The fourth NASSLLI (after previous editions at Stanford University, Indiana University, and UCLA) will return to Bloomington, Indiana, June 21 - 25, 2010. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 or 120 minutes on each of five days.

Proposals are invited that present interdisciplinary work between the areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in other fields. Examples of possible topics (adapting from previous NASSLLI courses) would include e.g. logics for communication, computational semantics, game theory (for logic, language and/or computation), dynamic semantics, modal logics, linear logic, machine learning techniques, statistical language models, and automated theorem proving. We encourage potential course or workshop contributors to check out previous programs at:

Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary, graduate level audience. Courses may certainly focus on a single area, but lecturers should then include introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and spend time on the question of how the topic is relevant to other fields. A workshop can be more accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations.

In addition to courses and workshops taking place during the main NASSLLI five day session, Indiana University welcomes proposals for 1-3 day workshops or conferences hosted on campus immediately before or after the summer school, thus on the weekends of June 18-20 and June 27-29 2010. Previous such associated meetings have included the conferences entitled Mathematics of Language (MoL) and Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK).

Submissions should be by email, and should indicate
1) person(s) and affiliation
2) type of event (one week course or workshop, 2 hours a day)
3) an outline of the course up to 500 words
4) an indication of whether special equipment is needed to teach that course (beamer, computer ...)
5) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching in interdisciplinary settings
6) expected costs (whether you want to be paid hotel and/or travel, and descriptions of funding in hand or for which you will apply)

A course may be taught by one or two persons. Conference fees are waived for all instructors. However, we are only able to pay for the full travel and expenses of one instructor per course. If two persons are lecturing, they may share a lump sum paid for both. We must also stress that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within North America to Bloomington, although exceptions can be made depending on the financial situation. Furthermore, we encourage all lecturers to fund their own travel if this is feasible, since this will allow us to use our available funding for student scholarships.

Workshops are more complicated financially than courses, and a proposal for a workshop should include a plan to obtain some outside funding for the speakers.

To give us an idea about the number of submissions, we would like you to email us, ideally within two weeks, in case you are interested in submitting a proposal. This will not commit you to actually submit one (and not emailing in advance does not preclude you from submitting a full proposal).

The overall NASSLLI Steering Committee would like to run the school every two years. We are accepting proposals for 2012 and onwards. For more information, please see this page and then get in touch.

Program Committee:

NASSLLI Steering Committee:

Website:

Contact:

 nasslli AT indiana.edu

 David Beaver, dib AT mail.utexas.edu (with "NASSLLI" in the subject line).