========================================================================= ACKERMANN AWARD 2009 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS * Eligible for the 2009 Ackermann Award are PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2007 and 31.12. 2008. * The deadline for submission is 15.3.2009. * Submission details are available at www.dimi.uniud.it/eacsl/award.html www.cs.technion.ac.il/eacsl * The award consists of - a diploma, - an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, - the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the laudation in the CSL proceedings, - travel support to attend the conference. * The 2009 Ackermann Award will be presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'09). * The jury consists of nine members: - The president of EACSL, J. Makowsky (Haifa); - The borad-member of EACSL, A. Dawar (Cambridge); - One member of the LICS organizing committee, G. Plotkin (Edinburgh); - P.-L. Curien (Paris) - A. Durand (Paris) - J. van Benthem (Amsterdam) - M. Grohe (Berlin); - M. Hyland (Cambridge); - A. Razborov (Moscow and Princeton). * The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. * The previous Ackermann Award recipients were: 2005: Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Konstantin Korovin, Nathan Segerlind; 2006: Stefan Milius and Balder ten Cate; 2007: Dietmar Berwanger, Stephane Lengrand and Ting Zhang. 2008: Krishnendu Chatterjee * For the three years 2007-2009, the Award is sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the worlds leading provider of personal peripherals. =========================================================================