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Call for Nominations: Sacks Prize 2009, Deadline: 30 September 2009

The ASL awards the Sacks Prize annually, for the most outstanding doctoral 
dissertation in mathematical logic.  The members of the ASL Committee on 
Prizes and Awards (Julia Knight (Chair), Ehud Hrushovski, Jan Krajicek, 
Itay Neeman, Wilfried Sieg, and Albert Visser) would like to remind you 
that the deadline for nominations for the next Sacks Prize is September 
30th. Students who defend their dissertation (equivalent to the American 
doctoral dissertation) between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009, 
are eligible.  The thesis advisor makes the nomination.  A complete 
nomination consists of the following: name of student, title and 1-2 page 
description of dissertation, date and location where the doctorate was 
awarded, a letter of recommendation from the adviser, and an electronic 
copy of the thesis (in .pdf or .ps form) or the address of a web site from 
which an electronic copy can be downloaded.  An independent second letter 
of recommendation is strongly encouraged. Nominations should be sent 
either by e-mail to knight.1@nd.edu, or by ordinary mail to Julia Knight, 
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 255 Hurley Hall, 
Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618 USA.

For more about the Sacks Prize, see the website 
http://www.aslonline.org/info-prizes.html.