[TYPES/announce] ACKERMANN AWARD 2020: Deadline for nominations postponed to July 1, 2020

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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 at 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 at 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.