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CfNominations: Beth Dissertation Prize 2024 for dissertations in Logic / Language and Information, deadline: 30 April 2024

E W BETH DISSERTATION PRIZE 2024

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Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) ha
s been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D
. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information with financial support 
of the E.W. Beth Foundation.  Nominations are now invited for the best diss
ertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2023.
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Qualifications:

  - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Informat
ion is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2024, if the degree was awa
rded between January 1st and December 31st, 2023.

  - 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 conferri
ng the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has orig
inally been written.

  - In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and exten
d the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited
 of excellent dissertations on topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, includi
ng current topics in philosophical and mathematical logic, computer science
 logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, history of logic, hi
story of the philosophy of science and scientific philosophy in general, as
 well as the current theoretical and foundational developments in informati
on and computation, language, and cognition. Dissertations with results mor
e broadly impacting various research areas in their interdisciplinary inves
tigations are especially solicited.

  - If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language o
ther than English, its dossier should still contain the required 10 page En
glish abstract, see below. If the committee decides that a nominated disser
tation in a language other than English requires translation to English for
 proper evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to the compet
ition in 2025. The English translation must in such cases be submitted befo
re the deadline of the call for nominations in 2025. The committee may reco
mmend the Beth Foundation to consider supporting such nominated dissertatio
ns 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. In case
 two dissertations are selected, the prize will be split between the winner
s.

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

Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy submiss
ions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in the no
mination dossier:

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

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

  - A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisel
y describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when th
e degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D. committee. Nom
inations should contain the address, phone and email details of the nominat
or.

  - Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a refere
e not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degre
e, 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 pdf file*, via 
EasyChair by following the link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beth24

***The deadline is April 30, 2024.***

In case of any problems or questions please contact the chair of the commit
tee Elaine Pimentel (e.pimentel@ucl.ac.uk).

The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony dur
ing the 35th ESSLLI summer school in Leuven, Belgium, 29 July - 9 August 20
24.

Beth dissertation prize committee 2024 (more TBA):

Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)
Chris Fermller (TU-Wien)
Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Erich Gr??del (RWTH Aachen Uni
versity) Sandra Kiefer (University of Oxford) Laura Kovacs (TU Wien) Clemen
s Kupke (University of Strathclyde) Larry Moss (Indiana University Blooming
ton) Reinhard Muskens (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Alberto Naibo (IHPST 
- Universit?? Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne) Elaine Pimentel (University Coll
ege London, chair) Francesca Poggiolesi (IHPST - Universit?? Paris 1 Panth
on-Sorbonne) Lutz Schrder (FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg) Ana Sokolova (Uni
versity of Salzburg) Benjamin Spector (CNRS/ENS-PSL/EHESS) Shane Steinert-T
hrelkeld (University of Washington)

FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes dissertations fr
om all under-represented groups.
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