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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Deadline Extension for</span><span style="font-family:Courier;background:white"> E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020</span><span style="font-family:Courier"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">The Beth Dissertation Prize is to go ahead in 2020 with a deadline extension to 30th of April 2020. Nominations are welcome for the best dissertations in the areas of logic, language
and information, resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">The 32nd ESSLLI summer school is postponed to 2021, due to the spread of CV-19. The Beth Prize will be awarded either through a virtual ceremony in 2020 or a presentation in ESSLLI
2021. The winner will be announced in early July 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">For details about the qualifications and the prize, see
<a href="http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74">http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Only digital submissions are accepted. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">- The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">- A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">- 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">- 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">- Self-nominations are not possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020</a>. </span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">In case of any problems or questions please contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (<a href="mailto:m.sadrzadeh@ucl.ac.uk">m.sadrzadeh@ucl.ac.uk</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Beth dissertation prize committee 2020:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Alexander Clark (Kings College London) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Cleo
<span style="color:#262524">Condoravdi</span> (Stanford University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Arash Eshghi (Hariot-Watt University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier;color:black">Davide Grossi (</span><span style="font-family:Courier;color:#181817">Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam</span><span style="font-family:Courier;color:black">) </span><span style="font-family:Courier;color:#181817"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Chris Haase (University College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Aurelie Herbelot (University of Trento) <span class="apple-tab-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Laura Rimmell (Deep Mind)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Matthew Stone (Rutgers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Jouko
<span style="color:#181817">Vaananen</span> (University of Helsinki)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">Noam Zeilberger (<span style="color:#181817">Ecole Polytechnique</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Courier">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 (<a href="http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74">http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74</a>), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation (<a href="https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation">https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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