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                  ACKERMANN AWARD 2024

EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

                  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

 

Nominations are now invited for the 2024 Ackermann Award.

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 2023

and 31 December 2023 are eligible for nomination for the award.

 

The deadline for submission is 1 July 2024.

 

Nominations should be submitted by the candidate or the

supervisor via Easychair:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ackermann2024

 

Please submit a pdf file containing:

1. a summary in English of the thesis (maximum 10 pages),

providing a gentle introduction and overview of the thesis,

highlighting the novel results and their impact and

including a link to the thesis in the first page

(please do not include the thesis itself);

2. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting

letters by other senior researchers (in English);

3. a copy of a document stating that the thesis was accepted

as a PhD thesis at a recognised University (or equivalent

institution) and that the candidate was awarded the PhD

degree within the specified period;

4. a short CV of the candidate.

 

*** The Award

The 2024 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s)

at CSL 2025.

 

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.

 

*** Ackermann Jury

The jury consists of:

  * Albert Atserias (UPC Barcelona)

  * Christel Baier (TU Dresden)

  * Andrej Bauer (U Ljubljana)

  * Javier Esparza (TU Munich)

  * Maribel Fernandez (King’s College London), EACSL president

  * Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen U), ACM SigLog rep.

  * Delia Kesner (IRIF, U Paris Cite)

  * Slawomir Lasota (U Warsaw)

  * Florin Manea (U Goettingen), EACSL vice-president

  * Prakash Panangaden (McGill U)

For more information please contact Maribel Fernandez:

address@concealed