The Ackermann Award 2015

The eleventh Ackermann Award is presented at CSL’15 in Berlin, Germany. This year, again, the EACSL Ackermann Award is generously sponsored by the Kurt Gödel Society. Besides providing financial support for the Ackermann Award, the Kurt Gödel Society has also committed to inviting the recipients of the Award for a special lecture to be given to the Society in Vienna. The 2015 Ackermann Award was open to PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as theses for the award of a PhD degree at a university or equivalent institution between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2014. The Jury received ten nominations for the Ackermann Award 2015. The candidates came from a number of different countries across the world. The institutions at which the nominees obtained their doctorates represent eight countries in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. The topics covered a wide range of Logic and Computer Science as represented by the LICS and CSL Conferences. All submissions were of a very high standard and contained remarkable contributions to their particular fields. The Jury wishes to extend its congratulations to all nominated candidates for their outstanding work. The Jury encourages them to continue their scientific careers and hopes to see more of their work in the future. The task of the jury proved very difficult, and opinions were divided. In the end, the jury decided to award the 2015 Ackermann Award jointly to two dissertations. The winners are (in alphabetical order): Hugo Férée from France, for his thesis Complexité d’ordre supérieur et analyse récursive approved by the Université de Lorraine, France, in 2014, supervised by Jean-Yves Marion and Mathieu Hoyrup; and Mickael Randour from Belgium, for his thesis Synthesis in Multi-Criteria Quantitative Games approved by the Université de Mons, Belgium, in 2014, supervised by Véronique Bruyère and Jean-François Raskin. Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2015.xv