Beth Scholars

The following students from the MSc in Logic were generously funded by the Evert Willem Beth Foundation:

2002/03 Elizabeth Birchall (Canada)
2003/04 Dr. Fenrong Liu (China)
PhD in Logic, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2008.
Associate Professor at Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dr. Ji Ruan (China)
PhD in Computer Science, University of Liverpool 2008.
Postdoc positions at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, and at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
2004/05 Dr. Yanjing Wang (China)
PhD in Logic, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2010.
Assistant Professor at Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China.
2005/06 Raul Leal (Colombia)
PhD student at the ILLC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Martin Müller (Germany)
Dr. Jonathan Zvesper (Great Britain)
PhD in Logic, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2010.
Reasearch assistant at the Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
2006/07 Huanfang Dong (China)
Silvia Gaio (Italy)
PhD student at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Fan Yang (China)
PhD student at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
2007/08 Ivano Ciardelli (Italy)
PhD student at INRIA and University of Bordeaux 1, France.
Sara Ramezani (Iran)
PhD student at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Maria Spychalska (Poland)
PhD student at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland.
2008/09 David Fiske (USA)
Yves Fomatati (Cameroon)
2010/11 Nal Kalchbrenner (Switzerland)
Jessica Olsen (USA)
Tong Wang (China)
2011/12 Andreea Achimescu (Romania)
Tanmay Inamdar (India)
Hugo Nobrega (Brazil)

The following research theses were written and defended by our Beth Scholars:

16 Mar 2004. Elizabeth Birchall
Duality for Distributive Modal Algebras with an application on subdirect irreducibility (MoL-2004-04)
Supervisor: Yde Venema
30 Aug 2004. Fenrong Liu
Dynamic Variations: Update and Revision for Diverse Agents (MoL-2004-05)
Supervisor: Johan van Benthem
7 Oct 2004. Ji Ruan
Exploring the Update Universe (MoL-2004-08)
Supervisors: Johan van Benthem, Jan van Eijck
8 Mar 2006. Yanjing Wang
Dynamics of information in constructive and eliminative communications (MoL-2006-05)
Supervisors: Maricarmen Martínez, Frank Veltman
14 Sep 2006. Martin Müller
Accent and Focus in OT: A cross-linguistic perspective (MoL-2006-07)
Supervisors: Maria Aloni, Jeroen Groenendijk
18 Jan 2007. Jonathan Zvesper
A Revised Version: Belief Revision and Epistemic Acts (MoL-2007-01)
Supervisors: Eric Pacuit, Krister Segerberg
29 Aug 2007. Raul Leal
Expressivity of Coalgebraic Modal Languages (MoL-2007-19)
Supervisor: Yde Venema
24 Jun 2008. Silvia Gaio
Gradability without Degrees (MoL-2008-02)
Supervisors: Frank Veltman and Robert van Rooij
25 Aug 2008. Fan Yang
Intuitionistic subframe formulas, NNIL-formulas and universal models (MoL-2008-12)
Supervisor: Dick de Jongh
7 Nov 2008. Sara Ramezani
Nash Social Welfare in Multiagent Resource Allocation (MoL-2008-09)
Supervisor: Ulle Endriss
31 Aug 2009. Maria Spychalska
Scalar Implicatures and Existential Import: Experimental Study on Quantifiers in Natural Language (MoL-2009-10)
Supervisor: Michiel van Lambalgen
3 Sep 2009. Ivano Ciardelli
Inquisitive Semantics and Intermediate Logics (MoL-2009-11)
Supervisors: Jeroen Groenendijk, Dick de Jongh, Floris Roelofsen
21 June 2010. David Fiske
Towards an Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (MoL-2010-08)
Supervisor: Martin Stokhof