Submissions

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). From 2025, the Award has been sponsored by Amazon Automated Reasoning. From 2017 to 2022, the Award has been sponsored by the association Alumni der Informatik Dortmund e.V. From 2010 to 2016, the Award has been sponsored by the Kurt Gödel Society. For the three years 2007-2009, the Award was sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the world’s leading provider of personal peripherals.

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Submissions for the Ackermann Award 2026

ACKERMANN AWARD 2026
EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations are now invited for the 2026 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 2025 and 31 December 2025 are eligible for nomination for the award.

The deadline for submission is 1 July 2026.

Nominations should be submitted by the candidate or the supervisor via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ackermann2026

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 2026 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2027.

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 and financial support to attend the conference. The Ackermann Award 2026 is sponsored by Amazon Automated Reasoning.

*** 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
* Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay)
* 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: Maribel.Fernandez@kcl.ac.uk