2007. 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 2007 but not written in English or not
 
translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with 
the call next year (for 2008). Respectively, nominations of full English 
translations of theses originally written in other language than English 
and defended in 2006 and 2007 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@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@maths.wits.ac.za or
policriti@dimi.uniud.it.

Important dates
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Deadline for Submissions: April 30th, 2008.
Notification of Decision: July 15th, 2008.

Committee :

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