Beth Dissertation Prize

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, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation.

In this session, Larry Moss, the FoLLI president, sketches the general background of the Beth Dissertation Prize. Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, the chair of the Beth Prize jury, then announces he winners of the 2020 and 2021 editions. The winners briefly present their work, and the laudatios are read by Sadrzadeh and Moss.

The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2020 has been awarded jointly to

Marcin Wągiel, “Subatomic Quantification” (Masaryk University, Brno)
Juan Aguilera, “Between the Finite and the Infinite” (TU Wien)

The E.W.Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2021 has been awarded jointly to

Ilaria Canavotto, “Where Responsibility Takes You” (ILLC, Amsterdam)
Martin Lück, “Team Logic Axioms, Expressiveness, Complexity” (Universität Hannover)