[Caml-list] Ackermann Award 2018

[Caml-list] Ackermann Award 2018

[European Association of Computer Science Logic]

ACKERMANN AWARD 2018 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations are now invited for the 2018 Ackermann Award.
PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS
conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a
university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2016 and 31.12.2017
are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission
is 4 April 2018.
Submission details follow below.
Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2018 and should be sent
to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: 
thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de

The Award
The 2018 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the
annual conference of the EACSL, 4-7 September 2018, in Birmingham
(UK).

The award consists of

     * a certificate,
     * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
     * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, and
     * travel support to attend the conference.


The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one
dissertation in a year.

Jury
The jury consists of:

     * Christel Baier (TU Dresden);
     * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw);
     * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge);
     * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University);
     * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog 
representative;
     * Luke Ong (University of Oxford);
     * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the 
vice-president of EACSL;
     * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund), the president of EACSL.

How to submit
The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit

    1. the thesis (ps or pdf file);
    2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis
in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file);
    3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters
by other senior researchers (in English);
supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick
(thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de);
    4. a short CV of the candidate;
    5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as
a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and
that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period.

The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman
of the jury, Thomas Schwentick:
thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de

With the following subject line and text:

     * Subject: Ackermann Award 2018 Submission
     * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments

Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case,
please indicate it in the text.


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