LU konference
This event will be among the most significant conferences in 2015 and will cover the field of interdisciplinary research on number perception.
Variety of topics ranging from Linguistics, Mathematics, and Philosophy to Experimental Sciences (Psychology, Anthropology and Neuroscience) will be discussed.
The invited scientific director of the conference is prof. Susan Rothstein (Tübingen University, Germany and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) who is also the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. Prof. Rothstein, studied in Oxford and MIT, taught in the USA, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, is a leading linguist working
on counting and measuring and published groundbreaking work on linguistic aspect, representation of events, and theory of counting and measuring. Results of current research on number and numerosity in language and cognition, numericals, counting, measuring, approximation, plurality, crosslinguistic variation, acquisition of numerosity will be discussed together with other prominent invited speakers – Prof. Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern, USA), Prof. Scott Grimm (Rochester, USA), Prof. Daniel Hyde (Illinois, USA), Prof. Fred Landman (Tübingen, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel) who is also a recipient of Humboldt Research award, and Prof. Suzi Lima (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Besides the invited talks around 20 high-level contributed talks will be presented by significant scholars from Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Sweden, Portugal, and UK. The symposium will be a highest-level unique event not only in Baltics but also in the whole European research environment. More information
on counting and measuring and published groundbreaking work on linguistic aspect, representation of events, and theory of counting and measuring. Results of current research on number and numerosity in language and cognition, numericals, counting, measuring, approximation, plurality, crosslinguistic variation, acquisition of numerosity will be discussed together with other prominent invited speakers – Prof. Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern, USA), Prof. Scott Grimm (Rochester, USA), Prof. Daniel Hyde (Illinois, USA), Prof. Fred Landman (Tübingen, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel) who is also a recipient of Humboldt Research award, and Prof. Suzi Lima (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Besides the invited talks around 20 high-level contributed talks will be presented by significant scholars from Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Sweden, Portugal, and UK. The symposium will be a highest-level unique event not only in Baltics but also in the whole European research environment. More information
