EXTENDED DEALINE: April 30, 2012
UPDATE: Grants are being offered by the ESSLLI 2012 Organizing Committee in form of fee waivers.
The Student Session of the 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Opole, Poland on August 6-17, 2012. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience.
ESSLLI 2012 will be held in Opole, Poland, and will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation. Consult the main ESSLLI website for further information.
Springer Prizes for Best Paper and Best Poster
In 2012, Springer has again continued its generous support for the Student Session by offering € 1000 in prizes. These include a a € 500 for Best Paper and € 500 for Best Poster. The prizes are awarded best on the reviews of the submission as well as the oral presentation.
Instructions for Authors:
Authors must be students, i.e., may not have received the Ph.D. degree before August 2012. All submissions must be in PDF format and be submitted to the conference EasyChair website. Submissions may be singly or jointly authored. No one may submit more than one singly and one jointly authored paper.
There are two types of papers. Long papers of up to 8 pages will be considered for both oral presentation and the poster session. Short papers of up to 4 pages will be considered as submissions for the poster session. These lengths refer to standard LNCS format, 10 pts. See below.
Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information, and must be must be received by March 30 April 30, 2012.
Accepted papers will eventually have to be written in LaTeX in standard LNCS format (10 pts); the easiest thing is to do this in advance by using the Springer class files for LaTeX2e, which can be downloaded here.
To get a sense of the range and subject matter of the Student Session, take a look at the proceedings from the 2011 Student Session and the 2010 Student Session. A Springer volume of selected papers from the 2008-2009 Student Sessions was published and can be found here.
Important Dates
Submission of papers: April 30
Notification deadline: June 10 (in time to make early registration for ESSLLI with reduced fee)
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 1
Conference dates: August 6-17
Proceedings
Extended versions (12 pages) of all accepted papers will be available in online proceedings.
A Springer volume in the LNCS series with the best papers of 2008-2009 have been published, and a similar volume for 2010-2011 is in preparation. We aspire to a forthcoming volume for 2012-2013.
Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters relating to the Student Session to esslli2012stus@loriweb.org. For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2012, please consult the main ESSLLI page.
