------------------------------------------------------------------- CSL 2006 Call For Workshop Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference series of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). The 15th Annual Conference, CSL 2006, will take place in Szeged, Hungary, from September 25 to September 29, 2006. It will be organized by the Department of Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Szeged. Workshops affiliated to CSL 2006 will be held before and after the main conference, on September 23 and 24, and on September 30 and October 1, 2006. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic to computer science. Proposals should include: * A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic. * Proposed format and agenda. * Proposed duration. * Procedures for selecting participants and papers. * Expected number of participants. * Potential invited speakers. * Plans for dissemination (e.g. proceedings, journal special issue). Workshop organizers are expected to be present during their workshops. Full proposals are due November 15, 2005 and will be evaluated by the CSL 2006 Workshop Committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of CSL 2006. Acceptance decisions will be made by December 1, 2005. The members of the Workshop Committee are: Matthias Baaz (Vienna), Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) and Sandor Vagvolgyi (Szeged, chair). Proposals and/or enquiries should be submitted by electronic mail in ASCII, PDF or postscript format to: Sandor Vagvolgyi CSL 2006 Workshop Chair Email: vagvolgy at inf.u-szeged.hu The titles and brief information related to accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference program and advertised in the Call for Participation. Workshop organizers will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers, web site, reviewing and making acceptance decisions on submitted papers, collecting funds for invited speakers, and scheduling workshop activities in consultation with the local organizers. Important dates : November 15, 2005: Workshop proposals December 1, 2005: Acceptance decisions CSL 2006 Web site: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~csl06/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- AA06 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ackermann Award 2006 --------------------- Nominations are solicted for the Ackermann Award 2006. The EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science (The Ackermann Award) will be presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'06). The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. The first Ackermann Award was presented at CSL'05. The 2005 recipients were Mikolaj Bojanczyk Konstantin Korovin Nathan Segerlind Eligible for the 2006 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 1.1.2004 and 31.12. 2005. ----------------------------------------- The deadline for submission is 31.1.2006. ----------------------------------------- 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 jury consists of seven members: * The president of EACSL, J. Makowsky (Haifa); * The vice-president of EACSL, D. Niwinski (Warsaw); * One member of the LICS organizing committee, S. Abramnsky (Oxford); * B. Courcelle (Bordeaux); * E. Graedel (Aachen); * M. Hyland (Cambridge); * A. Razborov (Moscow and Princeton).