Eligible for the 2013 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 1.1.2011 
and 31.12.2012. The deadline for submission is 15 April 2013. Submission 
details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2013 on 
and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Anuj Dawar, by e-mail: 
anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk

The Award The 2013 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) 
at the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL'13), 2-5 September 2013, in 
Torino (Italy). The award consists of

      * a diploma,
      * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
      * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings,
      * travel support to attend the conference.

The jury is entitled to give more (or less) than one award per year.
Jury
The jury consists of:

      * Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Gothenburg);
      * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), the president of EACSL;
      * Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria);
      * Daniel Leivant (Indiana University, Bloomington);
      * Damian Niwinski (University of Warsaw);
      * Luke Ong (University of Oxford), LICS representative;
      * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the
vice-president of EACSL;
      * Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH, Aachen).

How to submit
The candidate or his/her supervisor has to submit

     1. the thesis (ps or pdf file);
     2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis
in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file);
     3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters
by other senior faculty or researchers in equivalent positions (in
English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Anuj Dawar
(anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk);
     4. a short CV of the candidate;
     5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as
a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and
that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period
(scanned as pdf-file or faxed).

The submission should preferably be sent by e-mail as attachments to
professor Anuj Dawar:
anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk
With the following subject line and text:

      * Subject: Ackermann Award Submission
      * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments

Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case,
please indicate it in the text. Letters of support and documents can
also be faxed to:
Prof. Anuj Dawar
Ackermann Award
+44 1223 334678

The Jury has the right to declare submissions to be out of scope or not
to meet the requirements.