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extended deadline for the E W Beth Dissertation Prize

E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions

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 2008. 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who 
were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or 
Information between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. 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 
2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for 
submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). 
Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses 
originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and
 
2008 will be accepted for consideration this year, too.

Prize.
~~~~~~
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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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,
with a cc to bethaward2008@gmail.com.

Important dates:
Extended (strict) deadline for submissions: April 7, 2009.
Notification of decision: July 1, 2009.

Committee :

  * Anne Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
  * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
  * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University,  Poznan)
  * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS)
  * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa)
  * Valentin Goranko  (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesbur
g)
  * Alexander Koller (Saarland University)
  * 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)