From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9590 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: European Association of Computer Science Logic Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Ackermann Award 2018 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:29:28 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: European Association of Computer Science Logic NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1521734401 25969 195.159.176.226 (22 Mar 2018 16:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:00:01 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Mar 22 16:59:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ez2d9-0006Z0-3M for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:59:55 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:36913) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ez2dE-0000Zv-44; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:00:00 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ez2dB-00046m-4d for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:59:57 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9590 Archived-At: 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. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]