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[DMANET] EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2023- Call for Nominations

EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2023- Call for Nominations

Deadline: March 7, 2024

The EATCS established the Distinguished Dissertation Award <
https://eatcs.org/index.php/dissertation-award> to promote and recognize
outstanding dissertations in the field of Theoretical Computer Science. Any
PhD dissertation in the field of Theoretical Computer Science that has been
successfully defended in 2023 is eligible.

Up to three dissertations will be selected by the committee for the year
2023. The dissertations will be evaluated on the basis of originality and
potential impact on their respective fields and on Theoretical Computer
Science. Each of the selected dissertations will receive a prize of 1000
Euro. The award receiving dissertations will be published on the EATCS web
site, where all the EATCS Distinguished Dissertations will be collected.

The dissertation must be submitted by the author as an attachment to an
email message sent to the address dissertation-award@eatcs.org<mailto:
dissertation-award@eatcs.org> with subject EATCS Distinguished Dissertation
Award 2023 by March 7, 2024. The body of the message must specify:

* Name and email address of the candidate;
* Title of the dissertation;
* Department that has awarded the PhD and denomination of the PhD program;
* Name and email address of the thesis supervisor;
* Date of the successful defense of the thesis.

A five page abstract of the dissertation and a letter by the thesis
supervisor certifying that the thesis has been successfully defended must
also be included. In addition, an endorsement letter from the thesis
supervisor, and possibly one more endorsement letter, must be sent by the
endorsers as attachments to an email message sent to the address
dissertation-award@eatcs.org<mailto:dissertation-award@eatcs.org> with
subject EATCS DDA 2023 endorsement. The name of the candidate should be
clearly specified in the message.

The dissertations will be selected by the following committee:

Nikhil Bansal (chair)
Petra Berenbrink
Jaroslav Nešetřil
Damian Niwiński
Vladimiro Sassone
Alexandra Silva
David Woodruff
Standa Zivny

The award committee will solicit the opinion of members of the research
community as appropriate.

Theses supervised by members of the selection committee are not eligible.
The EATCS is committed to equal opportunities, and welcomes submissions of
outstanding theses from all authors.

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