Call for Nominations
Deadline: December 31st, 2011
Starting in 2010, the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) established
the Presburger Award, conferred annually at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages
and Programming (ICALP) to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for
outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a
series of published papers.
The Award is named after Mojżesz Presburger who accomplished his path-breaking work on
decidability of the theory of addition (which today is called Presburger arithmetic) as a student in
1929. In 2010 the Presburger Award was given to Mikołaj Bojańczyk (Warsaw) for his deep
contributions to automata theory and to logic and algebra in computer science. Patricia Bouyer-
Decitre was the recipient of the award in 2011 for her fundamental contributions to the theory and
applications of timed automata as a model of real-time systems.
Nominations for the Presburger Award can be submitted by any member or group of members of
the theoretical computer science community except the nominee and his/her advisors for the
master thesis and the doctoral dissertation. Nominated scientists have to be at most 35 years at
the time of the deadline of nomination (i.e., for the Presburger Award of 2012 the date of birth
should be in 1976 or later).
The Presburger Award Committee of 2012 consists of Monika Henzinger (Vienna), Antonín Kučera
(Brno) and Stefano Leonardi (Rome, chair). Nominations, consisting of a two page justification and
(links to) the respective papers, as well as additional supporting letters (if any), should be sent to:
Stefano Leonardi,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica,
Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti,
Sapienza University of Rome,
Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy; or
by December 31st, 2011.
The award includes an amount of 1000 Euro and an invitation to ICALP2012 for a lecture.
The Presburger Award is sponsored by BiCi, the Bertinoro international Center for informatics.
For further information: http://www.eatcs.org/index.php/presburger
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