ESSLLI 2008

It is a tradition at ESSLLI to have a number of evening lectures of eminent scholars and researchers of the field who not only reach out to the entire ESSLLI community, but even beyond to the general audience. These evening lectures will be open to the general public and will be widely advertised at the Universität Hamburg and in local newspapers. The evening lectures are supposed to provide a research overview of some parts of our community understandable for everyone. Under the title Sommerabendvorlesungen Logik, Sprache, Information, all students of the university and teachers of local high schools will be invited to join us for the evening lectures.

We are extremely pleased to have attracted excellent evening lecturers for ESSLLI 2008. On 5 August, we will start the series of four lectures with a German-language introduction for non-participants of ESSLLI.

	Hans Rott Universität Regensburg Regensburg, Germany	Odd choices in decision making and logic 5 August 2008 19:00-20:30 Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal A lecture slides
	Josef van Genabith Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland	Teaching grammars to computers 6 August 2008 19:00-20:00 Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal A
	Barry Cooper University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom	"Could a Computer Write Hamlet?" 12 August 2008 19:00-20:00 Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal A
	Stephen Read University of St. Andrews St. Andrews, Scotland	"A Taste of Medieval Logic: Obligations, Sophisms and Insolubles" 13 August 2008 19:00-20:00 Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal A abstract