Students who are members of the Association for Symbolic Logic may apply for travel grants to NASSLLI.
If you are a member of the ASL, you can apply for a travel grant here: http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html
A few quick notes about the registration site:
A UT EID is required for UT students and faculty who register at the reduced rate or as volunteers.
A UT EID is not required to register at the academic or professional rate. Non-UT registrants should use the "Quick Checkout" option, which is on the left, opposite the "Checkout with EID" link, and kind of grayed-out.
Scholarship applicants should not register at this time. Instead, follow the instructions on the scholarship application page.
NASSLI 2012 developments continue apace. First, I'm happy to announce two new speakers:
Second, check out the NASSLLI poster here: thanks to Chris Brown and Derya Kadipasaoglu for their work on this!
Third: hold on tight, NASSLLI registration will be open within a matter of days.
Fourth, NASSLLI is now on Google+, as promised!
David Beaver
Director, NASSLLI 2012
The workshop will be held in a regular class slot during the week.
Speakers:
The fifth North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information, NASSLLI 2012, will be hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, on June 18–22, 2012.
NASSLLI is a one-week summer school aimed at formally-minded graduate students in Philosophy, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and related fields, especially students whose interests cross over traditional boundaries between these domains. The summer school is loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe; it consists of a number of courses and workshops which, by default, meet for 90 minutes on each of five days.
In the main week of the school, students select up to five courses from among twenty that are offered. Of these courses, five are from specially invited lecturers, and the remainder are researchers selected because they are leaders in their fields and also because they have proven ability to communicate with interdisciplinary audiences. These instructors were selected after a public call for course proposals and a peer review process by the program committee, which is drawn from a wide range of specialities including linguistics, philosophy, and computer science. Over 45 course proposals were submitted for NASSLLI 2012. These were high quality proposals by established scholars, mostly tenured or tenure-track at research universities, and many strong proposals had to be rejected. The acceptance rate for course proposals was 30%.
As well as the main five days of courses, there will be events on the weekends before and afterwards. During the weekend afterwards we have two events scheduled, and expect to announce more. First, there will be a symposium celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing's birth. Second, the Texas Linguistic Forum conference is scheduled, an open peer-reviewed Linguistics conference which this year will have sessions on Semantics and American Sign Language. We will soon be announcing special tutorials and bootcamp courses for the weekend prior to the main week of courses.
NASSLLI 2012 will be the fifth edition of the school, the previous four having taken place at Stanford University, Indiana University (twice), and UCLA. It follows in the tradition of the very successful series of ESSLLI summer schools in Europe, and both have received sponsorship from a single parent organization, the Foundation for Logic, Language, and Information (FOLLI). NASSLLI is an interdisciplinary event with emphases in applied logic, computational linguistics, and areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and economics. Despite the obvious differences in the goals of these fields, they depend upon many of the same mathematical tools, and are concerned with many parallel philosophical issues. This is reflected in a great deal of crossover work: examples that have created whole new subfields include the application of dynamic logics and feature logics from computer science to problems in linguistics. However, in spite of there being an active community of interdisciplinary scholars, departments in US universities tend to follow traditional disciplinary lines, so that it is often difficult for graduate students to access courses in neighboring fields. NASSLLI's role is to provide access for graduate students to cutting edge research on logic, language, and information, specifically taught for an interdisciplinary audience.
NASSLLI 2012 is generously sponsored by the National Science Foundation, The College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, and the Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology departments at UT.
