[FOM] Announcement: EASLLC 2012

[Fredrik Engström]

East-Asian School on Logic, Language, and Computation (EASLLC 2012)


Southwest University, Chongqing, China, *August 27-31, 2012*

http://home.hib.no/prosjekter/easllc2012/

This is a school for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, similar
in spirit to the annual ESSLLI summer schools in Europe and also to the
Sino-European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Computation, which took
place in Guangzhou, China in December 2010.


 - The program of EASLLC 2012 will consist of nine courses in three
 different tracks: logic, language, and computation.

·         Logic Track:  Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University),  Rohit
Parikh (Brooklyn
College of CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center),  Jouko Väänänen (University of
Helsinki and University of Amsterdam)

·         Language Track: Pauline Jacobson (Brown University), Geoffrey K.
Pullum (University of Edinburgh and Brown University), Dag Westerståhl
(Stockholm  University)

·         Computation Track: Krzysztof R. Apt (CWI and University of
Amsterdam), Phokion G. Kolaitis (University of California Santa Cruz and
IBM Research ? Almaden), Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)

 - There will be student sessions in the late afternoon/early evening of
 some days of the School in which students will give short presentations of
 work in progress.  Students are invited to submit an abstract of maximum
 3 pages on any topic in logic, language and computation. The abstract
 should be written properly in English, and must be in PDF format and be
 submitted to our EasyChair website:
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easllc2012stus


*            Important Dates:*

          May 28, 2012 - deadline for short abstracts of papers (at
most 3 pages)

          June 10, 2012 - notification date of acceptance/rejection
of the papers

          Detailed information about the student session can be found at
          http://home.hib.no/prosjekter/easllc2012/stusess.asp

EASSLC 2012 is an ASL-Sponsored Meeting. ASL offers student travel awards ?
for   details, please see http://aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html

 - Prior to the School, an International Conference will take place on
 August 25 and 26,

Scientific Organization:

 - Program Committee Chair: Phokion G. Kolaitis
 - Program Committee co-Chairs:  Xiangdong He (Southwest University),
Jouko Väänänen, Dag Westerståhl



Local Organization:

 - Meiyun Guo (Southwest University),  Minghui Ma (Southwest University),
 Jing Wang (Southwest University), Xiaojia Tang (Southwest University)


Student Program Organization:

 - Chair: Yi Wang (Bergen University College)
 - Co-Chair: Fan Yang (University of Helsinki)