The 2014 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize has been awarded to:

Thomas Graf, Local and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics, University of California, Los Angeles

On 26 and 27 September 2014 ILLC and the University of Amsterdam organize a Celebration Event for Johan van Benthem, on the occasion of his official retirement from the University of Amsterdam. The first day will have lectures for the general public, Johan’s valedictory lecture, and a reception. The second day is a scientific workshop devoted to current trends in logic, with emphasis to the areas where Johan was or is active.

Friday September 26: The Impact of Logic

Venue: Aula Oude Lutherse kerk, Singel 411, Amsterdam.

Friday September 26 will bring us Lectures on the Impact of Logic by five internationally renowned speakers who all have made significant contributions to general public awareness of logic, and to the development of areas of logic related to the interests of Johan van Benthem:

• Vincent Hendricks (http://www.vince-inc.com/vincent/)
• Hans Kamp (http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/hans)
• Peter Gaerdenfors (http://www.fil.lu.se/en/department/staff/PeterGardenfors)
• John Perry (http://john.jperry.net/)
• Fenrong Liu (http://fenrong.net/).

The talks will be accessible to a broad audience. In the afternoon, Johan van Benthem will give his Valedictory Lecture
as University Professor of the University of Amsterdam. This is followed by speeches, a book presentation, and a reception offered by the University of Amsterdam.

Saturday September 27: Workshop on the Future of Logic

Venue: Tobacco Theater, Nes 75–87, Amsterdam

Prominent colleagues and friends of Johan van Benthem will give talks targeted at an audience specialized in logic. All colleagues and former students of Johan are invited to attend. Themes are:

• Logic, Mathematics and Computation
  Talks by Albert Visser (Utrecht), Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti (Budapest), Balder ten Cate (Santa Cruz).
• Logic, Language and Cognition
  Talks by Thomas Icard (Stanford), Dag Westerstahl (Gothenburg).
• Logic and Philosophy
  Talks by Hannes Leitgeb (Munich), Wesley Holliday (Berkeley), Sergei
  Artemov (New York, Moscow).
• Logic, Games and Argumentation
  Talks by Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Dov Gabbay (London), Giacomo Bonanno (UC Davis, California).

Saturday Evening: Buffet Dinner and Reunion Party

The workshop will be succeeded by a buffet dinner with speeches, and then by a big reunion party. The party is meant for everyone connected to ILLC or to Johan. This includes students, colleagues, collaborators, friends and family. You are all cordially invited to be there, and to help us make this a truly memorable event.

For further info on the Johan Jubilee Events we advise you to keep an eye on the dedicated website http://www.illc.uva.nl/J65, where further details will appear.

The organizers:
Robert van Rooij (chair), Alexandru Baltag, Jan van Eijck, Peter van Ormondt

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The 2014 edition of the E.W. Beth Award call for nominations is now published here.

The workshop on Natural Language Services for Reasoners that is sponsored by FoLLI and affiliated to the conference RTATLCA is now online here. This workshop take place during the Vienna Summer of Logic.

The call for paper for the student session of ESSLLI 2014 is available here.

The website of ESSLLI 2014 is online here.

NASSLLI’14, the sixth North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information, is organized at University of Maryland, College Park, from June 21 – 29, 2014. The website of the school is here.