News and Events: Funding, Grants and Competitions

Funding, Grants & Competitions

• Call for Nominations: Lakatos Award 2021

  Deadline: Tuesday 1 September 2020

  The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years.The Lakatos Award is in memory of Imre Lakatos and has been endowed by the Latsis Foundation. Nominations are invited for the 2021 Lakatos Award, with a strict deadline of Tuesday 1 September 2020.

  The 2021 award will be for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English with an imprint from 2015 to 2020, inclusive. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied field may nominate a book. Nominations must include a statement explaining the nominator?s reasons for regarding the book prizeworthy. Self-nominations are not allowed.

  For more information, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/lakatos-award/ or contact Tom Hinrichsen at t.a.hinrichsen at lse.ac.uk.

• Helmut Veith Stipend

  Deadline: Monday 30 November 2020

   

  The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend. The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. It is awarded annually to motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master's programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English.

  For more information, see http://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/ or contact master at logic-cs.at.

• The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities Young Talents Awards

  The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) is delighted that this year once again businesses, foundations, funds and societies are willing to make available the Holland Society Young Talent Awards.

  We kindly invite you to nominate using the form below one or two students who graduate in the academic year 2019/2020 for one of the Young Talent Graduation Awards. Nominations should be submitted digitally, including an electronic copy of the degree thesis.

  For more information, see https://khmw.nl/information-and-application-young-talent-graduation-awards-2020-2/ or contact secretaris at khmw.nl.

• Spanish UNILOG Logic Prize

  Deadline: Friday 30 October 2020

  UNILOG LOGIC PRIZE is an international initiative to award one prize per country to an original manuscript on logic. The spanish incarnation is open to all researchers who are (or have been in the last 10 years) affiliated with any university or research institution based in Spain, regardless of their position, nationality, gender or age. This includes not only professors and researchers from these institutions, but also current postgraduate students and doctors who presented their Ph. Dissertations less than 10 years ago.

  Participants are asked to submit an original manuscript written in English, between 15 and 30 pages, on any topic that can be considered to be related to logic (according to the standards of the international logic community).

   

  For more information, see http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-spain.