EAPLS PhD Award 2018: Call for Nominations
The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) has established a Best Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the Ph.D. 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. URL:
in EAPLS news by Andreas Wortmann on June 16, 2019

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EAPLS PhD Award 2018: Call for Nominations

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URL: http://eapls.org/pages/phd_award/

The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) has established a Best Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the Ph.D. 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

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Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD

at an academic institution in Europe

in the field of Programming Languages and Systems

in the period from 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2018

Nominations

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Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ep18. The nomination must consist of a single PDF file containing

a letter from the supervisor describing why the thesis should be considered for the award;

a report from an independent researcher who has acted as examiner of the thesis at its defense; and

the thesis itself.

The theses will be evaluated with respect to originality, influence, relevance to the field and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing.

Questions can be directed to the Ph.D. award chairs, at ep18@easychair.org.

Procedure

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The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts. The procedure to be followed is analogous to the review phase of a conference. The justification by 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 Ph.D. students for the award.

The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner to have received the EAPLS Ph.D. award 2018 and the supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, as for instance the ETAPS conference.

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

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30 August 2019:       Deadline for nominations

1 December 2019:    Announcement of the award winner

Expert Committee

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The expert committee includes:

Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK

Luis Caires, FCT / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Paolo Ciancarini, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy

Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Mariangiola Dezani, Universitá di Torino, Italy

JosuKa Díaz Labrador, Universidad de Deusto, Spain

Maribel Fernández, King's College London, UK

Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna , Italy

Sabine Glesner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Jens Knoop, TU Vienna, Austria

Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz, Germany

Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Ireland

Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK

Ricardo Peña, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Matteo Pradella, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Gunter Saake, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

Ana Sokolova, Universität Salzburg, Austria

Bernhard Steffen, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

Mark Van Den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Marko Van Eekelen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter Van Roy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (chair)