<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Workshop / Summer School</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">at</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">The Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Formal Semantics of Concepts, Space, and Locatives</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">August 1-2, 2017</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Call for Participation & Papers</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Description</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">The workshop provides an overview of formal semantics and its applications. In addition, it explores applications of formal semantic and topological tools to spatial concepts. After an advanced introduction, formal semantic modelling in spatial concepts will be discussed. The workshop will conclude with an overview of some formal representations of spatial relations in Baltic languages.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Audience: graduate students and all interested academics.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">We also invite contributed talks covering some of the topics mentioned above.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Schedule:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">First day: overview of formal semantics; afternoon: contributed talks</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Second day: applications in spatial modelling, topology; spatial relations in Baltic languages</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Speakers include:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Michael Glanzberg</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">(Northwestern University, USA)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Jurgis Skilters</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">(Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Līga Zariņa</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">(Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">(Vilnius University, Lithuania)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Abigail Klassen</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">(UNLV, USA & Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Topics:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Michael Glanzberg: formal semantics, concepts</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Michael Glanzberg, Jurgis Skilters, Liga Zarina, Abigail Klassen: formal semantics in spatial relations; applications in spatial modelling, topology.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Michael Glanzberg, Egle Zilinskaite, Jurgis Skilters, Liga Zarina: spatial relations in Baltic languages</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Deadlines:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Application for participation (CV): June 20, 2017</span><br style="font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Application for presenting a talk (Abstract of 250-300 words): June 15, 2017</span></font></b><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Applications have to be sent to: <a href="mailto:jurgis.skilters@lu.lv" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">jurgis.skilters@lu.lv</a></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Sponsors or Partners:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">University of Latvia Foundation</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Northwestern University</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Questions: <a href="mailto:jurgis.skilters@lu.lv" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">jurgis.skilters@lu.lv</a></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Webpage: <a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/" style="color:rgb(1,1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