E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize
The Association for Logic, Language and Information each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Dissertations are evaluated on the basis of their technical depth, strength and originality. Each year the award can be assigned ex aequo to more than one thesis, or to no thesis at all. The prize consists of a certificate, a monetary award, and an invitation to submit the thesis to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information, published by Springer Science+Business Media.
List of previous winners
| Year | Author | Title of the Thesis | Institution |
| 2024 | Aliaume Lopez | First Order Preservation Theorems in Finite Model Theory: Locality, Topology, and Limit Constructions | École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay |
| 2024 | Konstantinos Kogkalidis | Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation. A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars | Utrecht University |
| 2023 | Gabriele Vanoni | On Reasonable Space and Time Cost Models for the λ-Calculus | Università di Bologna |
| 2022 | Alexander Bentkamp | Superposition for Higher Order Logic | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 2021 | Ilaria Canavotto | Where Responsibility Takes You | Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| 2021 | Martin Lück | Team Logic: Axioms, Expressiveness, Complexity | Leibniz Universität Hannover |
| 2020 | Juan Aguilera | Between the Finite and the Infinite | Technische Universität Wien |
| 2020 | Marcin Wągiel | Subatomic Quantification | Masarykova Univerzita |
| 2019 | Bartosz Wcisło | Understanding the strength of compositional truth | Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| 2018 | İsmail İlkan Ceylan | Query Answering in Probabilistic Data and Knowledge Bases | Technical University of Dresden |
| 2017 | Antoine Amarilli | Leveraging the structure of uncertain data | Télécom ParisTech |
| 2017 | Ronald de Haan | Parameterized Complexity in the Polynomial Hierarchy | Technical University of Vienna |
| 2016 | Thomas Zeume | Small Dynamic Complexity Classes | University of Dortmund |
| 2015 | Michał Skrzypczak | Descriptive set theoretic methods in automata theory | Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| 2014 | Thomas Graf | Local and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2013 | Wesley H. Holliday | Knowing What Follows: Epistemic Closure and Epistemic Logic | Stanford University |
| 2013 | Ekaterina Lebedeva | Expressing Discourse Dynamics via Continuations | University of Lorraine |
| 2012 | Andreas Kapsner | Logics and Falsifications | University of Barcelona |
| 2012 | Daniel R. Licata | Dependently Typed Programming with Domain-Specific Logics | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2011 | Nils Bulling | Modelling and Verifying Abilities of Rational Agents | Clausthal University of Technology |
| 2011 | Mohan Ganesalingam | The Language of Mathematics | University of Cambridge |
| 2010 | Yury Savateev | Algorithmic Complexity of Fragments of the Lambek Calculus | Moscow State University |
| 2009 | Emmanuel Chemla | Presuppositions and Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Studies | École Normale Supérieure de Paris |
| 2009 | Lukasz Kaiser | Logic and Games on Automatic Structures | RWTH Aachen |
| 2008 | Tomas Brazdil | Verification of Probabilistic Recursive Sequential Programs | Masaryk University |
| 2008 | Marco Kuhlmann | Dependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars | Universität des Saarlandes |
| 2007 | Gabriele Puppis | Automata for Branching and Layered Structures | University of Udine |
| 2006 | Truth Definitions and higher-Order Logics in Finite Models | Uniwersytet Warszawski | |
| 2006 | Chung-chieh Shan | Linguistic Side Effects | Harvard University |
| 2005 | Ash Asudeh | Resumption as Resource Management | University of Canterbury |
| 2004 | John T. Hale | Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing | Michigan State University |
| 2003 | Jason Baldridge | Lexically Specified Derivational Control in Combinatory Categorial Grammar | University of Edinburgh |
| 2002 | Maria Aloni | Quantification under conceptual covers | University of Amsterdam |
| 2001 | Gerald Penn | The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures | University of Toronto |
| 2000 | Jelle Gerbrandy | Bisimulations on Planet Kripke | University of Amsterdam |
| 2000 | Khalil Sima'an | Learning Efficient Disambiguation | Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht |
| 1999 | Peter Grünwald | The Minimum Description Length Principle and Reasoning under Uncertainty | University of Amsterdam |
| 1999 | Matthew Stone | Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1998 | Nir Friedman | Modeling Beliefs in Dynamic Systems | Stanford University |
| 1998 | Lisa Matthewson | Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish | University of British Columbia |