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wins.uva.nl>--- DEADLINE EXTENDED due to mutliple requests --- New deadline: July 9, 2000 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. 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. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D. thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by July 9, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Marcus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dsi.uniroma1.it>Diagrams 2000 An International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams First call for participation. September 1-3, 2000 University of Edinburgh http://www-cs.hartford.edu/~d2k/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Diag2000/programme.html Driven by the pervasiveness of diagrams in human communication and by the increasing availability of graphical environments in computerised work, the study of diagrammatic notations is emerging as a research field in its own right. Diagrams 2000 is intended to become the premier international conference series in this field and will attract participants from applied linguistics, architecture, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, philosophical logic, psychology and other areas. It merges successful workshop series that have been organised during the last few years: Thinking with Diagrams, Theory of Visual Languages, Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, and Formalizing Reasoning with Visual and Diagrammatic Representations. Diagrams 2000 provides a forum with sufficient breadth of scope to encompass researchers from all academic areas who are studying the nature of diagrammatic representations and their use by humans and in machines. The programe will include invited talks and tutorials by Alan M. MacEachren, Kim Marriott, David Gooding, Hermi Schijf, Jiajie Zhang. In response to the call for papers over 120 papers and posters were submitted. After review 31 full papers and 10 posters have been invited for presentation and publication. The proceedings of Diagrams 2000 is to be published as a volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Diag2000/programme.html for list of contents and abstracts). Diagrams 2000 is: - in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - hosted by the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC). Program Chairs: Michael Anderson, University of Hartford (USA) Peter Cheng, University of Nottingham (UK) Volker Haarslev, University of Hamburg (Germany) For further information and to register for the conference please see the Diagrams 2000web site: http://www-cs.hartford.edu/~d2k/ Early registration period ends 23 June, 2000.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue