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Final Call for Nominations, E W Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021, Deadline: 15 Apr 2021

Final Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021

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 2020.

The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021.

Qualifications:

  - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or
  Information is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2021, if the
  degree was awarded between January 1st and December 31st, 2020.

  - 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 topics in the broad remit of
  ESSLLI, including 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 2022. The English translation must in such cases be
  submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2022. 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 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=bodp2021. In case of any problems 
or questions please contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh 
(m.sadrzadeh@ucl.ac.uk).

The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony 
during the 32nd ESSLLI summer school, which will be based in Utrecht, but 
held online August 2-13, 2021.

Beth dissertation prize committee 2021:


Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford)

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)

Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai)

Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam)

Christoph Haase (University of Oxford)

Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)

Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)

Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)

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


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