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The Presburger Award for Young Scientists 2020 Call for Nominations

Deadline: 15 February 2020

Starting in 2010, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) established the Presburger Award. The Award is conferred annually at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers. The Award is named after Mojzesz Presburger who accomplished his path-breaking work on decidability of the theory of addition (today called Presburger arithmetic) as a student in 1929.

Nominations for the Presburger Award can be submitted by any member or group of members of the theoretical computer science community except the nominee and his/her advisors for the master thesis and the doctoral dissertation. Nominated scientists have to be at most 35 years old on January 1st of the year of the nomination (i.e., for the Presburger Award of 2020 the birth year should be 1984 or later). The Presburger Award Committee of 2020 consists of Thore Husfeldt (Lund University and IT University of Copenhagen), Meena Mahajan (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) and Anca Muscholl (LaBRI, Bordeaux, chair). Nominations, consisting of a two page justification and (links to) the respective papers, as well as additional supporting letters, should be sent by e-mail to:

presburger-award@eatcs.org

The subject line of every nomination should start with Presburger Award 2020, and the message must be received before February 15th, 2020.

The award includes an amount of 1000 Euro and an invitation to ICALP 2020 for a lecture. _____________________________________________ Previous Winners: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, 2010 Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, 2011 Venkatesan Guruswami, Mihai Patrascu 2012 Erik Demaine, 2013 David Woodruff, 2014 
Xi Chen, 2015 Mark Braverman, 2016 Alexandra Silva, 2017 Aleksander Madry, 208 Karl Bringmann, Kasper Green Larsen 2019 
 Official website: http://www.eatcs.org/index.php/presburger