E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize

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The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Dissertations are evaluated on the basis of their technical depth, strength and originality. Each year the award can be assigned ex aequo to more than one thesis, or to no thesis at all. The prize consists of a certificate, a monetary award, and an invitation to submit (a possibly revised version of) the thesis to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information, [1] published by Springer Science+Business Media.

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List of previous winners

Year [2] AuthorTitle of the ThesisInstitution
2023Gabriele VanoniOn Reasonable Space and Time Cost Models for the λ-Calculus Università di Bologna
2022Alexander BentkampSuperposition for Higher Order Logic Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2021Ilaria CanavottoWhere Responsibility Takes You Universiteit van Amsterdam
Martin LückTeam Logic: Axioms, Expressiveness, Complexity Leibniz Universität Hannover
2020Juan AguileraBetween the Finite and the Infinite Technische Universität Wien
Marcin WągielSubatomic Quantification Masarykova Univerzita
2019Bartosz WcisłoUnderstanding the strength of compositional truth Uniwersytet Warszawski
2018İsmail İlkan CeylanQuery Answering in Probabilistic Data and Knowledge Bases Technical University of Dresden
2017 Antoine Amarilli Leveraging the structure of uncertain data Télécom ParisTech
Ronald de Haan Parameterized Complexity in the Polynomial Hierarchy Technical University of Vienna
2016 Thomas Zeume Small Dynamic Complexity Classes University of Dortmund
2015 Michał Skrzypczak Descriptive set theoretic methods in automata theory Uniwersytet Warszawski
2014Thomas GrafLocal and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics University of California, Los Angeles
2013 Wesley H. Holliday Knowing What Follows: Epistemic Closure and Epistemic Logic Stanford University
Ekaterina LebedevaExpressing Discourse Dynamics via Continuations University of Lorraine
2012 Andreas Kapsner Logics and Falsifications University of Barcelona
Daniel R. Licata Dependently Typed Programming with Domain-Specific Logics Carnegie Mellon University
2011 Nils Bulling Modelling and Verifying Abilities of Rational Agents Clausthal University of Technology
Mohan Ganesalingam The Language of Mathematics University of Cambridge
2010 Yury Savateev Algorithmic Complexity of Fragments of the Lambek Calculus Moscow State University
2009Emmanuel ChemlaPresuppositions and Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Studies École Normale Supérieure de Paris
Lukasz KaiserLogic and Games on Automatic Structures RWTH Aachen
2008Tomas BrazdilVerification of Probabilistic Recursive Sequential Programs Masaryk University
Marco KuhlmannDependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars Universität des Saarlandes
2007Gabriele PuppisAutomata for Branching and Layered Structures University of Udine
2006 Leszek Kołodziejczyk  [ pl ]Truth Definitions and higher-Order Logics in Finite Models Uniwersytet Warszawski
Chung-chieh (Ken) ShanLinguistic Side Effects Harvard University
2005 Ash Asudeh Resumption as Resource Management University of Canterbury
2004John T. HaleGrammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing Michigan State University
2003Jason BaldridgeLexically Specified Derivational Control in Combinatory Categorial Grammar University of Edinburgh
2002 Maria Aloni Quantification under conceptual covers University of Amsterdam
2001 Gerald Penn The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures University of Toronto
2000Jelle GerbrandyBisimulations on Planet Kripke University of Amsterdam
Khalil Sima'anLearning Efficient Disambiguation Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht
1999Peter GrünwaldThe Minimum Description Length Principle and Reasoning under Uncertainty University of Amsterdam
Matthew StoneModality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation University of Pennsylvania
1998 Nir Friedman Modeling Beliefs in Dynamic Systems Stanford University
Lisa Matthewson Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish University of British Columbia

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