deadline: 2008-11-15
EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND INFORMATION (ESSLLI)
Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 *
The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI
Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 22-nd European Summer
School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August
2010.
* The ESSLLI Summer School
ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every
year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both
introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 400 participants each
year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer
schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics
within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language
and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized,
providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront
of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information
about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide,
and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be
obtained via the Standing Committee secretary.
* Submission Procedure
At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an
evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to
provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The
ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board
of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the
program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization.
* Draft Proposals
Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team
with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The
organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with
the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include
information on:
- Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and
facilities)
- Proposed dates and organizing team
- Endorsement by hosting organization
- Local Language, Logic, and Computation community
- Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment
- Catering and reception facilities; social program
opportunities
- Budget estimates
* Proposal Assessment
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria
(unordered):
- Experience of organizing team, involvement in previous ESSLLIs
- Local endorsement
- Appropriateness of proposed dates
- Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site
- Adequacy of campus facilities for the anticipated
number of registrants
- Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services
in an appropriate range of price categories and close
to the conference facilities
- Adequacy of budget projections
- Geographical and national balance with regard to meetings in
the decade prior to 2010: Birmingham (2000), Helsinki (2001),
Trento (2002), Wien (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005),
Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009)
* Important Dates
- November 15, 2008, draft proposals due
- November/December, 2008, SC provides feedback
- January 31, 2009, final proposals due
- February, 2009, bid selected at ESSLLI SC meeting
* Draft proposals should be sent to:
Sophia Katrenko Paul Dekker
Informatics Institute ILLC/Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Science Faculty of Humanities
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Kruislaan 419 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15
NL-1098 VA Amsterdam NL-1012 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0)20 525 6786 +31 (0)20 5254541
+31 (0)20 525 6896 (fax) +31 (0)20 5254503 (fax)
katrenko@science.uva.nl p.j.e.dekker@uva.nl