[FOM] Call for Nominations: Ackermann Award 2008

[Arnold Beckmann]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

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ACKERMANN AWARD 2008 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING 
DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS


* Eligible for the 2008 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 1.1.2006 and 31.12. 2007.
* The deadline for submission is 15.3.2008.
* Submission details are available at
     www.dimi.uniud.it/~eacsl/award.html
     www.cs.technion.ac.il/eacsl
* 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 laudation
       in the CSL proceedings,
     - travel support to attend the conference.
* The 2008 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the
  annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'08).
* The jury consists of seven members:
     - The president of EACSL, J. Makowsky (Haifa);
     - The vice-president of EACSL, D. Niwinski (Warsaw);
     - One member of the LICS organizing committee, G. Plotkin (Edinburgh);
     - J. van Benthem (Amsterdam)
     - B. Courcelle (Bordeaux);
     - M. Grohe (Berlin);
     - M. Hyland (Cambridge);
     - A. Razborov (Moscow and Princeton).
     - possibly one more member to be appointed by the EACSL Board
* The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year.

* The previous Ackermann Award recipients were:
  2005: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Konstantin Korovin, Nathan Segerlind;
  2006: Stefan Milius and Balder ten Cate;
  2007: Dietmar Berwanger, Stephane Lengrand and Ting Zhang.

* For the three years 2007-2009,
  the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland,
  the worlds leading provider of personal peripherals.
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