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Call for Nominations: 2020 Alonzo Church Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and 
Computation

INTRODUCTION

An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding 
Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM 
Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European 
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European 
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt G?del Society 
(KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper 
or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This 
time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have 
been established.  The award can be given to an individual, or to a group 
of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules 
governing this award, see: 
https://siglog.acm.org/alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation-2020/, 
https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award/, and https://eacsl.org/.

The 2020 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Murdoch J. Gabbay and 
Andrew M. Pitts for their ground-breaking work introducing the theory of 
nominal representations, see: 
http://siglog.org/winners-of-the-2019-alonzo-church-award/.  Previous 
awardees are listed at https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award.

ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS

The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within 
the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2020 award, the cut-off date is January 
1, 1995. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, 
the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In 
addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a 
major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the G?del 
Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other 
contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or 
journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference.

Nominations for the 2020 award are now being solicited. The nominating 
letter must summarize the contribution and make the case that it is 
fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple 
co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a 
proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description 
of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) 
to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by 
supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness.

Nominations should be submitted to thomas.eiter@tuwien.ac.at by April 1, 
2020.

PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD

The 2020 award will be presented at CSL 2021, the annual conference of the 
European Association for Computer Science Logic, which is scheduled to 
take place in Athens in January 2021. The award will be accompanied by an 
invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The 
awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If 
there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared.

AWARD COMMITTEE

The 2020 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five 
members: Mariangiola Dezani, Thomas Eiter (chair), Javier Esparza, Radha 
Jagadeesan, Natarajan Shankar .

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