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E W Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020

Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020

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 2019.

The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2020.

Qualifications:

   - A dissertation is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2020, if 
the Ph.D. degree has been awarded in Logic, Language, or Information 
between January 1st and December 31st, 2019.

   - 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 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 2021. The English translation must in such cases be 
submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2021. 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

   - 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=bdp2020. In case of any problems 
with the submission one should 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 in University of Utrecht, August 
3-14, 2020.

Beth dissertation prize committee 2020:

Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
Alexander Clark(Kings College London)
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University)
Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)
Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)
Arash Eshghi (Hariot-Watt University)
Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai)
Davide Grossi (University of Groningen and University of Amsterdam)
Chris Haase (University College London)
Aurelie Herbelot (University of Trento)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)
Laura Rimmell (Deep Mind)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki)
Noam Zeilberger (Ecole Polytechnique)
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