*The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize*
The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded biennially by the
Analysis of Algorithms (AofA) community in recognition of outstanding
contributions to analytic combinatorics and the analysis of algorithms.
This prestigious prize honours the legacy of Philippe Flajolet, a
pioneering figure whose work profoundly shaped these fields.
*Previous Flajolet Lecturers*
The Flajolet Lecture has been delivered by some of the distinguished
scholars in the field:
* Don Knuth at AofA 2014 (Paris, France);
* Bob Sedgewick at AofA 2016 (Krakow, Poland);
* Luc Devroye at AofA 2018 (Uppsala, Sweden);
* Wojtek Szpankowski at AofA 2022 (Philadelphia, USA) (delayed
by COVD);
* Svante Janson at AofA 2022 (Philadelphia, USA);
* Michael Drmota at AofA 2024 (Bath, England).
*Honoring Philippe Flajolet*
The prize is named in honour of Philippe Flajolet, whose groundbreaking
research laid the foundation for analytic combinatorics—a subfield of
mathematics that provides a modern framework for the quantitative study
of combinatorial structures such as words, trees, mappings, and graphs.
His work has had far-reaching applications in probabilistic algorithm
analysis, statistical physics, computational biology, and information
theory.
Flajolet's contributions were characterized by two innovative
methodological approaches: symbolic and analytic. The symbolic approach
automates combinatorial enumeration to derive generating functions,
while the analytic approach treats these functions in the complex plane,
enabling precise characterizations of limit distributions. Beyond these
foundational advances, his research influenced diverse areas of applied
computer science, including streaming algorithms, communication
protocols, database access methods, data mining, symbolic manipulation,
text-processing algorithms, and random generation.
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Nominations for the Next Flajolet Lecture*
The next Flajolet Lecture will be delivered at the 2026 AofA Conference.
Nominations for the prize are due by *March 15, 2025*, and should be
sent to *Svante Janson at **svante.janson@math.uu.se*.
*Selection Process*
The winner will be selected by a specially appointed Prize Committee and
announced during the 2025 AofA workshop in May. The Committee will
evaluate nominees based on their sustained record of high-impact,
seminal contributions to the analysis of algorithms and/or analytic
combinatorics. Educational achievements, such as the publication of
fundamental textbooks and the mentorship of exceptional students, may
also be considered. The final selection will be approved by the AofA
Conference Steering Committee.
*Nomination Requirements*
Nomination letters should summarize the nominee's contributions in one
to two pages.
For further inquiries, please contact the Flajolet Prize Committee.
Svante Janson
Luc Devroye
Mihyun Kang
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