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The Ackermann Award

The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. It is presented during the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'xx).

For the past three years 2007-2009, the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the world's leading provider of personal peripherals. For the next three years 2010-2012, the Award is sponsored by the Kurt Gödel Society.

Recipient of the Ackermann Award 2009

The Ackermann Award 2009 has been granted to
  • Jakob Nordström (currently MIT)
    Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2008, (supervisor: Prof. Johan Håstad),
    Thesis: Short Proofs May Be Spacious: Understanding Space in Resolution

The Jury consisted of J. van Benthem, B. Courcelle, M. Grohe, M. Hyland, J. Makowsky, D. Niwinski, G. Plotkin, A. Razborov.

The Award Ceremony took place during the CSL'09 Conference.

A detailed report is published in the CSL'09 Proceedings. A copy can be retrieved here .