[Event at CIG] 2025 Alonzo Church Award Call for Nominations

[Thomas Colcombet]

The 2025 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation


CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 

Deadline 2025 March 31, in *less than one month*.


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 2024 AWARD

The 2024 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Thomas Ehrhard and Laurent
Regnier for giving a logical and computational account of differentiation,
bringing Taylor expansion to the Curry-Howard correspondence, which had a major
impact on programming language semantics.


ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS

The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within
the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2025 award, the cut-off date is January 1,
2000. 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 2025 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 2025 award 
are automatically considered for all future editions of the award, until 
they receive the award or the nominated papers are no longer eligible.


PROCEDURE AND DEADLINE

Nominations to the 2025 Alonzo Church Award, taking the form of a single PDF
file, should be sent by 2025 March 31 to thomas.colcombet at irif.fr <mailto:thomas.colcombet at irif.fr> .


PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD

The 2025 award will be presented at the Thirty-Fourth EACSL Annual Conference
on Computer Science Logic 2026 (CSL) which is scheduled to take place during
23-28 February 2026 in Paris, France. The award winner, or one of the award
winners, will be invited to give a lecture during the conference. The
awardee(s) will receive a  certificate and a cash prize of USD 1,500. 
If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared.


AWARD COMMITTEE

The 2025 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members: 
Thomas Colcombet (chair), Anuj Dawar, Marcelo Fiore, Alexandra Silva and 
Igor Walukiewicz.