The next meeting of the semantics workshop will be held on Wednesday November 5th, from 12:20 to 1:10 in room 451 of the ILC.

At this meeting, participants who have attended NELS 45 will report on the conference. In particular, we will discuss those talks we found most interesting, and whether there were any noticeable trends amongst the work on display.

Participants who will be attending NELS 45 are encouraged to bring photocopies of handouts from talks that they’d like to discuss, in case any of the other participants would be interested in having them.

The next meeting of the semantics workshop will be held on Wednesday October 29th, from 12:20 to 1:10 in room 451 of the ILC.

This meeting will be the second of the two sessions concentrating on abstract writing. In this meeting, participants will work together to workshop students’ abstracts. Students are strongly encouraged to bring abstracts of theirs, particularly abstracts that they will be submitting in the near future, so that we can together suggest improvements.  

(Note that the deadlines for submitting abstracts to GLOW and SALT are December 1st.)

The next meeting of the semantics workshop will be held on Wednesday October 22nd, from 12:20 to 1:10 in room 451 of the ILC.

This meeting will be the first of two sessions concentrating on abstract writing. Seth will review a short (non-exhaustive) list of some general ‘pointers’ on abstract writing, which participants are invited to expand on or respond to. Following this, some faculty (definitely Seth) will share abstracts of theirs which were accepted and rejected, allowing participants to see the range of issues that can sometimes make a difference.

Finally, if there’s time remaining, we’ll begin to together constructively workshop students’ abstracts. Students are asked to bring recent abstracts of theirs, particularly abstracts that they will be submitting in the near future, so that we can together suggest improvements. This ‘workshop’ portion of the workshop will continue into the next session, if need be.

The next meeting of the semantics workshop will be held on October 15th, from 12:20 to 1:10 in room 451 of the ILC.

At this meeting, we will begin with a discussion of the participants’ favorite recent papers in semantics (where ‘recent’ can mean ‘recently published’ or ‘recently read for the first time’). This will provide a launching off point for a broader discussion of what makes something a ‘good’ or ‘lasting’ paper in semantics. 

The next meeting of the semantics workshop will be held on October 8th, from 12:20 to 1:10 in room 451 of the ILC.

At this meeting, we will have a discussion of teaching and semantics, lead by Seth Cable.