EAPLS: EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award (original) (raw)

Call for Nominations

The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems has established a Best PhD Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the PhD student who in the previous period has made the most original and influential contribution to the area. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to excellent work, to help the career of the student in question, and to promote the research field as a whole.

Eligibility

Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD

Nominations

Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination via EasyChair. The nomination must consist of a single PDF file containing

The nominated theses will be evaluated with respect to originality and significance to the field, and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing. Where the thesis consists of a collection of papers, in assessing the quality of writing careful consideration will be given to the introduction and overall conclusion chapters of the thesis, as well as the quality of the individual papers and their consistent use of notation, concepts, etc.

Questions can be directed to the PhD award chairs Andreas Wortmann at [email protected].

Procedure

The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts. The letter from the supervisor and the external report will play an important role in the evaluation. The final decision is made by the EAPLS board, based on the recommendation of the expert committee. Members of the expert committee and the EAPLS board are barred from nominating their own PhD students for the award.

The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner of the EAPLS PhD dissertation award 2021 and the supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, for instance at the ETAPS conference. In addition, the winner will be invited to submit a short video summarising the thesis work, which will be made available via the EAPLS website.

Apart from the winner, no further ranking of nominees will be published. The decision of the expert committee is final and binding, and will not be subject to discussion.

Important Dates

Expert Committee

The decision on the award is taken by an expert committee, consisting of leading researchers in programming languages and systems. The committee currently consists of:

Organizers

Past Best Dissertation Awards

Conrad Watt, University of Cambridge

Mechanising and evolving the formal semantics of WebAssembly: the Web's new low-level language

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Dependent Pattern Matching and Proof-Relevant Unification
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Narrowing the gap between verification and systematic testing
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Choreographic Programming Read more about the motivation for this award.

Parametric Polymorphism for XML Processing Languages Read more about the motivation for this award.

Semantic Foundations of Intermediate Program Representations Read more about the motivation for this award.

Formal Certification of Game-Based Cryptographic Proofs Read more about the motivation for this award.

Logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs Read more about the motivation for this award.