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Sun Feb 22 1998

FYI: FoLLI Dissertation Prize

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  • Erhard Hinrichs, FoLLI Dissertation Prize

    Message 1: FoLLI Dissertation Prize

     Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:34:09 -0500 (EST)
    From: Erhard Hinrichs <hinrichsling.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: FoLLI Dissertation Prize


    FoLLI Dissertation Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Language, Logic and Computation

    Sponsored by Kluwer Academic Publishers

    CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

    The Foundation for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the first competition of the FoLLI Dissertation Prize to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation.

    FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers and by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 2750 ECU in prize money to be allocated to one or more award recipients. Kluwer Academic Publishers will also invite prize recipients to submit their Ph.D. theses as book proposals to existing book series published by Kluwer. It is at the disgression of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two or three recipients.

    Eligibility: Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/96 and 12/31/97.

    Submission Details: - 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 1/1/96 and 12/31/97.

    - 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. - an abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs FoLLI Prize Committee Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen Germany Submissions Deadline: All materials have to be received by April 15, 1998.

    Prize Committee:

    Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7 Patrick Blackburn, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken Jan van Eijck, University of Utrecht and CWI, Amsterdam Erhard Hinrichs, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen; Committee Chair Makoto Kanazawa, Chiba University Bob Kasper, The Ohio State University Edward L. Keenan, University of California at Los Angeles Uwe Moennich, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen Larry Moss, Indiana University Craige Roberts, The Ohio State Univiversity William Rounds, University of Michigan

    More information about activities of FoLLI, including how to become a FoLLI member, can be found at url:

    http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/