Wednesday, January 6, 2016

[DMANET] Call for Nominations: Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016

The Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award was created in 2012 to acknowledge and promote outstanding research by doctoral (Ph.D.) students on the principles of Distributed Computing.

Nominations for the 2016 dissertation award are now open, and will close on February 29, 2016. A decision will be announced by May 31, 2016. The 2016 award will be presented at DISC 2016.

To be eligible for the 2016 award, a nominated dissertation must have been successfully defended in the period January 1st, 2014 through December 31st, 2015. More details about the award, rules, formats, and past years awards can be found at http://www.podc.org/dissertation/ <http://www.podc.org/dissertation/>

Nominations are accepted via e-mail to the 2016 award committee chair, Andrzej Pelc, pelc@uqo.ca <mailto:pelc@uqo.ca>. All required documents should be in a single .zip file.

Sincerely,

The 2016 award committee,

Yoram Moses [2015 DISC PC chair]
Andrzej Pelc (chair) [2007 DISC PC chair]
Paul Spirakis [2015 PODC PC chair]
Roger Wattenhofer [2007 PODC PC chair]
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