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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.

Submissions for the Ackermann Award 2012

Eligible for the 2012 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2010 and 31.12.2011. The deadline for submission is 15 April 2012. Submission details follow below.
Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2012 on and should be sent to the chair of the Jury professor Damian Niwinski by e-mail: niwinski@mimuw.edu.pl

The Award

The 2012 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'12), 3-6 September 2012, in Fontainebleau (France). The award consists of
  • a diploma,
  • an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
  • the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the laudatio in the CSL proceedings,
  • travel support to attend the conference.
The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year.

Jury

The jury consists of:
  • Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg);
  • Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the vice-president of EACSL;
  • Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria);
  • Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris);
  • Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington);
  • Damian Niwinski (University of Warsaw), the president of EACSL;
  • Luke Ong (University of Oxford), LICS representative;
  • Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH, Aachen).

How to submit

The candidate or his/her supervisor has to 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 faculty or researchers in equivalent positions (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to D.Niwinski (niwinski@mimuw.edu.pl);
  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 (scanned as pdf-file or faxed).
The submission should preferably be sent by e-mail as attachments to professor Damian Niwinski:
niwinski@mimuw.edu.pl
With the following subject line and text:
  • Subject: Ackermann Award Submission
  • Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case, please indicate it in the text. Letters of support and documents can also be faxed to:
Prof. D.Niwinski
Ackermann Award
+48 22 55 44 400

The Jury has the right to declare submissions to be out of scope or not to meet the requirements.