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<span class="s1" style="font:12px Helvetica;font-kerning:none">Second </span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">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).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2020.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021.</span></p>
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<p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font:12px Courier"><span class="s3" style="font-kerning:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Qualifications:</span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><br>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- 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.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- 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.</span></p>
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</span>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.</span></p>
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</span>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.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">The prize consists of:</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- a certificate</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation, divided among the winners, should there be more than one winner</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer).</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy submissions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier:</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable).</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- 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.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- 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.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Self-nominations are not possible.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">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).</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">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.</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Beth dissertation prize committee 2021:</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Cleo </span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(29, 28, 27)">Condoravdi</span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">(Stanford University)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai)</span></p>
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<span class="s5" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Davide Grossi (</span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam</span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Christoph Haase (University of Oxford)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)</span></p>
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<span class="s6" style="font:12px Courier;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Jouko </span><span class="s7" style="font:12px Courier;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(19, 19, 18)">Vaananen
</span><span class="s6" style="font:12px Courier;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">(</span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam</span><span class="s6" style="font:12px Courier;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">)</span></p>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning:none">FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we welcome dissertations from all under-represented groups</span></p>
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