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Ackermann Award 2020, nomination deadline postponed to 1 July 2020
ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
*** Due to the current health situation, the submission deadline for
nominations has been postponed to July, 1. ***
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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 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 are eligible for
nomination for the award.
The new deadline for submission is 1 July 2020. Submission details follow
below.
*** The Award
The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 21,
the annual conference of the EACSL, in Ljubljana, January 25-28, 2021.
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,
* an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and
* financial support to attend the conference.
The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one
dissertation in a year.
*** The Jury
The jury consists of:
* Christel Baier (TU Dresden);
* Michael Benedikt (Oxford University);
* Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw);
* Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay);
* Prakash Panangaden (McGill University);
* Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL;
* Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL;
* Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative.
*** 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 chair of
the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick@tu-dortmund.de
The e-mail should have the following subject line and text:
* Subject: Ackermann Award 20 Submission
* Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
Submissions can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case,
please indicate it in the text.
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