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Chers collègues,

Cet appel concerne les thèses soutenues en 2021. Date limite: 30 août.

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EAPLS Best Dissertation Award 2021: 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 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.

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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 2021 – 31 December 2021

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Nominations
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Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. 
Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination via 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eapls21. 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 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:
Maribel Fernandez and Andreas Wortmann, at eapls21@easychair.org.

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Procedure
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The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international 
committee of experts. 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 PhD students for the award.

The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner of the EAPLS 
PhD 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 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.

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Important Dates
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30 August 2022:     Deadline for nominations
1 December 2022:    Announcement of the award winner

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Expert Committee
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The expert committee includes:

Eerke Boiten (De Montfort University, UK)
Stefano Crespi Reghizzi (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Dipartimento di Informatica Università 
di Torino, IT)
Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València, ES)
Maurizio Gabbrielli (University of Bologna, IT)
Sabine Glesner (TU Berlin, DE)
Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria, SA)
Christoph Kirsch (University of Salzburg, AT)
Jens Knoop (TU Vienna, AT)
Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
François Pottier (INRIA, FR)
Matteo Pradella (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT)