NEDERLANDSE GROETEN VAN TOM ROBERTS

After defending his dissertation over the summer, Tom Roberts (Ph.D. 2021) began a postdoc in September in the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, working with Reinhard Muskens on modeling abductive reasoning in natural language. He reports an exciting and cross-disciplinary environment at the ILLC with semanticists of all stripes, and is adjusting to life in the Old World, speaking Dutch, and biking without the constant threat of mortal peril. At the time of press, he has not yet determined whether it is possible to subsist exclusively on a diet of hagelslag and poffertjes, but this remains an area of active research.