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Projects and Awards

  • (New) Sc.D. (Cantab) awarded to Benedikt Löwe

    Benedikt Löwe was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) by the University of Cambridge. He was admitted to the degree at the Congregation of the Regent House on 22 October 2021 by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Michael Proctor, Provost of King's College. The Sc.D. is a Higher Doctorate awarded for an original contribution to the advancement of science by a substantial body of work in a distiguished career.

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    ILLC's SignLab shortlisted for Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award

    ILLC's SignLab is among the 3 finalists for the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award in the category Society! The finale will take place at NEMO on the 9th of November and will also be livestreamed. Registration is required to attend either the live event or the livestream.

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/finalists/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .

  • ILLC SignLab nominated for Innovation Award, vote now!

    Deadline: Sunday 10 October 2021

    ILLC's SignLab has been nominated for the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award 2021. You can vote now!

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/cases/florisroelofsen/ or contact Floris Roelofsen at .

  • Rochelle Choenni receives Google PhD Fellowship award

    We are pleased to announce that Rochelle Choenni has received a Google PhD fellowship award in the category of Natural Language Processing.

    For more information, see https://research.google/outreach/phd-fellowship/recipients/ or contact Rochelle Choenni at .

  • Dora Achourioti awarded NWO Comenius Teaching Fellowship

    Dora Achourioti was recently announced as one of the recipients of a Comenius Teaching Fellowship for her project “Building a Learning Path using Minecraft”.
    The Comenius Teaching Fellowships are an initiative of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that looks to support professionals in higher education who want to implement innovative educational methods or techniques in their classrooms.
    Dora Achourioti's project uses Minecraft: Education Edition to creatively encourage student input and ownership of the learning process throughout the AUC 1st year mandatory course "Logic, Information, Argumentation".

    For more information, see https://www.auc.nl/shared-content/news/news/2021/08/auc-lecturer-dora-achourioti-awarded-comenius-teaching-fellowship.html or contact Dora Achourioti at .

  • Best paper award for Jan Rooduijn

    Jan Rooduijn won the award for the Best Paper by a Junior Researcher at the 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) for his contribution Cyclic hypersequent calculi for some modal logics with the master modality.

    For more information, see https://tableaux2021.org/#best or contact Jan Rooduijn at .

  • Ilaria Canavotto wins Beth dissertation prize

    We are pleased to announce that Ilaria Canavotto has won the Beth dissertation prize.

    Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation.

    For more information, see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74.