Fwd: S.Barry Cooper Prize 2020 Call for Nominations

[Joao Marcos]

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S. Barry Cooper Prize
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The S. Barry Cooper Prize is awarded to a researcher who has
contributed to a broad understanding and foundational study of
computability by outstanding results, by seminal and lasting theory
building, by exceptional service to the research communities involved,
or by a combination of these. This award is presented every two to
three years, with the presentation taking place at the International
Conference Computability in Europe (CiE).

The Prize is named in honor of S. Barry Cooper, the founding President
of the Association Computability, in recognition of his vision of the
fundamental concept of computability that brought together several
different research communities. The awardee shall be invited to the
next annual CiE conference to give an invited talk and will be
presented with an award plaque on this occasion.


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Nominations and Eligibility
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Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community and
any such member can be nominated. Nomination letters can have multiple
signatories and should provide a motivation for awarding the prize to
the nominee, precisely stating their outstanding results, their
seminal and lasting theory building, and/or their exceptional service
to the research communities involved.

Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award
Committee Chair

Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge)
anuj....@cl.cam.ac.uk

Any emails and related messages should have the subject line starting
with “S. Barry Cooper Prize 2020”.

To be considered, nominations for the 2020 Prize must be received by

17 January, 2020

A nomination package should include:

1. A statement of motivation for awarding the prize to the nominee,
including:- this should state the nominee’s outstanding results, their
seminal and lasting theory building and/or exceptional service to the
research communities, as the case may be. These should be supported by
at least one of

- A list of the most important publications, accompanied by a brief
summary of the technical content of the papers and a brief explanation
of their significance. Where possible, this should include pointers to
online versions of the publications.

- A statement explaining the role played and the exceptional services
rendered by the nominee, in the research communities involved in
computability and related areas.

2. A support letter or letters signed by at least two members of the
scientific community.
The nomination package must be in English, but it may include
reference to publications in other languages.


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Selection Process
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The Award Committee is solely responsible for the selection of the
winner of the award. All matters relating to the selection process
that are not specified here are left to the discretion of the Award
Committee, whose decision will be final

More information can be found on the ACiE web-site

http://www.acie.eu/in-memoriam-s-barry-cooper/s-barry-cooper-prize/
http://www.acie.eu/2020-call-for-nominations/