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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 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 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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