[Event at CIG] 2024 Alonzo Church Award, Call for Nominations

[igw at labri.fr]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 
*Deadline in less than one month*

The 2024 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation

INTRODUCTION

An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group
for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical
Computer Science (EATCS), and the European Association for Computer Science
Logic (EACSL). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a
paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This
time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been
established.  The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of
individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this
award, see 
https://siglog.org/alonzo-church-award/,
https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award/, and
https://www.eacsl.org/alonzo-church-award/.

The 2023 Alonzo Church Award was jointly to Lars Birkedal, Aleš Bizjak, Derek
Dreyer, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Filip Sieczkowski,
Kasper Svendsen, David Swasey and Aaron Turon for the design and implementation
of Iris, a higher-order concurrent separation logic framework.  

ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS

The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within
the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2024 award, the cut-off date is January 1,
1999. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the
date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In
addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a
major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the Goedel
Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other
contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal
papers, journal papers will be given a preference.

Nominations for the 2024 award are now being solicited. The nominating
letter must summarise the contribution and make the case that it is
fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple
co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a
proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description
of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to
justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting
letters and other evidence of worthiness. Nominations for the 2024 award 
are automatically considered for all future editions of the award, until 
they receive the award or the nominated papers are no longer eligible.

Nominations should be submitted to igor.walukiewicz at gmail.com by March 1, 2024.

PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD

The 2024 award will be presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on
Logic in Computer Science (LICS) which is scheduled to take place in
Tallinn, Estonia during 8–12 July 2024. The award will be accompanied by 
an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. 
The awardee(s) will receive a  certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. 
If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared.

WARD COMMITTEE

The 2023 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members: 
Thomas Colcombet, Anuj Dawar, Mariangiola Dezani, Marcelo Fiore,  and 
Igor Walukiewicz (chair).