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.