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European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
                   August 4 - 15, 2008
             http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/
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                     Newsletter no. 2
                      30 November 2007
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Dear subscribers to the ESSLLI newsletter:

We shall keep you informed via the ESSLLI newsletter about
the developments in the preparation of ESSLLI 2008. The
newsletters will be sent out at least once a month, and more
often as ESSLLI 2008 approaches. For further information,
please check our webpage at

        http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008

If you have any questions about ESSLLI 2008, please send an
e-mail to the coordinating e-mail address

        esslli2008@science.uva.nl

* ESSLLI 2008 will take place in the main building of the
  Universität Hamburg, located at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1. It
  is across the street from the railway and S-Bahn station
  "Dammtor" and within the lively student quarter "Grindel"
  with many cafes and restaurants. The city center is within
  walking distance.

* By early December all 10 workshops should have workshop
  webpages available.  These webpages can all be found linked
  from the ESSLLI 2008 schedule, available at

       http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/schedule.html

* There is now a webpage available for the ESSLLI student
  session, organized by Kata Balogh (chair), Laia Mayol,
  Manuel Kirschner, and Ji Ruan. The aim of the Student
  Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels
  (Bachelor, Master, and PhD students) to present and discuss
  their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback
  from senior researchers.  Each year, 18 papers are selected
  for oral presentation and a number of others for poster
  presentation.  For more information, see

       http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/studentsession.html

* We are aware that cheap travel possibilities to Hamburg are
  important for many participants. We arranged an agreement
  with Lufthansa, the official airline of ESSLLI 2008, that
  will allow registered participants of ESSLLI to book Lufthansa
  tickets from outside of Germany to Hamburg at discounted prices.

  Hamburg is well-connected by budget airlines, giving participants
  from many places to benefit from the very low costs of these
  airlines (for instance, AirBerlin offers flights for EUR 58
  including all taxes from Vienna, and EUR 94 including all taxes
  from Rome). We have a list of all budget carriers serving Hamburg
  on our travel page:

     http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/travel.html

* For student participants, we have reserved various housing options
  to accommodate various needs. Some of the places are in student
  dorms (with no meals included), others in youth hostels (with two
  meals per day included in the price), others in cheap hostels. The
  prices range from EUR 230 to 380 (for the duration of ESSLLI),
  depending on location, comfort and facilities. More detailed
  information will be made available soon.

* ESSLLI is pleased to announce as a sponsor the Association for
  Symbolic Logic.  Because ESSLLI is an ASL-sponsored event, student
  members of the ASL can apply to the ASL for modest travel grants.
  For more information, see:

     http://events.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/support.html