From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8471 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: European Association of Computer Science Logic Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Ackermann Award 2015 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:23:24 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: European Association of Computer Science Logic NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422471141 31756 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 18:52:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:52:21 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Jan 28 19:52:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXit-0004R0-W7 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:52:20 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:56749) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXhr-0002rX-M8; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXhr-0007ZM-9I for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:51:15 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8471 Archived-At: ACKERMANN AWARD 2015 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2015 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2013 and 31.12.2014 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 15 April 2015. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2015 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Anuj Dawar, by e-mail:anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk The Award The 2015 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 7-10 September 2015, in Berlin (Germany). The award consists of * a certificate, * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL/LICS conference, * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL/LICS proceedings, * travel support to attend the conference, and * an invitation to present the work to the Kurt G??del Society in Vienna. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. Jury The jury consists of: * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg); * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL; * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University), ACM SigLog representative; * Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); * Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington); * Luke Ong (University of Oxford); * Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS and University of Paris 7); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-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 Anuj Dawar (anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk); 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, Anuj Dawar: anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk With the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award 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. Letters of support and documents can also be faxed to: Anuj Dawar Ackermann Award +44 1223 334678 The Jury has the right to declare submissions to be out of scope or not to meet the requirements. The Award is sponsored by the Kurt G??del Society. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]