[FOM] VCLA International Student Awards - Call for Nominations 2015

[Bahareh Afshari]

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The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms
announces the 2015 edition of the

*****   VCLA International Student Awards   *****

and calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding scientific works in
the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories:

* Outstanding Master Thesis Award, to be given to the author of an
outstanding thesis for obtaining a Masters degree or equivalent (2nd cycle
Bologna process), and
* Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, to be given to the author of an
outstanding thesis or final project for obtaining a Bachelors degree or
equivalent (1st cycle Bologna process).

In both categories, the work must make an original contribution to a
research field that can be classified as part of Logic in Computer Science,
understood broadly as the use of logic as a tool that enables computer
programs to reason about the world. The main areas of interest are:
* Databases and Artificial Intelligence
* Verification
* Computational Logic

The committee will select a winner for each category.
The winners will be invited to Vienna to present their project and
participate in a festive award ceremony. Additionally, the Outstanding
Master Thesis Award category is accompanied by a prize of 1,200 Eur, and
the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of 800 Eur.

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Important dates:
Nomination deadline: November 15, 2015 (AoE)
Notification of the committee’s decision: early February 2016
Award ceremony: Spring 2016
For more information, please see http://logic-cs.at/award/award-call-2015/
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